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.
Tech Inflection
Business ideas emerging from technological breakthroughs such as AI, automation, and new infrastructure. Captures the inflection points where innovation suddenly becomes commercially viable.
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.
The Superfan ID Heist
Secondary ticketing will grow $18B by 2030 while Ticketmaster blocks 200M bots daily and still loses. Weverse proved portable fan credentials work for K-pop.
Methadone Clinic for Doomscrolling
WikiTok validated the format. Duolingo validated the mechanics. The scroll feed for identity transformation and career skills remains wide open.
Robot Fleet Sensor Hygiene: $30B Automation Stack
Robot fleets degrade silently from sensor contamination. The warranty-safe compliance layer preventing mystery downtime remains unbuilt across OEMs.
LEGO SMART Brick Heist
LEGO shipped compute into millions of homes. The creator economy layer between their hardware and paying parents, teachers, and therapists is wide open.
Stripe for AI Agents
Coinbase and Google shipped agent payment rails. Nobody built the governance layer that makes CFOs approve production deployment.
Ultrasonic Tools Heist
Seattle Ultrasonics solved consumer ultrasonic packaging. The next category isn't kitchen knives—it's mundane cleaning tools starting with grout.
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.
Reddit's 51% Bot Problem Is a $9.6B Opportunity
Reddit retired its front page because bot manipulation made it unmanageable. The credibility layer sitting on top is a three-tier subscription business.
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 Shadow-Health Router
Async telehealth infrastructure is mature, Hims proved privacy-seeking behavior converts at scale, but episodic stigmatized symptoms remain fragmented and underserved.
OpenAI Prism Heist
OpenAI's Prism standardized ML research authoring. The next layer is distribution—turning papers into model cards, demos, and landing pages researchers already need.
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.
Digital Protective Services for Kids: $500M Heist Hiding in Plain Sight
Organized abuse networks operate on mainstream platforms. Parents pay monitoring prices for crisis-level threats. The arbitrage between surveillance software and protective services is structural.
The Attention OS Heist
The gap between ineffective screen time dashboards and $800 minimalist phones creates a billion-dollar opportunity for behavior-aware phone coaching
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.