Open source opportunities
What we could build next.
New products built from permissively licensed open-source parts plus our own layer. All are in development (research stage): licences checked, nothing sold yet.
Ten packs, ranked by value for effort
Private Voice Agent Box
A self-hosted alternative to per-minute voice-agent platforms for phone and web agents.
Buyers: Law firms, home-services companies, clinics
Price anchors: Vapi about $0.13-0.31/min all-in; Retell $0.07-0.31; other voice-agent platforms from about $0.08
Self-hosted AI Ops Pack
One box for error tracking, LLM tracing, durable jobs, uptime and analytics.
Buyers: AI startups and agencies
Price anchors: About $185/month of SaaS for a small team
Counted Legal Research & Drafting
Drafting with every citation verified and linked, plus guided client intake.
Buyers: Solo and small firms, bankruptcy filers
Price anchors: Clio EasyStart $49/user; Best Case $99/user
Counted AI Back Office
Forward a bill and it is extracted, posted, matched and filed.
Buyers: Small businesses and bookkeepers
Price anchors: QuickBooks $38-340/month; Xero $27-97
Rolesona Live Persona
A real-time talking persona with memory (fictional or consented faces only).
Buyers: Creators, training companies
Price anchors: Tavus $0.26-0.35/min overage; D-ID $18-198/month
Field Crew Phone Pack
Schedule, route, inspect, photo, sign and invoice from the phone, offline-ready.
Buyers: Home-services crews
Price anchors: Jobber $29-149/month; Housecall Pro $59-299
On-Device AI Phone Pack
Dictate, summarise, read aloud and scan offline; also an SDK for app developers.
Buyers: Privacy-minded professionals, lawyers, parents
Price anchors: Wispr Flow $12-15/month; Private LLM $4.99
Kids Voice Learning Pack
A voice-driven 3D learning world where voices stay on the device.
Buyers: Parents and schools
Price anchors: Prodigy $58.95-118.95/year; Tynker $180/year
Private Phone Suite
Private business phone plus encrypted messenger with an AI receptionist.
Buyers: SMBs, clinics, firms
Price anchors: Quo $15-35/user; Dialpad $15-25/user
Avatar Video Studio
Talking-head course and explainer videos with translation and dubbing.
Buyers: Course creators
Price anchors: HeyGen $29-149+; Synthesia $29/$89
Fifteen ranked opportunities
From the commercial research pack. Pilot ranges assume two experienced engineers, one workflow and accessible test data.
Document intake and exception review
Extract fields from a defined document family, show the original evidence, detect duplicates, ask a person about uncertain fields, and export approved records.
Buyer: Document-heavy service teams, distributors and back offices
Offer: Setup and migration, then a supported workflow subscription or customer-hosted license for your own layer.
How a pilot is measured: Use 200 permission-cleared documents with a separate holdout. Measure critical-field accuracy, review time, duplicates and correct exports.
Backup and recovery evidence service
Choose one backup engine. Add onboarding, monitored schedules, isolated restore drills, key-recovery procedures and a clear recovery report.
Buyer: IT providers and businesses with several computers or servers
Offer: Installation plus recurring managed recovery testing; alternatively sell a fleet console.
How a pilot is measured: Recover a representative file set and a consistent database snapshot after a simulated machine loss. Record time, completeness and missing credentials.
Private data cleanup and reconciliation workbench
Offer repeatable import mappings, duplicate matching, inconsistent-field detection, exception review and reproducible exports. Use Superset only if dashboards help.
Buyer: Analysts, finance operations and logistics teams
Offer: Desktop/customer-cloud tool, paid import templates and support.
How a pilot is measured: Compare against approved reference files. Count incorrect merges, missed records, unexplained changes and staff minutes per batch.
AI quality and release-evidence pack
Map every requirement to checks, replay representative tasks, compare cost and quality, capture useful failure evidence and block regressions.
Buyer: AI agencies and software teams shipping agents
Offer: Test-design engagement, supported runners and recurring evaluation reports; sell domain test packs separately.
How a pilot is measured: Detect known historical failures on a protected holdout without weakening tests. Measure missed defects, false alarms and cost per accepted task.
