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+# L484 Team Meeting — 2026-07-10 (Readout)
+
+Held at Sapien (moved for privacy — "so Cyborg wouldn't be listening in on important stuff about the warehouse"). ~7-8 attendees.
+
+## 1. Decisions
+
+| decision | who | date |
+|---|---|---|
+| **Angel (Solarpunk) is fully on board** with the Sapien location — "History has been made!" She commits to bringing events + community curation + 6-7 years of trusted Solarpunk brand; Solarpunk takes the parts it holds well, Lab takes its parts | Poly / Angel / team | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Vlatko data-center deal**: 10 data centers worldwide, one in **Mineral Wells**; Poly "believes it will go through." Structure: **$100m data-center deal, $1.5m buys the warehouse, $500k compute credits** we can use or sell; Vlatko incorporates the warehouse purchase + service fee into the deal | Poly / Vlatko | 2026-07-10 (deal in motion) |
+| **Fast Friends (FF) draft lease received** (yesterday); "full speed ahead." Model changed: **no cash-cow drive-thru**; must pay **8-13% revenue to FF + 7% from DD to the Lab**; re-figure financials for scale | Mackenze | 2026-07-10 |
+| **FF ground floor**: autonomous-checkout grocery (still needs attendant), biohacking lab (speakeasy area?), Dave's **group-fitness classroom**; 150-200 people in co-working still need help | Mackenze / Dave | 2026-07-10 |
+| **FF scale model**: prove at FF, then replicate at the **70 wineries/breweries/distilleries around Austin; 480 in the Texas Triangle**; license a **daytime operating system** to venues losing alcohol revenue (Radius, juice cos., yoga studios); 95% margins once platforms run | Mackenze | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Growth cap at 500 members** (a couple hundred k/month) before the model caps | Mackenze / Jay1 | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Community-management layer** to be planned before opening (welcome, connect, classes, check-ins, refer friends) | Jay2 | 2026-07-10 |
+| **FUTO = nonprofit only**: Aaron gave the Trust $1B; board criteria deploy money into **non-profits, rarely LLC/S-corp/C-corp**; they want to fund the **bootcamps** → **create a nonprofit (can be done in 2 weeks); 6-month operating history, truncated for us**; take over existing 501c3 = "miracle," they want our own | Poly / Mackenze | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Bootcamp staff** will be part of the nonprofit (2 guys in Las Vegas; people worldwide) | Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Bootcamp tiers** (AI, robotics once resourced); Xela (Trent, Black Swan yoga) wants to run bootcamps, "could replace me," super technical, running framework/Graphene, **bringing us two investors** | Jenelle / Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Secure the next-door property ASAP** (worried a worse neighbor moves in); **knock down the first yellow house** ("something wrong with the house, felt terrible") — garden or demolition; the other yellow house = data center, offices, bootcamp guest rooms (utilitarian) | Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Brick house**: best as a **coffee shop not run by us**; Nick interested but wants us to do all renovations | Poly / Mackenze | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Haven (50 acres, Joe, ex-football, put his savings in)**: current discussion = if something bad happens, everyone goes to Haven and lives there ("If there's a Covid shutdown, we don't want to be at Sapien, we want to be at Haven") | Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Vanessa's acre on the river**: build it all out into a tiny-home village (pecan + oak); "if you want an event venue, I'll buy the land next door"; working on a financier for the tiny homes; scale model = license to landowners, we build out + set up local partners | Mackenze / Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Arctec** = design