About LaunchReady AI

Harrison Painter, founder and Fractional Chief AI Officer.

Harrison works alongside owner-led companies to find the work creating pressure, build the system around it, train the people who use it, and stay involved as it becomes part of the business.

Harrison Painter speaking at a live event

How LaunchReady AI works

The goal is simple: give you more room to grow the business.

Start with the pressure point.

We look at the work that is slowing the business down, taking too much of your time, or keeping decisions stuck with you.

Build it into the business.

LaunchReady AI builds around how your company already works. No platform demo. No handoff with a pile of instructions.

Make it stick.

Harrison stays involved, makes improvements, and trains your team so they know how to use the system and where their judgment matters most.

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You Have Already Been Replaced by AI, book cover The White-Collar Factory is Closing, book cover

You Have Already Been Replaced by AI: What Happens Next Is Up to You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

Explore the framework  ›
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 partner who stays close to the work.

As founder and Fractional Chief AI Officer, Harrison works alongside owners from the first workflow through team adoption. The point is not to sell another tool. The point is to create capacity the business can keep using.

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Harrison Painter

Bring us the work that keeps coming back to you.

If a stalled project, overloaded process, inbox, or handoff keeps finding its way back to you, bring it to LaunchReady AI. We will identify the workflow and decide whether a managed system can take it off your plate.

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