ProdigyIQ Readies WorkTelli, a Digital Workforce With Humans Signing Off

ProdigyIQ Technologies founder David A. Craig has spent up to 18 hours a day since March building WorkTelli, a workforce infrastructure product that deploys digital workers across a company's systems while keeping a human approver on every deliverable.

Craig frames the moment bluntly. "I know what's ahead for the way of work and the wealth transfer that's coming up in 2030," he told the Birmingham Times. "There's a $30 trillion transfer of wealth. I know that right now, we're in the biggest gold rush since the one in San Francisco. It can be a 14-year-old, it can be a 9-year-old that's the next millionaire."

WorkTelli targets small-to-mid-sized businesses in task-heavy industries — construction, law and healthcare. The software creates agents that communicate across all company systems and execute tasks under the direction of a human assignee. Craig started development in March 2026 and modeled the product's architecture on the book of Genesis, which he calls the system design document for life.

How does a digital worker actually operate?

Craig describes a delegation model with built-in handoffs. "You can set a goal and give that goal to one of the [digital] workers," he said. "If it's not in that worker's wheelhouse, it will find out what worker does that task and hand it off to them. That worker will start to perform, whether it's going out and doing research, prospecting, writing proposals, being an executive assistant, handling finances, anything that a person would do."

The design puts decisions — not tasks — in human hands. "The only thing the person would have to do is make decisions," Craig said. "It gives back evidence before it gives out a deliverable. Once you approve the evidence, it creates a deliverable."

That approval loop is deliberate. Craig pegs most AI products at 80-percent accuracy and argues the remaining 20 percent is where companies get hurt. "You never want to take the human out of the loop because AI isn't always accurate," he said. "If you don't put a countermeasure in place for that 20 percent, it can be detrimental to your organization. A lot of people don't understand that."

From a Detroit conversation to 21 agents

The idea came from a conference conversation in Detroit. "I met a guy who told me that he's been looking for someone to build a one-man company all run by AI," Craig recalled. "I started ideating on it. In January, I built it. I built 21 agents that ran my whole business, from outreach to market intelligence. They did everything. I said, 'I want to see how I can scale this.' I scaled what I built as a prototype."

WorkTelli is currently in the design partnership stage, and Craig is actively recruiting designers to help build it out.

Craig's own grounding in the technology runs deep. He has studied AI for 15 years and formally experimented with it since 2021, becoming an early adopter of ChatGPT's beta version. "I just was interested in how it works," he said. "The mathematics behind it and the possibilities. You can't break it. There's so much you can do with it in life."

He uses AI daily to manage his ADHD. "From the time I wake, I know what I need to do for the day," he said. "I talk to it throughout the day, and I teach it about me. The more it knows about me, the more it can help me. I don't use it as a tool; I use it as a thinking partner."

What is assignment architecture?

Craig's career ran through the military, then engineering and manufacturing, before he started a consulting company in 2020. He moved into technology through the Voltage Program at Innovation Depot. His current focus is what he calls "assignment architecture," which his website describes as a "discipline for aligning identity, authority, assignment, execution, intelligence and measurable impact across people, teams, organizations and intelligent systems."

The Genesis model drives how WorkTelli onboards clients. "If you're an avid Bible reader, God gave anything he created identity, authority and assignment," Craig said. "When I'm onboarding a client onto this platform, the first thing it's going to do is give an identity. Authority is the guardrails, what it can and can't do. Assignment is what it's supposed to do in that role. It's a whole organization within an organization."

Craig also pushes back on the popular framing of AI as new. Artificial intelligence emerged in the 1950s. "AI's been around," he said. "It's in your car, like Google Assistant, Siri and chatboxes — that's all AI."

He likens agentic AI — generative models that solve problems and execute tasks — to interns. "Once you start training these interns, they learn how you work, and they get smarter," he said. "Instead of them leaving the company, they become employees. Most interns don't stay; they go find opportunities. With the technology I designed, it's like having a bunch of interns that keep getting smarter."

Will AI take the jobs?

Craig disputes the idea that AI will eliminate jobs on a massive scale, even as he acknowledges companies are scaling back. "You can't resist the move, but you can adapt," he said. "The way you adapt is you learn how to work with it and not push away from it. The people who are going to win at this race are the ones who integrate AI into their everyday work. The more you know how to use it, the more valuable you are to a company. The companies are looking for people who know how to adapt."

He argues most people misjudge the technology. "People are looking at things through an unlearned lens," he said. "One thing I had to do was educate myself on the technology. I had to learn what it is and what it's for. It can help you do a lot real fast, but there are challenges. It's about putting those protocols into place so it won't be damaging to society."

Teaching the playbook

Craig also runs the David A. Craig Institute, which he created to leave a legacy. "I want to teach people a more holistic way of using AI," he said. The institute certifies students as Intelligence System Architects — Craig's own title for designing systems around AI — or as Assignment Architects, a credential he built after watching people he considers misaligned with their assignment. Stair-step certifications run up to Master Assignment Architect, aimed at people interested in operations.

He bases the work in Birmingham because of the city's high AI adoption rate, driven by younger residents and transplants. "You have all of these companies coming from different parts of the U.S. and the world with fresh ideas," he said. "A lot of people are receptive to it. Now that people see how much money AI can generate, it doesn't take much to be successful if you have the right people behind you, and Birmingham has that community. They don't gatekeep."

WorkTelli's next milestone is converting the design partnership stage into a full release — with ProdigyIQ betting that the winning formula pairs digital labor with human sign-off.