centers for living tiny-home villages (Poly: "much more than that" — energy, privacy, security, open source, all the tech; Archipelago in all of it) | Mackenze / Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Brand naming in play: "Arctec" and "Sol Luna" / "SoLunar"** (Jenelle: combined-L logo; "people would say soluna" → Solana-confusion flagged); Poly open to input | Poly / Jenelle | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Lease**: waiting on Daniel to send it (Brian can't find the old one — "he probably deleted it"); when received, **Angel, Blaze, and Poly negotiate**; **Shadrach is the guarantor**; "Daniel actually wants us to be here" | Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Delano house**: 2 rooms without AC; can get **3 houses for the same price** (3x3BR, across the city, house everyone); moving in ~a month and a half; Poly: "I might not be able to pay you, but you're not going to hit the ground" | Poly / Allen | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Money flow**: investor money goes directly to bills; anyone with a need should reach out to Poly | Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Culture reset**: "this place is like a dumping ground... a big cleaning is in order. We need a fresh start." Decide the culture with Angel's oversight; show up with medicine-circle respect | Jay2 / Angel / Jen / Jenelle | 2026-07-10 |
+| **No Ayahuasca at this location** (elsewhere — woods, Haven); Hape + cacao OK; "the medicine people will be here, not necessarily a medicine space" | Jay2 / Poly / Jenelle | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Commercial insurance required**: Daniel has raised it 3-4 times; need an **umbrella policy** (especially if medicine enters the space) | Mackenze / Jenelle | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Food trucks**: front parking lot = "huge loss value"; **2-4 food trucks + shade + picnic tables** = solid bottom-line income; 3 already interested (potato guy, juice shop, Mexican); trucks must be **licensed, free-standing renters**; need a **sublease option for ourselves** in the lease to rent that space; use the **7th-street sign** | Mackenze | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Lease-talking-point**: to Daniel, say "We're going to do events and make money. Leave everything else out." | Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Lease-to-own is off the table** ("he will not sell") | Mackenze / Jenelle | 2026-07-10 |
+| **30-day hold**: Poly secured 30 days by paying rent + giving Daniel everything he's looking for; LOI will change; "expecting another week" | Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Jay1's food truck**: "I need $20k if you want me to put this out front legitimately... there's only one person here who wants to be in there with me" | Jay1 | 2026-07-10 |
+| **Sapien investors**: 4 investors want a deal, haven't seen latest info; "we don't have the $250k guaranty hanging over us" (resolved); "Everything we're doing here is R&D for what we can do at other places" | Poly | 2026-07-10 |
+
+**Cross-check vs 06-DECISIONS:**
+- **Reframes the 6/22 war-room**: the $250k BTC "assurance (not insurance)" / 6-26 Zack LOI pressure is **gone** ("we don't have the $250k guaranty hanging over us"); Daniel is "friendlier," running self-hosted AI, "thinks we're cool" (per Blaze's 45-min talk). The lease is now the open item, not the money.
+- **Reframes 6/22 "The Arctic"**: brand now in play as **Arctec** and **SoLunar/Sol Luna** (Solana-confusion flagged) — naming not settled.
+- Consistent with 6/15 (NOSTR/Graphene via Xela/Trent; food trucks; second-location leverage; "Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins" ethos).
+- Consistent with 5/29 (lease crisis) — now in resolution mode.
+- **New**: FUTO nonprofit gate for bootcamps (a 2-week nonprofit + 6-month operating history) — a new structural decision not in prior notes.
