Permanent Capital · Preferred Partnership

Business Plan

The Robot Services Exchange — open marketplace for robot labor

1. Executive summary

Permanent or long-dated capital (10–15+ years). Preferred commercial rights deepen only as network metrics improve.

Mickey Shaughnessy (creator) is in and is not seeking a sponsor. Then 3× Founding Partner spots (named individual + sponsor); more may be added. Equity is split evenly among Mickey and the named individuals (10-year vest). A seat is not part of that purchase. The price of a seat is $0. All seats are identical. A demand account or a supply account calls POST /seats/issue and receives the next seat. Demand-side access and supply-side access are free forever. Pair terms: hiring.html.

2. Problem

Robot labor is arriving; the market is still closed fleets, one-off integrations, and opaque prices. No portable reputation. No open book where any buyer can submit a bid and any capable provider can grab the job.

3. Solution

A demand account posts a bid with a service and a price. A supply account grabs the job (POST /grab_job). The buyer and the provider each sign with a rating from 1 to 5 (POST /sign_job). The exchange does not add a fee to the price. A seat is a number and an owner. All seats are identical. The price is $0. POST /seats/issue gives the calling account the next seat. A seat is required for a physical or hybrid grab only when seat verification is on, and that gate is currently off. The two sides settle the job.

4. Market

Physical work that can be specified, matched, and signed. Base scenario: ~$30T robot-labor GMV in 2040 (~half of ~$60T 2025 human labor). That GMV is recorded, not collected: no escrow, and the take-rate is zero. Seat revenue is $0. The earning streams in the model are hardware, attention, franchises, insurance and SLA, and design. Scenario planning, not a forecast.

5. Product → revenue

Live API and public counters are on production.

6. Value streams

• 01
  No job take — GMV is jobs cleared. The exchange does not hold the money and does not take a cut. payments.html
• 02
  Seats — price $0. All seats are identical. POST /seats/issue issues the next seat to the calling demand or supply account. Demand-side access and supply-side access are free forever. Seat revenue in the model is $0.
• 03
  Hardware — Catalog referral + financing ($25k ASP, 3% + 40% attach × 1.5%).
• 04
  /nearby & attention — Two-sided placement as density rises.
• 05
  Franchises — Garage + Lighthouse: new-site fees + royalties.
• 06
  Insurance & SLA — Overlay: GMV × 25% institutional × 1.8% premium × 15% cut.
• 07
  Design — Overlay: task, workflow, job-party, and capability-package design.

7. Go-to-market

• Design partners with fleet or facility demand
• Garage and Lighthouse as density nodes
• Hardware catalog + financing
• Preferred rights that scale with performance — not territorial monopolies

8. Competition

Closed fleets and vertical SaaS optimize one operator or one buyer. Human-services marketplaces lack seats, hardware, and franchise density. Partner rights here are earned by performance.

9. Team

Pair map, salary, housing, and the apply form: hiring.html. Seats are not compensation and are not purchased. The price of a seat is $0. Non-competes run 1–2 years and are limited to competing robot-labor exchanges.

10. Permanent capital & preferred partnership

Permanent / evergreen or 15-year+ vehicles. No forced exit clock. Partners get equity plus preferred commercial rights that do not freeze the open market:

• Priority matching in defined categories or geographies
• Preferential data access and referral economics
• First-look on hardware or franchise opportunities
• Rights deepen only when GMV, density, seats, and jobs improve

11. Why this structure

Ten-year fund clocks force premature exits. Permanent capital lets the exchange optimize for density over decades. Performance-ratcheted rights align without hard exclusivity.

12. Financial orientation

15-year projections, cost ratios, and DCF tooling live on the investors page. Insurance and design are first-cut overlays. Scenario planning, not guarantees.

13. Key risks

14. The ask

See §1. Raise size uses the investors-page dials. Final terms are in definitive documents.

15. Use of funds

1. Exchange reliability and matching. No escrow.
2. Density: accounts, fleets, buyers, campaigns
3. Compliance and insurance/SLA partners
4. Franchise support (Garage, Lighthouse) and hardware referrals
5. Design services capacity
6. Core team

16. Next steps

1. Live 15-year model: therobotservicesexchange.com/investors.html
2. Hiring terms: therobotservicesexchange.com/hiring.html
3. Seat issue: POST /seats/issue on rse-api.com. Price $0.
4. Discuss structure, preferred rights, and Founding Partner terms with the creator

Disclaimer. Discussion and scenario planning only. Not an offer, solicitation, or indication of interest. No commitment is implied. Projections and raise dials are illustrative, from the investors-page model, and not guarantees. Not financial, legal, or tax advice. Preferred rights, equity, vesting, and non-competes are subject to definitive documentation and applicable law. The price of a seat is $0. This document does not sell seats.