Team 8

Secession ‘Echoes of Structure’

Past Conventions
• out of our scope, and too small

Website

• working on custom domain
  • evergrowth.space
    
• https://exquisite-tour-084901.framer.app/
  

Convention

https://www.alphaomega.foundation
• 13-15 Jan
• recording? Gedächtnisprotokoll, transcription and reenactment
• application for academic leader pass (250 free passes)

Documentation

Fujifilm X100VI

If convention fails:
• [INSERT MILAN CONFERENCE]
•promo video showing ‘functional’ (via Claude) video of program that includes dub framing our redistribution tactic with accelerationist language

Timeline

• Y Combinator receives pitches in so-called Batches. The next one is Spring 2026 Batch, for which deadline is the 9th of February.

We decided to look for pitch competitions within the span of the semester.

• Unfortunately there are no pitch competitions before the 20th of January.
• The closes to date is AI festival in Milan, which happens on 21st-22nd of January and hosts pitch competition. It connects start-ups, venture capitalists and investors.
• The only option, which is not ideal, is a business management conference in Salzburg (3rd of January) or London (15th of January) – however we are not sure if the audience suits design of our project? How fitting must the audience be?

Strategy & Business Model

According to Y/C in orderd to prepare a pitch we need to ask ourselves the following questions:

1. What do you do?
2. How big is the market?
3. What’s your progress?
4. What’s your unique insight?
5. What’s your business model?
6. Who’s on your team?
7. What do you want?

Competitors Analysis: Unique Insight

We did competitors analysis and on this basis decided on the niche we want to fill in – modeling wealth redistribution trough progressive wealth taxation (proposed by Thomas Piketty) as none of the competitors implement this.

Business Model:

Value Proposition 

Nobody is focusing on the implementation of technology in order to achieve a more fair society, as radically as we are. We say it as it is, and we will penetrate spaces where these billionaires exist and tell them how it is. How bold should we be about mentioning billionaires?

Target Market

Public and private actors: policy designers, government analysts, local and state finance departments, funding organizations, lobbying institutes

Revenue Streams (How we earn money)

Subscription based software service (modeled on Palantir)

Cost Structure

Corpus – 35000

AI Subscription (Claude) – 450-600
Economist Hire – 2000
AI Engineer – 3000
Misc. Services – 200
Headquarters Space – 1200

7000 Eur monthly

4750 GmbH (estimate) per year

Key Activities & Resources

Documenting movement of capital in order to push for taxation.
Documenting of inheritances.
Documenting of projected profit made off investments by private individuals.

Cooperation with Tax Havens
Public Tax Code
State Tax Data

Channels

In person networking
Online provocation

Next

1. What do you do?
2. How big is the market?
3. What’s your progress?
4. What’s your unique insight?
5. What’s your business model?
6. Who’s on your team?
7. What do you want?

Ad.2. We still need to research how many potential users of our product there would be.

Ad.6. Jakub Pieszczek, the ML engineer we consulted, agreed to appear in our company’s online presence. We still need to look for an economist.

Recap

“what does the further execution of the effective accelerationist agenda mean for our social and intellectual abilities?”

A project by “technopositivists” for those still to be convinced.
In taking on this role, to show the absurdity of this ideology

From here:

Looking for a persona to use as a vessel for our narrative

Interacting with the community– quite dead.

while trying to interact with the discord community, we asked ourselves, “how does one even become a member?”


This led us to the topic of indoctrination.

We decided to investigate different ways to communicate this notion.

Unfortunately, through analysis of twitter activity which was more prominent than the discord, we realized that communication is very simple and not attempting to manipulate, as propaganda would.

Simultaneously, we had brainstorming of visualization methods.

Ideation: 1st attempt

Army recruitment stand– combining the fascist nature of a futurist ideology speaking in absolutes and the indoctrination required for such movements to succeed.

Adopting this visual language to create an e/acc recruitment stand

Disagreements: lacks criticality and would just be staging a scene. What role would the people play that we interact with? Are we simply messing with them? Why should a digital community engage with people offline?

Ideation: 2nd attempt

2 Truths and a Pitch

research of personas and investment projects

A community based on innovation:
what innovation?

Disagreements:
the goal of coming up with something more absurd to show how absurd this ideology is, is quite difficult.

All of our brainstormed ideas sounded plausible and couldn’t beat the mosquito drone

Conclusions
What would be we gain by imagining another absurd product.
We are living in such an absurd era, that our ability to shock and provoke is
a) limited, and
b) not as powerful as we thought.

The Onion problematic post-Trump


Language of absurdity is not the way to go.

Going forward:

Using contrast as a method as opposed to reinforcing.

Absurdity = playing into e/acc tropes
Contrasting = communicating our disagreements and being critical