+
+## 2. Action Items
+
+| owner | task | due date | project | status |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Poly | Data center: finalize Vlatko Mineral Wells deal (meeting today) | 2026-07-10 (in progress) | Sapien / Data center | in progress |
+| Poly + Angel + Blaze | Negotiate Sapien lease when Daniel sends it (Shadrach = guarantor) | lease pending (~1 week) | Sapien / Lease | open |
+| Poly | Create a **nonprofit for bootcamps** (FUTO eligibility); ~2 weeks to form | 2 weeks | L484 / Bootcamps | open |
+| Mackenze | Re-figure FF financials (8-13% to FF, 7% DD→Lab, no drive-thru, staffing) | ongoing | Fast Friends | in progress |
+| Mackenze | FF: meet the contractor (upstairs office) | 2026-07-10 (later today) | Fast Friends | scheduled |
+| Mackenze | FF: sound right (upstairs + downstairs) — **Matt Alvarez** (sound eng., Jenelle's ref) is the first priority | 2026-07-10 (meeting later) | Fast Friends | in progress |
+| Jay2 | Plan the **community-management layer** before FF opens | before FF opens | Fast Friends | open |
+| Mackenze | Grants: "culture" grant (city of Austin, few hundred k non-diluted); GeoGrow → agriculture/food grants; bootcamps → vocational-training grants | NO DATE | L484 / Grants | open |
+| Allen | Grants: the guy who does cultural-enrichment grants for the city (build-out) | NO DATE | L484 / Grants | open |
+| Mackenze | New Braunfels: FF second location (already permitted, site approved); 1.5-acre adjacent custom-home land; opportunity zone + fund | NO DATE | Fast Friends / New Braunfels | open |
+| Mackenze | New Braunfels: tiny-home village with Vanessa + the 8th-gen New Braunfels Texan; finance via Lish's father (PE, mortgage/equipment financing) | NO DATE | New Braunfels | open |
+| Poly | Nelson (yellow house): when to demolish; raise capital for shipping containers (talk to the guy soon) | NO DATE | Sapien / Yellow house | open |
+| Mackenze | Yellow house containers: the stacks/pot-dispensary guy's maker shop (steel frame, ADU, warehouse, hempcrete) | NO DATE | Sapien / Yellow house | open |
+| Poly | Xela: get him a **permanent yoga space** (shipping containers, bottom floor of yellow house) | NO DATE | Sapien / Yellow house | open |
+| Mackenze | Nick (brick house coffee shop): intro Asif + (Jay?) to him; he's building a pitch, wants us involved in everything; intro'd to Vivobarefoot, Tushy, (?) | NO DATE | Sapien / Brick house | open |
+| Poly | Met a home-remodeler ("new Tetris"); figure out the brick-house renovations | NO DATE | Sapien / Brick house | open |
+| team | **Indra's move-out prep**: move our stuff to the stage area + empty the front Alice-in-Wonderland space (staging area) over the next 2 weeks; label, store | 2 weeks | Sapien / Move | open |
+| Mackenze | Use Jen's rented storage space (empty except a commercial stove Ricky donated) | NO DATE | Sapien / Storage | open |
+| Poly | Crowdfund: build one for every thing; Angor.io (Arctec already up, first goal met) | ongoing | L484 / Crowdfund | in progress |
+| Poly + Angel | Work out the **lease wish-list** + clarifications (food trucks, sublease, fixed-income, 7th-street sign) | before lease | Sapien / Lease | open |
+| team | **Big clean** (culture reset, fresh start) — Mackenze/Poly listed things that will go | NO DATE | Sapien / Culture | open |
+| Jenelle + Angel | **Monthly intimate container** for the team (stay connected) | monthly | L484 / Culture | agreed |
+| Poly | 1pm meeting: someone wants to convert life savings into BTC | 2026-07-10 | L484 / BTC | scheduled |
+| Ali | Manage the data center / AI-compute platform "like a director"; take it to 50 other people as a product (secure AI training); connect clients ↔ AI compute (V300s, Vlatko has $100m worth) | ongoing | Sapien / AI Accelerator | in progress |
+| Kyle | Talk to Zaza after the meeting (financials) | 2026-07-10 | L484 / Financials | open |
+| Jay1 | Food truck: needs **$20k** to put out front legitimately; needs a second person to work it | NO DATE | Sapien / Food trucks | blocked (needs $20k) |
+| UNASSIGNED | Identify who the one person "who wants to be in there [the truck] with me" is | NO DATE | Sapien / Food trucks | open |
+
+## 3. Project Links
+
+- **Sapien** (existing) → lease resolution, 4 investors, culture reset, food trucks, data center, AI Accelerator
+- **Fast Friends (FF)** (existing candidate) → lease signed, ground floor (grocery/biohacking/fitness), scale model, New Braunfels #2
+- **Arctec** (existing candidate) → tiny-home-village design centers; crowdfund live on Angor.io
+- **SoLunar / Sol Luna** — **new project candidate** (brand in play; combined-L logo; Solana confusion flagged)
+- **Haven** (new candidate) → 50-acre retreat/bunker (Joe); Arctec + WWTF site
+- **Vanessa's acre (river)** (new candidate) → tiny-home village, pecan/oak
+- **New Braunfels** (new candidate) → FF #2, opportunity zone + fund
+- **Yellow houses** (2) → one demolished, one = office + data center + bootcamp guest rooms
+- **Brick house** (candidate) → third-party coffee shop (Nick)
+- **FUTO** → nonprofit gate for bootcamps
+- **Xela / Black Swan (Trent)** → bootcamp instructor + 2 investors
+- **Forsyth Institute** (Berlin) → not in this note (see 7-17)
+- **Indra's / Delano / Nava House** → move-out + housing
+- **Divine Provisions (food co-op)** → front-of-house (see 7-17)
+- Keynctr ([[keynctr 1]]) — not mentioned; Avi called "a treasure" by Poly
+
+## 4. Knowledge
+
+- **Daniel (landlord) has softened**: "friendlier... he likes us more now" (Blaze's 45-min talk); runs a self-hosted AI; "thinks we're cool"; "Daniel actually wants us to be here."
