Corley Moore, Founder and CEO of Heartwood TechnologiesFounder

Corley Moore

Founder & CEO
Heartwood Technologies

Corley Moore is the founder of Heartwood Technologies. He builds AI systems, data analytics infrastructure, and business intelligence tools for the businesses and communities enterprise software has historically passed over. He started Heartwood after years inside corporate analytics watching the same pattern repeat: the most powerful tools, in the fewest hands, helping the people who already had every advantage.

Heartwood is the answer. Based in Spartanburg, SC, working with small businesses, healthcare organizations, and community partners ready to put AI to work on their own terms.

About the Founder

How Corley Got Here

Corley Moore founded Heartwood Technologies after years of working at the intersection of data analytics, AI strategy, and community impact. With deep expertise in AI systems, data analytics, and business intelligence, he saw firsthand how powerful these tools could be, and how consistently they failed to reach the businesses and communities that needed them most.

His background spans enterprise analytics, healthcare data, and workforce development, experience that taught him both the potential of technology to drive outcomes and the structural barriers that prevent equitable access. Heartwood is the answer to a question he kept asking: what would it look like to build AI infrastructure that centers the people it is supposed to serve?

Today, he leads Heartwood across four practice areas: SMB Business Intelligence, Economic and Community Empowerment, Ethical AI, and Health Advocacy. Under that umbrella, he is shipping real products, Ayana.AI, a maternal health companion grounded in Black women's lived experience, and GroundTruth, an environmental justice data tracker indexing nearly 200 data centers across the United States, alongside consulting engagements and workshops that put AI to work for the businesses and organizations that have been overlooked.

About Heartwood

AI should be accessible to everyone.
We make that happen.

Heartwood Technologies is an AI consulting firm based in Spartanburg, SC, that builds with the people and communities we serve. Not for them.

Our Mission

Rooting AI in the work of every business and community ready to grow.

Why We Exist

The AI revolution is not arriving equally. While major enterprises race to adopt machine learning, predictive analytics, and automation, most businesses, the ones that keep economies running, that employ real people, that deliver real services, are being left behind.

Small businesses compete in an economy being restructured by automation, without access to the same tools their larger competitors take for granted. Healthcare organizations lack the AI infrastructure to act on well-documented gaps in care. Environmental impact data is fragmented, leaving organizations without clear visibility into what tech infrastructure actually costs them. These are not just equity issues, they are market gaps where better tools and better consulting create real business value.

Heartwood Technologies was founded on a straightforward conviction: the organizations closest to these challenges are best positioned to solve them, they just need the right tools, the right partner, and the technical infrastructure to execute.

That is why we build maternal health tools grounded in clinical evidence and real-world implementation. It is why we run AI training that gives teams practical, job-ready skills, not theory. It is why we track the environmental footprint of tech infrastructure. And it is why every engagement is designed to transfer capability, not create dependency.

What Drives Us

Values we demonstrate through every project, partnership, and product

Built WITH, Not FOR

Every engagement starts with the Listen phase of The Heartwood Method. We build with the people who will use the tool, not for them. The people closest to the problem are closest to the solution.

Protective by Design

Privacy, bias accountability, and harm reduction are engineering requirements, not press releases. We name risks plainly and build the guardrails that earn trust.

Capability Over Dependency

We don't leave when the deck is delivered. We stay until the work is ROOTED, until your team can run it independently. Our consulting leaves organizations stronger, never locked into needing us.

Dignity as a Design Constraint

If it harms trust, it harms the mission. Every output, every interaction, every data decision is measured against the dignity of the people we serve.

How We Got Here

Building deliberately, one milestone at a time

2024–2025

The Problem Becomes Personal

Years of working in enterprise analytics and watching AI arrive in communities without them. Healthcare disparities. Economic exclusion. Environmental burdens falling on Black neighborhoods. The gap between who builds technology and who it serves becomes impossible to ignore.

Early 2026

Heartwood Is Founded

A deliberate decision to build the firm that should have existed. Four practice areas, one mission: AI that is accessible to everyone. Registered in South Carolina.

March 2026

First Products Take Shape

Ayana.AI, an AI maternal health companion for Black women, reaches prototype stage. GroundTruth, an environmental justice data tracker, launches with 199 data centers indexed across the United States.

2026

Going Live

heartwoodtech.ai launches publicly. The first consulting engagements and workshop partnerships begin. The work becomes visible.

Where We Are Today

4
Practice areas

SMB Business Intelligence, Economic and Community Empowerment, Ethical AI, and Health Advocacy

2
Products in development

Ayana.AI maternal health companion and GroundTruth environmental data tracker

5
Core principles

Client-first, risk-aware, plain language, ethics as engineering, capability over dependency

Building in the Open

Heartwood is growing, deliberately. We are building an advisory board of business leaders, health practitioners, technologists, and community partners who share our commitment to AI that delivers real results.

We are actively seeking partnerships with healthcare systems, small businesses, enterprise clients, and investors who see the opportunity in markets that traditional consulting has overlooked.

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The Work Continues

Whether you are a small business ready to compete, a healthcare organization seeking better analytics, or a company ready to move from AI strategy to results, we would love to hear from you.

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