The For Product Business Model

Empower groups-of-groups to own and control the production of essential goods and services.

Definitions

• Product Tickets represent future goods and services.

• Work Agreements represent legally binding commitments to achieve future production.

• Source Titles represent property ownership in land, tools, and other productive assets.

Terms of Operation

• You may buy Product Tickets with money to receive that future good or service, just like crowdfunding.

• You may buy Product Tickets by signing Work Agreements to achieve some future production in the system.

• When paying with Work Agreements, you also receive Source Title ownership as that production is completed.

• As a Source Title owner, you may decide what must and must not be produced on that land.

• As a Source Title owner, you must supply the work required for that production, or sign Work Agreements to fill other requests in the system. You must have a chain-of-exchange to those other requests.

• As a Source Title owner, you are the automatic owner of all future production on that land.

• These terms must work when co-owing in groups and groups-of-groups, in a fractal way.

Pilot Project Startup Timeline

• Find raw land for sale outside of city limits to build a self-hosted micro-city.

• Verify which essential goods and services can be produced at this location.

• Issue and auction Product Tickets to secure land and tools startup supplies without debt.

• Issue and auction Source Titles to secure Work Agreement signatures.

• If both auctions succeed, the property is purchased and production begins!

User Interface

"'Buy Product Ticket'"

• Pay with future work or money to receive a time-delayed good or service.

• Workers implicitly trade with other workers in this way. (work-for-work)

"'Bid-to-sign Work Agreement'" [This is how you pay with future work.]

• Qualify by passing tests. All jobs have apprentice onboarding. (work-to-learn)

• Receive immediate access to essential goods and services. (sign-to-use)

• Workers gain Source Titles as Work Agreements are completed. (work-to-own)

• Trade Work Agreements for signatures of others. (work-for-work)

"'Issue Source Titles'"

• Show map of land for sale, with default being nearest that user.

• Zoom in to see water rights and zoning restrictions.

• Show Product Ticket proposals and funding status.

• Change (your version of) a map to vote on the layout.

• Owners of Source Titles receive future products without purchase. (own-to-use)

• For each ZONE,

  • Show pending Product Ticket proposals and funding status.

  • Show water-rights, mineral-rights, external restrictions.

"'Define New Product Ticket'" [Recipe for that production.]

• List work and sources required to create that product.

• List delivery schedules and production constraints.

• List pollution and any unavoidable externalities.

• Change (your version of) any Product Ticket to vote on future production.

• For each Product,

  • Define SERVING-SIZE and MIN-SCALE.

  • Estimate production constraints like temperature, water, elevation.

  • Estimate time delay to complete each round-of-production (first will usually be longest).

  • Estimate pollution and other externalities.

  • For each SERVING-SIZE at MIN-SCALE,

    • Estimate projected quality and quantity

    • Estimate land, work tools and startup supplies to begin.