About Heartwood
Our Story
Heartwood Technologies exists because the communities most affected by AI should be the ones shaping how it is built, deployed, and governed.
Why We Exist
The AI revolution is not arriving equally. While major institutions race to adopt machine learning, natural language processing, and predictive analytics, the communities that stand to be most affected by these technologies are the least likely to have a seat at the table where decisions are made.
Black communities face a compounding challenge: the healthcare systems that serve them carry well-documented disparities. The environmental burdens of tech infrastructure — data centers consuming water and energy, industrial sites placed near residential neighborhoods — fall disproportionately on their doorsteps. Small businesses in these communities compete in an economy being restructured by automation without access to the same tools and expertise their larger competitors take for granted.
Heartwood Technologies was founded on a straightforward conviction: the people closest to these problems are the ones best positioned to solve them — they just need the tools, the knowledge, and the technical infrastructure to do it on their own terms.
We did not start Heartwood to explain AI to communities. We started it to put AI in their hands — so they can ask their own questions, build their own tools, and hold institutions accountable with data they control.
That is why we build maternal health tools grounded in clinical evidence and lived experience. It is why we run AI literacy workshops that teach practical skills, not theory. It is why we research the environmental footprint of data centers in communities that never asked for them. And it is why every tool we ship is designed to transfer capability, not create dependency.
We did not start Heartwood to explain AI to communities. We started it to put AI in their hands — so they can ask their own questions, build their own tools, and hold institutions accountable with data they control.
— Corley Moore, Founder & CEO
Founder
Corley Moore
Founder & CEO, Heartwood Technologies
Corley Moore founded Heartwood Technologies after years of working at the intersection of data analytics, AI strategy, and community impact. With deep expertise in data engineering, analytics, and AI systems, he saw firsthand how powerful these tools could be — and how consistently they failed to reach the 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 communities it is supposed to serve?
Today, he leads Heartwood across five practice areas — health equity, economic empowerment, environmental justice, education, and policy analytics — building tools, running workshops, and partnering with organizations that share a commitment to technology as a vehicle for community power.
What Drives Us
Values we demonstrate through every project, partnership, and product
Community Partnership
Every tool, workshop, and strategy starts with listening. We design with communities, not for them — because the people closest to the problem are closest to the solution.
Protective by Design
Privacy, bias auditing, and harm reduction are engineering requirements, not afterthoughts. We name risks plainly and build guardrails that earn trust.
Capability Over Dependency
We transfer skills and ownership. Our consulting leaves organizations stronger and more self-sufficient, never locked into needing us to survive.
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 infrastructure that should have existed. Five practice areas, one mission: AI that serves communities on their own terms. 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 141 data centers indexed across the United States.
2026
Going Live
heartwoodtech.com launches publicly. The first consulting engagements and workshop partnerships begin. The work becomes visible.
Where We Are Today
5
Practice areas
Health, economic empowerment, environmental justice, education, and policy analytics
1
Product in development
Ayana — AI maternal health companion
5
Core principles
Community-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 community leaders, health practitioners, environmental advocates, and technologists who share our commitment to AI that serves people first.
We are actively seeking partnerships with community organizations, healthcare systems, educational institutions, and mission-aligned funders who want to invest in equitable technology infrastructure.
The Work Continues
Whether you are a community organization looking for AI tools, a business ready to modernize, or someone who shares our values and wants to contribute — we would love to hear from you.