I'm Marney Edwards. I bridge the gap between 30 years of ERP, Supply Chain, and Finance reality and tomorrow's Generative AI.
I didn't start in AI. I spent decades in the trenches of enterprise technology, serving as a Vice President at Genpact and Applied Materials, and a Director at PwC. Today, as the AI Service Leader at Ultra Consultants and a Fractional CAIO, I bring that deep operational pragmatism to Artificial Intelligence. I don't build shiny demos; I build solutions that remove friction, simplify processes, and deliver exponential value to the bottom line.
Stop guessing on AI strategy.
Most mid-market companies can't justify a full-time Chief AI Officer — but they're making million-dollar AI decisions without one. I provide end-to-end executive AI leadership on a fractional basis: governance frameworks, vendor evaluation, roadmap development, and board-level communication. You get a seasoned operator who has built and deployed AI in complex enterprise environments — without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
You can't deploy what your data can't support.
73% of enterprise data leaders cite data quality as the #1 barrier to AI success — above model accuracy, cost, and talent. I conduct a structured diagnostic of your ERP, HRIS, and core operational systems to assess AI readiness across data integrity, process maturity, integration architecture, and governance posture. You receive a scored readiness report and a prioritized remediation roadmap.
The technology isn't the problem. Adoption is.
Only 15% of U.S. employees say their organization has communicated a clear AI strategy. Without it, even well-built AI solutions die on the floor. I design and deliver targeted education programs across your organization — from boardroom briefings that cut through the noise to role-specific training that builds real fluency in the people doing the work.
I don’t just advise on AI strategy — my body of work is built on executing it. Each system below was designed, architected, and deployed in production. Together they represent a complete AI intelligence stack: understanding people, making institutional knowledge queryable, surfacing operational data through natural language, and executing autonomously on what it finds.
Built and managed the cross-functional team of data scientists and engineers to scale one of the first personality-analysis SaaS tools on the AWS Marketplace. Grounded in computational psychometrics and the Big Five Personality Model, the system uses the LIWC-22 framework to evaluate 50+ behavioral traits through real-world communication patterns — delivering ethical, frictionless, AI-driven talent intelligence at scale. Successfully integrated RAG architectures and NLP into production workflows on AWS.
Designed and deployed a production-grade SharePoint-to-Azure AI ingestion pipeline that continuously synchronizes Ultra Consultants’ entire SharePoint tenant (1,061 sites) into three purpose-built Azure AI Search indexes. Built on a queue-based fan-out architecture with Azure Functions and Event Grid, the system extracts and chunks content from six file formats, generates 3,072-dimension vector embeddings using Azure OpenAI text-embedding-3-large, and applies a custom classification engine to route content intelligently — client engagement content, internal knowledge, and operational workforce data — each with a schema purpose-built for its query patterns.
Connected to the Ultra Knowledge Agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio (deployed to Teams), enabling natural language queries against Ultra’s full institutional knowledge base with real-time, citation-backed responses. Agent evaluation confirms ~80–96% pass rate across 50+ test queries.
Developed and architected a proprietary knowledge engine enabling Ultra Consultants to deliver evidence-based ERP AI capability assessments across 8 platforms and 150+ business process friction points. Built on Azure AI Search, the system combines a structured capability index (1,690 SCOR/APQC-classified assessments), a semantic document library, and an automated ingestion pipeline that extracts and scores ERP AI features from vendor research using a multi-factor maturity model — Implementation Pattern × Feature Coverage × Evidence Quality.
Deployed a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent with specialized child agents surfacing real-time, citation-backed insights through natural language queries — positioning Ultra as the definitive AI × ERP advisory practice.
Integrated Ultra’s Ginsu PSA utilization data — 250,981 weekly records spanning 101 consultants and four years of actuals plus forward projections — into a dedicated Azure AI Search operational intelligence index with a purpose-built schema for workforce queries. Built a custom Python indexer that parses the Ginsu pivot export, normalizes seven utilization metrics per consultant per week, computes utilization percentages, generates natural language narratives for semantic search, and loads the full dataset with 3,072-dimension vector embeddings.
