The deployment

$1.5M of catalytic capital, deployed in five stages across 18 months.

Staged deployment is a discipline, not a schedule. Capital arrives in tranches because the work arrives in stages, and each stage gate is a readiness check rather than a marketing milestone. The deployment ledger lives in the open. A program officer reading this page in March 2026 should be able to read it again six months in and audit each line against the actual flow. That transparency is the catalytic frame keeping its own commitments visible.

The total ask

$1,500,000

Five stages. 18 months. Three bioregional pilots.

Priority slug

$615,000

Stage 0 plus Stage 1. Closes by end Q1 2026.

The five stages

Each stage names what it builds.

The five stages overlap on purpose. Foundation work in Stage 0 keeps tending its ground while Stage 1 activates the first bioregion. Stage 2 builds the Dashboard while Stage 1 deepens. Stage 3 carries the first festivals while Stage 2 ships its MVP. The work does not stop at stage boundaries; the boundaries are budget checkpoints, not project endpoints. Each bracketed total has been line-itemed against the deployment patterns already proven by Kinship Earth’s $370,000 moved across 30+ bioregions since October 2024.

Stage 00 / Months 1 to 4

Foundation & Documentation

$135,000

9% of the $1.5M raise

Governance setup with both fiscal sponsors. Partnership agreements signed across Bioregional Embassy and the Hudson Valley stewardship lineage. Technology prototypes scoped for the Dashboard build. Foundation outreach opens the catalytic-capital conversation in advance of the priority-slug close. Roughly $45,000 stands up a part-time bookkeeper as the financial-operations spine across both rails; a fractional CFO comes online in Stage 1 once revenue ramps. The fiduciary infrastructure of Kinship Earth and the Nalu'ea Living Trust carries the rest.

Stage 01 / Months 3 to 12

Activate Bioregions

$480,000

32% of the $1.5M raise. Three pilots at $160K each.

Three bioregional pilots sequenced rather than concurrent. Hudson Valley first, Mexico City second, a third bioregion at M15. Each pilot carries stewardship compensation, community mapping and listening, activation infrastructure, Flow Fund seed capital, and governance-circle setup. Sixty-three percent of each pilot is people work.

Stage 02 / Months 6 to 15

Synergize & Deployment

$430,000

29% of the $1.5M raise

The Bioregional Intelligence Dashboard moves from spec to beta to production. Capital pipeline mobilization through Nalu'ea Trust begins surfacing investable opportunities to aligned LPs. Investment-matchmaking infrastructure stands up alongside the foundation engagement cadence that primes the Y3 subscription pipeline.

Stage 03 / Months 9 to 17

Celebrate

$180,000

12% of the $1.5M raise

Planetary Party festivals across the three pilot bioregions, carried in the Permatours regenerative-festival lineage of five-plus years across Turtle Island. Cross-bioregion learning convenings let stewards hold one another's work in person. Lineage-rooted ceremony and gathering become the public face of the cycle.

Stage 04 / Months 12 to 18

Expand

$280,000

19% of the $1.5M raise

The federated learning network turns over. Pattern documentation captured in Stage 1 forks to additional bioregions preparing to sense the work. Internal-surplus deployment is sequenced for Y4 onward, so the next 6 to 7 bioregion activations come from recycled surplus rather than from a new catalytic ask.

Per-bioregion unit economics

What $160,000 buys in one bioregion.

A foundation officer asking what $160,000 actually does in a place like the Hudson Valley should be able to read this breakdown line by line. Sixty-three percent flows to people work: stewardship compensation, community mapping and listening, activation infrastructure. Sixteen percent seeds the local Flow Fund so the bioregion can deploy its first cycle of trust-based grants. Six percent captures the story through Eslerh and Micelio Media, so the pattern can fork to the next bioregion. Twelve percent covers governance setup and a three-percent reserve. This is the unit economics the program officer can audit six months in.

