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Rhett Doolittle

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PPP · EIDL
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The profile

Chairman and CEO of Business Warrior Corporation (OTC: BZWR), which provided supplemental PPP application review for Blueacorn, per the House report; the company's predecessors took a PPP loan and an EIDL.

Identity and role

Rhett Doolittle is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Business Warrior Corporation, a publicly traded (OTC: BZWR) small-business software company. SEC filings list him as Chairman and CEO; Jonathan Brooks is President and a director; Jeremy Keehn is Chief Technology Officer. The company describes itself as a "virtual staff" with workers "spread across the globe," using a Las Vegas, Nevada mailing address rather than a single headquarters. Elev8 Advisors helped bring Business Warrior in as a supplemental PPP loan-verification vendor for Blueacorn.

SEC filings settle the CEO identity. A January 2025 8-K on the termination of a merger is signed by Doolittle as Chairman/CEO, and Jonathan Brooks, President, is the "Business Warrior president" the House report describes pitching Blueacorn on review speed.

Biography

Doolittle's career is in payments and small-business marketing. Per Business Warrior's SEC Regulation A offering circular and his Insivia interview:

  • He started in 2000 at AT&T as a client business manager.
  • In 2006 he founded Entrust Bankcard, a payment-processing company. The Reg A filing credits it with a three-year revenue growth rate that put it at #18 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing U.S. companies. (Entrust Bankcard is unrelated to the identity-verification firm Entrust that later bought Onfido.)
  • In 2012 he co-founded and was president of MobiSquad, a mobile-marketing venture (Crunchbase).
  • His degrees are cited to Crunchbase and LinkedIn; we do not have copies.

Business Warrior, in his telling, is software and managed services that tell a small business which marketing levers to pull across platforms like Facebook, Yelp, and Google, sold on a SaaS subscription.

The company and its PPP role

The shell was originally incorporated as Kading Companies, S.A. in the British Virgin Islands on October 10, 1995 (it traded as KDNG). On January 31, 2020, in a triangular reverse merger, Kading acquired Bluume LLC (doing business as Business Warrior), changed its name to Business Warrior Corporation, and redomiciled in Wyoming. Bluume is the operating company that survived; Kading was the listed vehicle whose name and listing it took over.

In the program, Business Warrior sold "verification" capacity. Its president, Jonathan Brooks, told Blueacorn executives that the company's staff could review a PPP application in roughly 90 seconds, about 40 an hour per reviewer. Business Warrior publicly promoted partnerships with Elev8 Advisors, Hownd, and Blueacorn (Newsfile release). It was paid out of Blueacorn's roughly $13.7 million eligibility-verification budget, the same line that funded Elev8 (House report), a small sum next to the $666 million the report says Blueacorn routed to its marketing firm.

Their own relief

Business Warrior took relief of its own. Its Regulation A offering circular lists, as of the August 31, 2020 fiscal year:

  • a Paycheck Protection Program note of $60,600 (1% interest), and
  • a separate SBA loan of $149,900, the COVID-19 EIDL.

The borrower of record on the relevant filings is the Bluume/Business Warrior entity. (The SEC filing reports $60,600 for the PPP note and $149,900 for the EIDL. ) The same filing also discloses an interest-free loan to the company from John Doolittle, the CEO's father.

Not criminally charged. As of September 2026 there is no public indictment of Rhett Doolittle or Business Warrior in connection with PPP. The House Select Subcommittee named Business Warrior as a verification vendor and quoted its president's speed pitch, but it made no finding against the company and brought no referral specific to it that has produced a charge.

On January 26, 2024, Adam Spencer, ELEV8 Advisors Group LLC, and EVRGRN Industries LLC sued Business Warrior Corporation (including derivative claims on the company's behalf) over the parties' prior business agreements. Business Warrior, in SEC disclosures, called the suit without merit and said it was defending. That is a private commercial dispute, not a fraud finding against either.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

Business Warrior remained a micro-cap. It pursued a sale: In July 2024 it signed a merger agreement to be acquired by Innovative Payment Solutions, Inc. (OTC: IPSI), with Business Warrior shareholders to receive 45% of the combined company; the two sides terminated that agreement in January 2025. Doolittle remained Chairman and CEO through these events, and he signed the company's quarterly report filed April 30, 2025 as chief executive; that report is the last Business Warrior filing on EDGAR.

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