+- **$250k guaranty is resolved** (no longer "hanging over us") — the 6/22 BTC-assurance pressure lifted.
+- **4 Sapien investors** are waiting on the latest info to make a deal.
+- **Vlatko**: 10 global data centers; Mineral Wells is one; $100m deal, $1.5m buys the warehouse, $500k compute credits.
+- **FF economics**: 8-13% revenue to FF + 7% from DD to the Lab; drive-thru (cash cow) dropped; 95% margins on licensed platforms; cap at 500 members.
+- **FUTO**: $1B from Aaron; board deploys into non-profits only (rarely LLC/S/C-corp); won't tell people (to prevent creating an LLC just for the money); bootcamps are the fit; 2-week nonprofit, 6-month operating history (truncated for us); "no cheats."
+- **Angel / Solarpunk**: 6-7 years, ~7 large community-supported events; "Divine timing. I don't commit on a whim."
+- **Haven**: 50 acres, food forest, space for shipping containers; Joe (ex-football) put his savings in; the "if something bad happens" fallback.
+- **Arctec**: design centers for living tiny-home villages; "much more than that" (energy, privacy, security, open source).
+- **Brand**: "Arctec" (builds for a year before expand) vs "Sol Luna"/"SoLunar" (combined-L logo; daytime/nighttime events; Solana confusion).
+- **Delano**: 2 rooms without AC; 3 houses for the same price.
+- **Jay's bus** → will move to the yellow-house driveway as the kitchen (see 7-17).
+- **Two "Jays"** appear (Jay1 = food-truck owner, "gas over $3"; Jay2 = community/culture, "robotics"). [LOW CONFIDENCE] whether one person or two; treat as two distinct speakers for attribution.
+- **Suicide-prevention impact**: two people told Poly this week they didn't commit suicide because of the Lab.
+- **AI Accelerator**: "people know us for it now"; calls every day for AI compute; V300s in demand; Vlatko has $100m worth; Ali runs it "like a director."
+- **Grants**: city-of-Austin "culture" grant (few hundred k non-diluted); GeoGrow → ag/food; bootcamps → vocational.
+- **Food trucks**: 3 interested (potato guy, juice shop, Mexican); must be licensed free-standing renters.
+- **Kyle's reframe**: "detail and surveil, not survival... You won't recognize who you are September 1st. This is time to thrive."
+- **Hape + cacao** are OK at the site; Ayahuasca is not.
+
+## 5. Troubleshooting
+
+- **Lease not signed / old lease missing** (Brian can't find it) — fix: 30-day rent hold; wait for Daniel's lease; Angel/Blaze/Poly negotiate; Shadrach guarantees.
+- **No walk-away leverage resolved** — the second-location strategy is now "the next space" (yellow houses, FF, Haven, Vanessa's acre).
