The Shopify Moment for AI Labor: Owning Worklines on MuleRun
MuleRun hit 600K users offering promotional economics to fill their marketplace. Workline owners capture value; single-agent builders get commoditized.
Infrastructure / B2B Tools
Enterprise-grade and developer-focused startup ideas providing APIs, data infrastructure, or workflow platforms. Built for experienced builders aiming to serve other businesses with reliable, technical, and defensible products.
Build the Auth0 of AI Context Control
Redaction destroys LLM context. Pseudonymization preserves it. Ship the governance control plane regulated industries will pay six figures for.
Return Prediction Agents: The “KeepScore” Heist In Shopify
Retailers face $850B in returns annually, yet no Shopify-native tool scores risk pre-fulfillment. Build the underwriting layer merchants desperately need.
Build The PDGA For Padel (And Other Emerging Sports)
Padel facilities are multiplying faster than operational infrastructure. The ratings and portable identity layer is contested but not yet owned—and it's worth more than the booking system.
Build a $20M/Year Business Certifying Air
Brain function drops 2–4% in stuffy rooms. Biohackers measure it publicly. Coworking operators need verified proof before members start asking questions.
Sleep Tourism's Missing Standard: Become the Michelin Star Hotels Pay For
Hotels spend millions on sleep programs without third-party proof. Travelers will pay 10% more for verified quality, but no standard exists.
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.
TurboTax for HVAC Rebates
California contractors are losing $8,000 rebates to paperwork errors while waiting 90 days for payment. Both problems need middleware.
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 Backyard Landlord Operating System
One in five new California homes is now an ADU. The post-construction infrastructure to run them profitably doesn't exist yet.
Build the AI Music Passport Agencies Will Pay $999/Month For
Universal and Warner legitimized licensed AI music while Spotify mandated disclosures. Agencies deploying tracks commercially need compliance documentation that doesn't exist yet.
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.
Turn Cult Restaurant Sauces Into Shelf Revenue
Campbell paid $2.7B for Rao's restaurant sauce. Independent restaurants can't navigate FDA compliance to capture the same $368B opportunity.
Snack Drop Hunter + Data Play
QSRs run $200K limited drops with no real-time visibility. Build the verified hunt map that becomes their demand oracle.
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.
Search In The AI Age (Build What Google Can't)
AI-generated content now sits at 17-19% of search results. RAG teams manually rebuild allowlists. Build the trust graph as infrastructure before specialized data providers do.
The Stripe Play for AI Companion Apps (Collect the $5M Compliance Toll)
New York and California mandated crisis detection for AI companions. 337 apps need compliance infrastructure by January. None want to build it themselves.
Blue Collar "Moneyball" Recruiting
Gen Z wants trades, contractors need workers, but matching infrastructure is prehistoric—measurement layer wins, not another job board.
The Bluesky Feed Heist
Bluesky's custom feeds fragment distribution across hundreds of micro-algorithms. The cross-tool measurement and monetization layer doesn't exist yet—same opportunity SEO tools captured with Google.
Agent-Ready Infra for Local Business (Don't Do AIO)
AI assistants are shifting from ranking links to selecting winners. Multi-location businesses will pay six figures annually to become the trusted source agents call first.
Governance AI for Self-Managed HOAs
373,000 volunteer-run associations managing $120B annually with amateur controls and predictable fraud patterns, creating structural demand for purpose-built governance infrastructure.
The $20 TikTok Launch Lab
A repeatable system for identifying, validating, and scaling visually demonstrable products through creator-native distribution and structured experimentation.
TikTok-to-SKU for Micro-Trends
Enterprise pays $50K+ for trend detection. Microbrands need execution speed. The gap is infrastructure that delivers shippable SKU packs instead of dashboards.
B2B Human-Verified Content Engine
AI content abundance collapses trust while regulators demand proof-of-human. A productized agency selling verified founder media becomes the compliance layer, then the standard.