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Road Map
Uniting.Us Strategic Timeline
Path from Idea to Product V1
Phase 1: Ideation — Jan ‘23 to March ‘23
- Develop the idea of the online platform for learning and self-governance
- Technological assessment and basic integration
- Discovery of available learning resources and development of basic learning program
- Define Target audience
- Chose target audience
- Connect with target and conduct primary qualitative research to gain depth of understanding on the needs and problems faced by them
- Explore legal implications of proposed solution
Phase 2: POC — April ‘23 to Jun ‘23
- Develop basic deployment of technology for learning platform and self governance.
- decide on software solution and deployment within the limitations of target
- confirm learnings from previous phase and dive deeper into the obstacles to implement the platform
- create a feedback loop with the POC participants
- Select a target location for testing the execution of the platform
- Select a partner for a small scale POC
- Run POC with partner
- Learning focus
- Does the learning program work?
- What did we miss? What needs to be added/removed?
- Pacing
- What surprised us about working with the target at partner?
- What were the most important tangents?
- Feedback from the teachers
- Product Focus
- Did the discussion happen as we expected?
- Did self-moderation work?
- Was the ideation phase successful?
- Did we only get 1 proposal or more?
- Did the debate happen as we expected?
- What was the voting process like?
- Were our timings for ideation, debate, voting correct?
- Were the issues raised what we had imagined?
- how can we make this process more engaging and collaborative?
- Partner
- What did we learn from working with the partner? What are the limitations within this environment and what do we need to do better?
- Scalability
- Is this process ready to be scaled?
- What is standing on the way of scalability?
Phase 3: Markets — May ‘23 to Sept ‘23
- What should be the second market we tackle? Balance between resourcing, availability and fit
- Develop prospecting process and trial. Objective to attract new POC partners in new markets
- Resourcing
- Partnerships:
- Outreach to potential individuals and organizations
- What do we need?
- Tech partners -
- metaverse
- Wallets
- DAO Creation tools
- Fund management (gnosis)
- Voting platform
- Discussion platform
- Decide which L1 will best suite out needs
- Financing partner
- How to integrate all of the above
- Non tech resources -
- Better insights into what kids need and what might interest them
- Design and UX/UI
- Connected bus dev role
- Tokenonomics (Simon - Cardano?)
- Legal advise, org legal structure, jurisdiction
- really good Foundation / grant people
- Who?
- How to attract them, what are we offering -
- What are we willing to offer
- Exclusivity for tech partners
- For contributors:
- Bounties (when we have funds)
- Volunteering contributions with promise to pay once funds are available
- Definition of POC2 challenge
- Execution plan for POC2
- Create org charter
- Set up/improve all outward facing channels inc. Website, Twitter, LinkedIn
Phase 4: POC to MVP — Jun ‘23 to Aug ‘23
- Execute POC2 with new partner and new market
- use previous learning and take on new challenge
Phase 5: MVP — Sept ‘23/Oct ‘23
- Take learnings from POC1 and POC2 and begin work on MVP
- Chose new partner/segment to deliver MVP
- Define MVP Challenges
Phase 6: Product V1 Jan ‘24
- Continue to recruit new units (schools, refugees, etc.) as project is developed
- Fine tune product, technology and integrations
- Previous content
- Understanding liabilities (discuss in the next meeting) —> Brent
- Shortlisting options available (discuss in the next meeting) —> Non profit
- Learning program
- Discussion platform
- Wallets
- Onboarding node (invite workflow)
- DAO Tooling:
- OffChain
- 1 person 1 vote (either 1 wallet 1 vote or NFT voting)
- Reporting how the information is used (analytics)
- Data needed: type of wallets, number of discussions, number of engagement
- Strategy to get students?
- Memorandum of association and working agreement between founders
- Finish pitch deck
- Rewrite school principle pitch
- Finish Learning program 1st draft
- Business plan
- White paper
- Initial presentations to schools in Ire, Italy etc?
- Onboard the first 10 schools into the project
- Legal establishment
- Platform MVP
- Angel funding?
- Seed funding
- Series A funding
- Market place MVP?
- Create social media profiles
- Landing page (website)
- Make a list of missing skills and HR plan to fill
- Market differentiation - type of schools, countries/regional focus?
- Prepare provisional budget (End of March)
- Revenue or not? (End of March)
- List of potential fund source (March 16th)
- Pitch Deck - Proposals (Start early April)
- Communication of the program (copy, what to highlight, value proposition) for different markets (Start in June)
- Technology stack (interconnecting services) - which services? (Mid March)
- Understanding liabilities (discuss in the next meeting)
- Shortlisting options available (discuss in the next meeting)
Deadlines
To be discussed in the next meeting
Legal structure:
Who takes care of this?
March 16th
Technology stack (interconnecting services) - which services?
TASK: MAKE A LIST OF THE TECHNICAL NECESSITIES OF THE MVP
CREATE A DATABASE FOR REQUIREMENTS FOR MVP
Separate their product (DAO) and our product
List of potential fund sources (Brent, Paolo)
Metamask
Coinbase - in the context of wallets
Platforms - ALL (Aragon, Syndicate)
Working Argreement (Fabs, Fintan, Paolo)
March 31
Interview with students (15) (Fintan, Paolo, Fabs)
Provisional budget (Team)
Decision: revenue or not? (Team)
Organizational structure (provisional outline)
April 7th
Start writing proposals (Fabs, Fintan…?)
April 15th
Landing page (Fintan and Fabs)
May 1st
Social Media Accounts (Paolo)
Present options for legal structure (Fintan, Brent)
Topics:
Interview with students (15) —> By the end of March
Funding:
Legal structure:
Working agreement (End of March)
Landing page (Mid April) / Social Media (May)
- New Road Map list
- Platform development
- Legal set-up
- Finance/funding
- Tokenomics
- Onboarding
- Learning program
- Infastructure
- Growth plan
- Governance basics
- Leadership training
- Web3 basics
- Choose L1/L2 platform and DAO tooler
- Culture development inc:
- Error culture
- Work methodologies - Agile
- Partnerships:
- Incubator/accelerator
- DID provider