AI as Assistive Technology: A Practical Stack for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities
Whether you’re starting your business or scaling one, AI is reshaping what’s possible for entrepreneurs with disabilities — and the founders who use it on purpose, not by accident, are building faster and spending less to do it.
In this 90-minute masterclass, founder Alva Cardona walks you through the seven buckets in which every founder in 2026 is making decisions about AI tools and workflows: how you build, plan, sell, support, measure, orchestrate, and govern your stack. You’ll learn a practical framework for choosing the right AI use case for your business, a real-world workflow demo you can ship this week, and a guide to the free founder programs and Microsoft for Startups credits you’re probably leaving on the table right now.
This session is for entrepreneurs with disabilities at any stage, and for the VR professionals and service providers who advise them. You’ll leave with a personalized tech stack you can put to work immediately.
Presenter: Alva Cardona is the founder and CEO of Cromus.ai, a deterministic platform that scores and governs AI workflows before they ship. A publicly neurodivergent Puerto Rican entrepreneur, she brings fifteen years of enterprise SEO and AI Search experience across pharma, healthcare, and Fortune 500 digital teams to teaching founders how to build with AI with purpose. Alva is the open-source author of three specs for the agentic era — SKILL.md, ETHOS.md and MEMORY.md — and is currently bootstrapping Cromus through StarterStudio Build 13, Nasdaq Milestone Circles, and Build Club’s Women in AI Accelerator. She writes about AI search and the future of the web on Medium.