Category split of the $160K

People work. Stewardship compensation, mapping, activation.
63%$100,000
Flow Fund seed capital. Demonstrates the rail.
16%$25,000
Governance setup and contingency.
15%$25,000
Storytelling capture. The pattern can fork.
6%$10,000

Per-bioregion $160,000 budget by line item.
Line item	What it does	Budget
Bioregional steward compensation	One named lead steward, 18-month commitment, partial FTE. Stewardship is the work; this is the largest single line.	$42,000
Community mapping and listening	Phase 1 SENSE and Phase 2 SEE. Circle convening, ceremony, listening sessions, asset and relationship mapping. Honoraria for elders and lineage holders.	$28,000
Activation infrastructure	Phase 3 ACTIVATE. Training and facilitation for governance capacity, project incubation, cross-bioregion learning convenings.	$30,000
Governance circle setup	Legal and operational setup of the local Flow Fund governance circle. Integration with Mycelial Law's living-contract framework. Training the local stewardship circle.	$20,000
Flow Fund seed capital	A small catalytic seed from the Planetary Party Trust to the local Flow Fund. Demonstrates the rail, attracts first-cycle proposals, creates the proof-of-pattern that draws additional capital.	$25,000
Documentation and storytelling capture	Micelio Media production budget for the bioregion's case study. Films, photos, written case study, ceremony documentation. Becomes a learning asset for future bioregions.	$10,000
Contingency and reserve	Three percent reserve for unforeseen ceremony, partner, or logistics costs.	$5,000
Total per bioregion	Stage 1 unit of deployment	$160,000

Source: Marcus financial model, 2026-05-14, Section 5.

The deployment window

The cash deploys in three tranches.

The $1.5M arrives in three tranches matched to deployment readiness rather than to a single wire. Tranche 1 closes the priority slug at $615,000 by end Q1 2026, funding Stage 0 and the Hudson Valley activation in Stage 1. Tranche 2 follows at $560,000 by end Q3 2026 once Hudson Valley activation milestones land and Mexico City pre-conditions are met. Tranche 3 closes at $325,000 by end Q1 2027 as Mexico City milestones complete and the third bioregion stands ready. The pace is set so capital is never sitting idle and stewardship is never starved.

Tranching protects both sides of the agreement. The Trust does not commit capital to a bioregion that has not yet surfaced ready stewardship; the funder does not write against pre-conditions that have not yet been met. The practice is standard catalytic-capital discipline, and the team holds it because the alternative is the worst version of patient capital: dollars arriving faster than the work can hold them.

Tranche 1

$615,000

Expected close. End Q1 2026

Hudson Valley pilot pre-conditions met. Bioregional Embassy partnership signed.

Tranche 2

$560,000

Expected close. End Q3 2026

Hudson Valley activation milestones hit. Mexico City pre-conditions met.

Tranche 3

$325,000

Expected close. End Q1 2027

Mexico City milestones hit. Third bioregion pre-conditions met. Dashboard MVP live.

The audit posture

Auditable against the deployment ledger.

Every dollar named on this page maps to a line in the deployment ledger. The ledger is published quarterly to the foundation funder community, and six-month grant-officer audits are welcomed rather than scheduled around. Both fiscal sponsors carry their own fiduciary reporting on top of the Protocol’s: Kinship Earth produces its standard trust-based participatory-grant reports for the charitable rail, and Nalu’ea Living Trust produces its trustee reports for the investment rail. The catalytic frame stays honest because the numbers stay visible from three independent vantage points at once.

Read deeper

The 18-month horizon, and the seven-year trajectory.

Use of funds names what the $1.5M buys across the 18-month window. The horizon page names what comes after: structural break-even by Y3 in the base case, the honest cash-floor gap the model surfaces at end of Q4 2027, and the recycling commitment that returns more capital to the ecosystem by Y7 than the original raise carried in. Read it next, with the same patience this page asks for.

See the seven-year horizon Read the two rails