Every engagement below runs on the same principle: bring world-class operating experience into the places where it compounds — campuses, companies, and the communities that supply both. This is exactly what we sell.
We install AI into a company, a practice, or a campus — built around real workflows, trained into real people, and tuned until it's simply how you work. Not a demo. Not a subscription that sits unused. An operating layer you own.
The same capability that runs this firm's back office, delivered into yours.
Who it's for: businesses and teams drowning in busywork · executives who want leverage now · institutions that want AI on campus without a construction project.
Start with an audit →We recruit, train, mentor, and manage pods of students and alumni doing real client work — paid from day one — operated end-to-end by The Yard. Employers fund the work. Universities supply the talent. The campus pays nothing.
It's the model behind a national education-technology venture that served 250+ colleges and universities across 43 states — now rebuilt as an operator's service.
Who it's for: employers who want vetted early-career capacity without the agency markup · universities who want paid outcomes for their students.
Bring it to your campus or company →Lecture series, executive-in-residence terms, and curricula that bring real operating experience into the room — built to transfer, not to depend. Institutions get programming students actually attend; companies get learning their people actually use.
Who it's for: universities — with HBCU and NAIA institutions as priority lanes — and corporations building their people.
Plan a program →Advisory for organizations in motion — turnarounds, transformations, and the unglamorous work of making the machine run better. Delivered by someone who has actually run the P&L: division leadership at GE Capital, IBM, Dell, Comcast, and Viacom; founder and CEO of a national EdTech company, built and exited.
Who it's for: boards and executives mid-transition · founders scaling past their first playbook · organizations that need the fix, not the deck.
Scope an engagement →Monetization and partnership strategy for brands that carry culture — built on first-party data and deals that pay from month one, not a viral moment that may never come.
Who it's for: creators, networks, and founders with a real audience and no engine behind it.
Build the engine →Keynotes, appearances, and the forthcoming memoir The Longest Line of Ink — leadership, race, and resilience from Oklahoma State to the Fortune 500, and the story behind a company built to serve more than 250 colleges and universities.
Who it's for: universities and commencements · conferences and panels · companies building culture with something true.
See speaking & book →Indago — a practice-management platform for modern law firms: matter management, client and document workflows, and AI-assisted review. A small cohort of pilot firms is open now.
More stays in the workshop until it's ready — surfaced first in Notes.
See the ventures →Every engagement starts the same way — a conversation about what's actually in the way.
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