Strategic intelligence. Operational systems. AI agents that close. Three practices, engineered to turn what your business already knows into what it can finally do.
Built around the work organizations actually need — not the work that's easiest to sell. Each stands alone. Each strengthens the others when commissioned together.
Diagnostic briefings, market analysis, and custom AI built around the questions leadership actually asks. The work that earns the right to do everything else.
Explore Strategy PRACTICE 02Custom dashboards, data integration, and digital retrofits for organizations whose unique workflows defy off-the-shelf tools. The fractional CTO posture, at fractional cost.
Explore Operations PRACTICE 03High-performance websites with AI voice receptionists, intake bots, and workflow automation. The infrastructure most organizations should have already.
Explore AgentsA small sample of recent engagements. Many of our most important projects are confidential. Some are not.
A custom AI-driven budgeting analysis suite developed for South Carolina state legislators grappling with the implementation complexity of zero-based budgeting. Designed and delivered in a single sprint.
A HIPAA-compliant AI receptionist deployed for medical practices — handling triage, appointment booking, and prescription routing twenty-four hours a day across multiple partner clinics.
A complete digital transformation for Babcock Center — one of the Midlands' largest disability-services nonprofits, supporting more than 800 South Carolinians since 1970. New public website, online store, internal employee intranet, careers portal, and a custom AI site assistant — built as one unified system rather than five separate vendor projects.
A bilingual, empathetic AI intake agent for personal injury firms. Answers in under one second, qualifies leads against firm-specific criteria, and books consultations directly to attorney calendars.
We publish independent research on South Carolina cities, land use, and public finance — using the same data pipelines we build for clients, open to anyone.
Urban Productivity Series · 2026
Per-acre property tax productivity analysis for SC cities — Charleston and Columbia to start. Includes assessment equity breakdowns and investor ownership maps. Built on real parcel data from all 46 SC counties.
With a background in government consulting, urban planning, and technology entrepreneurship, Jimmy Ardis brings a rare combination of domain expertise and hands-on AI development experience.
He has built and deployed AI systems for legal intake, healthcare triage, workforce development, state government budgeting, and cybersecurity compliance. His work for nonprofit and faith-based organizations focuses on operational visibility — helping mission-driven teams see the answers their existing systems already contain. He co-founded the South Carolina Artificial Intelligence Observatory (SCAIO) to track how artificial intelligence is reshaping South Carolina's economy.
Jimmy lives in Chapin, SC with his wife of 23 years, Alisha, and their daughter, Celia.
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