1st PlaceLawyer · California
CrossBeam
Streamlines housing permitting to help solve a statewide shortage.
Michael T. Brown
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Preparing the MinuteWork public site.
Automate yourself at work. Sell it back to your industry.
MinuteWork turns the work you do into an AI workforce — trained on your judgment, running under your name, serving the industry you already know.
Your first customer is usually the company you already work for.
No startup idea neededNo code required
Operators on MinuteWork come from
MarshAonTravelersADPPaychexSchneider NationalCleveland ClinicDeloitteLiberty MutualKaiser PermanenteC.H. RobinsonHub International
The pattern
This is already happening.
At Anthropic's Built with Opus 4.6 hackathon, the winners weren't developers. A lawyer, a cardiologist, a musician, and a civil engineer beat 13,000 applicants — by turning their domain expertise into working tools in a single week.
1st Place
2nd PlaceDeveloper · Massachusetts
Elisa
Reimagines how kids learn to code in the AI era.
Jon McBee
3rd PlaceCardiologist · Belgium
postvisit.ai
Helps patients understand and act on their medical visits.
Michał Nedoszytko, MD PhD
Creative ExplorationMusician · Estonia
Conductr
Generates a band around you as you play.
Asep Bagja P.
KKKeep Thinking
Road Engineer · Uganda
TARA
Turns dash-cam footage into road-investment recommendations.
Kyeyune Kazibwe
Public results — Anthropic Built with Opus 4.6 hackathon, 2026.
These were one-week experiments. MinuteWork makes the same pattern repeatable, packaged, and paid — for the work you already understand.
Meet MinuteWork
Your work goes in. A business comes out.
MinuteWork reads what you do, finds the workflows worth automating, and drafts the AI businesses you could launch from your background. Then it builds the workforce to run them.
Input
Resume uploaded
14 years commercial insurance · submissions · renewals · producer ops
Signals found
Document-heavy workflowClear agency buyerExisting trust networkManual follow-up painHigh repeatability
Businesses you could build
0194%
PolicyDesk AI
AI intake and submission desk for small agencies
0287%
RenewalOps
Renewal reminder and document chase service
0381%
ProducerPacket
Submission-ready packet builder for producers
PolicyDesk AI · plan snapshot
First offer$2,500/mo per agency
First customersFormer agency · producers · small brokerages
Launch path1 pilot → 3 paid → 10 niche customers
The category difference
You don't need to know what to build before you start.
Most AI tools ask you to bring an idea. MinuteWork asks you to bring the work history you already have. Your résumé, LinkedIn, or plain-English description is a map of workflows you understand, buyers who trust your judgment, and problems your industry already pays to solve.
A 14-year insurance broker uploaded her résumé.
She got PolicyDesk AI.
A bookkeeper described her weekly close process in three sentences.
She got CloseBooks AI.
A logistics manager pasted her LinkedIn and recurring compliance work.
She got CarrierWatch.
Boring work is usually the best starting point. Repeated admin, follow-ups, document chasing, approvals, reminders, intake, reporting, scheduling, and customer communication are exactly where paid AI businesses begin.
How it works
Build it. Use it. Sell it. Repeat.
First you build the AI workforce that does your work. Then you run it for yourself. Then you sell it to people who do the same job. Then you do it again.
- 01
Build
Your résumé becomes an AI workforce — the agents, intake, approvals, and runtime that do the work you already do.
- 02
Use
Run it on your own work first. Trust the output before anyone else has to. Your judgment trains the system.
- 03
Sell
Package the same workforce for the people who already know your name. Pilot proposal, pricing, and outreach included.
- 04
Repeat
Add agents, raise the price, expand the offer. Same loop, larger footprint. The business compounds while you keep your judgment in the loop.
Examples
Different résumés. Different AI businesses.
The output changes with your background. The pattern stays the same: identify the repeatable pain, package the outcome, build the workforce, launch with trust.
From a commercial insurance broker
PolicyDesk AI
Quote request to submission-ready packet, without the copy-paste.
$2,500/mo per agency
ARR potential at scale
Conservative$300k
Expected$1.5M
Upside$6M
AI Workforce
Submission IntakeDocument RequestApplication AssemblyProducer Review
From a healthcare admin lead
AuthDesk AI
Prior-auth packets, eligibility checks, and denial follow-up for small clinics.
$1,800/mo per clinic
ARR potential at scale
Conservative$216k
Expected$1.1M
Upside$4.3M
AI Workforce
Eligibility CheckPacket BuilderDenial ResearchPatient Follow-upProvider Review
From a logistics manager
CarrierWatch
Compliance operations for carriers too small to hire a team.
$799/mo per carrier
ARR potential at scale
Conservative$192k
Expected$960k
Upside$3.8M
AI Workforce
Driver FilesInspection SchedulerDeadline MonitorDocument Chaser
From a bookkeeper
CloseBooks AI
Monthly close, receipt chase, and owner summaries — handled.
$500/mo per business
ARR potential at scale
Conservative$180k
Expected$900k
Upside$3.6M
AI Workforce
Receipt ChaserTransaction ReviewMissing InfoOwner Summary
Questions
The questions everyone asks before they start.
Most of these aren't about technology — they're about whether someone like you can actually do this. Short answer: yes.
Boring work is usually the best starting point. Repeated admin, follow-ups, document chasing, approvals, reminders, intake, reporting, scheduling, and customer communication are exactly where paid AI businesses begin. The flashy résumés are often worse raw material than the steady ones.
One last thing
Someone will productize the work you understand.
It might as well be you. Upload your résumé or describe what you do — MinuteWork turns it into the AI workforce that runs it under your name.
Stop looking for permission to do the work. Start owning the business that runs it.