Revenue models are easy to list and hard to price. Here are seven with the actual monthly running cost attached — including the three that quietly stop working once volume goes up.
I cannot access that is a permissions statement, not a capability limit. This guide connects Codex to live tools: first server in under 10 minutes, which servers a beginner actually needs, config.toml field by field, and the security traps to avoid.
Already running MCP servers? This is the operator's manual: which server to reach for in each workflow, the pitfalls that bite in production, permissions, context bloat, leaked keys, surprise invoices, and the audit prompts that keep it lean and secure.
Solo business, marketing, e-commerce, sales, real estate
Your story is not an About page decoration. It is the sequence that lets a stranger decide whether your small business understands their problem. Customer as hero, you as guide, the offer as the plan, plus a one-liner, a five-second clarity test, and the page order that follows from it.
Logo, bio and colours are the parts you can finish in a weekend, which is exactly why they get done first and change nothing. What actually decides whether anyone thinks of you gets built somewhere else - a 30-day sequence for a small business with no audience yet.
Not a playbook, an argument. Headcount stopped being a proxy for capability somewhere between 2019 and 2024, and four old reasons for hiring broke with it. When each one broke, the data behind it, and a 10-question test for whether a one-person small business fits you.
Five ideas in a notes app for three months and nothing shipped is a picking problem, not an idea problem. Here is the framework that breaks the tie: two circles, six categories of small business idea that actually earn, a seven-step market test, and a 30-day validation sprint with eight AI prompts.
When I rebuild one with AI agents, you get the write-up — including the parts that didn't work. No weekly roundup, no "5 tools you need."