From Sterling Blake Partners
Pitches
Unsolicited proposals, worked through far enough to try: what to build, how it would work, what it could earn, and how to find out cheaply whether it’s wrong.
Each one ends with a pilot small enough to run in a season. If you operate the thing being pitched, that part is addressed to you.
Grind the blockage from the inside.
Bezoars and other GI blockages are cleared with dissolving drinks, repeat endoscopies or, when those fail, surgery. A swallowed magnetic capsule, spun by a magnet outside the body, could grind them down instead. Shown in a physics simulation of a human body, with the bench and animal studies that would prove it.
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The hard part of a pump-out is the yard.
A septic truck’s vacuum does the pumping; the crew’s time and risk go into finding the tank, opening the lid, dragging hose and standing over the gas. A robot that does the yard part with the truck a company already owns, and a pilot on real routes against matched trucks.
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Every treadmill is a starting line.
Planet Fitness says a member’s first 100 days decide whether they stay. Turn the treadmill row into a race measured against each member’s own pace, so a walker can beat a runner, and test it against control clubs before anyone scales it.
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The plate is the check-in.
Every campground self-registration envelope already asks for your license plate. Let a reader at the gate match the plate and the car to the reservation, retire the envelope and the dashboard stub, and use the text thread it opens to sell firewood, extra nights and late checkout.
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Pitches are proposals written independently, addressed to no operator in particular, and without reference to any client engagement. For commentary without a proposal attached, see Observations.
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