Fractional AI Supply Chain Manager
Tariff chaos and logistics volatility are crushing small manufacturers who still run supply chains out of shared inboxes — and they can't afford to hire their way out.
IC: Capital Flows
Funding rounds, grants, and acquisitions that point to where capital is betting next.
The Pickleball Pied Piper
Senior living operators spend $431 per lead with 30% conversion rates while 19.8 million pickleball players organize their retirement around court access.
AI Workflow Receipts for Small Agencies
Provenance infrastructure is getting funded at scale but nobody is building the agency-facing workflow layer — a $200K year-one opportunity hiding in plain sight.
The $799/Month Briefing Desk
NotebookLM proved professionals will listen to their documents. Nobody owns the vertical briefing format for law or finance — and the pricing anchors to $800/hour time saved.
The Directory Empire Play
G2 is consolidating the entire B2B review ecosystem into one platform. That leaves every niche category wide open for a new decision layer.
The Admin Night Heist
Flow Club proves people pay for structured attendance. The life admin layer remains unowned despite higher switching costs and referral revenue potential.
Text Yield Farming for Facebook
Meta unified creator payouts and made text posts eligible to earn — but no tool optimizes for what actually drives CMP revenue yet.
Beyond Billo: Own the Trade School for Performance UGC
Brands spend $10 billion annually on UGC creators but can't find talent that ships reliably. Build the apprenticeship infrastructure they're desperate for.
Stripe for AI Agents
Coinbase and Google shipped agent payment rails. Nobody built the governance layer that makes CFOs approve production deployment.
Google and Shopify Just Created a $385B SEO Problem
Google and Shopify shipped the Universal Commerce Protocol in January 2026. Merchants have zero visibility into whether AI agents can see or recommend their products.
The Second Screen Gold Rush
Multi-device sports viewing hit 29% globally while Bluesky opens live-event distribution. The real opportunity is the structured intelligence layer nobody owns yet.
The Memory Layer ($20K MRR/Client)
Fortune 500s lose $31B yearly to organizational amnesia while RAG implementations fail on governance gaps. Build the governed event graph of decisions and incidents that becomes required infrastructure.
Patrol-as-a-Service
The roof inspection market is real and growing. Nobody's selling it as recurring patrol instead of one-off service calls.
The AI-Native Law Firm: Follow YC's Service-as-Software Bet
Traditional law firms bill by the hour. AI-native providers charge flat fees and deliver same-day. The economics just inverted.
Permission Firewall for OpenClaw
Government warnings and front-page breaches validated what's missing: a permission firewall for agents that non-security operators can actually configure and deploy.
Google's $250 World Generator Needs a ThemeForest
Google collapsed world-building costs from $500K to $250 monthly. Stock dropped 5% because nobody saw the real play: template marketplace infrastructure.
The "March for Billionaires" Is a Meme. The Tax Isn't.
Policy chaos and AI-era equity wealth are minting thousands of founders who need tax planning tools that don't exist yet.
The Newsletter → TV Play: Substack's Living Room Push Created Your Opening
Substack launched TV apps without solving production. Build the format-to-FAST infrastructure that turns newsletter writers into programmed channels.
The Scenario Factory Heist
Synthetic data crossed from experiment to infrastructure as AI agents ship into liability zones without proper tests, creating demand for constraint-validated scenario engines.
The Anti-Tinder Arbitrage
Dating apps are losing 600K users while IRL events surge 42 percent. The infrastructure layer underneath this shift doesn't exist yet.
The Identity Licensing Broker
AI voices need verified, licensed identities. Build the compliance infrastructure routing creators to enterprise brands—the boring rails play before platforms consolidate.
Hyperlocal Weather Intelligence at $500 Per Event
Premium event venues need weather certainty, not forecasts. Parametric triggers plus certification create $46K annual contracts per property.
VR Concierge for Senior Living at $5K/Month
VR penetration in senior living is under 5% despite NIH validation. The gap isn't tech—it's operational complexity. Build the infrastructure layer.
The Credential Heist
Verification infrastructure meets creator economics while 59 percent of the workforce needs reskilling and late-career experts earn 2009 wages.