Smart Passive Income is an online business education company founded in 2008 by 📝Pat Flynn after he was laid off from his architecture job. Through its blog, podcast, courses, and membership community, it teaches entrepreneurs how to build online businesses that generate passive income — with an emphasis on ethical, transparent monetization.

The brand began as a blog where Flynn published monthly income reports, positioning himself as "the crash-test dummy of online business" — running experiments in public and sharing the results whether they succeeded or failed. The Smart Passive Income Podcast launched in 2010 and has surpassed 80 million downloads, ranking among the most popular business podcasts. Public experiments like the 2010 📝Niche Site Duel — a documented race to rank a site from scratch in Google — became signature proof of its teach-by-showing approach. The company has since grown into SPI Media, pairing its course library with the SPI Community, a membership offering live workshops, accountability calls, and direct access to Flynn and his team.