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Funding Shopping List

What aligned EUR actually buys

A tiered shopping list that turns budget abstractions into items on a dashboard. When funding lands, this is the work queue that activates. Until then, it is an advisory map — so the conversation can be concrete instead of hand-wavy.

Round 1 · Sovereign Switch Round 2 · EvoBiosis thesis (gated on Complete Memory)

Why publish this

Funding is a byproduct of aligned work, not the main focus. But “what would you do with funding?” is a fair question, and a good answer is a list that people can actually read and argue with.

So: here is the list. Tiered by priority, with EUR estimates, rationales, and the relationship to the round-1 / round-2 thesis split. Alignment matters more than funding type — grants, equity-free stipends, private support, and invoiced work all fit.

How to read it

Tier 1 items are the cheapest and fastest to pay back — days or weeks, not months. Tier 2 is infrastructure and space: mid-term aspirations where the cash-flow logic matters. Tier 3 is strategic / optional. Tier 4 is Round-2 territory, gated on earlier deliverables.

Each item carries a priority dot on its left edge — gold for high, green for medium, sand for low. Quick scan first, then read the items that catch your attention.

Tier 1

Direct productivity multipliers

Cheapest, fastest payback — days to weeks

Rasumofskygasse-adjacent private space — sun, privacy, desk, couch

High

~EUR 100–400 / month. Schrebergarten sublet floor, private rooftop / terrace ceiling. Comparable products exist: rooftop-day-pass (EUR 15–40/day), private-garden-hour rentals (EUR 10–30/hr), informal Schrebergarten sublets (EUR 80–200/mo), co-working with outdoor terrace (EUR 20–30/day).

The affect-first, low-commit, highest-leverage layer of the physical-hub stack. Not an office, not a business address — a place to think outdoors with privacy, within walking distance of the team’s current base in Vienna’s 3rd Bezirk. The smallest unit of hub spend that pays back fastest. Framed explicitly as the core quick win.

Extended AI usage budget — large-context model access

High

EUR 180–500 / month. Subscription tier plus API overage; large-context turns are the expensive band.

Leverage on AI work is set by how many large-context turns the team can afford to run. Complete Memory, Kidur, the internal dashboard, and grant drafts all benefit directly. Cheapest Tier-1 item with the fastest payoff — days, not months.

Electric car (used) on the Graz–Vienna axis

Medium

EUR 18,000–28,000 one-off (used EV: Renault Zoe, VW e-Up, used MG4); plus EUR 100–160/mo running (insurance, electricity, parking).

Unlocks reliable Alm access, Mürzzuschlag base, and family routes without friction. High utility; medium timing — trains on the axis serve as an interim solution. The long-term target is an open-source, mechanically-serviceable, non-cloud-controlled vehicle; interim is a used EV. Spec gate: panoramic roof, mechanically-also-works, open-source, no embedded Google, not externally controllable.

Tier 2

Infrastructure & space

Mid-term — capex-as-rent / capex-as-credit

Vienna coworking / business address — Regus Kärntner Ring

High

Day pass EUR 20–30; coworking ~EUR 150–250/mo; private office EUR 500–900/mo; virtual-office tier ~EUR 80–140/mo.

Unlocks a proper business address for Impressum publication across the Evobiosys network’s sites. Creates a Vienna work anchor with low fixed cost relative to the grant-credibility gain. Day-pass and virtual-office tiers are valid low-commitment trials before a full private office.

Vienna coworking alternatives — lower-price comparison set

Medium

Impact Hub Vienna ~EUR 75/mo; Stockwerk ~EUR 265/mo; talent.garden ~EUR 250–350/mo.

If the address-on-Impressum leg matters less than a real desk plus community, Impact Hub is roughly one-third the price of Regus and carries social-impact alignment. A hedge, not a replacement — worth one visit before committing either way.

Wien-Mitte Mietkauf — rent-to-own with direct Wien-Mitte connection

Medium

EUR 250k–500k total; Mietkauf structured as rent ~EUR 900–1,600/mo depending on property and term. Gewerbefläche option may be separate or adjacent.

The team’s mid-term bigger aspiration: a small property in the 3rd Bezirk with a direct connection to Wien Mitte. Spatially distinct from Mürzzuschlag — Wien Mitte is the Vienna-side anchor of the Graz–Vienna axis; each side serves a different week/month cadence. Ideally paired with nearby Gewerbefläche (see below).

Gewerbefläche near Wien Mitte — old-laptop datacenter

Medium

~EUR 15–25 / m² / month in the 3rd Bezirk for 20–50 m² units — so EUR 300–1,250/mo; power infrastructure for rack-like loads adds EUR 50–200/mo. May bundle with the Wien-Mitte Mietkauf.

Commercial-use space co-located with the Wien-Mitte Mietkauf for a small datacenter made of retired-but-working laptops. Ties into the UnusedCompute thesis — hardware replaced but still functional is a resource category. Whether it pays back as production compute or as a demonstration of the thesis is a separate question; the budget line exists either way.

Mietkauf Mürzzuschlag — rent-to-own on the Graz–Vienna axis

Medium

EUR 80k–180k total; Mietkauf payments ~EUR 500–900/mo depending on house price and term.

