About Small and Owned

Small and Owned is for businesses deliberately kept the size of one person. No headcount, no board, no growth story to tell anyone — just products, automation, and margins good enough to buy back your own time.

Staying small is a strategy, not a stage you have failed to leave. We cover it as one: what a solo operator can automate, what they should refuse, and what the numbers look like when nobody is optimising for an exit.

What we cover

• Build — shipping alone, and what has to be cut to make that possible
• Automate — the systems that replace the employee you are not going to hire
• Sell — distribution that works without a team behind it
• Business Profiles — real one-person companies with their real numbers

How we work

When we publish revenue, it is revenue someone showed us, described with its costs rather than as a screenshot. We would rather say "we do not know" than inflate a case study. Every piece passes human editorial review, and corrections are made on the page.