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Built by Blueprint: the story of Todd Michael Gori
From a garage repair shop in Maryland to AI systems built in the Philippines — the story Todd tells in his memoir.
A builder’s memoir, not a perfect-man memoir
Built by Blueprint is Todd Michael Gori’s autobiography, published under the name Todd Michael. It tells the story behind ToddMichael.tv: how a boy from Maryland became a man who turns pressure into systems.
The book is candid about mistakes and hard years. Its point is not that Todd got everything right. Its point is that a person can lose time, make bad decisions, pay for them, learn under pressure and still build.
A name worth keeping
Todd grew up in Maryland with his mother and stepfather. In the memoir he writes that the truth about his biological father, Michael Gori of Monongahela, Pennsylvania, was kept from him, and that there was pressure to change his last name.
He refused. When he finally learned the truth as a young man, and nobody would take him, he drove roughly four hours in an old family car to meet his father. Keeping the Gori name is part of why the full name Todd Michael Gori matters to him.
First jobs and a garage business
Todd graduated from Century High School in 2007. By then he had already worked at a barber shop, a coffee shop and GameStop. At seventeen he opened a dirt bike repair shop out of the garage — his first proof that he could turn a skill into a business.
Learning the hard way
His first serious business loss meant selling the dirt bikes he loved to fund a venture after bad decisions. Later came what he calls the hardest reinvention of his life. He used that time to read everything he could and to plan what he would do next.
The rebuild that followed was deliberately unglamorous: stabilize where you live, train your body, fix your diet, then build something every day.
Asia and the next machine
The Philippines gave Todd a fresh beginning and a place to start a family. From there he builds the next machine: AI agents, automation, websites, books and media, all connected through ToddMichael.tv.
As the memoir puts it, the blueprint does not erase the pain. It gives the pain a job.