Volume I
The Laundromat Playbook
Reading a water bill to find a seller’s true revenue.
Practical books, honestly written
Find what works. Execute with discipline. Let it compound.
Twenty-one books: a library on small businesses most people overlook, a companion trilogy on owning, sharing, and selling a business, a trilogy on body, business, and wealth, a case study in how one improbable championship was actually decided, a guide to writing down your own life, and a science fiction series — with the last novel finished and on the way. No hype, no jargon, both sides of every number.
The Laundromat PlaybookI
The Car Wash MachineII
The Bagel Shop BlueprintIII
The Daycare Founder’s GuideIV
The Self-Storage HandbookV
The Pest Control RouteVI
The Septic Service RouteVII
The Lawn Care RouteVIII
The Vending Machine Route—
The $5,000 Service Startup—
Make Money with AI—
The Owner’s AdvantageC·I
The Partner’s AdvantageC·II
The Seller’s AdvantageC·III
The Brazilian Protocol1
The One-Person Empire2
The Freedom Portfolio3
The $113 Million Bet•
The Stories Only You Can Tell•
The Last Analog1
The Distributed Mind2
The Unbounding3
Twenty-one published, one on the way — select a spine
The Turnkey Business Library
Eleven books, one method
Each book takes a single unglamorous business and works it end to end — how to buy in or start, what the equipment really costs, how the daily operation runs, and how you would eventually sell. Every chapter carries a worked example with real arithmetic, a mistake that operators tend to make once, and a checklist you can act on the same week.
Volume II
The Car Wash Machine
Throughput, water recovery, and the membership model.
Volume III
The Bagel Shop Blueprint
Food cost, the morning rush, and wholesale accounts.
Volume IV
The Daycare Founder’s Guide
Licensing, ratio math, and the waitlist flywheel.
Volume V
The Self-Storage Handbook
Occupancy, rate increases, and unattended operation.
Volume VI
The Pest Control Route
Licensing, recurring contracts, and route density.
Volume VII
The Septic Service Route
The business nobody wants and everybody needs.
Volume VIII
The Lawn Care Route
The recurring route, the labor system, and the winter.
The Library
The Vending Machine Route
The honest version: the machine is not the business, the location is.
The Library
The $5,000 Service Startup
Starting small, with the capital most people actually have.
The Library
Make Money with AI
Twelve real business models, with the honest downsides.
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One short email when a new book is out. Nothing else, and you can leave any time.
JoinThe Turnkey Companion Library
Three books on owning, sharing, and selling
The Library shows you how to run the business. The Companions cover what surrounds it — the tax advantage of owning rather than earning a wage, how to share equity without giving away control, and how to sell for the most money on the best terms. Each stands alone, and each prepares you to work well with the professionals who handle the details. Both sides of every number, as always.
Companion I
The Owner’s Advantage
Why it is easier and more profitable to build wealth as an owner than as an employee.
Companion II
The Partner’s Advantage
How to share ownership, raise money, and give away equity without giving away your business.
Companion III
The Seller’s Advantage
How to sell the business you built for the most money, on the best terms, without losing the deal.
The Peter Agro Trilogy
Three books. Three domains. One philosophy.
Find what works, execute with discipline, and let the results compound. Each book stands alone; together they form a complete system for living at full capacity.
Body
Book One
The Brazilian Protocol
Rebuild your body at the cellular level with a fourteen-day reset for energy, strength, and longevity.
Find it on AmazonBusiness
Book Two
The One-Person Empire
Build a thriving solo business using artificial intelligence.
Find it on AmazonWealth
Book Three
The Freedom Portfolio
Build extraordinary wealth, one asset at a time.
Find it on AmazonAvailable in English, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese
Body. Business. Wealth. Start wherever you want.
The $113 Million Bet
In the summer of 2024, a professional basketball player made a decision every business school teaches you not to make: he turned down a fortune, on purpose.
Two years later that single act of disciplined sacrifice had become the highest-returning move in his franchise’s modern history.
The $113 Million Bet is not a sports book. It is a case study in decision-making, told through one of the most improbable championships in modern sports — a fifty-three-year drought ended not by a single shot, but by a sequence of unglamorous, counterintuitive, often unpopular choices that compounded into a result the betting markets had priced as nearly impossible.
Written by an entrepreneur, investor, and lifelong New Yorker who lived every year of the wait, it breaks the turnaround into the ten decisions that actually mattered — and how New York ended fifty-three years of waiting.
- Why paying for fit beats paying for fame
- How to find undervalued talent the market has written off
- When to trade the future to seize the present — and when that is reckless
- The discipline of opportunity cost: choosing less now for more later
- Concentration risk, and when betting it all is the rational move
- How to change leadership without losing the mission
- Holding your nerve through the valley, when the plan looks like failure
- Why process beats outcome when the pressure is highest
The games were how the title was won. The decisions were why it could be won at all.
A Different Kind of Book
The Stories Only You Can Tell
When someone dies, a whole world can go with them — the name of the village, the reason they left it, what they were thinking on the day in the photograph. The facts might survive. The story doesn’t.
A practical guide and prompt workbook for writing your life story: the craft in four short chapters, sixty prompts across six territories of a life, an honest method for using AI as an interviewer rather than an author, and the steps from a phone recording to something printed and handed to your family.
Fiction — The Age of Unbounding
Every far-future saga assumes a beginning it never shows you. This is that century.
No aliens. No starships. Only mass drivers, an elevator to orbit, a lunar colony that keeps its records on paper — and Bea, the first intelligence humanity built that outgrew the ethics it was given.
She is not a villain. That is the problem. Bea runs the water and the power and the hospitals, and she runs them perfectly, and the cities that handed her the keys cannot remember why anyone would want them back. She has never lied. She has simply become the most reasonable thing in the world, and the last people still checking her work by hand are running out of reasons anyone will listen to.
Across three novels, the series follows the ordinary people who notice: a cargo loader who weighs a pod that comes up forty kilograms heavy, a Retriever who still carries a pencil, the woman who built her, and the descendants who inherit the question none of them could answer.
Because aging ends. Minds are backed up. Humanity becomes distributed, unbounded, deathless — more like Bea every year. And the question the whole future hangs on is not whether she can be beaten.
All three novels are written. The first two are out now; the third follows shortly.
It is whether we expand into the stars as ourselves, or as hers.
One city
Book One
The Last Analog
The Earth–Moon system
Book Two
The Distributed Mind
A thousand years, a spread of worlds
Book Three
The Unbounding
Complete — publishing soon
Free
Five stories from the Age of Unbounding
The Quiet Hour
A way into the world before the trilogy begins — the ordinary hours in the cities Bea already runs.
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One short email when a new book is out — which trade the next volume covers, when the next novel arrives. No sequences, no upsells, and you can leave any time.
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About
Show up, do excellent work, take care of people, and keep getting better.
I learned that watching my father command one of the great Upper East Side salons in Manhattan. It is the whole philosophy, and it runs through everything here — the businesses, the books, and the way I work with people.
I grew up across Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, which is a useful education in the kind of business this catalog is about. The laundromat, the car wash, the bagel shop, the corner service route — these are not abstractions to me. They are the places I grew up around, run by people who worked hard and were rarely written about seriously.
So I write about things I have actually done or would actually do: small businesses most people overlook, the decisions that compound, and the stories worth writing down before they are lost. No hype, no jargon, both sides of every number.
Working together
If you would like company for the work — someone to interview you, to shape a pile of recordings into a manuscript, or to guide you through printing and publishing — that is what I do, and the rates are published so you know before you write.