A PRIVATE TMI COMMUNITY
THE PEOPLE BUILDING
WHAT COMES NEXT.
For founders, owners, and operators who want honest rooms, useful conversations, and relationships with people doing the work.
Apply to join ↗
NO PANELS FOR THE SAKE OF PANELS.
NO NETWORKING FOR THE SAKE OF NETWORKING.
JUST BETTER CONVERSATIONS.
WHY THIS EXISTS
OWNING A COMPANY
IS AN ISOLATING JOB.
- The decisions that matter most are the ones you cannot discuss with your team.
- Peer groups often fill up with people selling something to the room.
- Advice from people who have never carried payroll is easy to find and hard to use.
- Most industry events reward the loudest company rather than the best-run one.
- The operators worth learning from are usually too busy operating to be visible.
HOW WE GATHER
COME FOR THE IDEA.
LEAVE WITH
RELATIONSHIPS.
WHO IS IN THE ROOM
OPERATORS,
MOSTLY.
- Owners of established companies with real revenue
- Second-generation owners modernizing what they inherited
- Founders building something new with earned expertise
- Operators running the business day to day
- Owners who work inside the businesses they hold
- People who would rather be useful than impressive
WHAT IT IS NOT
A FEW THINGS
WE PROTECT.
- Not a lead-generation list
- Not a stage for vendors to pitch the room
- Not a paid mastermind with a content library
- Not a place where attendance is the point
- Not open by default—applications are read
- Not a substitute for actually doing the work
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS
NO PANELS.
NO PITCHING.
Most owner groups fail the same way: they become a room where everyone is selling to everyone else, or a stage where the person speaking has the least to lose by being honest. This one is built to avoid both, which is why it is small, why it is application-based, and why service providers are not simply admitted by paying.
COMMUNITY QUESTIONS
STRAIGHT
ANSWERS.
Who is Founders of the Future for?
Owners and operators of real companies — people carrying payroll, equipment, crews and customers rather than an idea. Mostly industrial and family businesses, mostly people who have been doing it long enough to be honest about what is hard.
Is this a mastermind?
Not in the sense the word usually means. There is no curriculum, no stage, and nobody selling from the front of the room. It is a small group of operators who can say the actual problem out loud without it becoming a sales opportunity for six people.
Can I join if I sell services to business owners?
Usually not. A room full of owners stops being useful the moment it becomes a room to sell into, so membership skews heavily toward people who own an operation. There are exceptions and they are rare.
Do I have to be a TMI client?
No. The community and TMI's client work are deliberately separate. Plenty of members have never hired TMI and are not expected to.
How do you join?
By application. It is reviewed rather than automatic, because the value of the room is entirely a function of who is in it.
What does it cost?
Membership is priced separately from TMI's client services and is confirmed during the application conversation. It is not a revenue engine for TMI; it exists to create the room around the work.
Who runs it?
Mia Eliana and Tyler Primeaux, the founders of TMI Tech AI, based in Lafayette, Louisiana.
APPLICATION / FOUNDERS OF THE FUTURE
THIS ROOM IS
BUILT WITH CARE.
Tell us what you are building and why this community feels relevant now.