The subscription economy is coming for everything.
Let's own the meter.
Every service on this page is, in our reading, planned or plausible in Northwest Arkansas within the next ten years. The question isn't whether — it's who collects the subscription when it shows up. Today, an out-of-state shareholder is the default beneficiary. The cooperative is the alternative ownership structure.
All services below are illustrative. Live offerings are labeled. Nothing here is a current commitment to deliver a specific product.
What we're already planning — Tier 1
The first services use Privateers, pods, and the same dispatch engine. Two are in live planning; three are the obvious next steps once the fleet is in the field.
Planned anchor service. Every yard, every week, no two-stroke engines.
Robotic cleaner + chemistry checks routed by the same dispatch engine.
Open civic data the county already publishes — surfaced for residents.
Driveways, sidewalks, small lots — same Privateers, off-season work.
Climbing / rail-mounted units operated and serviced locally.
Plausible inside Phase 2–3 — Tier 2
None of these are committed offerings. Each one rides on the same Service Spec the mowers do — pillar, asset, unit of consumption, settlement profile, dispatch, recovery, vetting. When the vetting bar is clear, the rotation can carry them.
Last-mile sidewalk and curbside delivery routed through cooperative pods.
When the vehicle vetting bar is clear, dispatch is the same software.
Co-op-owned curbside and hub stalls — patronage on every kWh.
Hardware-as-a-Service on poles and storefronts, scheduled by software.
Roofs, towers, ag fields. One pilot, many neighborhoods, audit logs.
Vertical produce in a repurposed poultry house. Subscription crates.
Property and parking-lot patrol units — co-op operated, locally accountable.
The horizon — Tier 3
The long arc, including the canonical endgame: Urban Recovery Mining of the lithium, cobalt, and nickel inside our own end-of-life packs. Recovered material stays a member asset.
End-of-life lithium, cobalt, nickel recovered from cooperative-owned packs. Material stays a member asset.
Vehicle-to-grid and stationary storage arbitrage, owned by the people who use it.
3D-printed and modular affordable housing operated as cooperative infrastructure.
Companion and mobility assistance routed and supervised by trained Apprentices.
Sensor networks publishing open civic data — accountable to neighbors.
Same services. Different beneficiary.
The hardware and software are coming either way. The structural choice is who ends up holding the recurring revenue.
The subscription leaves town.
- Out-of-state shareholders collect the monthly meter.
- Local jobs are gig-shaped, not career-shaped.
- Recovered materials follow whoever holds the asset.
- Data about your home leaves with the subscription.
The subscription stays a neighbor.
- Privateers in every territory; surplus follows patronage.
- An Apprentice path that turns into a Hub, here or in your hometown.
- Recovered Li / Co / Ni intended to stay a cooperative-owned asset.
- Open schema, plain-text export, member-scoped data — by charter.
How a new service joins the rotation.
A candidate service has to answer seven questions before the cooperative will route a dollar through it. This is the same intake for a mower, a charger, a billboard, or a software seat.
- 1PillarRaaS, HaaS, or SaaS — which layer carries it.
- 2Asset classThe physical or digital thing that delivers the value.
- 3Unit of consumptionWhat we meter and bill on — cut, ride, kWh, seat, impression.
- 4Settlement profileWhich member-and-operator split applies.
- 5Dispatch modelFixed route, on-request, stationary, or pure subscription.
- 6Recovery postureCore Charge for co-op-issued units, Orphan Bounty for the rest.
- 7Vetting criteriaLocal parts. Co-op-readable telemetry. Apprentice-serviceable.
Same machine. No greed.
If the meter is going to run anyway, the cooperative would rather it ran for the neighborhood. Subject to entity formation and the planned subscription agreement.