Most companies bolt AI onto the org chart they already had. We built ours the other way around. Barnabas, our AI, runs the day-to-day operations, which frees the people here to do what no machine can: build the relationships, make the calls, and create what comes next.
Founder & CEO
Harrison created The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency and founded LaunchReady to build the measurable standard for AI-capable companies. As an executive AI advisor, he works with CEOs and leadership teams at the highest levels, stays at the front edge of AI, and keeps building. Author of You Have Already Been Replaced by AI and host of the AI Ready Podcast.
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Chief Operating Officer
Jeffrey brings nearly four decades in sales, marketing, and operations. He owns the human side of an AI-first company: the partners, clients, vendors, and the AI Launch Pad community. Barnabas handles the basic operational work; Jeffrey runs the relationships and judgment no agent can hold, and he advises Built With You clients as they put the same kind of AI to work in their own businesses. The relationships are the part of a company AI cannot automate, and that work is his.
LaunchReady's AI · The Operating Layer
Barnabas is the AI that runs LaunchReady's day-to-day operational work: the research, the drafting, the scheduling, and the systems that keep a small company moving fast. It is how we practice what we teach. People set direction and own the relationships, AI carries the load. It is the same approach we build for clients inside the Built With You program.
Jeffrey Najar is the Chief Operating Officer of LaunchReady. He owns the human side of the company: the partners, clients, vendors, and the AI Launch Pad community, and he advises clients in the Built With You program. He brings nearly four decades in sales, marketing, and operations.
Harrison Painter founded LaunchReady and serves as CEO. He created The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency, the measurable standard for AI-capable companies, and wrote the book You Have Already Been Replaced by AI.
LaunchReady runs as an AI-first company. Barnabas, its AI, handles the day-to-day operational work, while the team owns the relationships and judgment no agent can hold. It is the same model LaunchReady builds for clients in the Built With You program.
An executive AI advisor helps a leadership team make AI decisions: where it pays off, what to skip, and how to measure progress. That is Harrison Painter's role at LaunchReady, grounded in The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency. Read more about the role.
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