Civilization Designer Track

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A high-intensity, time-boxed design sprint whose only purpose is to measurably improve FBEFT economics.

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Learn Open Source Product Development by Building the Machines That Build Civilization

Future Builders is not a school and not a lab. It is a production ecosystem where open-source product development is learned by shipping tools and machines into real economic use.

All participants begin with the Future Builders Crash Course—an intensive, reality-based build where mental models meet constraints. From there, contributors enter focused three-month design phases that directly support a live construction enterprise.

From May to August, participants develop open 3D-printed house components, repairable cordless tools, and material systems that reduce the cost of housing production.

From August to November, the focus shifts to CNC fabrication, heavy machines, and automation—culminating in the collaborative build of an open skid steer and a global challenge to design 100 useful implements in 100 days.

Every design must ship into real production. Every machine must lower cost, increase throughput, or eliminate dependency. Participants leave not with credentials, but with proven designs, fabrication capability, and the ability to replicate or deploy these systems in their own enterprises.

Future Builders exists to turn capable people into economically sovereign producers—and to reinvest that capability into open machines that make civilization cheaper, stronger, and more resilient.