Please describe your proposed solution
Why supporting Cardano SPO’s is important
SPO’s are mission critical to the successful growth and development of the Cardano ecosystem. As a single stakepool operator ourselves at Fluid7 we know that to be viable as a long term sustainable operatation, small SPOs need to develop the business, commercial and cultural knowledge necessary to support their stakepool’s growth and maturity.
Background
Business coaching and mentoring for SPO’s
Since F7 we and other stakepool operators have been working with Edify Colabs as participants and contributors to their Catalyst funded SPO incubator programmes.
Leveraging existing Assets to build Value
SPO Business Growth Support
In Funds 7 and 8, Edify proposed and was successfully funded by Catalyst to build an Integrated set of educational materials and resources for SPOs. This set of coaching and mentoring modules enable SPO teams to step change up into building viable, scalable business operations.
Edify Colabs SPO programme development to date:
- F7 SPO incubator MVP beta
- F8 SPO Incubator Productisation x2 - for Small SPO’s and SPO Associations
- F8 SPO Train the Trainer programme
These coaching and mentoring resources have been built, deployed and tested successfully; with around 30 individuals and 17 organisations having completed the programmes so far, with great results and outstanding feedback.
Link to Miro board containing feedback
However, although these programmes and the learnings shared added great value to the 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, we would like to dramatically increase the number of SPO’s 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 coaching and mentorship for SPO’s
Edify and Fluid7 (and other stakepool operators) have developed a large amount of content through the SPO development programs and our work over the last 2 years on Cardano. The Edify programmes in particular are based upon Exponential Organisation growth (ExO) principles - focussed around how companies can solve ‘wicked challenges’ to harness ‘exponential opportunities’. Whilst Fluid7 have developed practical experience in areas such as pledge bootstrapping and delegation boosting programmes.
With blockchain technology and AI, there is a great opportunity to take our programmes 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 SPO Academy that will overtime automate 80% of the coaching and mentorship process and keep 20% for specific areas where SPO’s need help.
With Web 3. there is also the opportunity to build out our solution to create a distributed, generative, SPO Academy and community supported by a dynamic learning environment - one where Alumni of the courses become tutors and course creators for the next generation of learners.
Our Solution for this proposal - An online development programme for SPO’s, based on the Andamio Project Based Learning platform
The main objective of this proposal is to build and deliver an SPO tailored, high value mentorship and coaching programme, aimed at supporting SPO’s on their journey from technology solution builders through to successful sustainable businesses. Where the programme itself, being delivered from the Andamio project based learning enabled platform, can be delivered asynchronusily, but with a rich learning experience and is both easily accessible, interactive, affordable and scalable.
The programme will be comprised of two Catalyst proven strands: the Edify, coaching and mentoring suite - that forms the basis of the Edify Exponential Organisation Growth platform, and the Fluid7 Funding and Operations Programme.
Edify Coaching and Mentoring programme overview:
SPO online business academy Programme details
There will be a series of SPO Tailored, PBL Modules to create for this project, covering the following subject areas:
- Programme overview and SPO Business Audit
- Purpose, Vision & Intent for stakepool operators
- SPO Business Models
- Undersanding the External Business Environment
- SPO Product Proposition
- SPO Supplier and Customer Proposition
- Positioning your SPO offerings
- Developing your SPO Ecosystem
- Next Phase - implementation
- Operational Forecasting
- Infrastructure Options for your SPO
- Pledge bootstrapping
- Delegation boosting
- Alternate revenue streams
Link to miro board for full programme overview of modules and sessions:
https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVM0q6Vlc=/?share_link_id=608975303642
Partnership details
About Fluid7
Fluid7, a proud member of the xSPO and CSPA stakepool alliances within the Cardano ecosystem, has been actively transitioning its small development agency from Web2 to Web3. By operating as a producer for the Cardano network, Fluid7 has demonstrated its unwavering commitment to this transition and has gained valuable insights into the underlying technology and decentralized services.
About Edify Collabs
Edify Collabs 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 are proud to have been proactive members since Nov 21.
https://linktr.ee/edify_collabs
The Andamio platform (by Gimbalabs)
Edify Collabs is leveraging the Andamio platform 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:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12VLfrZVaqLqzRCv_4ME78t4JERxeCLN8/view?usp=sharing
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:
<https://plutuspbl.io/>
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 SPO Online Business Academy:
- 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 Fluid7, Edify Collabs and Andamio:
SPO Online Business Academy leverages the Andamio platform to enhance our capabilities in delivering educational content and managing contributions effectively. As a platform-as-a-service provider, Andamio offers us tools for content management, skill registration, and secure transaction handling, which are critical to our project's success. This integration ensures robust infrastructure support without involving Andamio as a subcontractor.
Future plans
This programme is the foundation (MVP) of our online digital PBL offering for SPO’s.
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 SPO's gaining scalability, effective leadership, effective asset growth and community build and management.