Robotics for the Common Good.

I'm Taylor Sizemore, a Bentonville native. I filed as an Independent for Benton County Judge because I wanted to do good — and because no one else had filed to give voters a choice on the November ballot. My platform was the foundational stuff: the I-49 corridor, wastewater, "Septic Tank Suburbs," and helping Benton County farmers feed Benton County residents.

Then I read the actual flow of money in and out of the county. And I concluded the levers that office controls aren't big enough to reverse the pattern I was running against. So I hit eject and started building the structural workaround instead.

What I Saw

The state incentive stack — credits, rebates, training dollars, infrastructure support — is built for whoever can afford the specialists to file the paperwork. That has, historically, meant large corporate, private-equity, and venture-backed players with teams who know which form to file on which day. The small business owner across the street doesn't have that team.

The outcome is structural, not conspiratorial: public dollars build the runway. The wealth created on that runway then leaves the community, because the owners live somewhere else. People call this a complex political problem. It's not complex. It's just greed, optimized.

The Drift

Capitalism was a useful engine for allocating physical resources and labor. It was never invented — or intended — to harvest human data or monopolize the local infrastructure of everyday life. Somewhere in the last few decades the model drifted from building things to extracting things. The structure rewards distant shareholders first; the local worker and the local customer are downstream of that priority. That's not malice. It's the incentive the structure was given.

I'm not against corporations, private equity, or venture capital. We need them. They are exceptionally good at manufacturing, logistics, and global supply chains. They should keep building the hardware and the software. They just shouldn't own the local grid that deploys it.

The Arkansas Advantage

Ironically, Arkansas is perfectly teed up for the correction. The state has spent years building robust frameworks — tax credits, rebates, training pipelines, recycling incentives — to attract robotics and advanced manufacturing. They built the machine expecting standard corporate players to plug into it. They probably didn't expect someone to use it for the common good.

That's exactly what we're doing.

The Workaround

On It Robotics isn't just a lawn-care company. It's the steward LLC for a planned multi-stakeholder cooperative — American Dream of the Future — designed to slowly buy our wealth back, protect our data, and save people time and money in the process.

We're taking the same publicly available programs an out-of-state operator would qualify for, and routing the upside through a Greedless Grid. When the cooperative creates qualifying jobs, deploys an autonomous fleet, or — long-term — recovers lithium and nickel from end-of-life packs, it's designed to claim the same credits any other qualifying operator could. The difference is what happens next: because there are no outside shareholders, the surplus is intended to land in the cooperative's treasury and flow back to members as Allocated Patronage Equity under cooperative tax law (Subchapter T), as sustainable wages for local technicians, and as a targeted entry price the average household can absorb.

The big OEMs do what they do best — manufacture the robots. We take ownership of the local deployment.

The only real "risk" to this model is that the big players see it work and decide to localize their own. If that happens, we still win. That's the entire point.

I'm a simple guy who saw a system designed for extraction and decided to build a machine designed for retention. Same machine. No greed.

If a school district, a county, a tribal nation, or another small city wants to fork this blueprint and stand up their own version — that's the win. Treat this as a catalyst, not a conclusion. The faster other communities put up their own guard, the harder the next decade of extraction becomes.

This is the American Dream of the Future — and it's the cooperative's name on purpose. We don't have to wait for the system to fix itself. We can just build a better one.

— Taylor Sizemore, Founder, On It Robotics

Pre-launch. Every figure, partner, and date on this page is target / planned / illustrative until the cooperative is formed. See what's real today →

Robotics-, hardware-, and software-as-a-service are some of the largest growth surfaces in the economy right now. The general financial playbook around them is well documented: incentive stacking, recurring-revenue subscriptions, vertical integration, and strategic phasing. None of that is a secret to the people running it. It's just rarely framed for the people paying for it.

The cooperative's design question is simple: what if the same mechanics were owned by the people they serve? Same incentive stack, same recurring-revenue model, same vertical integration — but routed through a transparent ledger to member-owners in Northwest Arkansas instead of out-of-state shareholders. Same machine. No greed.

