From AI Aware to AI Native: The 5-Rung Ladder Every Founder Must Climb to Automate Their Business - Joe Esteves - Maine Pointe

AI for Founders with Ryan Estes · Oct 19, 2026 · 59m

What if the most valuable thing your highly paid experts do has nothing to do with their computers?

That question kept Joe Esteves up at night. As CEO of Maine Pointe, the supply chain and operations consulting firm ranked #1 by Consulting.us, he kept walking into project rooms full of consultants clicking away at screens while clients waited outside. So he asked his team to do the math on how much of their work actually required a computer. The answer was too much, and it lit the fuse on one of the boldest AI transformations in consulting.

In this episode of AI for Founders, Ryan Estes sits…