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OSE Swarm Build

Concept Sketch

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Lines of Effort

Marketing / Recruiting

  • Promo Video
  • Application
  • Testimonials
  • Website Update
  • Social media/cross promotion

Administration

  • Budgeting and accounting
  • Procurement
  • Coordination
  • Communication
  • Human Resources

Cadre Development

  • Identification and selection
  • Train-the-trainer
  • Task Organization

Curriculum/Schedule

  • Daily benchmarks
  • 5 Ws for each task/event
  • Deconfliction

Operations

  • Preparation and staging
  • Workflow Management
  • Overall Project Management
  • Site Safety
  • Quality Control

Logistics

  • Bathrooms
  • Food and water
  • Transportation
  • Fun
  • First Aid

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Tasks - must be complete before Apr 1

Do 2-3 prior to ‘product release’ of Builder Crash Course

  1. Weather Analysis
  2. SOP manual - jon put gantt chart in there
  3. Socialize idea with veterans and former OSE attendees
  4. Develop curriculum
  5. Logistics plan
  6. Create application and promote
    1. Capture testimonials
  7. Recruit 24 people
  8. Identify and select cadre
  9. Train the trainer
  10. Seed Eco-Home Worskhop Facility
    • Or do this from workshop revenue
  11. Promo video - OSE footage edited.
    • Good way to use MJ time

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Options

  1. Swarm Build Seed Eco-Home for client:
    1. Client has land
      1. Lowest risk
      2. ​
    2. Client has no-land
      • More planning needed
      • ​
  2. 3D printer
    • revenue?

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Situation: Stakeholders

OSE:

  1. Need a win: revenue + proof of concept
  2. Site manager quitting
  3. Compliance/inspections and utilities coordination
  4. ~$172k in bank, which can fund entire build
  5. Current house probably ready by Dec. 1
  6. Summer Ex going until Dec. 1
    1. 6 people total currently
    2. Includes apprenticeship people learning about house
  7. Second Seed Eco-Home complete by Dec. 1
  8. Build and Flip - prove the model
  9. Ready to can and clone crashbuild

DoL:

  1. Want to do a site visit mid-Nov
  2. Willing to approve standards after site-visit
    1. Need to prep safety stuff
  3. Jon might fly out to meet on-site

MO DHE:

  1. ​

Two types of people show up:

  1. People who want to be entertained
    1. Buy into OSE
  2. People who want to build
    • Just want to show up and do stuff

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Situation: Assumptions

Tradesperson: $25/hour

Contractor: $50/hour

OSE: show $250/hour (100 from efficiency, 100 from coordination loss)

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Situation: Timeline

Planning and preparation:

Tentative Start Date: May 1 (weather dependent)

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Situation: Task Organization

Instructors:

Builders:

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Situation: Constraints

Need to complete in 5 days, to include interior

Pay to play or paid labor?

  1. Paid labor version further down the road
  2. Apprentices pay to attend if Marketed as extreme build experience

Need to finish Seed Eco-Home 2

Build Cheat Sheets - need to build, probably a month for two full time people.

Exhaustive CAD

Want the client to physically see house

Can be done off-site, but potentially feasible

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Compliance and codes

Can comfortably support 12 people on-site

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Mission

2 week swarm build for paying client powered by opt-in

Goals:

  1. Grow credibility
  2. Attract Talent
  3. Prove revenue model
  4. Empower students
  5. Prove the model
  6. Build and sell product without customer up-front
  7. ​

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Execution

Options:

  1. Can and clone - saved modules, built on-site that is plainly educational for 2 weeks, 24 people, ideally 48.
  2. Build for real client - run immersion education workshop
  3. Buile for real client - assemble crew based on needs
  4. Apprenticeship that builds as part of training and sell to client
  5. Hybrid between public and apprenticeship

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Execution: Can and Clone

  • Curriculum
    • Refined daily plan hour by hour schedule
    • Operations manual - standard operating procedure
  • Minimum number of students to execute: 24 @$2400
  • Minimum time required: 2 weeks per 24 attendees
  • What are the attendees getting out of this?
    • Overview of complete build process
      • Re-use foundation
      • Rough carpentry
      • Electrical
      • Plumbing
      • Kitchen, bathroom, carport
      • Conceptual design using modules in freeCAD?
      • Read blueprints
      • Make friends
      • Build community
  • Instructors
    • 4 assistant instructors for Marcin
      • Builders who are also teachers
      • Bootcamp on OSE process
      • Reachback to previous attendees?
      • Pay through 0% loan?
    • 1 logistics person
    • 1 video person
  • Event Posting
  • Logistics
  • Hablab
  • Need “excellent teacher”

Assumptions:

-instructors are lim fac

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Sustainment

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Command and Control