In fall of 2025 we developed an app to help users find and apply for grants more easily. Today's edition is "special" because I'm showing you the full-spec buildout and deck for it. This is for to copy our development specs of building an AI, training it, and connecting to live government databases. It's also for you if you are looking for a real example of a pitch deck that works. You can stop guessing on what to include in your decks. The app works in three simple steps: 1. User inputs the grant ideas 2. The app searches government database and shows user options 3. Once selected, the app then produces a full grant application with all accompanying documents (often up to 119+ pages) It doesn't guarantee funding to anyone. But it does speed up the process by months and saves users up to $7,500 per grant application (that's the average cost to hire someone to apply for a grant on your behalf). I suspect this will help a lot of people, even if you just copy the AI buildout framework. JT -- Click here to read the full buildout report & deck! If it's "locked" for you then you need to subscribe to the newsletter. It's pay what you want.

Shifting away from total dependence on an active business does *not* require abandoning your baby. It simply requires allocating some of your profits with intent. There are 3 stages to becoming an investor with cash producing assets that can carry your early retirement, each stage progressively more involved. 1. Easy: Automatic placements (best for beginners) 2. Moderate: Alternative Assets (where things get exciting). Best for founders with experience. 3. Advanced: Structural Investing (sounds boring, but is very sexy). Best for people with existing investments and need to think about taxes, selling their company, and legacy options. We've broken each of these down to steps that can be started as soon as *today*. Yep, today. Because I really get cringed out seeing the lengths entrepreneurs are going to stay in business... When they could be prepping wisely for an early retirement. (If they'd just get out of the marketing-bro mindset that's designed to keep them building & spending). If you’ve been reading every week then you know the default outcomes for most founders are, we can say - “unideal” - at best. Businesses statistically don't sell, and most founders don’t have any outside assets to support themselves. Read this to learn how people are transitions from average entrepreneurs - to investors with early retirement options. -- Click here to read the full edition on Skool. If it's 'locked' for you, then you just need to subscribe. (Pay what you want). Subscribe here: https://sovreport.com/subscribe

Published: April 26, 2026 Themes, Tags: Founders, Investing, Retirement planning Somewhere along the way of watching grown people, myself included, undermine our true value to grow engagement online by filming ourselves as we walk down the street, with our chins up trying to look as sophisticated as possible and shitty 'trending' music played ontop of it, I recognized one glaring issue: Who wants to do this forever? Even if we've managed to keep our dignity and not employ any, lets call it 'cringe', marketing tactics.. What is our retirement plan, my fellow founders? 👉🏼 The data shows something that successful entrepreneurs absolutely hate to recognize. Most businesses never sell. And most employees have better retirements than founders do. The default founder cycle is so heavily encouraged that it rarely gets questioned (which is why we're talking about it). I've ended up here more than once: Start a business. Revenue begins to climb. Take out just enough to live, then sends the rest straight back into the machine for marketing and growth. On paper, it looks disciplined and feels responsible. In reality, it creates nothing more than a job we control. No wealth and no retirement. A typical owner’s income, net worth, and future all sit inside one active asset — the very thing that depends on their continued effort to survive. The data around this is not subtle. At all. First of all, 95% of Sovereignty readers are 'typical founders'. I mention that as a wake up call so we don't fall for the illusion that this doesn't apply to us. Research from Manta shows that roughly one-third of business owners have no retirement savings plan at all. ...Perhaps no surprise there - we all want to have a big exit, that's our plan A of course! Wells Fargo Bank found that over 50% of business owners 'expect to fund retirement' through selling their company. Which would be reassuring… if it worked. But it almost never does. Data from the Exit Planning Institute shows that as many as 75–80% of businesses never successfully sell.

If I hosted a monthly (or 1-off) live meeting for Q&A and discussions.. Would you come? Theme: All things *outside the default path*. From investments, to privacy structures and gaining Sovereignty.