TurboTax for HVAC Rebates
California contractors are losing $8,000 rebates to paperwork errors while waiting 90 days for payment. Both problems need middleware.
Operational Build
Businesses that need process, structure, and consistency. You’ll coordinate clients, systems, or small teams—steady, skill-based work that scales through efficiency and repeatability. A middle ground between hobby and company.
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.
DoorDash Just Opened the Taste Graph Gold Rush. Here's How You Win.
DoorDash's Zesty proves taste graphs beat social graphs. Beli and Letterboxd validated the model. The infrastructure layer is wide open.
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 PrayScreen Playbook: 90 Days to $50k MRR on Organic TikTok
VCs poured $175 million into faith apps, validating what religion knew all along: obligation beats motivation. The micro-niches are wide open.
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 AG1 of Mobility: Gen Z's Mobility Aesthetics
Nearly 20% of Gen Z uses joint supplements. The category hit $14B and projects to $27B. No brand positions mobility like skincare yet.
Build the $2,500 Wardrobe Layer for America's 31 Million GLP-1 Users
GLP-1 users spend $1,000-2,500 replacing closets during weight loss. Build the membership layer retail structurally can't serve.
The Living Room Franchise
Silent reading events surged 223% while commercial real estate bleeds off-peak. The format scales, the membership model is missing.
The Missing macOS Layer for Dasung's $2,000 E-Ink Monitors
E-ink monitor displaying crisp text, macOS menu bar, eye strain relief icon, Dasung company logo, VS Code editor interface
Strava for Mental Resets (How to Monetize Dopamenus)
Everyone's selling dopamine menu templates. The real opportunity: build the social layer where people discover, fork, and share their reset rituals.
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.
From 30-Day Challenges to Seven-Figure Platform
Creators are duct-taping 30-day challenges with Docs + drips. The wedge: “Seasons”—an advent-calendar format for transformation (daily unlocks, spoiler-proof sharing, finite finish line). 100 creators × $50K/yr = $5M GMV; a 10–15% take = $500K–$750K.
Blue Collar "Moneyball" Recruiting
Gen Z wants trades, contractors need workers, but matching infrastructure is prehistoric—measurement layer wins, not another job board.
Blue-Collar Cred Empire
Fashion distributed workwear as identity. High-income professionals want the competence to match—and they'll pay premium retreat prices to earn it.
The Indie Drops Club
Main Street collapsed from missing infrastructure, not missing demand. Weekly verified drops with pickup networks create the ritual that turns local preference into $100K+ MRR.
The "Grandma-as-a-Service" Marketplace
When AI floods every category with free how-tos, human verification becomes the scarce resource worth paying for.
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.
"Oh-Shit" Bar for WordPress
Most newsrooms use AI daily but lack pre-publish safety gates. When prompt remnants ship to print, screenshots go viral and Legal starts asking questions.