FBA Program Design

First principles (non-negotiables)

These constraints clarify everything else:

OSE optimizes for enterprise founders, not employees.

• Builder ≠ laborer.
• Designer ≠ academic.
• Everyone is on a trajectory toward sovereign production capacity.

Six months is the hard filter.

• Anyone not enterprise-capable in 6 months is not a peak performer in this environment.
• Longer tracks are allowed only if they are deeper, not slower.

Work produces value immediately.

• No “school-only” tracks.
• Every track touches real production, even if at different intensities.

Stipends follow demonstrated production competence.

• No stipends for intention - stipend eligibility depends on benchmarking against professional grade work (burndown level achieved in Extreme Enterprise Track)
  • After 6 months, participants who demonstrate verified production competence may become stipend-eligible.
• Educational allowances tied to demonstrated competence
• Stipends unlock after verified skill → production → revenue.

Good Standing and Stipend Readiness in Civilization Systems Engineering Track

OSE requires:

• Toolchain familiarity
• Open documentation discipline
• Collaborative literacy
• Production under OSE constraints
• Reliability in swarm environments
• Ability to create and parse CAD
• Documented capacity

None of this can be assumed.

Enterprise Formation Track

Six Months to Partnership Readiness

The Enterprise Formation Track is a six-month, production-integrated program designed to identify and prepare enterprise partners within the Open Source Ecology (OSE) ecosystem.

This is not a school-only program. This is not a job program. This is not a credential pathway.

It is a performance-filtered formation process built around real production, real markets, and measurable outputs.

Timeframe and commitment

• Full-time participation
• Six months, fixed duration
• On-site participation required
• No extensions
• No guaranteed continuation beyond the formation period

Six months is a hard performance filter.

Cost

Program Fee: $15,000 for six months

This fee covers access to OSE facilities, tools, infrastructure, supervision, evaluation, and production-integrated training.

The program fee does not guarantee income. Partnership is offered only upon qualification.

Participants must arrive financially prepared to support themselves for the full six-month period.

No stipends, no wages

OSE does not offer stipends, wages, or employment during the formation period.

Compensation begins only through partnership, not participation.

What participants do

Participants work inside live OSE production systems and are evaluated by measured output.

Participants are expected to:

• Execute real production work across core homebuilding modules (walls, floors, roof, PV, power center, plumbing, wiring, water systems, finish plumbing, drywall, cabinets, flooring, and related scopes)
• Produce build-ready CAD and instruction artifacts (AI-assisted) that others can execute without verbal handoff
• Improve designs and instructions using feedback from real builds
• Operate within open documentation and coordination standards

System-based: production data + time-lapse + QC

Qualification for enterprise partnership is determined by objective production data captured during real work.

Qualification evidence is generated continuously and includes:

• Continuous production data (assigned scope, timestamps, units completed)
• Time-lapse visual capture of fabrication and installation work
• Defined quality control (QC) checkpoints
• Automated and AI-assisted QC analysis against OSE production standards

Qualification is binary.

Core production metrics

Qualification requires sustained performance that meets OSE production standards, including:

• Throughput: time-per-unit and units completed per time window for assigned scope
• Quality: QC pass rate at checkpoints
• Rework: error rate and rework time as a fraction of total time
• Yield: accepted output versus attempted output
• Stability: sustained performance over time, not one-off demonstrations

CAD-for-swarm competence

De-risking schedule via substitutability

CAD-for-swarm is treated as a first-class production output because it enables schedule resilience and scale.

Participants must produce CAD and instruction sets (AI-assisted) that make work transferable so missing work can be reassigned or subcontracted without loss of schedule or quality. This includes mastering an automated process (OSE teaches this) for:

• Generating new house models from an AI-assisted designer
• Atutomated production of fabrication drawinigs, BOMs, build instructionals - as relevant to subcontractors or swarm builds
• Automated generation of plan check phase documents

CAD-for-swarm competence is measured by:

• Executability: another team or subcontractor can execute the work from the CAD/instructions without verbal handoff
• Fidelity: executed work matches intent and passes QC checkpoints
• Handoff success: work can be reassigned midstream without redesign or reinterpretation
• Recovery: CAD and instructions are revised rapidly based on deviations observed in time-lapse and QC outcomes, and updates are pushed upstream into the AI-assisted design process

Documentation that is not successfully executed by others is treated as incomplete output to be revised during the enterprise formation stage. This way, participants contribute to necessary upgrades for enterprise scaling.

Partnership After Qualification

Participants who meet the published, objective qualification criteria at the conclusion of the six-month formation period may be invited to enter into an enterprise partnership within OSE systems.

For partners accepted into an OSE enterprise partnership, OSE may provide, contingent on continued satisfactory performance:

• Access to a real, operating market within OSE systems
• Participation as an independent production enterprise serving defined system needs
• Guaranteed access to defined pricing and production volume tiers which, when executed to standard, are sufficient to support $100,000+ in annual net income
  • Example: 4 houses built in 1 year, 2 person team, $160k in labor value capture, OSE bonus bumps up to net $100k for main operator after paying their labor. OSE makes $50k net per house. This depends on 0.7 hr/sf milestone
• Optional access, on a rental or fee basis, to shared OSE infrastructure, tooling, coordination services, and logistical support

OSE guarantees access to the defined market opportunity, pricing framework, and volume tiers for partners who maintain the required performance standards. OSE does not guarantee individual income or profitability. Actual net income depends on execution quality, reliability, throughput, cost control, and external conditions.

All partnerships are offered and maintained based on objective qualification and ongoing performance criteria and system needs. Participants are free to accept or decline any partnership offered.

Participants who do not meet the qualification criteria conclude the formation period without partnership and without further obligation on either side.

Participation does not create an employment, contractor, or agency relationship. Enterprise partners operate as independent businesses.

Legal and Participation Disclaimer

Participation in the Enterprise Formation Track does not guarantee income, partnership, employment, or business success.

OSE does not offer employment, wages, stipends, or compensation during the formation period. Participants should not rely on participation as a source of income.

Any reference to potential income levels, including $100,000+ annual net income, refers to the capacity of specific production partnerships and market opportunities under standard execution. Individual results vary and depend on factors including skill, reliability, throughput, execution quality, and ongoing performance. No income is guaranteed.

Program fees cover access to facilities, tools, supervision, evaluation, and training. Fees are not contingent on partnership offers or financial outcomes.

Advancement to partnership status, and any associated revenue-sharing or enterprise arrangements, is conditional upon verified performance against the published qualification criteria.

This program is not a degree program, not a credentialing program, and not a job placement service. Participants are responsible for their own living expenses, insurance, taxes, and compliance with applicable laws.

By enrolling, participants acknowledge that this is a performance-filtered, production-integrated formation program and that continuation beyond the six-month period is not guaranteed.