Connected to the Ultra Knowledge agent alongside the SharePoint knowledge base, enabling a consultant to ask “who has available capacity for a client engagement next month?” and receive a data-backed answer drawn from live PSA data — the first time operational workforce intelligence and institutional project knowledge have been queryable from a single interface.
Accepts transcripts, session notes, Excel/CSV exports, and Visio process diagrams as inputs. Visio files are converted to images and parsed alongside current-state process flows. The agent extracts friction points — manual steps, system gaps, redundant handoffs — and stores them against a client-specific knowledge base scoped by engagement ID.
Identified friction points are scored by business value and implementation complexity. The agent maps each to a recommended AI agent and generates three structured outputs: a Gold Box summarizing current-state findings in plain language; an Opportunity Matrix plotting each friction point on a value-versus-complexity grid to support prioritization; and an Agent Recommendation list pairing each high-priority opportunity with a specific agent and deployment rationale. Functions as an early warning system — tracking deliverable status and project health to surface risk before engagements trend off track.
Designed a document-centric Copilot agent that reads internal financial models and spreadsheets to extract core PE metrics — EBITDA, revenue growth, leverage, ROI, and margins — and supports scenario analysis across base, upside, and downside cases. The agent flags trends and outliers for follow-up, applying the same logic and framing to every file it processes.
Built to eliminate the variation that accumulates when analysts rebuild the same views differently across deals. Same inputs produce the same outputs, every time — reducing manual rework in Excel and improving consistency across the deal team without disrupting existing workflows.
Built a role-based research agent that monitors industry trends, competitor activity, and valuation benchmarks — synthesizing external data into concise summaries scoped to active and prospective deals. Designed to give IC and deal teams faster market context without manual research cycles or context-switching between tools and sources.
Deployed as part of a deliberate sequencing strategy — education before automation — shaped by Freedom3’s mixed trust in AI across the team. The agent was scoped narrowly and kept explainable: document-centric, easy to test, and easy to discard if it didn’t fit.
Designed an agent that reads internal financials, risk notes, and supporting documents to draft investor updates, board summaries, and slide-ready content — maintaining consistent tone and structure across every communication. Delivered as part of a three-agent pattern (Analyst → Researcher → Communicator) that mirrors how PE teams already think about their workflow.
Introduced through an onsite Copilot education workshop in Kansas City — hands-on, using real Freedom3 documents — before any agent automation was deployed. The goal was to build comfort first and avoid wasted investment if adoption stalled. The session shifted internal conversations toward using AI earlier in diligence and offering it as part of PE value creation, not IT tooling.
The Capabilities: Architected and deployed “Pansophy,” a highly capable, autonomous personal AI agent that serves as a digital chief of staff. Integrated directly with a proprietary “Personal Brain” via Azure AI Search, the agent seamlessly retrieves and synthesizes decades of methodologies, articles, and private operational data. Capable of executing multi-step workflows including Azure infrastructure deployment, CI/CD pipeline management, DNS configuration, and automated API orchestration.
The Security Posture: Designed with a strict Zero-Trust architecture to securely manage private operational data. Operates exclusively over a private Tailscale VPN tunnel with zero public-facing inbound ports. The system is fundamentally isolated from public LLM training datasets, ensuring proprietary methodologies, credentials, and client data remain completely sovereign.
No fluff. No sci-fi. Just practical frameworks, case studies, and field notes on integrating Artificial Intelligence into complex manufacturing and distribution environments.
95% of companies are buying AI hype and getting zero ROI. The other 5% are fundamentally changing how work gets done. I help mid-market and enterprise leaders across the Manufacturing, Transportation, Technology, Finance, and Semiconductor sectors join the 5% by deploying practical, governed, and high-impact AI solutions.
I've led multi-million dollar Workday and SAP deployments, architected complex supply chains, and built scalable finance operations. My focus isn't just on the models — it's on the adoption, the governance, and ensuring your core operational systems are actually ready for the intelligence you're trying to inject into them.