Support desk and approved knowledge workflow
Connect approved articles to tickets, preserve source links, suggest replies for review, manage escalation and keep customer histories clean.
Buyer: Specialty service providers and small support departments
Offer: Migration, setup, maintained connectors and monthly support.
How a pilot is measured: Measure correct resolutions, repeat contact, wrong-account disclosures and handling time against the existing process.
Private transcription, captions and media review
Import media, create timed captions, support human correction and redaction, check exports, and recover interrupted batches.
Buyer: Training producers, archives and agencies
Offer: Private workstation/appliance, media workflow service or caption QA tool.
How a pilot is measured: Measure correction minutes per media minute, timestamp errors, silent-audio false text and export acceptance.
Asset lifecycle and handover pack
Add clean imports, barcode labels, check-in/out routines, replacement forecasts and employee handover reports. Keep devices, owners and audit records consistent.
Buyer: Schools, growing businesses and IT providers
Offer: Implementation plus managed hosting and support; specialist reporting modules.
How a pilot is measured: Reconcile a sample stocktake, test handovers and returns, and measure missing assets and administrative time.
Niche commerce and product configuration
Start with Medusa for one ordering workflow. Add CAD/renders only for repeatable product families with validated dimensions, pricing and approval rules.
Buyer: Specialty wholesalers and manufacturers
Offer: Implementation, supported storefront operations, original configuration templates and recurring maintenance.
How a pilot is measured: Complete representative quotes, orders, refunds and inventory reconciliation; verify every supported geometry option with domain reviewers.
Voice workflow test and deployment kit
Replay calls, test interruptions and transfers, diagnose delays, prevent duplicate actions and compare approved configurations.
Buyer: Agencies building voice applications
Offer: Evaluation toolkit, private gateway setup and recurring operational support.
How a pilot is measured: Track transfer success, interruption handling, completed tasks, latency distribution and repeated actions under network failure.
Industry training and assessment pack
Package original training material, exercises, supervisor reports and content versioning. Add a simulator only when it improves real task practice.
Buyer: Franchises, associations and vocational trainers
Offer: Training content licenses, managed learning service and supported reporting extensions.
How a pilot is measured: Measure performance on unseen tasks and delayed retention, as well as administration time and accessibility defects.
Software component and repair evidence service
Choose the minimum scanners and dashboard. Generate component inventories, triage actionable risk, track owners, and attach evidence of fixes.
Buyer: Small software vendors and managed service providers
Offer: Release evidence service, supported customer-owned appliance and remediation reporting.
How a pilot is measured: Use known vulnerable and corrected fixtures; measure missed findings, irrelevant alerts, time to resolution and evidence completeness.
Local equipment monitoring pack
Support a fixed device list, store readings locally, detect missing sensors, explain alerts and synchronize safely after outages.
Buyer: Facilities operators, farms and equipment installers
Offer: Configured appliance, installation and monitoring subscription.
How a pilot is measured: Replay sensor faults, loss of power and network, clock drift and alert floods; compare against physical reference readings.
Private design review and approval room
Offer version-aware comments, external review, approval records and reliable handoff; use video only when necessary.
Buyer: Design agencies and distributed project teams
Offer: Customer-owned review room and maintained integration/approval modules.
How a pilot is measured: Measure approval time, version confusion, lost comments and unauthorized reviewer access.
Drone inspection and change-reporting pack
Standardize capture QA, compare repeat visits, review changes and export customer reports with uncertainty and source imagery.
Buyer: Drone service firms and asset/land managers
Offer: Per-project processing/reporting or a supported processing appliance.
How a pilot is measured: Compare measurements to physical references and count reconstruction failures, false changes and report corrections.
Reliable automation runtime and reusable feature library
Provide resumable work, typed feature contracts, controlled external actions, end-to-end cancellation, per-requirement evidence and tested upgrade paths.
Buyer: Software vendors and automation agencies
Offer: Developer toolkit, customer-owned control plane, connectors and operational support.
How a pilot is measured: Prove restart recovery, duplicate-event handling, worker termination, permission isolation and bounded cost under injected faults.
Licence notes: only permissive cores are used in anything resold. Projects under SSPL, FSL, BSL, Elastic, Sustainable Use, non-commercial or revenue-gated licences are kept internal or avoided.