Our Leadership

Founding Team

Christopher Driscoll, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO, ProvenanceAI

Owner/Managing Editor, Exact Rush Multimedia Publishing
Associate Professor of Religion, Culture & Society, Lehigh University

Dr. Driscoll is a tenured Associate Professor of Religion Studies at Lehigh University and the founder of Exact Rush Multimedia Publishing, where rigorous scholarship meets real-world execution. He translates complex ideas about belief, identity, and culture into practical systems and durable assets—web, publishing, branding, and audience growth—built on process, transparency, and results. He leads with a steady blend of mindfulness and curiosity, and lives in Idaho with his wife and their two daughters.

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Academic:

• Learning design + assessment discipline: Tenured professor who has repeatedly turned complex theory into structured, outcomes-driven learning experiences—exactly the mindset required to build productized pedagogy, rubrics, and credible evaluation systems.
• Human behavior + motivation expertise: Deep scholarly grounding in belief, identity, race, and meaning-making—core variables in engagement, persistence, trust, and behavior change in any learning platform.
• Communication at scale across audiences: Proven ability to explain hard ideas to mixed audiences (students, scholars, public communities, corporate contexts), which maps to product storytelling, stakeholder alignment, and adoption work across institutions.

Entrepreneurial/Industry Experience:

• Founder/operator of Exact Rush: Built and runs a multimedia publishing and digital services business delivering websites, publishing, editorial, branding/SEO, and audience growth—end-to-end client delivery, process, and quality control.
• Digital distribution + audience growth track record: Built a YouTube presence to ~10,000 subscribers and ~1M views through consistent production and retention strategy—evidence of market-facing execution, iteration, and growth mechanics.
• Industry AI role (ethnographic/rater work): Worked as a subcontractor training LLMs as a "Super Rater," applying structured evaluation, qualitative judgment, and precision under real production constraints—direct exposure to the operational realities behind commercial AI systems.

Why ProvenanceAI:

I am building ProvenanceAI out of necessity. Knowledge has become decoupled from learning at a time when we need to learn fast, effectively, and with a sense of urgency like few moments in our history. I love philosophy and all the technical knowledge I've gained as a researcher for the last 20 years. But none of that matters as much as my responsibility as an educator to equip my students with the tools to succeed in the world that is to come. "Provenance" because we're charting the path to get them there and "AI" is the vehicle.

Building Our Team: The Honest Roadmap

We're starting a founding round to make tactical hires.

ProvenanceAI is already being built by a literal team of AI agents—what even two years ago would have cost $50k+ to build out, we've accomplished with AI orchestration managed by Christopher. But to scale, we need human expertise in key areas.

Academic Advisory Board

Alongside discovery calls and client surveys, Christopher is building an Academic Advisory Board that will meet quarterly to ensure ProvenanceAI continues to point up.

Our Commitment to Transparency

We believe ProvenanceAI moves fastest through real conversations with real educators and builders.

We're building in public. We're learning as we go. We're honest about what we know and what we're still figuring out.