About LaunchReady AI

A hands-on AI leader for owner-led companies.

Harrison Painter helps owners become AI ready and use AI to build a stronger, more valuable business. He leads the work, trains the team, and stays involved as the company changes.

Harrison Painter speaking at a live event

How LaunchReady AI works

Build a company that can grow without everything depending on you.

Find where AI can create value.

We look across marketing, operations, leadership, and reporting for the best place to start.

Build it into the business.

LaunchReady builds the system around your tools, people, and way of working. Policy, governance, and security are part of the build.

Keep it working.

Harrison stays involved, improves the system, and trains your team so they know what it does and when they need to step in.

The track record

A record of putting AI to work.

The work has evolved, but the pattern is consistent: build early, put it into use, and teach what holds up.

2022

Discovered ChatGPT and went all-in while most people were still asking what it was.

2023

Authored Indiana's first AI for Small Business book. Launched the AI Ready Podcast. Co-founded Blaizing Academy at Indiana Wesleyan University.

2024

Co-founded the AI Fusion Conference. Co-created AI Protege.

2025

Founded LaunchReady AI. Taught Indiana's first AI class in prison at Putnamville Correctional Facility. Facilitated the AI Certification Course at Ivy Tech.

2026

Founded the AI Law Tracker and Get Found. Published The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency framework. Released two books. The AI Ready Podcast reached 3 million views.

Authority that supports the work

The books and ideas behind the practice.

You Have Already Been Replaced by AI, book cover The White-Collar Factory is Closing, book cover

You Have Already Been Replaced by AI: What Happens Next Is Up to You

A practical look at what has already changed at work, and how people stay useful as AI takes on more of it.

The White-Collar Factory is Closing

A case for rebuilding work around what people do best, rather than trying to preserve work AI can already carry forward.

Operating proof

Built in-house, running today.

These are systems built around real inputs, clear outputs, and responsibility for keeping the work useful.

Live product
Get Found

Get Found

A LaunchReady delivery capability for service businesses that need the right buyers to find and trust their expertise.

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Live public tool
The AI Law Tracker

The AI Law Tracker

A public system that discovers and briefs more than 500 AI bills daily. Referenced by the State of Indiana.

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Working framework
LaunchReady

The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency

The framework that informs how Harrison thinks about capability, adoption, and where a team needs support.

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Coming soon
Agent Factory

Agent Factory

The agent platform that runs LaunchReady's own operations, every day. Public soon.

On the record

What people say.

“You are the poster boy for AI.”
Jay Samit
Jay Samit
Former Vice Chairman, Deloitte Digital
“When people talk about AI in Indiana, Harrison is one of the first names that comes to mind.”
Mark Plaskow
Mark Plaskow
Scientific Clinics
Featured in the Indianapolis Business Journal.
Indianapolis Business Journal
Indianapolis Business Journal

The role

A Fractional Chief AI Officer who stays involved.

Harrison works with owners and leaders from the first review through the build, team training, and ongoing care. He also helps set the policies, ownership, and security the company needs to use AI with confidence and control.

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Harrison Painter

Make your company AI ready.

Harrison will find where AI can create value, choose the right place to start, and build a plan that fits your company.

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