Max Kyllonen

What if everything
you know could
work harder than you?

I spent a decade running restaurants. Then I figured out that expertise compounds like interest. Now I build in public and share what actually works.

📍 Leavenworth, WA🎙️ 100+ day live stream streak📖 Book in progress

The Story

Recovering restaurateur.
Now I help expertise compound.

I ran a food and beverage conglomerate: a steakhouse, a fast-casual traditional Bavarian restaurant, and a German-American bakery. 100+ people on the team. Deep in the operations, systems, staffing, and numbers every single day.

Over seven years, I scaled the entire conglomerate 63%, through a $1.3 million insurance loss, two serious lawsuits, and COVID. It wasn't marketing that saved it. It was fixing the infrastructure quietly killing revenue.

Now I'm building AI systems that do for knowledge what compound interest does for money. The more you put in, the more you get out. And I'm doing it out loud, in public, so you can steal what works.

The Work

Building in public.
Sharing what actually works.

Three things I'm working on right now. All of it connected. None of it theoretical.

Active

SummitPath Advisors

Revenue recovery and AI implementation for professional services businesses. If you're losing $50K-$200K in your pipeline, this is the work.

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In Progress

The Compound Mind

A book about building AI systems around your expertise so your knowledge works while you sleep. Coming 2026.

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Daily

Live Streams

60-90 minutes, TikTok and Facebook. Building in public. Showing the real process, not the highlight reel. 100+ day streak.

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Coming 2026

The Compound Mind

The age of AI will be defined by collaboration, not replacement.

The people who win won't be the ones who learned to use AI. They'll be the ones who built one around their expertise, so their knowledge works while they sleep.

This book is about building that. The frameworks, the systems, the mindset shift. Written from the trenches, not the whiteboard.

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First chapter when it's ready. Launch pricing. Updates as I write it.

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Same person. Different formats. All of it real.