Full Stack Founders

Most founders are running 9-figure output on broken, legacy hardware. You are hiring more people to solve a problem that only requires a better "Software" installation. In this deep dive, Mike Bledsoe and Ted Phaeton deconstruct the shift from "Prompting" to "Architecting," explaining how to build a sovereign business that scales without the biological cost of a massive team.

We explore the "MedVi Model": How Matthew Gallagher used AI "Skills" to build a 2-person company projecting $1.8 billion in revenue, outperforming legacy giants like Hims & Hers with 1,200x fewer employees. This isn't about AI hacks; it's about the architecture of Sovereignty.

Learn how to install your own AI Executive Board, including an AI CFO trained on "Profit First" and an AI Sales Coach that generates repeatable scripts from your raw call data. We are moving toward a world where "the cows have wings"—where technology decentralizes power back to the individual operator.

Chapters:

00:00 — Introduction: Why Skills are the New Custom GPTs

03:40 — The Process Rule: If you do it twice, automate it

08:01 — The Voice Skill: Training Claude to write in your DNA

14:32 — Stacking Skills: Mapping the context for Email, Blogs, and Social

17:58 — The Opus Advisor: How to optimize AI reasoning costs

20:39 — The GoHighLevel Skill: Automating CRM Complexity

27:05 — The AI Sales Coach: Turning transcripts into winning scripts

32:02 — Meta-Skills: Building frameworks based on Alex Hormozi

39:01 — The AI CFO: Scaling your budget with "Profit First" logic

45:30 — Diagnostics: How to run an AI audit on any company

56:13 — Case Study: 2 Employees, $1.8B Revenue (The MedVee Protocol)

01:05:11 — The Sovereign Individual: Taking power back from the 1%

01:07:21 — The Choice: Amish or Integrated? (The Path to 2026)

Where does this fit in the Stack? This episode focuses on SOFTWARE and OUTPUT. To learn how to integrate this into your daily leadership practice, take our free training "See The Game" inside the Full Stack community: www.skool.com

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What is Full Stack Founders?

For operator-founders building for the AI era.

Mike Bledsoe and Ted Phaeton host. Mike's been an entrepreneur for 19 years: Navy veteran, built CrossFit gyms, Barbell Shrugged, a SaaS product for operators, and now consults operators rebuilding their businesses around AI. Ted's earlier on the path. Part of the show is Mike mentoring him through the conversation in public. The rest is keeping the audience up to speed on what AI is actually doing to the game in real time.

When there are guests, they're operators worth having in the room. When there aren't, Ted drives the questions. Usually the ones most operators won't ask out loud. They walk through the work together.

Most business podcasts are entertainment for operators pretending to build something. This one is for the ones actually building.

No guru energy. No performance. Two operators thinking out loud about what ownership actually requires now.

New episodes every Monday.