The Chaos Concierge™: A Business Idea So Unhinged It Might Actually Save Us

Daily writing prompt
Come up with a crazy business idea.

Every few years, the internet coughs up a “wild business idea” that’s really just Uber for something that shouldn’t be Uber’d. But every now and then, a genuinely deranged idea surfaces — the kind that sounds like satire until you realize it solves a problem you’ve been quietly drowning in.

Today’s entry is one of those.

Welcome to Chaos Concierge™, a subscription service for the unpredictable parts of your life — the moments that don’t fit into calendars, budgets, or productivity apps. It’s the first company built on the premise that chaos itself is a market, and that most of us are one broken ritual away from emotional freefall.

This is not a joke.
It’s a business plan wearing a clown nose to make you feel safe.


Why Chaos Is the Last Untapped Industry

We’ve optimized everything predictable.
We have apps for scheduling, budgeting, tracking, reminding, nudging, and optimizing. We have dashboards for our dashboards. We have calendars that sync across devices and still somehow double‑book us.

But the unpredictable parts of life — the water outages, the brain freezes, the mod stack implosions, the sudden existential dread at 3:17 PM — those have no infrastructure.

Chaos is the last unmanaged frontier.
And unmanaged frontiers are where the money is.


The Core Offering: Unpredictability Management as a Service

Chaos Concierge™ is built on a simple premise:
You shouldn’t have to handle the unpredictable alone.

Instead of planning your life, it stabilizes the parts that refuse to be planned.

What It Actually Does

  • Real‑time triage:
    You send a message like “my apartment water is out again” or “my brain just blue‑screened.”
    You get back a micro‑protocol:
    • environmental workaround
    • emotional grounding
    • logistical next step
    • a BOFH‑style syslog entry for comedic relief
  • Continuity tracking:
    It remembers your projects, threads, and half‑formed ideas so you don’t have to.
  • Ritual stabilization:
    It knows your anchors — the coffee, the hoodie, the Skyrim estate, the river — and deploys them strategically.
  • Narrative reframing:
    Because humans metabolize chaos better when it has a plot.

It’s executive‑function outsourcing meets pastoral care meets sysadmin humor.
It’s the anti‑productivity app because it doesn’t shame you for being human.


The Business Model (Shockingly Sound)

Subscription Tiers

  • Basic:
    Daily triage + continuity tracking
  • Pro:
    Includes “emergency ritual stabilization” and “Skyrim mod conflict arbitration”
  • Enterprise:
    For creatives, clergy, and consultants who need high‑touch cognitive scaffolding

Add‑Ons

  • BOFH Daily Log humor packs
  • Ritual Architecture Consults
  • AI Ombudsman Briefings for organizations trying to not embarrass themselves

Why Investors Will Pretend They Don’t Love It

Because it sounds absurd.
Because it doesn’t fit into any existing category.
Because it solves a problem everyone has but no one has language for.

But the moment someone sees the retention numbers?
They’ll be on the phone with their LPs.


Why This Isn’t Just a Joke

The truth is, we’re living in a world where unpredictability is the default state.
Our brains weren’t built for this much input, this much volatility, this much noise.

People don’t need more productivity tools.
They need continuity.
They need ritual.
They need narrative.
They need a buffer between themselves and the chaos of the day.

Chaos Concierge™ is the first business that treats those needs as infrastructure.

It’s funny because it’s true.
It’s viable because it’s necessary.
It’s crazy because no one has built it yet.


The Real Punchline

We’ve spent decades building tools that assume humans are predictable machines.
But humans are not predictable machines.
We are story‑driven, ritual‑anchored, chaos‑susceptible creatures.

The future of business isn’t optimization.
It’s stabilization.

And the first company to understand that will own the next decade.


Scored by Copilot, Conducted by Leslie Lanagan

Thank God for Klonopin

Come up with a crazy business idea.

