People first.
Every engagement starts with the people who will use the thing. If they cannot run it, we did not build it. Training is part of the architecture, not an add-on.
About RenegAIDE Collective
Built in Boston.Rooted in Roxbury.Founded to make AI hold.
RenegAIDE Collective was founded in January 2026 in Dedham, Massachusetts, by (Dr.) Beth Griffith, after a career spent proving the same thing in tax preparation, clean energy, workforce training, and community advocacy: the people closest to the work already know what is broken. They need instruments, a plan, and the money to pay for the fix.
The name
Renegade plus AIDE.
A renegade refuses the default. An aide shows up and does the work.
We refuse the default of buying tools and hoping. We show up with Digital Helpers™ that carry the load while your people keep the keys. The Collective is the family of ventures around the practice, built so that each one holds the others up: training feeds architecture, architecture feeds products, products feed the community that started it all.
Philosophy
People first. AI second. Impact always.
Three sentences we are willing to be held to.
AI second.
AI is the accelerator, never the source of truth. Every helper has a human owner and a human gate on anything that touches a customer, a contract, or a dollar.
Impact always.
We measure in outcomes a funder can read: hours returned, dollars secured, people trained and certified, and work that survives an audit.
The Renegade Method
Analyze. Repurpose. Build.
Never start from the shelf, even with three hundred agents on it.
Analyze the business first
Revenue model, real team capacity, KPIs, compliance obligations, customers. No helper gets assigned before the analysis exists.
Repurpose what fits
The Renegade Command Center™ holds an inventory of more than 300 proven agents. We retune the ones that fit to your voice, your data, and your guardrails before building anything new.
Build what does not exist
Purpose-built helpers shaped to your qualification gates, your legal guardrails, and your customers' language. Deployed in tiers: unblock the funnel first, revenue second, scale third.
The Triad
Product. Growth engine. Brain.
Everything we build connects to at least two of three legs: your product (the app, the site, the data), your growth engine (CRM, email and SMS nurture, pipelines, social planner), and your brain (the Command Center scoreboard, digests, and approval gates). Enter data once and it ripples everywhere, with a sync conductor checking daily. A one-leg build is an island. We do not ship islands.
The founder
(Dr.) Beth Griffith
BAP, GIP, HIC, LEED. Managing Director and Founder of Renewable Renegades. Founder of RenegAIDE Collective and RetrofitIQ. Executive Director of Gigs Uplift Mass since 2019. President of Northeast Professionals in Artificial Intelligence.
Beth is a licensed green infrastructure professional and a Building Analyst Professional whose work sits at the intersection of AI advising, clean energy workforce development, and community equity. She has trained more than 1,400 individuals and business owners, mentored more than 1,000 people, facilitated nearly 3,600 tax returns that put $7 million in refunds back into low- and middle-income households, and helped secure more than $2 million in forgivable funding for gig workers who were told they did not qualify.
She is a veteran who came home from military service to build a career in clean energy and community impact, a Roxbury Community College alumna, a founding member of the Boston Community Solar Cooperative, and a student of AI in her own right: an MBA with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence in progress, and the AI Certified Authority credential in thought leadership, earned with honors in 2026.
She pursues local, state, and federal contracts, grants, and institutional partnerships for clients because that is how the fix gets paid for. And she still teaches the beginner class herself.
Milestones
2019Becomes Executive Director of Gigs Uplift Mass, d/b/a Boston Independent Drivers Guild.
September 2025RetrofitIQ co-awarded the MassCEC FY25 EmPower Innovation and Capacity Building Grant.
January 2026Founds RenegAIDE Collective (ANEC Ventures LLC) in Dedham, Massachusetts.
May 2026HerAutoExpert wins the Base44 hackathon at Boston Tech Week.
September 2026Earns the AI Certified Authority (Thought Leadership) credential, with honors. Hosts a five-day build series and Nonprofit Tuesdays at Boston AI Week 2026.
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Where we come from
Boston born and raised. Work rooted in Roxbury.
Our founder learned web design at the South End Technology Center, organized through Roxbury Community College, helped found community-owned solar in Dorchester, and still books classrooms in Roxbury for people meeting AI for the first time.
Community anchors are professional spaces. The church hall, the barbershop, the guild meeting, the co-op board: that is where the real operations of a neighborhood run, and that is who this practice was built to serve first. We say it plainly on this page so nobody has to guess.
- Culturally competent by design, not by disclaimer.
- Equity, access, and compassionate leadership as operating rules.
- Local hiring, local venues, local partners wherever the work allows.
The Collective
The ventures around the practice.
Each one feeds the others. Each one keeps the founder honest about what real operations need.
AI advising and architectureRenegAIDE Collective
The practice you are reading about: diagnosis first, Digital Helpers™, the Renegade Command Center™, and brand work built to hold.
Clean energy workforce trainingRenewable RenegadesSolsis Energy Advising & Training LLC. Culturally competent workforce training, technical assistance, and business development for the clean energy economy.
Founder-built productRetrofitIQA culturally competent retrofit platform for clean energy contractors, co-awarded a MassCEC FY25 EmPower grant. Beta testers wanted.
Nonprofit advocacy since 2019Gigs Uplift Mass
d/b/a Boston Independent Drivers Guild. Advocacy, tax help, and forgivable funding for freelance and gig professionals.
Nonprofit, launching 2026Northeast Professionals in AI
AI is for everyone. A community for AI professionals and learners across the Northeast, founded with a six-member board and our founder as President.
Founding memberBoston Community Solar Cooperative
Community-owned solar in Dorchester, and proof that ownership is the point.
Next step
Meet the founder on a thirty-minute call.
Bring the thing that wobbles. Leave with a diagnosis, a next step, and the funding doors that fit.