Team offsite: what we're building next

01 · The offsite

A rare room for a distributed team

That sounds ordinary. For us it isn't.

We're a distributed team. We build BSF and biowaste technology with people across several countries, and we almost never share the same room, in many times not even in the same continent. So when we do, we don't fill it with status updates. We use it to decide what we build next.

02 · What we're building

Two things taking shape

Two things are taking shape, and both come down to the same idea: making biowaste recycling pay for itself.

03 · The service model

The first: the service model

The first is the service model. For years the industry has sold BSF as a protein business — grow larvae, sell them against fish meal. We've landed somewhere different: BSF is the cheapest way to handle a ton of biowaste — cheaper to build and run than composting or biogas — and the larvae and frass are what fund the processing, not the point of it. Run the numbers on a good case, one with a real local buyer for the output, and the model works even when we charge the waste producer nothing at all. A zero handling fee. The byproducts carry it. That turns "buy our insects" into something far easier to say yes to: we'll take your waste problem off your hands, for less than you pay today.

04 · The partnership

The second: how that travels

The second is how that travels. We don't want to own and operate plants around the world — that isn't where our edge is. Our edge is eight years of knowing what actually works: the facility designs, the climate control, the case economics, the recipes, and the honesty about where BSF loses. So we're building a partnership model around exactly that. We bring the technology and the know-how; a local partner brings the site, the capital, and the waste stream; together we stand up a biowaste service business in that market. One case at a time, country by country — a framework for repeating the same thing wherever the numbers work.

05 · Put together

What the two add up to

Put together: a service that pays for itself even at a zero gate fee, and a way to start new ones across the world without us having to be everywhere.

06 · The room

Working it out together

It's a good thing to work out in a room with the people who'll actually build it — for once, all in the same one.

07 · The invitation

The conversation I'd like to have

More on both soon. If you're a waste producer, an investor, or someone who'd want to build one of these locally — that's the conversation I'd most like to have.

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