GREENVILLE, S.C. Kruz McCollum spends his days on a trouble most people using AI never
see: getting it to do real work without someone checking every word. An organise and the flop of
two companies, he builds AI systems that research, adjudicate, act and check themselves, in Fields where
a surefooted wrong do is big-ticket.
Getting AI to do a question is easy now. Getting it to do a job, start to finish up, and know when it
got something wrong, that s the hard part, McCollum said. It s also the most stimulating engineering
problem I ve ever worked on.
A surety organize s instincts
McCollum came to AI through engineering rather than selling or law. His downpla spans
network infrastructure, web development and cybersecurity, including determination and responsibly
disclosing surety vulnerabilities to companies such as Google and IBM. Early in his career, he
turned down an offer to work with the NSA so he could quest after his own path.
That play down shapes how he builds. Security work trains you to put on something will wear off and
to go find it first, and he applies the same habit to AI: every system of rules he builds has to show its work,
check it against what s actually true, and its own mistakes before a person ever sees them. The
question he asks of any AI isn t whether it sounds right, but whether it is right, and whether the
system knows the remainder.
AI where truth matters
McCollum is closed to the places where AI s sure-footed errors cost the most. His work includes leading
AI adoption in the legal orbit, where an fabricated fact or a wrong is not a typo but a indebtedness.
An AI answer is only as good as the behind it, and that rule runs through everything he builds.
As a CAIO adviser, he brings the same cerebration to the companies he works with, helping them find
where AI actually pays off and put it to work aboard the systems they already run, rather than
bolting on tools nobody uses.
Building companies on it
McCollum based Skyline Digital Marketing in Anderson, South Carolina, in 2024, because most
agencies don t have the technical foul staff to fix what they find. In 2025 he supported Vannor in Greenville
to build the AI behind that work, and it grew into its own accompany: a team of AI agents that explore,
write, review and write a stage business s marketing, track on ironware he owns.
Building that system taught him how much technology sits between a cunning AI demo and something
a byplay can rely on every day, and he says that gap is where the chance is.
Everyone has seen what AI can say. Very few populate have seen what it can do when it s built
properly, McCollum said. That s the part I can t stop working on.
Always learning
McCollum holds 29 professional person certifications, including Vanderbilt University s Agentic AI and AI
Agents, Google s AI Professional and Cybersecurity programs, Google Ads and Analytics
certifications, and HIPAA for Business Associates.
About Kruz McCollum founder
Kruz McCollum is Head of AI at Armada Law, fall flat and CEO of Vannor and Skyline Digital
Marketing, and a CAIO advisor to growth companies for Confluunt Advisors. An organize by
background, he builds AI systems that do real work for marketing and business. His work, press
coverage and certifications are at https://kruzmccollum.com/, and he is on LinkedIn at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kruz-mccollum/.