SimpleEDO.ai exists because economic developers deserve better than generic AI hype. We build and teach practical AI operating systems for the people who carry board accountability, community pressure, and a strategic plan that still needs executing.
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The SimpleEDO PATH™ is the foundation of every program, engagement, and workflow. If it fails any of the four, it doesn't ship.
Real workflows for real deliverables. We skip theory-heavy programs, jargon, and inspiration that never reaches implementation.
Built around your role, your organization, and the public-sector realities you answer to, governance included.
Measured, logged, and reported. If the system doesn't give you hours back, it isn't finished yet.
AI does the production. You keep the judgment, the relationships, and the credibility that leadership requires.
"The future of economic development won't be shaped by theory, panels, or buzzwords. It will be shaped by leaders bold enough to do the work differently."
images/kmj-headshot.jpgKatie is an economic developer first. Her work in direct economic development leadership builds on business ownership, entrepreneurship, and leadership science. She has sat in the board meetings, prepped the BRE visits, answered the councils, and carried the strategic plan.
When AI made a different way of working possible, she tested it on her own operations first. What worked became the AI Performance School, the AIWE Certification, and the Intelligent EDO service framework. She has since trained 400+ leaders across the U.S.
Everything she teaches, she runs. Her own ventures (content production, client delivery, publishing, finance) operate on the same Human+Agent workflows her students build.
All three of these operations run on the same agentic infrastructure our clients install.
AI systems and training for economic development. Daily content, client delivery, and course operations all run on Human+Agent workflows.
A grassroots experiment in hyperlocal, AI-enabled economic development, where new workflows get pressure-tested in a real small-town economy.
The training arm: the AIWE Certification, the free weekly AI Action Class, and the graduate community of certified workflow experts.
The free weekly AI Action Class is the fastest way to see how we operate. The AI Operating System is the next step when you're ready to build working agents for recurring EDO work.