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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.