# **Operating Transparency** ### **Built So Far: The Foundation We've Created** **Self-Funded Infrastructure (January - June 2025)** We've invested personal resources, through [DesertRat Productions](https://desertrat.media/), to build a complete ecosystem ready for activation: - **The Mythic Engine**: Season 1= 5+ powerful episodes recorded and produced, with AI-collaborative frameworks tested and refined - **Knowledge Garden**: Fully operational living archive with searchable, interconnected wisdom from each episode and beyond - **The Exhale**: Community container built on Mighty Networks, ready for intimate gathering - **Technical Architecture**: Podcast hosting, knowledge management systems, and community platforms integrated - **Frameworks Developed**: Replicable Knowledge Architecture System (KAS) methodology ready to teach at the start of Q4 2025 **Current Reach & Resonance** - 250+ organic downloads with zero marketing spend - Episodes on explainable AI and web3 infrastructure building in Africa gaining particular traction - Active engagement from thought leaders in conscious tech and regenerative economics - Proof of concept validated: the model works ### **Monthly Operating Needs: Sustaining the Vision** **Core Team Sustainability via UBI: $7,500/month** - Lead Steward (Crystal): $5,000/month - Full-time orchestration and production, content creation, KAS development, community building/management, organic marketing/promotions - Co-Host/Producer (Taylor): $2,500/month - guest relations, AI CoCreation, networking, community engagement **Technical Infrastructure: $500/month** - Podcast hosting and distribution (Buzzsprout, Riverside.fm) - Knowledge Garden infrastructure (Obsidian Sync & Publish, backing up to Arweave for permanent storage coming soon) - Community platform (Mighty Networks) - Newsletters and essays (Paragraph, Mirror.xyz - minimal gas fees to publish/mint) - Social Networking professional accounts (Twitter Premium, LinkedIn Premium and Farcaster- free) - AI collaboration tools and API costs (GPT, Claude) - Domain, security, admin and backup systems (Cloudflare, Carrd.Co, Arweave, Encrypted Sync Server, SavvyCal, Proton Business) - Treasury management for Living Financial Systems crypto wallets (transfer/gas- fees) **Manual Inputs by Team: UBI for Our Core** *30-35 hours average per episode* - Episode editing (audio/video) and pre/post production - 3-5 hours per episode - Guest coordination and logistics - Coordination 1-2 hours - Episode recording: IRL 3+ hours/URL 2 hours - Transcript generation and processing - Dialectic analysis: 2 hours - Knowledge Garden content creation - Content generation from analysis: 3 hours - Copy editing of outputs: 3 hours - Formatting, publishing and distributing content: 4 hours - Visual assets and design needs - Designs in Canva: 1 Hour - Episode Promotions on Socials and Newsletter - Posts to Arweave (Mirror/Paragraph): 2 hours - Social media posts: 2 hours **Community Support Fund: $250/month (Q4 2025)** - Breathkeeper stipends for meditation/yoga sessions - Community event costs - Gift economy seed funding - Mutual aid for community members **Total Monthly Operating Budget: $8,250 > Core project wallet is: *TheHumanLayer.ETH: 0x7Af84490b500F4a948c88ae9bbf0fD4a759AFc7e* > (Gnosis treasury structure with a wallet stack reflecting the Living Financial System coming Q4) ### **Funding Pathway to Sustainability** **Current Funding Structure:** - Seeking 3 Season Sponsors at $5,000 each (covers 2 months of operations) - Seeking 2 Mythic Patrons at $25,000/year each (provides base stability) - Gift economy contributions from community (supplemental support) **Path to Self-Sustainability (By Q1 2026):** - Organizational KAS implementations: $15-30K per project - Workshop and speaking fees: $2-5K per engagement - Community contributions: $1-2K monthly through gift economy - Partnership collaborations: Variable based on scope ### **Impact Goals: Why This Investment Matters** **Transform Media from Extraction to Regeneration** - Demonstrate alternative to attention-harvesting algorithms - Create media that nourishes rather than depletes - Show how content can be ceremony rather than commodity - Prove sustainable models exist beyond surveillance capitalism **Preserve Wisdom for Future Generations** - Build permanent archives on Arweave (blockchain storage) - Create searchable knowledge gardens from ephemeral conversations - Document leadership innovations and cultural transformations - Ensure insights outlive their creators **Enable Communities to Own Their Narratives** - Teach KAS methodology to other organizations - Open-source all frameworks and processes - Support local knowledge sovereignty - Resist platform monopolization of stories **Create Replicable Model for Knowledge Commons** - Document every process for others to implement - Share real metrics and learnings transparently - Build network of communities using similar models - Prove post-capitalist organizing can thrive ### **6-Month Measurable Outcomes** By November 2025, your investment will have enabled: - **20+ transformative podcast episodes** preserving critical wisdom - **Complete knowledge architecture** demonstrating the future of organizational memory - **20-30 active community members** proving intimacy over scale works - **3-5 organizations** implementing their own Knowledge Architecture Systems - **Open-source framework** available globally for communities to adapt - **DevConnect presentation** sharing findings with international audience - **Sustainable operating model** reducing dependence on initial sponsors ### **The Multiplier Effect** Every dollar invested in The Human Layer creates ripple effects: - **Knowledge Preserved**: Insights that would die with their speakers live forever - **Communities Empowered**: Tools for narrative sovereignty spread freely - **Models Demonstrated**: Proof that alternatives to extraction exist - **Leaders Developed**: Conscious leadership practices propagate through network - **Futures Opened**: Next generation inherits wisdom, not just data ### **Our Commitment to Transparency** - Monthly financial updates to sponsors and patrons posted in our Knowledge Garden - Quarterly impact reports with real metrics - Open documentation of what works and what doesn't - Full visibility into how resources flow using our Living Financial System (TBD) **This isn't charity—it's investment in civilizational infrastructure. You're not funding content; you're seeding the knowledge commons that will outlive us all.**