Speaker Profile

Marvin Harris

AI Workforce Strategist · Keynote Speaker · Creator of the THINK Methodology

Marvin Harris builds and manages AI workforces that combine humans with Digital Teams. As a 3x founder, Amazon CTO Fellow, and creator of the THINK Methodology, he helps leaders add capacity and redesign how work gets done across government contracting, economic development, and workforce readiness.

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$6M+

Gov Contracts Facilitated

12K+

Newsletter Subscribers

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Founder

Patent

Pending (THINK Method)

Keynote · Workshop

Add Capacity Without Adding Headcount

A practical session for business leaders on moving beyond individual AI productivity to add organizational capacity by combining human expertise and judgment with Digital Teams.

GovCon · Workshop

Build Your Digital Capture & Proposal Team

A hands-on session for government contractors on expanding Capture and Proposal capacity by combining their expertise and judgment with Digital Capture and Proposal Teams.

Executive · Board

AI Labor Reallocation: Redesigning Who Does the Work

An executive session on reallocating work across humans and AI, deciding where human judgment belongs, and redesigning organizations around a new division of labor.

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AI Platforms

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and other foundation models — multi-model AI teammate and workforce design

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Agentic Systems

Agent orchestration, MCP servers, GitHub Actions, Notion workflows, APIs and event-driven automation

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GovCon Stack

SAM.gov, USASpending, FPDS, SBIR/STTR pipeline, BD & capture automation

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Workforce & Training

Curriculum design, cohort delivery, HBCU integration, community learning systems

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Strategy Frameworks

THINK Methodology, SPEEDS Protocol, Abridge filters — proprietary decision systems

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Web & Deployment

Cloudflare, GitHub, web applications and deployment architecture for AI teams and workforce systems

Built the THINK Methodology and a managed AI workforce model that combines human judgment, orchestrators, and specialized AI teammates. Compound Leverage combines humans with Digital Capture and Proposal Teams to get Capture and Proposal work done for government contractors and capacity-building organizations. Responsible for $6M+ in facilitated government contracts for clients.

Co-founded an AI-driven analytics platform. Applied early machine learning and NLP tooling to business intelligence use cases for mid-market clients.

Led entrepreneurship programming and business development support for Black-owned businesses and underrepresented founders in the Atlanta ecosystem.

Provided strategic advisory and technical assistance to small businesses competing for federal and county contracts in the PG County innovation ecosystem.

Maryland APEX Accelerator Maryland SBDC MD Biz Opportunity Center Cyber Association of Maryland Bowie Innovate Future of GovCon Amazon Web Services (CTO Fellow) Google for Startups Echoing Green

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Digital Capture Team

Finds, qualifies, researches, and shapes opportunities using specialized AI teammates while keeping pursuit judgment with the human capture lead.

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Digital Proposal Team

Turns capture intelligence into compliant proposal execution across requirements analysis, drafting, past performance, compliance, and review.

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Managed AI Workforce

Combines Capture and Proposal capacity into one managed system, with work routed to the right human or AI teammate based on judgment, risk, and repeatability.

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Digital Intelligence Team

Monitors signals, clusters opportunities, scores fit, identifies teaming needs, and produces decision-ready intelligence before an RFP appears.

THINK

Task · Hypothesis · Invest · Network · Knowledge

A five-phase decision and deployment system for designing work, deciding where human judgment belongs, and deploying AI teammates and teams. Patent pending. The core methodology behind Compound Leverage's client engagements.

SPEEDS

Opportunity Scoring Protocol

A multi-factor scoring framework used to evaluate and prioritize business development opportunities — particularly for government contracting pipeline management. Calibrated to client win-rate patterns.

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science THINK Methodology — Patent Pending

Book Marvin for Your Next Event

Keynotes, workshops, live AI builds, and executive briefings. Available for conferences, summits, government contracting convenings, and HBCU engagements.

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