Please describe your proposed solution.
Answer:
Why mentorship & coaching is important
There are incredible tech people working with Cardano technology. However, to grow a solution into a successful company, tech is not enough, even if you have the most innovative solution. To build success and scale, teams also need to foster an entrepreneurial mindset and capabilities. We know blockchain developers hugely benefit from, learning about: clarifying their purpose as individuals and a business, market analysis, customer acquisition, funding, and strategic planning. This empowers developers to not only create innovative blockchain solutions but also build sustainable businesses around them.
Background
We have been working on those issues for many years as mentors, coaches, and consultants, for fast-growth technology startups and mid-tier enterprises.
In the last two years, in particular, we have been proud to be working as part of the Catalyst ecosystem. During this, we have been funded by Catalyst to undertake several projects, to transpose our proven set of tools and frameworks into a bespoke Toolkit designed to support blockchain developers and the wider community, as they undertake the journey from technical solutions to successfully scaleable enterprises.
Our projects include:
F7: Dev Accelerator - closed out
F7 SPO Incubator - closed out
F8: SPO Incubator productisation - closed out
F8: Dev Accelerator - 2:2 bespoke mentoring, Pro bono - closed out
F8 Train the Trainer Africa - closing now
F9: Full Value, Organisation Valuation Dashboard - closing now
Our closed-out projects have been deemed a great success and value-add by the 20-plus community members that have reviewed the closed-out projects so far - as well as the project catalyst team and audience: where we delivered some of our modules as part of the catalyst coordinators programme.
We Are Ready to SCALE
The IP build phase of our projects is now complete.
We have an integrated suite of Fit For Purpose, proven programmes to support teams and companies reach scalable growth.
However, although these programmes add fantastic value to our participants, the process is manual: they are at present provided primarily synchronously with live mentors and coaches, with limited time slots, and restricted participant numbers available - with programmes maybe 80% live, 20% automated.
We would like to change that, now we would like to dramatically increase the number of developers who can access our programmes, enabling them to get access whenever they want and work on them at their own pace and level of interaction.
The opportunity -
Automating mentorship
We have developed a huge amount of content through the programs and our work over the last 20 years, and specifically the last 2 years on Cardano. Our programmes are based upon Exponential Organisation growth (ExO) principles - focussing on how companies can scale through solving ‘wicked challenges’ to harness ‘exponential opportunities’.
With blockchain technology and AI, there is a great opportunity to take our programme delivery to the next level: by automating the process, while providing personalised high service as appropriate to teams and companies.
Our vision is to build an online Dev Accelerator Academy that will overtime automate 80% of the mentorship process and keep 20% for specific areas where companies need help. For that, we are partnering with blockchain and AI companies to develop ‘mentorship 3.0’.
With Web-3. there is also the opportunity to build out our solution to create a mentorship community supported by a dynamic learning environment.
Our Solution for this proposal - A Mentoring programme for Developers, based on a Project Based Learning platform
The main objective of this proposal is to build and deliver a high-value mentorship programme aimed at supporting blockchain developers on their journey from technology solutions to successful scalable businesses. Where the programme itself, being delivered from the Andamio project-based-learning (PBL), enabled platform, can be delivered asynchronously, but with a rich learning experience and is both easily accessible, interactive, affordable and scalable.
The programme will be based upon our highly successful coaching and mentoring suite - that forms the basis of our Exponential Organisation Growth platform.
The Edify Colabs Online Mentoring Programme for Scalable Growth
We have 8 unique PBL Modules to create for this proposal covering the following subject sessions:
- Programme overview
- Business Audit
- Purpose and Intent
- Business Model
- External Business Environment
- Product Proposition
- Customer Proposition
- Positioning and Market
- Channel Proposition
- Building Passive Assets: Systems and Things
- Building Active Assets: Leadership Teams and People
- Commercial Vision
- Business Plan Development and Scenario Planning
- Avenues for Funding support
Course detail:
https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVM0oM96M=/?share_link_id=232272119763
About Edify Colabs
Edify Colabs is the on-chain expression of The Edify Ecosystem (Edify) - an impact, innovation, investment-focused consultancy, coaching practice and partner Ecosystem. Edify Colabs was formed to work within the Catalyst community - and have been a proactive member for over two years.
https://linktr.ee/edify_collabs
About d.Cypher
Providing the collaboration space for all the resources. Every member of DCypher has experienced the common difficulties of operating in a decentralized fashion. Collaboration is not free of challenges, but with proper tools and strategies it is the most powerful tool to have in your belt. We intend to open our organizations up in a decentralized fashion to provide economic opportunity for program contributors from our community, a portion of the budget includes this intent. We build AI solutions and business management processes.
The Andamio platform (by Gimbalabs)
Edify Collabs is partnering with Andamio to provide the core technology required.
The Andamio Platform:
- Provides a Learning Management System (LMS) for onboarding new contributors to your project/organization
- Is built on Cardano with Plutus smart contracts and UI components for treasury management, skill accreditation, project contribution, and emergent reputation
The Andamio MVP was built and tested around the Plutus PBL - for more info check https://plutuspbl.io/
You can find an introductory overview of the Andamio platform here:
As a result of the work Gimbalabs has done over the past years through the Plutus Project-Based Learning (PBL) program, Gimbalabs Playground, and Gimbalabs Live Coding, the Gimbalabs team created Andamio which provides an LMS platform for any organization to onboard and reward contributors. Contributors can earn skills that enable them to contribute to projects. Our Plutus PBL (https://plutuspbl.io/) is a good example.
Link to example Plutus PBL course, which is the Andamio MVP:
Fig 1. The PBL Framework. A high overview description of a PBL module.
Project based learning courses (PBL):
Edify Collabs will use the Andamio platform to develop the following courses:
- ExO programme for mentoring developers and businesses to begin and succeed on their journey to sustainable exponential growth
Andamio features to be used by Edify Colabs:
- The Project Based Learning Platform
- Proof of Completion
- Register skills and knowledge acquired by completing PBL course module
- Register contribution generated by each partnership generator (partnership generated)
- Smart contract for skills and credentials
- Web interface
Relationship between Edify Collabs, d.Cypher and Andamio:
This will be a long term partnership where Andamio will provide key elements of the technology and Fluid7 and partners will provide the business and revenue. Through this proposal some funding will go to the Andamio team for their support and development.
Future plans
This programme is the foundation (MVP) of our online digital PBL offering for Cardano Blockchain Developers.
We plan to use this platform and programme to expand out delivery of our service offerings, both in terms of depth and breadth of programmes offered and our business model offerings - through more courses based upon our proven Exponential Organisatonal growth offerings - such as programmes focussed more tightly on Dev teams and enterprises gaining scalability, effective leadership, effective asset growth and community build and management.