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EPISODE · Feb 28, 2026 · 1H 2M

Congrats on the revenue. Sorry about your money.

from AI for Founders with Ryan Estes · host aiforfounders.co

Most founders are accidentally running a casino.Not a company.They’re bragging about ROAS, celebrating revenue spikes, and somehow… still bleeding cash.Because if you don’t know how much you should be spending, “ads” isn’t a strategy.It’s gambling with better graphics.Here’s the real conflict.AI is about to flood the world with “growth tools” that promise the moon, but they still can’t ask the right questions.AI can do the math.It just can’t build the equation.So here’s the deep question.If your business is growing, but you can’t explain why you’re not making money, are you building a company… or a very expensive coping mechanism?Welcome to AI for Founders, I’m Ryan Estes.This is for founders building with AI, especially if you sell real products, run paid media, or you’re staring at a P&L like it’s written in ancient Sumerian.You’re going to learn how to stop guessing, set a profit foundation first, and then scale like you actually mean it.And now, meet Adam.He took an e-comm brand from zero to $60 million in sales, then built Pentane, software that basically “encapsulates his brain” and tells operators what to do to get profitable.Even wilder, he plugged in an agent so you can literally ask, “How do I hit 5% net profit this month?” and get a direct answer in seconds.Founders, if you want your business to run like a system, not a mood, go subscribe to the newsletter at aiforfounders.co.If your calendar is chaos, your margins are chaos, your brain deserves better, aiforfounders.co.Join 27,000 founders who want signal, not noise, aiforfounders.co.Quick favor, leave a review of the podcast like you’re rating a parachute after you actually jumped.And a word from Kitcaster.com, if you’re a founder who should be on podcasts but you keep “meaning to,” Kitcaster books you on shows your customers already trust.They handle the outreach, the follow-up, the scheduling, and the chaos.You just show up and sound like the person who built the thing.__https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammcallinan/https://www.linkedin.com/in/estesryan/https://pentane.comhttps://aiforfounders.cohttps://bigskybravery.org⁠https://kitcaster.com/application ⁠⁠https://ryanestes.info⁠

Most founders are accidentally running a casino.Not a company.They’re bragging about ROAS, celebrating revenue spikes, and somehow… still bleeding cash.Because if you don’t know how much you should be spending, “ads” isn’t a strategy.It’s gambling with better graphics.Here’s the real conflict.AI is about to flood the world with “growth tools” that promise the moon, but they still can’t ask the right questions.AI can do the math.It just can’t build the equation.So here’s the deep question.If your business is growing, but you can’t explain why you’re not making money, are you building a company… or a very expensive coping mechanism?Welcome to AI for Founders, I’m Ryan Estes.This is for founders building with AI, especially if you sell real products, run paid media, or you’re staring at a P&L like it’s written in ancient Sumerian.You’re going to learn how to stop guessing, set a profit foundation first, and then scale like you actually mean it.And now, meet Adam.He took an e-comm brand from zero to $60 million in sales, then built Pentane, software that basically “encapsulates his brain” and tells operators what to do to get profitable.Even wilder, he plugged in an agent so you can literally ask, “How do I hit 5% net profit this month?” and get a direct answer in seconds.Founders, if you want your business to run like a system, not a mood, go subscribe to the newsletter at aiforfounders.co.If your calendar is chaos, your margins are chaos, your brain deserves better, aiforfounders.co.Join 27,000 founders who want signal, not noise, aiforfounders.co.Quick favor, leave a review of the podcast like you’re rating a parachute after you actually jumped.And a word from Kitcaster.com, if you’re a founder who should be on podcasts but you keep “meaning to,” Kitcaster books you on shows your customers already trust.They handle the outreach, the follow-up, the scheduling, and the chaos.You just show up and sound like the person who built the thing.__https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammcallinan/https://www.linkedin.com/in/estesryan/https://pentane.comhttps://aiforfounders.cohttps://bigskybravery.org⁠https://kitcaster.com/application ⁠⁠https://ryanestes.info⁠

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