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Fostering the Future for American Children and Families
How Lived Experience, Systems Insight, and a Historic Technology Opportunity Sparked TheMothershp Introduction: Before There Was a Company, There Was a Calling TheMothershp didn’t begin as a product idea or a startup strategy. It began with a lived experience, one that revealed the gaps, the patterns, and the emotional toll of systems that struggle to truly understand the families they serve. Growing up in the child welfare system showed me how instability feels from the insi
crystalrenouf
Nov 174 min read


The Relativity of Relevance: Making AI a Little Smarter (and Maybe a Little More Human)
Einstein said time is relative. I think he was onto something, mostly because I’ve spent years building an AI that makes me feel like time doesn’t exist at all. Startups have a way of doing that.... But that idea stuck with me: if time can stretch and bend, what about information? What if relevance itself could be relative, changing depending on who’s asking, when they’re asking, and what they actually need? That’s where Selena comes in. Most AI models do what I call “the caf
crystalrenouf
Oct 281 min read


Accelerating Impact: Our Milestone with NVIDIA
We did it! 🚀 TheMothershp has officially been accepted into the NVIDIA Inception Program a milestone that takes our mission to transform child welfare and human-service systems to an entirely new level. This marks not only technical validation but a profound alignment with NVIDIA’s global commitment to AI for Good the use of artificial intelligence to advance equity, ethics, and social well-being. About NVIDIA Founded in 1993, NVIDIA revolutionized computing with the inv
crystalrenouf
Oct 182 min read


💔 From Pain to Purpose: Why I Built TheMothershp
On June 20th, 2020, my life changed forever. I received a call that my brother, Isaiah Renouf, had been murdered. In a single moment,...
crystalrenouf
Oct 42 min read
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