A physical hub on the Graz–Vienna axis. Candidate layout: Seminarraum, e-bike distance from family, study plus small conference room plus library plus couch plus a separate entrance. Part of a layered physical-hub stack (see below) — each layer has a different cash-flow logic and a different cadence.

Scanner + ADF + local OCR setup (RISC-V-ready)

High

EUR 300–800 for a trustworthy ADF scanner (Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1600 ~EUR 450, Epson WorkForce DS-780N ~EUR 400, Brother ADS-4300N ~EUR 350); plus EUR 150–500 for a RISC-V SBC (VisionFive 2 ~EUR 150, Milk-V Jupiter ~EUR 300) once OCR tooling is production-ready on RISC-V.

The team’s paper archive — notes, documents, pages — has never touched a cloud server. The privacy property is already there; a scanner plus ADF plus local OCR preserves it while enabling Complete Memory ingest. ADF matters because bulk throughput turns a “someday” project into a weekend task. RISC-V is the open-hardware target once OCR tooling matures on it; until then, the scanner alone is the unlock and OCR can run on a laptop. Entire pipeline stays under physical control. No cloud OCR in the scan path.

Family-Werkstatt conversion → home-office

Medium

EUR 5,000–20,000 one-off for assessment plus soundproofing plus heating plus desk/lighting. No monthly rent (family-owned).

The cheapest-per-hour option in the physical-hub stack. Sequence: assessment first, then the conversion budget. Funding unlocks assessment and conversion in parallel with the Mürzzuschlag and Vienna layers rather than sequentially — each layer targets a different cadence (daily / weekly / monthly / quarterly).

Tier 3

Strategic & optional

Nice-to-have — small sums, real leverage

Cloud + infrastructure headroom

Low–medium

EUR 50–200 / month across Scaleway-class VPS (holon-per-project pattern), Infomaniak, and Cloudscale for encrypted backups.

Already mostly-solved at this price tier, but a funding tranche lets the holon-per-project pattern scale without constant cost-optimization. Pairs with an in-flight effort to stack EU cloud startup credits, which further reduces real spend.

AI-talent-integration fund

Low

EUR 5,000–50,000 depending on scope. Low floor: rotated shared-token access for a small circle. High floor: a quarter-long stipend for one EU-resident AI researcher.

Make the EU a more attractive place for AI researchers and contributors — whether via shared large-context-model access, small campus builds, or stipend-funded residencies. A natural fit for aligned funding, but a Round 2 item: EvoBiosis-thesis-adjacent, gated on Complete Memory.

Tier 4

Deferred — Round 2 territory

EvoBiosis thesis — gated on Complete Memory

SoFin launch capital

Low (Round 1)

To be determined — depends on SoFin structure. Currently dimmed in internal priorities.

Round-2 candidate. Not funded from a Round-1 tranche unless the SoFin framing shifts. Listed here for completeness so that if aligned capital arrives with a SoFin fit, the line item exists.

EvoBiosis thesis build-out / Kidur federation R&D

Low (Round 1)

Grant-funded naturally via NGI Zero Commons, Fediversity, Sovereign Tech Fund — all on the active grants pipeline.

Designed to be grant-funded. Round 1 should not absorb this — it is the thing Round 2 targets directly once Complete Memory is shipped and the EvoBiosis thesis has a demonstrable anchor.

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Funding buys capacity — capacity is people

Tier 4 of this list is quietly about hiring. When funding lands, the team grows. If any of the roles below sound like something you’d enjoy doing alongside a small, aligned group — building in public, publishing what we learn, working to EU standards — we’d like to hear from you. This is not a formal application portal. It is an invitation.

Grant writer / funding ops

EU grants pipeline (NGI Zero, Sovereign Tech Fund, Fediversity), narrative drafting, budget mapping.

DevOps / sovereign infrastructure

EU-hosted VPS, the holon-per-project pattern, encrypted backups, Nix / Infomaniak / Scaleway. No US hyperscalers in the critical path.

Frontend / design

Jekyll and static-first websites, warm typographic design, accessible UI. Experience with multi-site / multi-brand networks a plus.

Rust / systems engineering

CRDT-based storage, federation protocols, and the Kidur codebase. Comfortable with long-horizon open-source work.

Research / writing partner

AI cognition amplification, regenerative finance, EU sovereignty. Someone who enjoys making hard ideas legible.

Something we haven’t listed

If you think your practice fits this work but isn’t named above, tell us. The list is a starting point, not a filter.

Reveal email →

Email Reveal email with a short note — what you’d like to work on and how you’d like to be reached. No CV required for a first conversation.

Notes & open questions

Estimates are ranges, not quotes. Vienna-area prices move. The EUR bands above reflect current public pricing at the time of writing and exist to ground discussion — not to lock commitments.
Tiering reflects priority, not aspiration. Tier 4 is deferred because it is thesis-gated, not because it matters less. A different funding shape would reorder the list.
Round 1 and Round 2 are framings, not funds. Round 1 aligns with the current Sovereign Switch work; Round 2 activates once the EvoBiosis thesis has a shipped anchor (Complete Memory). A funder comfortable with either can plug in at either level.
This page is a dashboard, not a pitch. It will be updated as items are acquired, re-priced, or retired. The living version lives inside the team’s internal priorities file; this is the public mirror.