Online-Salon and Business Development
Deep Experiences goes to hyperspace while we plan to position ourselves stronger in the ecosystem.
Operations
Deep Finance is now the primary tool to create projects and pay the team. Every project should be set up in Deep Finance first.
Deep Skills (our internal tool) should only be used when we need to upskill individuals. The documentation for project creation as a creative director has been updated.
We are considering moving the treasury funds from DAI to USDC due to economic turmoil, and recent news about Binance. You can read this article that mentions MakerDAO for more details on Maker’s current collateral distribution and what could happen in the worst-case scenario.
Here is how the transition will probably look.
DAO Consultancy
Near Digital Collective is making great progress on the definition of their teams and is inviting their community to the workshops with the goal to take ownership of interesting work.
Preparing work with Molecule - we will be facilitating a workshop and writing documentation early next year. The goal of the workshop will be to map out the entire inner workings of VitaDAO so that other Molecule DAOs can copy their infrastructure and best practices. It will be based on this process.
Deep Work Studio
We canceled the branding project with the Ethereum Foundation that was originally scheduled for January. Their team expressed a strict policy on privacy, the project would have to remain completely private for an uncertain amount of time and NDAs would need to be signed. Our team decided that it was not worth continuing that collaboration for multiple reasons.
Deep Work Studio is currently not compatible with NDA-requiring enterprises. In order to work with similar clients in the future we could fork Deep Work Studio and create a separate entity with a different legal setup (e.g. all contributors sign an NDA and KYC), different target audience/market but with similar functions, and potentially similar people owning the functions.
Software
The engineering team is polishing the user experience and product design of the current app based on the latest Figma design.
In the next sprint, we will explore introducing the functions primitive. See this video for context or follow the conversation on Discord.
Deep Finance has made significant progress and it’s now possible to create organizations, teams within them, and projects.
Deep Experiences
Deep Experiences Online-Salon on the 27th is scheduled! You can book a slot here. Or add a reminder to your calendar.
We are also experimenting with connecting an online-only experience with physical experiences. A few contributors will receive small gift packages that may support them in sharing joy with their friends. The feedback from the recipients will help us connect in-person experiences and online events in the future.
We facilitated a branding exercise for Deep Experiences.
Research and Development
We have started exploring business development with the aim of:
Creating a strong team that leverages a large network of organizations, conferences, and events to establish Deep Work Studio as an authority on design and Deep Work as operational infrastructure for DAOs.
Creating long-term relationships with clients (potentially ex-clients) to further strengthen and stabilize the organization and its income.
Expanding on engineering services as an additional value proposition.
You can watch an onboarding video here.
On January 11th we will run a workshop on business development with experts in BD, Marketing, Sales, and Outreach. Here is the calendar invite.