// AI Exposure & Engagement Brief

Bridget Pollard
in the Age of AI

A practitioner's view — tools, networks, and applied work at the intersection of AI and construction project controls.

Bridget Pollard Senior Controller
Currie & Brown

MARCH 2026
28
AI Tools & Platforms
5+
Active AI Communities
9+
Newsletters & Substacks
3
Conference Networks
01 — Tools
AI Tool Exposure Heatmap
Daily / Core Workflow
Claude (Anthropic)
97%
Visit claude.ai ↗
Microsoft Copilot
93%
Visit copilot.microsoft.com ↗
Weekly / Active Use
ChatGPT
78%
Visit chatgpt.com ↗
Amazon Q / QuickSuite
74%
Visit aws.amazon.com/q ↗
Gemini / NanoBana
70%
Visit gemini.google.com ↗
DeepSeek
66%
Visit deepseek.com ↗
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen
62%
Visit qwen.aliyun.com ↗
Regular Exploration
GitHub
50%
Visit github.com ↗
HuggingFace
46%
Visit huggingface.co ↗
Explored & Tested
Perplexity ↗ Grok ↗ Mistral ↗ IBM Watson ↗ NotebookLM ↗ Notion AI ↗ ElevenLabs ↗ Otter.ai ↗ Pieces ↗ MidJourney ↗ iWeaver ↗ Base44 ↗ Polsia ↗ Figure AI ↗ Sora ↗ Factory Floor ↗ Fleix ↗ Juno ↗ VS Code ↗ RabbitMQ ↗ Docker ↗
Daily Core Use
Weekly Active
Regular Exploration
Explored & Tested
02 — Intelligence Network
Keeping Pulse on the AI World
📬
Newsletters & Email
✍️
Substacks
Podcasts
💬
Discord Communities
🎤
Conferences & Events
🗣️
Speaking & Leadership
  • PMI Southwest Ohio Chapter
  • Practitioner perspective on AI integration in project controls
🤝
Direct Creator Access
  • Email relationships with AI communicators & creators
  • Active community member — not passive consumer
  • Feedback loops with tool developers via Discord
03 — Applied Work
What I'm Actually Building
Co-Development
AWS / Amazon Q Co-Dev Partnership
Collaborative development with an AWS client inside QuickSuite — identifying automation opportunities to close process and information gaps.
Amazon Q GitHub QuickSuite
Active Agent
Editorial Agent — Team Communication
A custom-built AI agent deployed via Copilot that assists the Currie & Brown team in maintaining consistent communication standards, tone calibration, and editorial quality across project correspondence.
Microsoft Copilot Custom Agent Prompt Engineering
In Progress
SOPs & Career Development Map
Leveraging Claude to co-develop comprehensive Standard Operating Procedures and a structured career development framework for the project controls function — building institutional knowledge infrastructure at scale.
Claude SOPs Process Design Smartsheet
04 — Certifications
Certifications Held & In Progress
Held
🏆
Project Management Professional (PMP)
One of the most globally recognized project management credentials — demonstrating proven experience leading and directing projects, with deep expertise in project controls, stakeholder management, and delivery frameworks.
PMI Certification Page Project Management PMI
In Progress
☁️
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Foundational certification covering core AWS services, cloud concepts, security, architecture, and pricing — building the credential layer to match the hands-on co-development work already underway in the AWS ecosystem.
AWS Certification Page Cloud Foundations AWS
"Not watching AI from the sidelines — building with it, daily."
PREPARED MARCH 2026