The longer arc isn't mowed lawns or clean pools. Those are the route. The intended destination is Urban Recovery Mining — recovering lithium, cobalt, nickel and other materials from end-of-life packs that the cooperative's own fleet generates over time. If and when the cooperative recovers them, they belong to the cooperative, which means they belong to its members.

A choice to invest in us instead of Wall Street.

To understand why a cooperative model can be useful, it helps to look at how state-level economic development incentives are typically structured. The current system isn't broken — it's working as designed. It simply wasn't designed to build long-term ownership for everyday residents.

Here's a plain-language sketch of the common pattern, and how the cooperative is intended to participate in those same programs while keeping more of the upside local.

When a state wants to attract investment, it commonly uses Economic Development Incentives. The general pattern looks like this:

The incentives work. The question is who ends up holding the asset they helped build.

A common modern pattern: a critical piece of public-sector infrastructure — a testing platform, a benefits system, a permitting tool — is operated by a vendor that is owned by a national or international investment firm. The contract is awarded through normal procurement and the work gets done. Nothing about that is, by itself, improper.

The structural observation is just this: when the operating vendor is owned outside the state, the long-run distributable profit on that contract — the part that compounds into ownership over time — accrues to whoever owns the vendor. That's how corporate ownership works everywhere. It's not a scandal; it's a design choice about who holds the asset on the other end of a public dollar.

The cooperative's response is to be a credible local option for the kinds of work where a community-owned operator can realistically compete — starting with property services and hyperlocal civic software — so the ownership end of those contracts can stay closer to home.

Southern Arkansas sits on a strategically important lithium resource in the Smackover Formation. USGS-published estimates put the recoverable resource in the millions of tons — material enough to matter to the U.S. battery supply chain for decades.

Major operators including ExxonMobil (via its Saltwerx subsidiary), Standard Lithium with Equinor, and Chevron have publicly announced acreage positions and project plans in the region. Federal grant support for U.S. lithium processing has been awarded to several of these projects. Public reporting on royalty rates, offtake agreements, and processing destinations continues to evolve, and figures vary by project and source.

The structural point isn't to villainize any specific operator — these are large, legally compliant companies executing a real industrial project. The point is that extraction and refining create value at multiple stages, and Northwest Arkansas has an opportunity to participate in the downstream stages — recovery, repurposing, and community-owned battery storage — rather than only the upstream stage.

That downstream participation is what the cooperative's planned Recovery & Repurpose wing is designed to do.

On It Robotics doesn't try to change state law; it changes who ends up holding the asset at the end of an incentive-backed build. The cooperative is designed to participate in the same publicly available programs an out-of-state operator would — ArkPlus tax credits, Act 594 equipment credits, the Act 654 recycling tax credit, Solar for All, AEMR federal grants, and FAST-41 expedited permitting where applicable — and route the upside through a Greedless Grid.

The mechanism is simple: participate in the same publicly available programs an out-of-state operator could use, and use a cooperative ownership structure to keep more of the resulting upside in the neighborhoods that fund those programs.

A traditional corporation answers to shareholders. The American Dream of the Future Cooperative is structured as a multi-stakeholder cooperative with three membership classes — designed so the local community holds majority control:

• Class A — Patron: the people who actually use the service.
• Class B — Worker: Privateers, apprentices, and technical operators.
• Class C — Community: schools, non-profits, civic organizations — the governance anchor.

By design, the cooperative cannot be quietly sold to private equity, because the "common human" members hold the votes. That's the structural difference. That's what a buyout can't undo.

The robotics, energy storage, and civic-software markets in this region are still being formed. Capital is already moving to consolidate them, and the long-run ownership structures are being set right now.

The cooperative's view is that it's easier to participate in those markets while they're still forming than to retrofit local ownership in later. That's the practical case for starting now, in Northwest Arkansas.

The next extraction frontier isn't only dollars — it's data and AI agent lock-in. As coding agents collapse the cost of building software, value moves out of the app's interface and into the data layer underneath. Vendors who lock data inside opinionated apps are about to be routed around — and many will respond by making it harder for you to leave with your own data.

The cooperative's response is structural, not promotional. Per the planned Member Data Charter and AI Use Policy: open schemas, plain-text export, member-scoped read-only tokens, and a guarantee that the cooperative's dashboard is one reference UI, not the only one. See /platform/agents for the planned surface.