The EOT doesn’t exist yet, and there’s no hiring — I want to be completely upfront about that before anything else on this page. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to do together right now.
The clearest example of what I mean: I already own a propane pizza oven, a mixer, and other basic equipment for the Pizza concept described elsewhere on this site. One near-term path I’m considering is getting a food handler’s certificate and starting to make and sell pizza manually, off a cart or table, on the sidewalk, before any automation exists at all. If someone wanted to help build the automation while also handling the manual pizza-making side, they could keep all the pizza profit while we build out the trailer and design the automation equipment together. I haven’t tried this yet, and I don’t know how realistic it is — but it’s a real, concrete shape that pre-launch collaboration could take, not a hypothetical.
More generally, if you’re an automation expert, a subject-matter expert in a field I’m not, or someone who just wants to help build toward something like this, I’m genuinely interested in hearing what engagement could look like for you — even if it’s informal, short-term, or exploratory. (See Pairing Automation Experts with SMEs for the collaboration pattern this project relies on throughout.)
One more specific need: this project will eventually require real legal work — trust formation, governance policy, intellectual property. If you’re an attorney and that’s you, see Support the Project for what that could look like.