Operating Plan - First 6 Months

This is the operating plan for EF Build from October 2026 through March 2027.

It sets destination, Strategic Intents, places, products, owners, and 30 / 60 / 90 / 180-day actions.

This window locks a replicable, certifiable component-and-cell foundation that later factories copy. It does not stand up five production lines.

Stewart, Beyreuther, and Staneff do the work only they can do. Hires are doers that extend them, not managers beside them.

Long-lead equipment is an 18-month timer. POs in October start that clock.

Earth Force Build starts at forest stewardship and wildfire mitigation, controls source fiber, and converts it at the lowest transformational energy and cost at each stage into high-precision components and assemblies. That conversion system is the Platform. The Platform is how products are developed.

Products are configured from one characterized, certifiable component set, inside certified and manufacturable limits. They do not extend the set. A part that is not in the set does not go to production start.

Design rule: precision CLT / thin CLT and subtractive process. Eliminate unnecessary parts, pieces, spacers, adapters, connectors, and frames. Highest performance through more elegant design and material; lowest transformation cost - measured in energy, labor, currency.

A process cell is not a hero setup in Factory 0. A cell is specified so a production team can run it: equipment, utilities, quality limits, labor, first-article criteria, and ledger points. Factory 1 and later factories execute with developed process cells. They do not reinvent them through operations.

Mature production: process cells optimized for each component; components into sub-assemblies; sub-assemblies assembled at in-market facilities; final assembly on site. In-market assembly facilities follow Factory 1 at production speed, when offtake warrants those facilities.

Deployment speed does not equal risk. Here it is the opposite.

A linear path - characterize, certify, tool, product, then customer, and repeat - reaches mature production in 20+ years. Running characterization, certification, cell development, product engineering, customer conversion, and finance in parallel puts mature production on a 3-year track. This plan is the parallel path.

The United States is a ~$1.3T construction and development industry. Housing shortfall and industrial demand for schedule, carbon, and repeatable assemblies are already measured and well documented. Offtake waits on certified, manufacturable capacity a large developer can underwrite. Evidence is found in the Earth Force Build detailed, conservative, and variable market diffusion models for the 4 PNW states, expanding to the rest of our coverage area.

The first prototypes and pilots are for qualified launch partners, where each is contributing components to the platform that serves greater demand than modeled. Starting at cost parity in each of their respective product categories, the demand is represented by the markets, not individual projects.

Hire to the work clock, not to the mature org chart. The attached org/role chart is the destination. This sequence is who must be engaged so SI 1, SI 2, and SI 3 can run in parallel, and so physical prototype and pilot work starts on time.

Stewart, Beyreuther, and Staneff are the constraint and the advantage. Stewart: P&L, offtake, strategic finance, external development, strategy. Beyreuther: overall owner and architect of the Platform; the engineer who makes the system work together. Has design authority on all components, assemblies and process cells. Staneff: one ledger from forest floor through decades of building performance; scientific innovation and development of technical innovations. Hire doers that extend them. Stewart’s Strategic Projects Senior Associate is the doer across finance, operations, and product, from analysis through execution. Do not hire directors of Product, Policy, or Content this period. Do not hire a Manufacturing Operations specialist. Industry-changing scale is a certified set, copyable cells, and a live ledger, not an org chart filled early.

SI 1 (characterize / certify), SI 2 (design / document the build system), and SI 3 (design / document the production system) start together. Design and lab work have no floor lag. Factory 0 cell development, Resia Day 1, and first articles do. People who do that work must already be engaged when the work starts.

Named contractors and lab partners start faster than FTE. FTE searches open Day 1 with a 60–90 day time-to-seat. Product engineer and product architect offers already in motion are the SI 2 capacity for drawings by Day 60.

Physical clocks: Factory 0 occupy Day 1; 0.0 cells immediately; bathroom 0.1 as Resia comes up; Cloud prototypes in fabrication Day 90; industrial panels in test Day 90; Schweitzer and Unbrick permitted and preparing for production start Day 180; four Cloud prototypes complete Day 180; industrial demonstration product on our site Day 180. Crew arrives before that hardware, not after.

Head of Industrialization and Director of Process Development is one seat right now, not two managers. It reports to Beyreuther to focus on process (SI 3: cells, equipment, Factory 0 layout) and acts as interim Director of Manufacturing Operations through prototyping and process-cell development. This person learns and builds the systems of record the next hire will own. This specialist Director of Manufacturing Operations is hired later, when there is manufacturing operations beyond proto and cells.

Fewer managers, more doers. Do not hire a Manufacturing Operations specialist for this window.

Full MOD assembly 1.0, CLT component factory 0.1, and LAM depot 0.0 benches, replica factories, and depots are mature-state. Not this period.