Not every small business is a micro business — and not every micro business is autonomous. Here's exactly what we mean, and what we curate.
The broad category
Micro Business
A genuinely small, one-person operation.
✓ Run by one person — no employees or contractors
✓ Takes less than 1 hour a week to operate
✓ Generates revenue on its own, without a payroll behind it
✓Minimal startup capital to get going
✓ Runs on mostly systematized processes
★ What AMBS curates & sells
Autonomous Micro Business
A micro business that mostly runs itself.
★ Everything a micro business is, plus…
★90% or more automated — the system does the work
★Set up and run for you — hosted and done-for-you, not left on your machine
★ Designed so that 1 hour a week is genuinely realistic
★ Independently scored 0–70 on the AMBS rubric before it's listed
Why the distinction matters: a lot of "side hustles" call themselves automated but still need hours of your time every week. On AMBS, every product in the catalog has cleared the autonomous bar — 90%+ automated — so the one-hour-a-week promise is real, not marketing.