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tags: Frothy, Ex Machina
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# Deus Ex / Ex Machina

## Background

Previous in HF to NFT artists, living in HK
Collecting physical art
First learned about Sushiswap
Artists give away disporportion of

Marketplace focused on emerging design talent
Current pre-launch

Connecting patrons and collectors
A web3 native Dribbble, Deviant Art

## Objectives
Pump volume on emerging artists
Creating distribution channels for artists

Token design allows for cross collaboration, allows sending artists, collectors get a cut of the sales - passthrough revenue model, collectors can stake their tokens/residency

Current:
Patron A connecting with Patron B, then at the end there is wallet movement

## Goals
Building community around providing economic contribution to artists: Etsy, Patreon, Exhibit halls at an Anime Con

Creating community norms, "GM"

Creating nuance into a community

Creating distribution channel for the artists, but Deus Ex being the distribution

In consdieration of scaling team, create a community where they are self managed, self elect within the community
## Scope

- successful launch for first artists, makes a signal [Shoichi Okumura](https://www.instagram.com/shoichi_okumura/?utm_medium=copy_link)
- March onboarding of MX based artists
- IRL art exhibitions, MXC, DC, HK

## Milestones/Timeline

Finding location for residency
Finish seed fundraise (APAC angels) end of Q4, $350K / 6 mo - hire 2 PMs, IRL events one on Token sales
Sending payments to artists
Putting together backend
Q1+

## Future Considerations

Tokens happening after the MVP

## Out of Scope

## Project Exit

## Key Stakeholders
Artists
Galleries
IRL events (location specific drops)
PM on Live events
PM on token design

## Constrains/Assumptions/Risks/Dependencies
:negative_squared_cross_mark: how to run socials for the projects, experiences for these artists, ordering and structure, do you hire (team growth)

## Deliverables

## Impressions
Is it identifiable enough, what is their niche?

Was not super clear, maybe because they are prelauch and can't define who they are

Likes the mission, do they have enough of an edge to pull off

IRL is not scale
Budget doesn't make sense
Experience to create a marketplace