Project Roadmap: A Four-Step Validation Plan

Our goal is to systematically de-risk our venture by validating technology, feasibility, legitimacy, and commercial viability in sequential phases. Each step builds upon the last, ensuring a solid foundation before scaling.

Phase 1: Prototype Validation

Timeline: 2025-2026

🎯 Goal: To prove, at minimal cost, that we can build a technically sound and desirable product.

✅ Key Outputs & Metrics: An interactive mobile demo, a technical whitepaper, and approval from technical advisors.

🧠 Strategic Logic: This is the foundation. Before engaging external partners, we must have tangible assets that prove our technical competence. This phase answers the question: "Can we build it?" The outputs are the essential tools needed to start conversations in Phase 2.

Phase 1.1: Micro-circulation Model (Parallel Path)

Timeline: 2025-2026

🎯 Goal: Build a self-sustaining micro-economy from the bottom-up as a risk hedge against institutional resistance.

✅ Key Outputs & Metrics: 3-10 merchant micro-loop with zero-friction onboarding, AI content + Web3 incentives, measurable circulation velocity.

🧠 Strategic Logic: This parallel path assumes potential failure of institutional partnerships. By proving micro-economic viability with small merchants through CPS payments + AI content + Web3 gamification, we create an alternative sustainable model via open-source protocols. This answers: "Can we succeed without institutions?"

Micro-circulation Flow

graph TD A["3-10 Small Merchants
Zero Learning Cost"] --> B["AI Content + Recommendation"] B --> C["Web3 Gamified Incentives"] C --> D["CPS Payment Loop"] D --> E["Open Source Protocol
Sustainable Operation"] E --> F["Iterative Product Development"] F --> A style A fill:#f3e5f5 style E fill:#e8f5e8

Phase 2: Feasibility Validation

Timeline: 2026-2027

🎯 Goal: To prove the model works in a controlled, real-world environment and gain our first credible local endorsement.

✅ Key Outputs & Metrics: A CMU Sandbox Test Report (with metrics like >99.5% transaction success, >50 NPS) and a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Chiang Mai University.

🧠 Strategic Logic: This moves our project from a concept to a proven solution in a "lab" environment. The data provides evidence, while the CMU partnership provides critical local credibility. This answers the question: "Does it work here?" This credibility is non-negotiable for successfully approaching the conservative financial institutions in Phase 3.

Phase 3: Legitimacy Validation

Timeline: 2026-2027

🎯 Goal: To secure the official regulatory and commercial "licenses to operate" from key ecosystem players.

✅ Key Outputs & Metrics: An approval letter for the Bank of Thailand (BOT) "Regulatory Sandbox" and a signed commercial partnership agreement with a leading bank (e.g., SCB).

🧠 Strategic Logic: This is the most critical de-risking phase. Without regulatory approval and a banking partner, we cannot legally operate. The success of Phase 2 is the key that unlocks these high-stakes negotiations. This phase answers the question: "Is it legal and supported?"

Phase 4: Commercial Validation

Timeline: 2027-2028

🎯 Goal: To prove product-market fit and demonstrate a profitable, sustainable business model with real users.

✅ Key Outputs & Metrics: Acquisition of the first 1,000 active users, first transaction revenue, and a data-backed model proving LTV > CAC (target ratio > 3:1).

🧠 Strategic Logic: With legal and technical hurdles cleared, this final step proves the business makes financial sense. It confirms that real users want our product and that we can acquire them profitably. This answers the ultimate question: "Is this a real business?" Success here provides the definitive green light for expansion.