Founder of RUDI — Responsible Use of Digital Intelligence Intelligent Systems Partner at Co-Llab Group — Pre-Development Data Studies
Applied AI strategist, technologist, educator, and speaker. I help organizations adopt human-centered AI through the RUDI literacy taxonomy, applied AI, and practical implementation.
- AI implementation, training, and advisory for organizations across education, real estate, healthcare, legal, finance, and workforce
- Custom AI builds — including the proprietary AI stack powering Co-Llab Group's pre-development data studies, compressing land feasibility analysis from months to days
- AI literacy taxonomy — RUDI's framework mapping AI competency along conceptual understanding, operational fluency, and responsible-use governance
- Speaking, teaching, and curriculum — universities, conferences, executive workshops, public education
- AfroTech 2025 — featured keynote on responsible AI adoption (Houston)
- The Propel Center — AI literacy curriculum for the HBCU innovation hub
- Apple Community Education Initiative — partner network for AI education
- Walker SCM — enterprise AI adoption strategy for 1,200-employee workforce
- Warren County ESC — 9-month responsible AI curriculum for K-12 educators
- University of Illinois Springfield — AI curriculum development
- Crowe LLP — keynote and fireside on AI in professional services
- The Mercantile Library — ongoing community education series (Cincinnati)
- Co-Llab Group — pre-development data studies for HBCU campuses, land banks, faith-based property, and mission-aligned developers
- MBA, Finance & Social Entrepreneurship — EDHEC Business School (France)
- Hoff Digital — public education channel on responsible AI; ~100K community across TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Substack; millions of views over the past four years
- Career started in predictive lending machine learning; later co-founded a community cooperative
- Featured in NPR, GQ, MSNBC, Technical.ly, Soapbox Cincinnati
- Credentials: IBM AI Developer · DeepLearning.AI · MIT xPRO
- RUDI: learnrudi.com · founder profile
- Co-Llab: co-llab-group.github.io/website
- Book time: cal.com/bzhoff
- TikTok: @hoffdigital
- YouTube: @hoffdigital
- LinkedIn: hoffbrandon
- Substack: bzhoff.substack.com
This GitHub is my creation station — a working portfolio of AI implementations, frameworks, and tools across the organizations I lead and advise.