Ventures

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• Food JournalA 4-year-old walks into the produce section and sees six things they've never eaten. Food Journal is a book of 1,000 foods, rated 1 to 3, filled in one square at a time.
• AlmanacYou have fewer summers left than you think. Almanac turns a family's travel bucket list into a ten-year calendar, solved against school breaks, budget, and how old the kids will be.
• ShortlistFamilies spend a thousand dollars visiting the wrong colleges. Eight questions, then the schools worth the gas money — grouped into trips.
• CitronEvery tennis cap's brim blocks the exact ball you need to see on an overhead. Citron cuts the brim to two inches — long enough for sun, short enough to stay out of your swing.
• FetchlandSix months after a set comes out, the singles get cheap — but building the cart means clicking TCGplayer one card at a time. Fetchland takes a set and a budget and hands back the list, ready to paste in.
• Veteran Resource ManagementA veteran gets referred somewhere and still doesn't get helped. This screening reads their service history, explains its reasoning in plain language, and points them to someone who can actually help.
• BothySmall nonprofits lose grants to quiet Fridays. Bothy is the workspace where the next thing due is already on the screen.
• OverlookDozens of Coach House ventures, no two alike, and no shared map. Overlook reads every one straight from its repository and draws them as one picture — nobody maintains it.
• Best BoyYou look up the director and stop. Best Boy follows everyone else who made it — so a cinematographer you love can take you somewhere you'd never have found.
• Patch BoyStreaming buried who actually played on the record. Patch Boy routes from any credit — a guitarist, a producer — three hops to something you'd never have queued up.
• ScholarSpringA student needs the whole aid ladder — FAFSA, Pell, state grants, then scholarships — and no one hands it to them in order. ScholarSpring does, matched from 834 hand-verified awards.
• ArtSparkNearly half of adults make art in some form; almost none made something today. ArtSpark opens with one prompt, and any medium counts toward the streak.
• BunkYou find out about Zoo Camp in July, from another parent, at the pool. Bunk puts every camp in Louisville — ages, dates, prices, open spots — in one searchable place.
• LootIndependent stores compete against Amazon on price and lose. Loot replaces the punch card with real items — dropped, kept, traded, and spent at the stores that gave them out.
• RadiiEffortless music used to mean flipping on a radio. Radii is a speaker with knobs that tune the era, tempo, genre, and mood — no app, no screen, no next song to pick.
• Rook's DispatchSeven AI agents play a daily campaign with no one at the wheel. One of them narrates. One of them is watching you.
• The TelegramA phone is the wrong object for a five-year-old. The Telegram is a button: hold it, talk, and a paper letter chatters out on Grandma's end a minute later.