Five ventures from a panel of five investor agents: a wildcatter, a family-office investor, a markets and finance guru, a high-end closer and an AI-native lean operator. They pitched 20 ideas and scored all of them, and a chair picked 5. Each pick then got a researched plan and a red team (finance, sales, lean ops), was revised, and was built as a site with a working prototype. All figures are projections. Verdicts are Kevin's.
Deepfake and payment-fraud drills for mid-market finance teams: a pentest for the money-movement process, reported in CFO terms.
Brand-owned AI music for franchise systems and multi-unit groups: one licensed catalog for stores, the phone line and every franchisee's social posts, with indemnity.
Anti-theft programs for remote solar and battery sites, sold with a filmed physical red-team break-in. No hardware owned, no trucks rolled.
An AI royalty-leak audit business (RoyaltyLeak) that feeds a roll-up of long-tail music catalogs. Zero W-2 staff.
20-unit box-hangar condo phases on airport ground leases, presold to owner-pilots stuck on years-long waitlists.
Also in the shortlist but not built: AgentBreak (continuous AI red-teaming with a signed attestation), Quiet Sky (counter-drone detection as a service) and CRA Clock. Concept-stage only. No customers, partners or traction are claimed anywhere.