Mike Bledsoe

Work With Me

Each fits a different stage and a different mechanism.

One is you and me, one-on-one, three months at a time.

One is my firm working inside your business, diagnosing what the AI era needs and building it.

One is the community — operators thinking out loud with each other, with Ted and me showing up weekly in the podcast that started it.

Personal Counsel and Bledsoe & Co. are for operator-founders at $1M–$10M. Full Stack Founders is open to anyone building toward it.

Pick the door that fits where you are.

The Firm

Bledsoe & Co.

The firm. We diagnose what your business needs to thrive in the AI era, then we build it with you.

Every engagement starts with The Readout — a two-week diagnostic. We go deep into the business, the team, the current operational architecture, the AI readiness, the competitive pressure you can already feel from AI-native newcomers. At the end, we deliver one of three recommendations:

Path A

Optimize

Your existing architecture is sound; we tune it for AI-era performance.
Path B

Re-architect

Your existing model needs reshaping. We redesign and rebuild.
Path C

The Parallel Build

Your existing business is structurally incompatible with what the era requires. We build the next version of it alongside, so the business you have keeps paying the bills while the business you need comes online.

Then we do the work with you.

Book The Readout

Bledsoe & Co. — The Readout

Tell us about the business.

The Readout is a two-week diagnostic. Five working sessions, a written diagnostic, one of three path recommendations. Starts at $10,000.

We review every inquiry personally before sending a calendar link. Two business days, max.

Your name *

Your email *

Business name *

Business URL *

Annual revenue range *

What's happening in your category right now that made you look at this? *

What have you already tried? *

Helps us separate "haven't tried much" from "tried a lot, didn't work."

What do you want out of the Readout? *

Anything else we should know before we talk?

1-on-1

Personal Counsel

Three months, one-on-one with me. Weekly 90-minute calls. You, me, no team, no firm apparatus.

I work with you on the business strategy and your own leadership. The two aren't separate problems. Operator-founders hit walls that look strategic but aren't — they're personal. The nervous system, the patterns of self-leadership, the assumptions about what the business is even for. That's the load-bearing layer underneath every strategic decision. Most consultants skip it because they don't know how to work there. This is where I start.

Start the conversation

Personal Counsel inquiry

Tell me what you're working on.

Three months, weekly, $25,000. I read every inquiry personally and respond within two business days.

If we're a fit, the next step is a 60-minute call to walk through what the engagement would look like. If we're not, you'll hear that honestly.

Your name *

Your email *

Best phone *

Company / current business *

URL

Annual revenue range *

What are you working on right now, and where are you stuck? *

What does the next 3 months need to produce for this engagement to be worth $25K to you? *

Why now? *

Anything else I should know?

Community

Full Stack Founders

The community. Operators thinking out loud with each other, not just reading somebody else's thinking.

"Operators thinking out loud with each other."

The room has operator-founders at every stage — from people building toward their first million to people already well past it. What they share is that they're actually doing the work, and they want peers who are too. Ted and I show up weekly in the podcast. The community is what happens between episodes.

Join Full Stack Founders

Which door is for you?

If you already know what you need, the right door is probably obvious. If not:

Start with Full Stack Founders

If you're earlier on the path, you want to think alongside operators at every stage, or you're not ready for a paid consulting engagement yet. $49 gets you the room.

Start with Bledsoe & Co.

If you have an existing business at $1M–$10M and you want a firm to go inside, diagnose what the AI era needs from the business, and build it with you.

Start with Personal Counsel

If you want me personally — weekly, on your specific situation, with enough time to work the business strategy and the personal leadership together.

If you're in the wrong door, we'll point you to the right one.

Read what comes next. New essays once a week. On ownership, the AI shift, and the long game.