Visionary · Operator · Learner

Driven, growth-focused leader.

Being passionate about business and personal growth, I developed this site to showcase and share skills I've learned in starting, building, and running businesses as well as personal insights I find amazing!

Portrait of Blake Werner

What I've done

Career Timeline

Each milestone links to the full story.

December 2020
Business

Investing

Start of investing journey

Learned initially through copy-trading and immersing myself in Finance forums on the internet at the age of 16.

May 2024
Business

Graduated High School & Became a Multi-Unit Franchisee

Subway

Graduted high school and became a partial owner of 5 subway stores in Marble Falls, TX

Oct 2025
Business

Accepted a Summer 2027 internship with Deloitte

Audit & Assurance practice

Signed an offer to join Deloitte's Audit & Assurance practice as a Summer 2027 intern.

Jan 2026
Milestone

Concluded Thrive Tutoring & McMillon roles

Wrapped up as Operations Manager at Thrive Tutoring and Project Manager at McMillon Innovation Studio.

Mar 2026
Leadership

Planned a Caleb King Concert

Fully planned and organized a worship concert for an artist with 250K+ monthly listeners, securing $5,500 in funding from the University of Arkansas through its RSO funding process. Later had to cancel due to rain and rescheduled to August 28, 2026.

Aug 2026
Upcoming

Worship concert — August 28, 2026

Upcoming

The rescheduled worship concert with Caleb King, now set for August 28, 2026.

Who I am

I build companies and the engineered systems that run them.

Blake Werner at an overlook above Antigua, Guatemala

I build businesses end-to-end. When a standard framework or piece of software doesn't exist to optimize a business process, I don't wait: I actively build the solution myself. I co-founded and operate Ozark Home Services, ran day-to-day operations for Thrive Tutoring, and engineer custom products that turn manual constraints into scalable leverage.

My execution is specialized at the intersection of complex financial engines, operational architecture, and deep structural change. Whether it's designing immutable financial-records engines, building automated lead-to-deal pipelines, or auditing operational workflows, I design systems that create absolute clarity and efficiency.

Finance, Markets, & Technology

Active market investing is a core passion of mine; following a peak 11,500% portfolio gain, my market approach and performance were featured in MarketWatch in late 2025. To sharpen the formal accounting and financial foundations behind every venture I build, I am currently pursuing my CPA track at the University of Arkansas, on pace to graduate from an intensive five-year curriculum in just four years. I operate continuously at the frontier of AI, corporate finance, and business technology to build advanced tools for modern operations.

Mission & Execution

I care deeply about measurable growth, ruthless execution, and doing right by the people I serve. Above all, my work is driven by a commitment to steward the gifts the LORD has given me, viewing business not just as an enterprise, but as a foundational way to serve others.

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Selected work

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Operating

Home Services · Co-Founder - Financial/Technology · 2026 — present

Ozark Home Services

A Christian-owned home-services company serving Northwest Arkansas.

Gutter Cleaning, Lawn Mowing, and Christmas-light installation across NWA, built on a pay-after-service, no-contract model and a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

  • Co-founded as the business structural and financial backbone; ecompassing: legal structure/complaints, organization, up to date financial systems, payroll, etc.
  • $7,000 in revenue generated in 8 weeks of operation
  • Developed a CRM platform Ozark Software Platform and animated website for the company
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2025 – 2026

Education · Operations Manager

Thrive Tutoring

Ran the operations behind a student-tutoring venture.

As Operations Manager, I owned every operational task end to end, largely an entrepreneurial role keeping the tutoring business running day to day at the University of Arkansas.

  • Led a team of 10+ day to day and over 50 customers
  • Developed financial record-keeping and improved systems
  • Serving in advisory role currently
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Incoming

Audit & Assurance · Summer 2027

Deloitte

Incoming Audit & Assurance intern at Deloitte.

Accepted an offer to join Deloitte's Audit & Assurance practice as a Summer 2027 intern and connected with the firm and students from across the country at Deloitte's National Leadership Conference (pictured).

  • Summer 2027 internship · Audit & Assurance practice
  • Attended Deloitte's National Leadership Conference
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B2B Software · Architect & Builder · 2026 — present

Ozark Software Platform

The custom operating system behind Ozark Home Services.

A full operations platform I designed and built: job scheduling, an immutable financial-records engine, commission and technician-pay logic, city-specific sales-tax handling, and executive, ops, and admin dashboards + a lead-to-deal sales pipeline.

  • Financial engine with immutable records and back-calculated tax
  • Executive, operations, and admin dashboards
  • Lead-to-deal pipeline automating manual sales work
  • Stripe, Twilio, PostgreSQL, and Cloud integration
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Always learning

What I'm reading & learning.

The books and ideas shaping how I build right now. Growth is a habit, here's a glimpse into how I built it.

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