OBI Kickstarter Research Questions

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  • Why has modular housing not succeeded yet?

Insights: kit houses are too much work for the seller, and are incapacitated by skill set of owner-buikder. The result is hiring professionals, which costs too much. We address this by running professionally-guided builds with negative labor costs - by optimizing the professional assistance part. Now how to say this in plain English?

  • Another open source house project?

WikiHouse. OBI offering: 5x lower cost to performance ratio. Open Architecture Network. Habitat for Humanity. Architecture for Humanity. Open House from Portugal. This goes into the Kickstarter description.

  • Popular statement on cost.

We turn labor costs into labor revenue. We simplify the design so it's designed to be easy to build. We optimize material waste - from average 20% waste to 5%. We reduce materials cost by open materials harvested in site (brick, lumber, and insulation.)


R&D Points

  • Lowest cost electric option - DC power center + night time TEG. Outcome: costing of components for a minimum system.
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