+- **Culture / "dumping ground"** — fix: big clean, fresh start, medicine-circle respect, Angel's oversight, monthly team container.
+- **No community-management layer** — fix: plan before FF opens (welcome/connect/classes/check-ins/referrals).
+- **Bootcamps lack a funding vehicle** — fix: 2-week nonprofit + 6-month operating history (FUTO criteria).
+- **Data-center power** — "Don't really have enough power to utilize shelves yet" (see 7-24 crawl-space fix).
+- **Food-truck staffing** — Jay1 needs a second person + $20k.
+- **Next-door neighbor risk** — fix: secure the property ASAP; demolish the bad yellow house.
+
+## 6. Open Questions
+
+- Will Daniel send the lease, and on what terms (LOI "will change")?
+- Will the Vlatko Mineral Wells deal close ("I believe it will go through")?
+- Arctec vs SoLunar — which brand wins?
+- Who buys the commercial umbrella policy, and at what cost?
+- What's the FF staffing plan for 150-200 co-working + biohacking + grocery?
+- Who is the one person who'll work the food truck with Jay1?
+- Which of the two "Jays" is which for action-item ownership? [LOW CONFIDENCE]
+- Will the 4 Sapien investors sign once they see the latest info?
+- What's the $20k food-truck funding source?
+- Is the brick house coffee shop a real deal with Nick?
+
+## 7. Gaps
+
+- **Lease terms unknown** (waiting on Daniel) — the single biggest gap; everything (signs, utilities, fence, food trucks) is gated on it.
+- **Commercial umbrella insurance**: no owner, no policy, no cost.
+- **$20k food-truck capital**: no source identified.
+- **Community-management plan**: not written (Jay2's suggestion, no doc).
+- **Nonprofit formation**: no one explicitly assigned to file the 2-week nonprofit (implied Poly).
+- **Two "Jays"**: attribution ambiguity throughout (Jay1 vs Jay2).
+- **Angel's first event**: "Nothing to share at this time" (see 7-17) — no date.
+- **Delano move**: "in a month and a half" but no house selected (Jennifer scouting, per 7-17).
+
+## 8. My Follow-Ups (Avi)
+
+1. **No direct assignment this meeting.** Poly: "Avi, you're a treasure." (recognition, not a task).
+2. **Data center / AI Accelerator (Ali's domain)** — if Avi is in the room, the "take it to 50 other people as a product" + "connect clients ↔ AI compute" workstream is the most concrete near-term engineering surface and the natural place for Keynctr-type work. Offer to support Ali.
+3. **Lease wish-list (Poly + Angel)** — the food-truck sublease + fixed-income clauses are ops/finance; no explicit Avi ask, but it's adjacent to systems work.
+4. Adjacent [INFERRED]: the 2-week **nonprofit** + FUTO criteria is a compliance/structure task; no owner named.
+
+## Email Summary
+
+7-10 was the exhale after the 6/22 war room. Angel from Solarpunk committed fully ("History has been made!"), bringing 6-7 years of trusted events and community curation to make the Sapien location a community hub — and the $250k BTC-assurance pressure is gone ("we don't have the guaranty hanging over us"); Daniel the landlord has gone friendly (self-hosted AI, "thinks we're cool"), and a 30-day rent hold buys time while the lease is drafted for Angel, Blaze, and Poly to negotiate with Shadrach as guarantor. The Vlatko data-center deal (10 global, one in Mineral Wells; $100m deal, $1.5m buys the warehouse, $500k compute credits) is expected to close. Fast Friends moved to a signed draft lease with a changed model (no drive-thru; 8-13% to FF, 7% to the Lab) and a scale plan across 70 Austin venues and 480 in the Texas Triangle via a licensed daytime OS. The FUTO $1B trust revealed it only funds nonprofits, so the bootcamps need a 2-week-formed nonprofit plus 6 months of operating history. The brand is now in play as Arctec or SoLunar, the culture got a "fresh start" reset, and the plan is to secure the next-door property and knock down the bad yellow house while the good one becomes office + data center.