Myrtle Beach, SC · Grand Strand · Horry County
A part-time CIO for Myrtle Beach, SC hotels and real estate firms.
Hotels, restaurants, attractions, and real estate offices where whoever is on shift decides which AI tool the business uses.
Systems common in this market. The figure is city population.
The market
What Myrtle Beach looks like from here.
Myrtle Beach runs on hospitality and tourism: hotels and resorts, restaurants, attractions, real estate, and the services behind them. Your staff turns over every season, and a new front desk hire will find an AI tool to write guest replies before anyone shows them the handbook. Your group sales team is doing the same with proposals. A ten-page policy will not survive that. A rule that fits on one page, written for each role, might.
The systems are usually Microsoft 365, a property or booking system, a sales system for group business, and accounting software that reports by export. We write the AI rules as short role-based pages and back them with settings on your systems, so the rule holds even when the person changes. Then we connect bookings, sales, and accounting to one dashboard you own, so occupancy, revenue, and cost sit together without a spreadsheet. Myrtle Beach sits in Horry County, and hospitality employers along the Grand Strand turn their staff over every season.
What we would expect to find here. Thin margins and seasonal staffing leave no room for a rule no one reads. One-page rules per role, backed by system settings, do the work instead.
A page the new hire will read
Staff turn over every season along the Grand Strand. A new front-desk hire will find a tool to write guest replies before anyone shows them a handbook, and group sales does the same with proposals.
We write the AI rules as short role-based pages and back them with settings on the systems, so the limit holds when the person changes. Bookings, sales, and accounting can then show occupancy, revenue, and cost together.
Myrtle Beach is a service area, not an office. One team, based in North Carolina, works in your own systems.
Where this has run
A profile close to this setup.
Patient data was being entered into a public AI tool.
Multi-site healthcare practice · ~60 staff
Industries in Myrtle Beach
Who we work with here.
Start here
- AI Use Policy — Advisory review
- AI security & governance assessment — Advisory review
- Base dashboard deployment — Deployment
Where we work
Around Myrtle Beach and across SC.
Where are you based and do you work remotely?
Third Shift Group LLC is based in North Carolina and works with firms across North and South Carolina. Most of the work runs remotely, against your Microsoft cloud account and your systems. Policy meetings and leadership sessions can be on site where that helps. See where we work for the regions and towns we cover.
How do you write rules seasonal staff will actually follow?
Rules seasonal staff will actually follow are short, written for each role, and enforced in the systems rather than in a manual. A seasonal hire should be able to read the whole AI Use Policy for their job in a minute. The controls in your Microsoft cloud account do the rest.
What does a one-page rule look like for a front desk?
A single page for that role, covering guest replies and the records a front desk touches. Group sales gets its own page for proposals. A ten-page document is what will not survive the season.
Which system settings back up the rule?
Settings on the systems the firm already runs, usually Microsoft 365, the property or booking system, and the sales system for group business. The settings hold the limit when the person at the desk changes.
Start here
The first step is the same in every location.
Advisory first, in Myrtle Beach as everywhere else: a written assessment you own.