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Opportunities: built on open infrastructure
Businesses that can be built on the open infrastructure today, one per article, with the showcase as proof.
- What is already solved
The free stack, piece by piece, and the businesses it leaves open to the person who brings the expertise.
- A tutoring practice with a kit for every hard topic
What a tutor sells when the preparing is already done, and how one kit becomes many Editions.
- French editions: a business in a gap
The shortage of French-language teaching material in Canada, and a way to meet it one product at a time.
- The first week on the job, from one page
A new hire's first week built from a one-page brief, for a bakery, a cab company, or a clinic.
- Run an initiative on the desk
The customer-management and content system Obsidian Delta runs its own work on, and how a team, a school or a community can run theirs on it.
- Ninety instances, three humans
A worked example of a company with ninety machine instances and three people in it, the rule that keeps a department out of a caller's private memory, and an honest account of which parts are built.
- The Cognitive Companion
AI is becoming a substrate, like electricity, and most of what is sold on top of it is appliances. A cognitive companion is a new category: not an appliance, not an assistant, not an agent — the part of you that is wired in.