AI: Your Co-CEO began where many startups don’t: with protection, not profit. Originally launched in 2022 as Redegades, we were on a mission to secure families from rising digital threats.
Our first book, Targeted: How to Protect Your Family from Cybersecurity Threats, introduced our 7-Layer Cyber Defense Framework—used by private clients and executives to safeguard what matters most.
But in 2023, as we experimented with AI to augment digital security, we discovered something profound: AI wasn’t just defending homes—it was ready to lead businesses.
We saw how AI could be trained to think like a CEO.
How it could absorb strategic frameworks. How it could advise, execute, and scale judgment at speeds no human team could match. And we realized something deeper:
The future of cybersecurity is protection. But the future of business is partnership—with AI.
So in 2024, we made a bold decision: to sunset Redegades in its original form, and rebuild our platform from the inside out—not as a cybersecurity tool, but as a leadership revolution.
This isn’t an AI tool for your IT department. It’s not for your sales or marketing teams. This is built specifically for CEOs—leaders who want a true thought partner, one that can think with them, plan with them, and lead alongside them.Founder, AI Your Co-CEO
Wade Wyant is the founder and CEO of Redegades and Red Wagon Advisors.
At Redegades he coaches companies to design and implement AI strategies to scale their businesses exponentially, helping one of his clients increase its annual revenue from 100 million to 450 million in three years.
Having been a founder of a multi-million-dollar company, Wade sees the importance of embracing innovative technology to enable companies to race to prominent positions in their industries.
Redegades has been at the forefront of cutting-edge and strategic AI implementation to enable AI to work alongside leadership as a co-CEO. He has specialized knowledge on how to customize AI for each business so that it effectively reflects each business’s unique structure. This enables him to develop a unique approach for individual companies that best meets challenges leaders face within their organizations.
Being an active member of YPO, Wade was honored to receive the Best of the Best award in 2024. In YPO, he has held various positions, such as YNG International co-chair and board member of his local West Michigan chapter.
Wade is the author of three books on business growth and leadership. His first book, Wake‑Up Call, climbed to #1 on Amazon’s Best Seller list for Business Mentoring & Coaching after just one day.
With a deep understanding of leadership, execution, and operational efficiency, Wade combines the strategic approaches of business thought leaders. This enables him to develop a unique approach for individual companies that best meets challenges leaders face within their organizations.
Redegades began with a mission to protect digital lives through cybersecurity. However, in 2023, as we explored new tools to better protect and support families, we discovered something intriguing about AI. It had the power to transform businesses, not just cybersecurity
We realized AI had the capacity, not just the potential, to lead alongside you. We’re not advocating replacing you with AI. Instead, we want AI to become a co-CEO within your business. So Redegades pivoted from providing cybersecurity to building AI models that think with you, plan with you, and help you move your company forward.
Redegades became a proving ground for AI as a business thought partner. AI can help businesses scale faster, challenge assumptions, and refine execution more rapidly.
Today, we operate under the banner: AI: Your Co-CEO. Let us help your company scale to the next level by training AI to become your thought partner.
AI Your Co-CEO is powered by the strategic depth of the following companies
The future of cybersecurity is protection. But the future of business is partnership with AI.
Where Human Leadership Meets AI-Driven Execution
Human First, AI Forward
Disciplined Innovation
Truth Over Ego
Secure by Design
Built to Scale, Committed to Depth
Legacy Thinking
AI: Your Co-CEO is a practical framework for embedding artificial intelligence into your business ,
not as a passive assistant, but as a core member of your leadership team.
This AI model learns your unique business context so it can think like a seasoned leader within your organization.
Rather than passively providing answers, it surfaces blind spots and pushes for sharper, more strategic thinking.
AI analyzes trends and data to help you navigate what’s coming — not just what’s already happened.
Join one of our immersive workshops to build your company’s AI model using proven leadership and scaling frameworks like EOS, Scaling Up, and Good to Great.
In each session, you’ll learn to:
Structure AI to think like your executive team, Feed AI your strategic DNA, Use AI to drive quarterly planning and team accountability, Refine decisions with predictive analytics, Simulate boardroom and leadership dynamics before they happen, and more.
Whether you’re a founder, a private equity partner, or a visionary COO, you now have a choice:
You can go it alone or you can lead alongside the most powerful decision engine on the planet.
AI Your Co-CEO is your second brain, your strategic mirror, and your execution engine.
Let’s build the future of leadership, together.
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