Episode 20: Every Visionary Needs Somebody to Kill the Bad Ideas

Build Better with Matt Vetter · Jul 16, 2026 · 31m

Anne-Abel Smith wanted a job that wasn’t posted. So she messaged Jozef Melaj on LinkedIn. Then again. Then again. He finally caved and hired her as an office manager. Within six months she was running the financials, and one of the first things she did was tell White Light Electric to fire their accountant.

Today she’s their CFO and strategic integrator. She’s the one who takes a visionary’s ideas, filters out the bad ones, and turns the good ones into a company that actually works.

In this conversation we get into what an integrator really does, where the visionary’s job ends and hers…