The distance between an idea and a product used to be the whole problem

I have been writing down my ideas since I was eleven years old. Over the years I watched a good number of them come to market, built by somebody else. I took that to mean what it obviously meant: the ideas were sound. I simply did not have the means to act on them.

Now I can turn an idea into a working product, sometimes in the same day. It feels a great deal like a superpower.

What I am actually good at is noticing. I go through an ordinary day and register the small frictions most people have trained themselves to ignore, and I can turn one of those into a product idea almost immediately. Two decades in enterprise software taught me the rest: what genuinely has to be assembled for an idea to become a real thing that real people pay for.

Artificial intelligence closed the last gap. Everywhere my own understanding ran out, it filled in. The bottleneck was never the ideas or the judgement. It was the ability and the means to bring them to life. That strain is gone.

I view Haygood Ideas the way I always have: an idea factory. Perhaps one day for other people's ideas, not only my own.

A factory is judged on what comes off the line. These are live production figures, derived from the running systems each time this page is built, not typed in by hand.

Five ventures are operating. They are one thesis tested five ways: notice a real friction, build the smallest working product that removes it, put it in front of someone who will pay, and keep only what survives. Two of them are the business. The other three are the proof that the line runs, and that it runs into a physical product and a consumer app as readily as into software for a trade.