A thousand operators are quietly making millions on the modern stack. The manuals name them, cite the math, hand you the playbook. Below, a sample of the digital plays from the four volumes.
Play 38 · Code Leverage
The Permissionless Leverage
First Million · Chapter Six · Leverage
Naval's framework: code is the permissionless leverage no other type can match. Build software once, run it for ten million customers at near zero marginal cost. In 2026 the path opened to non technical operators through AI coding tools. Pieter Levels' solo SaaS portfolio. Tope Awotona's Calendly. Mat Mullenweg's WordPress. The book names them and the math.
$0.10–$5 marginal · 70–90% gross margin
Play 26 · Niche B2B SaaS
Software for Funeral Homes
First Million · Chapter Four · Niche Ideas
The unsexiest verticals print the cleanest checks. Funeral homes. Veterinary clinics. Dance studios. RV parks. Tattoo shops. Self storage. Trucking dispatch. Each vertical too small for Salesforce, large enough for an eight figure operator. The book names Pulse Funeral, ezyVet, Jackrabbit Dance, Dentrix, Tekmetric — and lists thirteen more verticals still wide open.
$300–$2K / mo · 70–85% net margin
Play 16 · Productized Service
Productize What You Automate
First Million · Chapter Three · Service Doctrine
The play that made hourly billing obsolete. Take a service. Standardize the workflow. Wrap it in a flat monthly subscription. Productized SEO. Productized bookkeeping. Productized design. Productized AI workflows. Same delivery, predictable revenue, no scope creep. The book documents the SEO operators charging $1.5K–$10K per month, the bookkeeping firms at $300–$2K per month, the agencies running on this exact stack.
Subscription pricing · No hourly billing
Play 39 · Content Leverage
Your Face as the Asset
First Million · Chapter Six · Leverage
The other permissionless leverage. One operator builds a face. The face becomes the asset. The book is the product on the back of the content. Books. Courses. Newsletters. Communities. The content is the showroom — the digital product is what you actually sell. Diamond Daddy is the live demonstration of this exact play.
Permissionless · Compounds while you sleep