Future Builders Academy - How It Works

Over the last 20 years, we have been working on the Global Village Construction Set. 2025 was historic, in that we have achieved an important funding milestone. We have developed a boostrapping funding mechanism enabling us to take this work to scale. This mechanism centers on efficient production, and it involves education to spread our work to global impact. The production model that we have developed is the swarm build of the Seed Eco-Home. With trained cohorts of 24 apprentices, we will be able to build each house in only 5 days - which is a breakthrough that allows bootstrapped funding by building homes.

What exactly did we solve for? We solved a way for people to get involved in OSE work for the long term - at least for 4 years. This time is sufficient for students not only to learn, but to contribute fundamentally to society to open-sourcing the economy one piece at a time. The Future Builders Academy apprenticeship involves two days of work per week - as work study for which students are paid. This allows our students to pay their way through the program. Because our program cost includes housing, utilities, and internet - the cost of living for each participant is low. This allows our apprentices pay their own way for the program, without incurring debt.

Students earn between $14-$35 per hour, depending on documented competency. The first year we focus on acquiring build skill, which allows all of us to build homes for sale. Since housing is a global crisis and a high need - there is no shortage of the need for homes. The housing market imposes no limit for the number of students that we can sustain by building housing. 1.5 million new homes are built in the USA alone

This may not work so well, however, when apprentices already have debt or bills to pay.