▲ Built for the founder who landed here on purpose
The AI Mentor for First-Time Founders
Nobody handed you a playbook.
Here's what nobody tells first time founders.
▲ This is your week · let's name it
Here's what nobody tells first time founders: the hardest part isn't the work, it's not knowing if you're working on the right thing. You've never done this before, so every choice — what to build, what to charge, who to hire, which channel to chase — comes without a reference point. There's no playbook for your specific business, so you cobble one together from a hundred contradictory blog posts and end up frozen, second-guessing the move you were about to make. And it's lonely in a way you didn't expect: your friends don't get it, your family worries, and there's no one in the room who's actually carried the weight you're carrying. Decision paralysis sets in, weeks slip by, and the thing you were so excited about starts to feel heavier than it should. The real problem isn't that you lack drive — it's that you're making first-time decisions with zero pattern recognition and no one beside you who's seen the road before.
▲ What lands in your hands
No filler. Just what you walk away with.
Your 24/7 AI Executive Council — Atlas, Aria, Nova, Phoenix & Diana
Five specialized AI agents, each trained on your actual business, are available around the clock to think through the decisions that have you stuck. Talk through whether to launch now or wait at midnight. Pressure-test your pricing before you send the quote. Sanity-check the hire you're nervous about. They know your business and your goals — so the next move stops being a guess, and you're never staring at a blank page alone again.
Italo Campilii — Your Weekly Fractional CMO
Every week you get a 1-on-1 session with Italo: a real founder who's built and run companies, not a coach reciting frameworks. He's the experienced operator you wish you had on speed dial — he reviews what your AI council surfaced, helps you cut through the decision paralysis to the one or two moves that actually matter this week, and tells you the honest truth a first time founder rarely gets to hear.
Done-With-You Systems You Own Forever
Over 90 days we build the playbook you never had — offer and pricing, a simple sales and onboarding flow, lead-gen and content systems, and clear decision frameworks so you stop reinventing the wheel every time something comes up. You keep everything we build. No retainer dependency. This is how a first time founder finally gets the operating system most people take years of expensive mistakes to figure out.
This is for you if
- First time founders building their first real company with no playbook, making big calls off instinct and late-night research
- Builders stuck in decision paralysis — second-guessing pricing, launch timing, hiring, and what to focus on next
- Solo founders who feel the isolation of it and want an experienced operator plus an AI team in the room with them
- First-timers who'd rather install a real founder's playbook than learn every lesson the slow, expensive way
This is not for you if
- People still deciding whether to start at all — MentorMe is for founders already building, not exploring the idea of building
- Founders looking for a done-for-you team to run the company while they step back — this is done-with-you, and your effort is the input that makes it work
- Anyone wanting answers without doing the work — the council and systems compound only if you show up each week and execute
Founder —
You searched for this for a reason. You're carrying the whole thing yourself, and you're tired of being the only one who can do the work.
You don't have a discipline problem. You have a system problem — and no one ever handed you the system.
So here it is: 90 days, real systems, a fractional CMO in your corner and an AI clone doing the work you keep doing yourself. Your name stays on the win. We just rope in.
Start your plan. The first foothold is free.
— Italo
▲ Your move
Start your 90-day build.
Answer a few questions and walk away with a custom 90-day roadmap — free, no card, no call. Your first concrete step out of the chaos.
▲ Before you decide
The questions you're already asking.
I've never run a business before — is MentorMe too advanced for me?
It's actually built for exactly where you are. The whole point is that you don't have a playbook yet, so we give you one — a human operator and an AI executive council that meet you at your level and walk through decisions with you instead of handing you jargon. You don't need experience to start. You need a team that has it, in the room with you, which is what this is.
How does this help when I'm frozen and can't decide what to do next?
Decision paralysis usually comes from having too many options and no reference point. Your AI council helps you think any decision all the way through, any hour of the day, and your weekly session with Italo cuts it down to the one or two moves that actually matter this week. Instead of spinning on ten 'maybes,' you leave with a clear next step — and someone who's seen the pattern before telling you it's the right one.
Building alone is the lonely part. Does this actually fix that?
That's one of the biggest reasons founders join. You get a real person — Italo — who's carried what you're carrying and shows up every week, plus an AI council that's available the moment you're stuck at 2am with no one to ask. You're still the founder, but you stop being the only one in the room. The isolation is the thing we're most deliberate about removing.
What does the founding investment cover?
It covers the full 90-day build: your custom AI clone and executive council trained on your business, all five AI agents, weekly 1-on-1 sessions with Italo as your fractional CMO, and every system and framework we build together. There are 10 founding seats at this price — we keep the cohort small on purpose so the work stays genuinely personal.
What happens after 90 days — do I lose access?
Everything we build is yours. The AI clone, the offer, the systems, the decision frameworks — they don't disappear when the engagement ends. We'll talk through ongoing options, but the goal is to hand a first time founder a real operating playbook and the confidence to run it without us in the room every week. You're not renting a mentor. You're building your own foundation.
▲ The adventure is the climb