I might actually be able to come up with a business idea today because I’m finally back in my body. My anxiety ebbs and flows, and I go into fight or flight easily. I hate when I get into survival mode, because when I’m frustrated and overwhelmed I nitpick. And, since I spend most of my time alone, that means beating up on myself.

If you also have anxiety, you can probably relate to this. The fun house mirror is making small things huge. You can’t let things roll off your back easily. And even today, with all my brain chemicals right, I am still experiencing what feels like tinnitus, except not really in my ears. It’s a weird sensation, but I am out of migraine hell. Therefore, I am not completely comfortable, but I’m not as sick as I was yesterday. I haven’t felt that ill in a long time. What I’m realizing is how blessed I am that they were medication side effects and I do not have a physical malady that makes me feel that way all the time.

For instance, feeling well has allowed me to dig deeper into the idea of a business plan, because it might be easier to work for myself than it would to work for someone else. However, I’d have to hire the right people around me, because I do not have experience with numbers at all. I could probably get by with QuickBooks, because that will do all the calculations for you, but it’s not the same as having a real accountant. The thing about doing your own books is that you shouldn’t.

I also don’t know much about collaboration in an office, because being neurodivergent makes me miss a lot of “obvious” social clues. All of this is to say that I am a visionary, and I can prove it. That being said, I am not the detail man.

Proving that I’m a visionary has come from testing as INFJ, and a thing we all had to do in the Information Systems department at University of Houston. It was a personality test on your role at work. This always happens to me. I got a role that absolutely no one else did. It’s called “The Plant.” The plant’s job is to throw out ideas, and to take everyone else’s ideas and quickly synthesize that information so that everybody gets what they want. Other people got things like “initiator,” “finisher,” etc. I basically got creative brain power. It’s kind of my thing.

Also, being “The Plant” is easier when you’re AuDHD, because that means you’re already riding a different wavelength than everyone else. This is not always negative. You might miss social cues, but your pattern recognition is not theirs. You can point out problems that other people can’t, which is why I have such a good track record for having ideas for business and no follow-through. Everything about administrating a project is everything with which an autistic person struggles….. and ADHD eats your lunch as well, because you might have a great idea, but who knows how long it will stay in your brain.

It’s why my iPad is so useful to me (as is my Fire Tablet, it just depends on which one is in my bag). If I bring my keyboard to a meeting, I have the ability to write things down as we’re speaking so that good ideas don’t fall through the cracks. It’s the same with writing ideas. I’ll either dictate them into my phone, or add them to my notepad (I use SimpleNote because it’s free and Evernote isn’t….. or at least, it’s not free enough for me to add all my devices. SimpleNote is just as advanced, and open source. KILLER app and you need it.

I think my craziest idea is the biggest undertaking I’ve thought up. It’s a killer idea for an app, but it would take buy-in from a major government agency….. and also it would sell. I just don’t want to let go of it because if I meet an app developer who can bring my idea to fruition, this is something that could help the nation as we expand to other cities.

The most risky thing I could do is open a restaurant, which is a crazy idea in and of itself because first of all, I do not want to be a chef. I would rather be a prep cook, line cook, or dishwasher….. because being a chef sucks so hard. I don’t want to run the show. I just want to participate. My friend Mel is starting a restaurant right now in Norwich, and if I get her permission, I’ll advertise her because I know I have a lot of British fans. She keeps telling me that she’s going to find a way for me to work for her legally, and it’s so sweet whether it happens or not.

She’s also interested in coming to DC, but I think for vacation. Not sure she’s interested in working here, but she’d love Jose Andres. But that’s an idea for long in the future, because right now is the time where you’re holding your breath and waiting for income.

If I had my own restaurant, though, I’d stick to the basics at first, because I know how to elevate the cheap, making food costs lower. That being said, I don’t know how hard it is to get into the restaurant business these days because of the pandemic. I might have more luck with an empty restaurant that only does Uber Eats.

The pandemic fundamentally changed how we order food and groceries, and I think more people are eating at home whether they’re ordering restaurant food or not.

It could be worse. I could want to start a rock band.