How we find and run micro-businesses
A plain description of the method, without the recipe card. It works because most ideas are dropped early and cheaply, and because the businesses that survive are built to run lean.
The five steps
1. Explore widely
We generate thousands of candidate ideas from many angles: rule changes, public datasets nobody has packaged, and paperwork that small organizations still do by hand. Each angle has its own brief, so the ideas don’t all come out the same.
2. Filter cheaply
Every idea gets a quick, consistent score. Is the need real and recurring? Can the buyers be reached? Who already serves them? How much of the work can be automated well? Most ideas stop here, which is the point.
3. Look for evidence
The survivors are checked against the open web: signs that people ask for this, what they pay today, and who the competitors are. Claims without evidence don’t move forward.
4. Check deeply
The short list gets a full look at the rules, the data sources, pricing, distribution and liability. This is also where we decide what a product must never do.
5. Launch small and measure
A selected idea becomes a small product with a posted price and a time-boxed test. The go-or-stop thresholds are written down before launch, so we can’t argue ourselves into keeping a weak one.
The first run, in numbers
- 3,170ideas explored
- 300passed the cheap filters
- 100passed the web-evidence checks
- 10selected after deep checks
From our first exploration run, October 2026: 1 in 317 ideas made it through. Bar lengths use a log scale.
How the businesses run
Routine operations run on scheduled automation with AI: refreshing and checking data, rebuilding reports, sending reminders, and drafting replies to support questions from approved templates.
A person reviews every customer reply before it goes out, and decides at the checkpoints: spending money, outreach, launches, anything legal, and any question that needs judgment. Every business keeps a written runbook and a decision log, so the work is visible and can be handed over.
Working with us
You can ask to be told when a business is for sale, or ask about licensing or buying the method: the pipeline and the operations playbook. Or write to hello@pyrizhky.com.