Todd Welch
Two live advisory instances are in place right now, one where he owns the business and one operating inside another company. Todd built this for himself first, because hiring a real executive team was never in the budget.
You run five jobs at once: strategy, daily operations, delivery, and every message that goes out the door. A real executive team runs past $500K a year in salaries, out of reach for a growing brand. An AI advisory team gives you that layer of judgment, focus, follow-through, and communication, tuned to how you work and grounded in your business. It is the same executive layer Todd Welch runs across his own businesses every day.
The founder-operator of a growing brand wears every hat. The strategy decision, the daily triage, the thing that has to ship this week, the update a partner is waiting on. All of it routes through one person.
Hiring the team that would carry that load, a strategist, a chief of staff, a COO, and a communications lead, costs more than $500K a year. For a $2M to $10M brand, that team never gets hired. So the work piles onto the operator, and the highest-value thinking gets squeezed out by the busywork around it.
The fix is not another tool to log into. It is an executive layer that thinks alongside you, remembers your business, and keeps you working where you are strongest.
Each advisor is built around one job. Together they handle the work around the building so you can stay in your zone of strength.
Turns every proposed move into a plain business case: what it removes, whose time it frees, whether it advances the plan. Flags real risk early and helps you decide which battles are worth your limited time. It asks more than it tells, so the call stays yours.
Opens each day with three priorities ranked by leverage, each with why it matters and what done looks like. Triages every incoming request into do-now, schedule, route, or decline, and guards the deep-work blocks where your best work happens.
Owns follow-through, the missing edge case, and the definition of done. A build is not done when it runs; it is done when it works on real data and is actually being used. Anything you do twice becomes a repeatable process.
Drafts the messages to partners, clients, and your team in your own voice, and frames every update around what it takes off the reader's plate. Nothing sends without your review; the team drafts, you decide.
The advisory team runs on a memory system: a set of plain files that live with your business and hold the context the team needs to be useful from the first minute of every session.
Every session starts by reading the current state, so the team is grounded in where things actually stand instead of asking you to catch it up. What one session learns, the next one already knows.
The team works on a simple cadence, so momentum builds instead of resetting every morning.
Three priorities in order of leverage, so the day starts on the highest-value work instead of the loudest. Never a fourth priority competing for the same hours.
The moment a decision is made or something changes, it goes into the record. Nothing important lives only in your head, so a dropped thread gets picked back up.
A short recap of what shipped, what is open, and tomorrow's priorities, plus a draft progress note ready for the person you most need to keep informed.
Every engagement starts by understanding how you work, then designs the team around it. From-price language leaves room as the model proves out on real installs.
Paid discovery. Your natural strengths and drains get mapped, the four advisors get designed against your specific gaps, and your memory system gets planned. You leave with the blueprint for your team.
Your advisory team, built and tuned to you. The four advisors get tuned to your voice and your stack, your memory gets seeded from where the business actually stands today, and the daily rituals get wired in.
Ongoing care so the team stays sharp as the business changes. Tuning, memory hygiene, new rules captured as they emerge, and a quarterly recalibration. No build hours.
Want monthly build hours as well as advisory? The Automation Partner engagement, from $3K per month, is the natural upgrade path.
A 30 minute discovery call, no pitch. We map where your attention is going and whether an advisory team is the right fix, or whether a straight automation is. You get an honest answer either way.
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