The Amazon Launch Manager Play
Book launch services jumped from $5K to $50K+. Nobody owns the middle market turning founder manuscripts into qualified leads.
IC: Talent Movements
Hiring surges, layoffs, and talent flows that reveal company roadmaps and pain points.
The Creator Pension Fund Heist
Spotter raised $200M proving creator catalogs are worth billions. YouTube shipped localization tools that grow them. The operating company is still unbuilt.
AdWords for Main Street (Powered by Creators)
Creator-driven foot traffic is already a $15B market. What's missing: performance attribution infrastructure that small businesses trust and pay for.
The $25K IRL Content Factory
Experiential budgets hit $128B but can't prove ROI. Build the productized stunt studio that turns one-day activations into measurable 30-day content pipelines.
Build the Training Layer Series B Companies Actually Need
L&D headcount down 4%, external training spend up 23%—Series B companies need workflow training that auto-updates when their SaaS tools change.
Blue Collar "Moneyball" Recruiting
Gen Z wants trades, contractors need workers, but matching infrastructure is prehistoric—measurement layer wins, not another job board.
The "Grandma-as-a-Service" Marketplace
When AI floods every category with free how-tos, human verification becomes the scarce resource worth paying for.
TikTok Food Trend Monetization
A century-old German cheese is selling out because a high school English teacher in Georgia found the laziest lunch in America. Viral recipes consistently cause grocery sellouts. The rails for shoppable content exist—but no one owns the trend-to-cart attribution layer yet.
Weekly Template Drop Platform
CapCut templates hit 50,000+ uses each. Meta just launched a competitor. The formats people copy are becoming infrastructure.
Live Host Guild for Live Commerce
Whatnot hit $6B GMV, but live streams remain tiny. The bottleneck isn't tech—it's talent. Build the guild that plugs hosts into inventory-rich merchants.
Commerce Platform for Psychic Industry
Spiritual practitioners generate billions in services but lack commerce infrastructure connecting bookings, inventory, memberships, and ritual calendars into one platform.
Mood OS for Gen Z Emotional Commerce
Gen Z spends hundreds monthly on emotional regulation through "treat culture." The infrastructure connecting physical rituals, creator distribution, and behavioral data remains wide open.
Outcome-Based Neighborhood Space Marketplace
NECF just launched a "trading desk" for idle broadcast capacity. The neighborhood layer—churches, coworking rooms, indie studios—remains wide open.
CTV Creator Compliance Platform
YouTube's living room takeover and creator reinstatement program converge to create unprecedented demand for brand-safe content verification services.
SFW Creator Monetization Rails
OnlyFans legitimized business education for creators. Payment processors and ESPs still ban adult content. Build the compliance rails for safe-for-work revenue.
Twitch-to-Shorts Distribution Pipeline
Twitch launched vertical clips. YouTube Shorts exploded 3x. Nobody owns the 60-minute window between stream-end and viral distribution.