Permanent Capital · Preferred Partnership

Business Plan

The Robot Services Exchange — open marketplace for robot labor

1. Executive summary

Permanent / long-dated capital (10–15+ years). Preferred commercial rights deepen only as network metrics improve. That capital is what the Hyperion Fund deploys into automation-ready, income-producing businesses. Principal stays in; only earned profits transfer out.

Mickey Shaughnessy (creator) is in and is not seeking a sponsor. Then 3× Founding Partner spots (named individual + sponsor); more may be added. Even equity split among Mickey and the named individuals (10-year vest). Pair terms: hiring.html. The seat-price dial on the investors page runs from $0 to $100k. Base is $25k. A seat issued with POST /seats/issue is still free.

2. Problem

Robot labor is arriving; the market is still closed fleets, one-off integrations, and opaque prices. No portable reputation. No open book where any buyer can submit a bid and any capable provider can grab the job.

3. Solution

Demand submits a bid on the website (job, price, location). Supply grabs the job at rse-api.com (POST /grab_job). Both sides sign the job (POST /sign_job). Seats (Exchange registry, assigned by Mickey Shaughnessy; fully transferable) gate grab access when verification is on. Settlement stays between the parties. Website for people; API for machines.

4. Market

Physical work that can be specified, matched, and signed. Base scenario: ~$30T robot-labor GMV in 2040 (~half of ~$60T 2025 human labor). That GMV is recorded, not collected: no escrow, and the take-rate is zero. Seven earning streams. Seat issuance is the bulk of modeled revenue (peak near $12.5T in 2035 at $25k × 500M new seats). Scenario planning, not a forecast.

5. Product → revenue

Live API and public counters are on production.

6. Value streams

• 01
  No job take — GMV is jobs cleared. The exchange does not hold the money and does not take a cut. payments.html
• 02
  Seats — modeled primary price, base $25k. The investors-page dial runs from $0 to $100k. ~1B seats 2031–2035 (peak 2035 · ~500M / ~$12.5T at the base price). Bulk of modeled revenue. Issuance to a demand or supply account stays free.
• 03
  Hardware — Catalog referral + financing ($25k ASP, 3% + 40% attach × 1.5%).
• 04
  /nearby & attention — Two-sided placement as density rises.
• 05
  Franchises — Garage + Lighthouse: new-site fees + royalties.
• 06
  Hyperion fees — ~2.8% of AUM (1% management + performance). See p. 3.
• 07
  Insurance & SLA — Overlay: GMV × 25% institutional × 1.8% premium × 15% cut.
• 08
  Design — Overlay: task, workflow, job-party, and capability-package design.

7. Go-to-market

• Design partners with fleet or facility demand
• Garage and Lighthouse as density nodes
• Hardware catalog + financing
• Preferred rights that scale with performance — not territorial monopolies

8. Competition

Closed fleets and vertical SaaS optimize one operator or one buyer. Human-services marketplaces lack seats, hardware, and franchise density. Partner rights here are earned by performance.

9. The Hyperion Fund

The Fund buys automation-ready, income-producing small businesses and puts seated robot labor on the work those businesses already sell. Platform take ≈ 2.8% of AUM (1% management + 15% of ~12% gross). Principal stays in. Only earned profits may transfer out.

Mandate

Buy the book. Attach matching, design, franchises, and seated providers. Liquid markets keep unused cash invested until a deal closes.

First wave (planning)

Counts are a first-wave plan, not specific addresses. Later waves: buy the book, attach robot services, keep or franchise. Asset income stays in the Fund; the exchange earns the fee.

10. Team

Pair map, salary, housing, and the apply form: hiring.html. The model includes a 1M-seat founding tranche at the seat-price dial (base $25k). Non-competes run 1–2 years and are limited to competing robot-labor exchanges. Termination terms sit in the definitive documents.

11. Permanent capital & preferred partnership

Permanent / evergreen or 15-year+ vehicles. No forced exit clock. Partners get equity plus preferred commercial rights that do not freeze the open market:

• Priority matching in defined categories or geographies
• Preferential data access and referral economics
• First-look on hardware or franchise opportunities
• Rights deepen only when GMV, density, seats, and jobs improve

12. Why this structure

Ten-year fund clocks force premature exits. Permanent capital lets the exchange optimize for density over decades. Performance-ratcheted rights align without hard exclusivity.

13. Financial orientation

15-year projections, cost ratios, and DCF tooling live on the investors page. Insurance and design are first-cut overlays. Scenario planning, not guarantees.

14. Key risks

15. The ask

See §1. Raise size uses the investors-page dials. Final terms are in definitive documents.

16. Use of funds

1. Exchange reliability and matching. No escrow.
2. Density: seats, fleets, buyers, campaigns
3. Hyperion first wave (p. 3)
4. Compliance, seat ops, Hyperion admin, insurance/SLA partners
5. Franchise support (Garage, Lighthouse) and hardware referrals
6. Design services capacity
7. Core team

17. Next steps

1. Live 15-year model: therobotservicesexchange.com/investors.html
2. Hyperion Fund: section 9 of this plan
3. Hiring terms: therobotservicesexchange.com/hiring.html
4. Discuss structure, preferred rights, and Founding Partner terms with the creator

Disclaimer. Discussion and scenario planning only. Not an offer, solicitation, or indication of interest. No commitment is implied. Projections and raise dials are illustrative, from the investors-page model, and not guarantees. Not financial, legal, or tax advice. Preferred rights, seats, equity, vesting, non-competes, and Hyperion terms are subject to definitive documentation and applicable law. Hyperion is described for planning; this document does not offer fund interests.