Operating company

We build and run a small portfolio of focused internet properties.

BEHOLDINGS turns durable user needs into owned audiences, useful products, partner opportunities, and cash flow. Each property runs through the same operating loop: identify, build, distribute, capture, monetize, improve.

Established 2019

Operating signals

What we’re learning now

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Search → repeat utility

WhatIsLeaving is testing whether time-sensitive search demand can become reminders, return visits, and durable owned audience.

Data → decision

GamesLeaving is testing whether source confidence and completion-time data can turn expiring catalog information into an actual player decision.

Paid intent → transaction

HeyMontessori is testing whether one narrow parent problem can support direct paid acquisition to a digital product.

The portfolio

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Streaming & cultureOperating

WhatIsLeaving

What's leaving streaming, before it's gone.

Games & cultureOperating

GamesLeaving

What's leaving Game Pass, PS Plus, and cloud libraries, before it's gone.

Lifestyle & commerceRevenue sprint

BeTheHippy

Practical guides, tools, and product paths around infusion, dosage, and home preparation.

Homeowner retentionValidation pilot

Hearthbruk

A post-closing home-care pilot for agents, inspectors, and homeowners.

Education & familyValidation pilot

HeyMontessori

Practical Montessori-at-home decisions, tested as focused digital products.

The operating system

Every property runs through the same seven stages. This is how attention becomes cash flow.

01
Identify

Find a durable user job — a recurring need with clear intent and predictable demand.

02
Build

Ship a focused property that does one job well, without overbuilding.

03
Distribute

Earn attention through search, social, and partnerships — not paid spray-and-pray.

04
Capture

Convert attention into owned channels: email subscribers and returning visitors.

05
Monetize

Turn usage into cash flow through affiliates, sponsorships, products, and referrals.

06
Improve

Measure, prune, and reinvest. Kill what doesn't work, compound what does.

07
Repeat

Apply the same operating system to the next property in the portfolio.

Read the full approach — revenue levers, roadmap, and rules →

Build notes

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2026-09

Three Different Growth Loops: Search, Decisions, and Paid Products

The latest operating cycle focused on three distinct loops: turning streaming search into repeat utility, turning game-departure data into decisions, and testing whether focused parent intent can reach a digital-product transaction.

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2026-07

The Leaving Network takes shape

GamesLeaving.com is now operating alongside WhatIsLeaving as a second node in what we're internally calling the Leaving Network — same Platform × Time × Entity structure, shared network chrome, and cross-links between the two. Early GSC brand queries and user activity on the games side are directionally up, and the current lever is platform pages plus the new network header. The wave also includes a desktop nav overhaul, mobile platform pills, title-page redesign, and a phased sitemap pass — all rolled into the WhatIsLeaving experiment as new sub-tests.

Interested in partnerships, sponsorships, acquisitions, or local pilots?

We're always open to conversations that fit a focused, durable property.

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