A greater ambition for the border economy.
Border AI Center of Excellence is a business-led initiative bringing together industry intelligence, leaders and applied innovation to strengthen the U.S.–Mexico economic corridor.
Stronger businesses. Shared prosperity.
Our mission is to advance middle-market companies along the U.S.–Mexico border, help bilateral trade reach $2 trillion USD over 10 years, and help create 1 million net new jobs. We believe we can help re-industrialize North America and build a more resilient, thriving industrial hub. We build partnerships with technical colleges, workforce development committees and universities to prepare people for AI-enabled trades and technical roles.
Our broader ambition is for North America to become the world’s most prosperous trading bloc, with the U.S.–Mexico corridor as its central artery. A ten-year ambition to grow bilateral trade toward $2 trillion connects business capability with a shared agenda for investment, reform, mobility and regional intelligence.
The businesses that sustain and grow the region.
Our commercial focus is established middle-market companies and selected enterprise business units with customers, meaningful operations and clear opportunities to create value. Business, operations, service and finance leaders are central to the conversation.
Government agencies, think tanks, universities, economic-development organizations and workforce groups bring essential expertise to this binational agenda. The Center connects their perspectives with the operating realities of companies on both sides of the border.
From industry intelligence to applied engineering.
Border AI provides a place to learn, connect and frame opportunities. Shokworks brings business-value analysis, technical architecture and engineering capability to design, build and integrate solutions when a concrete opportunity emerges.
Engineering proposals, contracts and delivery are managed through Shokworks. This relationship connects the Center’s industry depth with a clear implementation path.
Expertise matters when it contributes.
We are building relationships with people and organizations that can contribute knowledge, operating experience and research. Participation is centered on tangible contributions to the corridor’s development.
Industry & operators
Ground the agenda in real customer needs, operating constraints and opportunities for growth.
Research & workforce
Connect evidence, applied research and the skills needed to support stronger industrial capability.
Technology & institutions
Bring technical expertise, infrastructure knowledge and an understanding of the binational environment.