Swarm Ecosystem Map
Hypotheses:
A big picture of the collaboration needs in a swarm model will help us accurately find and describe important opportunities to build new protocols and apps
With this map and these opportunity briefs, RnDAO will attract a higher caliber of founders and contributors, because they see an important problem that they can imagine a solution for.
Details and context
Most good founders want to build first and build fast. We struggle with founders getting lost in trying to clearly define a problem statement and map the space they are working in. It takes a lot of time and energy, they get frustrated, and they don’t do a good job at actually testing the idea they love.
In RnDAO today, we see founders with technical experience who leap into building, but who struggle to be clear and focused about the problem they need to solve, propose solutions that don’t address the root problem, and don’t know the existing competition that they will face
Goals, Short and Long Term
Long
- RnDAO knows how to get to our vision of enabling swarms and how close we are to it
- RnDAO can clearly communicate mission and trajectory internally and externally for better working relationships and collaboration
- RnDAO (and others) will know what products will make a difference in the world (of collab tech)
- Ventures are set up for success, because they know with confidence the market, the problem, the benefit, and the competition.
- RnDAO can prioritize what projects to fund and support
- RnDAO can convince investors (in traditional tech) that these projects are valuable and worth funding
Short
- Do ecosystem level research for one niche, so we aren’t blinded by insider assumptions
- Pick which industry to study - Aug 6, 2025
- Swarms of teams - the unit is stable teams, but they swarm together
- Industry analysis
- Total value of the market
- Market structure (what % are small teams)
- Alternate prompts to see if we get different suggestions
Drea’s Gemini Convo
- Attract funders and attract entrepreneurs for Consensys Collabtech Venture Building model project and beyond
- See if these Opportunity Briefs actually attract funders and builders - what the briefs need to be to attract founders
- Do the Opportunity Briefs and the larger Ecosystem Map make the Ventures avoid mistakes and be more successful
- Show Consensys that we are leading the Venture Building Pilot well, because we know the space and the needs
Next Steps
Resources
Desired Artifact(s) for this Map
Users and their goals
- ventures to know where they fit and hence collaborate
- potential EiRs to understand what CollabTech is so they know if they care or not (broad overview)
- RnDAO leads to spark ideas for potential new ventures in a structured, insightful way
- attract EiRs to specific opportunity (could be a O. brief or the map)
- RnDAO operators to organise Opportunity Briefs into some sort of map so it’s not a mess
What it needs to contain:
- Niches and industries
- Users and Use Cases
- How Use Cases connect users to each other
- Apps that could address use cases
- Primitives that the Apps will need to run themselves and send info to each other
- Existing tools that are used today by swarm-like groups
- Gaps that prevent swarms from working well