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Playbooks

One business per page, costed at what the data actually charges. The input is usually pennies; the margin is real, and so is the work nobody else mentions.

Every page here answers the same four questions: who pays, what you sell them, what it costs you per unit, and where it gets hard. The costs are our published prices rather than an estimate, so the arithmetic is checkable — and the last question is why these are longer than a listicle.

None of these is a business you can start this afternoon and none of them is passive. What is true is that the data underneath them, which used to be the expensive part, now costs less than the coffee you plan it over.

$0.003 per comment → $2,000-6,000 per reportSell audience research built from product commentsMine YouTube comments on a product category to find what buyers complain about and ask for, then sell the finding as a research report. Costed per comment.$0.01 per domain → $0.50-1.00 per verified rowSell B2B lead lists that separate role from personalBuild verified contact lists from a domain list, with role addresses split from personal ones, placeholders filtered, and the gaps stated. Costed per domain.$0.005 per transcript → $800-2,000 per monthCompetitor video intelligence as a monthly retainerTranscribe rival channels every month, report what they push and what they stopped saying, and sell it as a retainer. Costed per transcript.$0.005 per transcript → $19-49 per guideSell study guides built from public video coursesTurn public video courses into structured study notes you can sell or use as a lead magnet, without republishing the lecturer's words. Costed per transcript.$0.005 per transcript → $8,000-20,000 build, then $400-1,200 a monthBuild a niche answer assistant on video transcriptsTurn a field's video content into a cited question-answering assistant, and sell it as a build plus a subscription. Costed per transcript.$0.005 per transcript → $150-400 per episodePodcast clip service: sell short-form from a back catalogueTranscribe a podcast back catalogue, find the quotable moments by timestamp, and sell cut-ready clip specs. Costed at the real input price per episode.

Where the numbers come from

Each unit cost is the list price of the Actor that produces that data, charged per result. Nothing is charged for an input that returns nothing — a video with no captions, a domain with no contact page — so the figures on these pages are what a full run bills, not a best case. The benchmarks show how often inputs return nothing, which is the number that turns a per-unit price into a real cost per usable row.

Model, hosting and labour lines are our own estimates and are marked as such in each table. The labour line is included on purpose: a 99% margin that ignores twenty hours of your week is not a margin.