Apprentice

Someone good with their hands and curious about robotics, who's tired of dead-end hourly work. High-school graduates, career-changers, vets, and students from partner schools all fit. No prior robotics experience required — that's the point.

• Paid from day one as a Class B Worker-Owner seat (planned).
• Works inside a Pod: fleet checks, route deployment, telemetry triage, customer touchpoints.
• Cycles through every skill block — maintenance, telemetry, customer ops, route economics, basic OS admin — over the first 12 months.
• Earns patronage by ledger formula, not by manager discretion.
• Acts as first-line collector for the planned Urban Recovery Mining program (end-of-life battery recovery).

• 130-min morning huddle and fleet check.
• 23 hours in the field: perimeters, deployment, exception handling.
• 31 hour customer-facing — the half of the trade the robots can't do.
• 41 hour scheduled skill block (rotates daily).
• 530-min close-out; OS posts hours and patronage credit automatically.

Apprentice is the on-ramp the whole cooperative is built around. The planned progression is Apprentice → Runner → Privateer → Hub Lead, with each step on a published competency checklist.