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info_outlineDo you need people, or do you need leverage? Mike's client was stuck at $3 million for five years. He reduced his team and doubled his profits.
Mike Bledsoe and Ted Phaeton walk through 8 AI plays they're actually running this week. From the Daily Operations Brief that filters out the 88% of emails that don't matter, to the Brand Architect + CMO skill that replaces a $50K marketing engagement, to the AI Operations Audit that found 45% of one client's tasks could be eliminated or automated, to the CFO skill that drafted a financial forecast a consultant would have charged $50,000 for.
No theory. No hype. The play operator-founders running $500K to $5M businesses can install this week.
Key insights from this episode:
• The single source of truth: why one daily brief replaces 6 dashboards
• The Brand Architect + CMO skill stack (and the StoryBrand reference behind it)
•The AI vetting engine: 100+ hours/month → 20 minutes/week
• The AI Operations Audit: 15% eliminated immediately + 30% automated in 6 months
• Why nobody talks about AI for operations
• The speed-to-lead math: 391% conversion lift at the 1-minute mark
• The customer-health alert system that catches churn 30–90 days early
• The CFO skill that replaced a $50,000 consultant
• Bodies vs. leverage: the question Mike asks every founder client
• GitHub for non-technical teams (and how Mike imported Gary Tan's 27-skill stack)
Chapters:
00:00 The leverage question 01:00 Welcome to Full Stack Founders
01:50 Today's roadmap: marketing, ops, finance
02:35 Play 1 — The Daily Operations Brief
06:40 Why one source of truth changes your focus
10:30 Building the Chief of Staff in pieces
14:18 Play 2 — Brand Architect + CMO skill
18:55 Finding the blue ocean (the real estate example)
22:00 StoryBrand and the CMO agent
24:18 Play 3 — AI guest and applicant vetting
26:00 The scoring framework 30:25 Why "set it and forget it" doesn't work
32:18 Play 4 — The AI Operations Audit
34:48 15% immediate + 30% in 6 months
36:46 Why no one talks about AI for operations
38:06 The atomic-task domino effect
39:30 Play 5 — Speed to lead and the conversion math
41:35 The roofer story (boots + AI)
45:30 Play 6 — Customer health and churn prediction
48:00 The Target / Atomic Habits pregnancy story
51:00 Play 7 — The CFO Skill and the $50K consultant
54:28 Bodies vs. leverage (the $3M client story)
58:30 Why a CFO skill beats a CFO hire
1:00:10 Play 8 — GitHub for non-technical teams
1:02:35 The G-stack: importing Gary Tan's 27-skill stack
1:05:55 Why your machine is now your asset
1:07:58 Ted's recap of the 8 plays
1:11:00 Outro
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