Preslye Ede

AI market research platform — founder & solo developer

Generates 50-page business validation reports so founders can pressure-test an idea before committing a year to it. I started it after watching classmates in my entrepreneurship program invest semesters into ideas that early research could have redirected. I had no software background when I began — I learned as I built, and took it from concept to launch on my own.

AI estimating platform for commercial plumbing

Built for M&L Plumbing Co, a commercial contractor, as part of a broader digital modernization of the business I've led since 2024. Chadlly reads construction plans, generates fixture takeoffs, and produces complete priced proposals — labor, tax, and markup included — benchmarked against local competitor bid data. It replaces hours of manual counting and spreadsheet work on every bid.

AI workload planner for students

TimeWise reads a student's assignments, estimates how long each will actually take, and builds a week-by-week schedule around real deadlines and workload. It pulls coursework in automatically and gives professors and programs a view into how much work is really being assigned. My team built it in a few days for the Business Immersion for Engineers competition, pitched it to Dell and Microsoft, and took first place. In a student survey, 75% said they'd use it.

Aggies Invent: Phantom — with the U.S. Army

With U.S. Army stakeholders at the Aggies Invent: Phantom sprint, my team designed CAGE — Counter-UAS Automated Guard Equipment — to defend against Switchblade-style attack drones. A two-layer system combining thermal detection, RF jamming, and GPS spoofing with a physical protective barrier, targeting under $20K per unit against existing options that run $30K–$250K. We built a working concept and presented it to military and engineering evaluators in 48 hours. This is what pointed me toward defense.

Outreach & marketing lead — Texas A&M

I lead branding, graphics, and sponsorships for a student team engineering a solar-powered race car — and spend time on the build itself. Raising sponsor support for a hardware project has taught me a lot about what it takes, materially and financially, to get an engineering project across the finish line.