Roadmap to a Post‑Scarcity Society
Overview
Biom's fundamental strategy is to apply a holistic, first-principles analysis to the primary costs of living (food, healthcare, and housing) and focus effort on solutions with the highest capital efficiency, mission impact, and profit potential.
Biom's mission is obviously very ambitious and will take many years to be fully realized. We may reprioritize, expidite, or delay certain phases of our roadmap below depending on market conditions, capital availability, and the maturity of enabling technologies. And while the long-term roadmap leverages vertical and horizontal integration to drive down costs and maximize customer value, we expect each phase along that path to independently profitable and cash flow positive.
We plan to weight our employee compensation towards equity to keep our team's incentives aligned and maximize skin in the game. As we scale the business from Phase 4 and beyond, we will offer employees generous living arrangements through our Regenerative Wellness Communities (in addition to equity) as an increasing portion of compensation. This strategy will maximize operational leverage and will free a significant portion of our cash flow to expand and replicate the model.
We plan to IPO after we are able to demonstrate the capital efficiency and operational leverage of our model; shortly after launching our first Regenerative Wellness Community (RWC) but likely before launching the second one.
Biom addresses some of the biggest markets in the world. If we are able to achieve our long-term objectives, we see a path to radically driving down the cost of living on a global scale; with a market capitalization commensurate to such an impact.
Phase One
Regenerative High Omega-3 Cooking Oil
Our first phase focuses on regenerative, organic high omega-3 camelina cooking oil. This element of our plan has the lowest risks, barriers to entry, and capital requirements relative to its potential social impact and profit opportunity.
Regenerative organic farming is a first principles approach to food production, and the basis of the initial phases of Biom's Roadmap. It's not just better for the soil and the climate. When we cut out the costs of herbicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizers and tillage, it's just plain cheaper.
Biom is partnering with regenerative organic farmers (and helping others transition to regenerative organic practices) as we grow the market for high omega-3 camelina cooking oil. We will initially focus on a direct-to-consumer model, as this has the highest margin potential. As we work with farmers to scale our supply base, we will transition our focus to supermarket retail and restaurant wholesale opportunities.
Phase Two
Regenerative Snacks
Our second phase focuses on delicious, affordable, nutrient dense snackfoods. We intend to fund this phase substantially through cash flow from our omega-3 oil business.
Biom plans to offer a variety of regenerative super(duper) snackfoods including: crackers, chips, energy-bars, snack-mixes, jerkies, and drinks. As with our omega-3 cooking oil, we will start our snackfoods business with a direct-to-consumer model. As we scale up we look to partner with grocery stores, convenience stores, and gas (EV charging) stations.
We will invest heavily into innovative cultivation methods to scale the production of maitake, lion's mane, and shiitake mushrooms for their protein, cancer-fighting, and brain-boosting abilities. These mushrooms will be essential ingredients in our crackers, energy-bars, and jerkies.
Phase Three
3D Printed Buildings
Our third phase focuses on 3D printed architecture. While we expect 3D printed architecture to have lower initial capital costs than our snackfoods business, the R&D timeline (and thus return on equity) will initially be slower.
We plan to use this in our favor by waiting until the industry matures. We expect competition between the 3D construction printer manufacturers to drive down capital costs; while first-movers work through some of the initial hurdles around building codes and permitting.
We view current methods of 3D printed house construction to be evolutionary, not revolutionary. Merely swapping out the walls and housing envelope with a printed structure doesn't address enough of the cost structure to drastically cut the cost of building construction.
We believe we have a disruptive, first-principles solution for printing monolithic, fully self-supported, multi-story buildings—including floors/ceilings and roof structures—to radically disrupt the cost structure of architecture and construction. This will require literal "outside-the-box" thinking and re-imagining architectural forms to incorporate more curvatures and organic shapes.
- In essence, we believe we will eventually be able to print a modest modern palace for less than the cost of a traditional house.
But it will take time for building codes to change, and for engineers and inspectors to get used to a radically different approach to construction (hint: AI will be very helpful in this process).
In the meantime, we will start small. We will test our techniques with smaller, unpermitted or minimally-permitted structures such as saunas (in support of the wellness portion of our mission) and literal kids castles.
The adoption of whole-house 3D printed construction will occur alongside a major demographic transition in the United States. As baby boomers begin to downsize and move into eldercare facilities, the housing market will become oversaturated. In this market, prices will be set by the lowest cost marginal producer, which we believe will be whole-house 3D printed home builders. The combination of this new technology and the demographic transition will likely drive down housing costs (and home values) substantially for everyone.
Phase Four
Regenerative Wellness Communities and IPO
Things start to really get interesting in Phase 4. This phase focuses on Regenerative Wellness Communities (RWCs). With RWCs, we will start to see the significant synergistic effects of vertical and horizontal integration to drive down the basic costs of living.
Biom will literally print Regenerative Wellness Communities. RWCs will include housing, eldercare facilities, cafeterias, retreat centers, spas, fitness facilities, conference centers, educational facilities, child care, food production, and agriculture. They will provide the highest quality of living for any stage of life.
RWCs will also be places of stunning beauty. Biom's palacial 3D printed architecture will feature fractal designs and organic curvatures not possible with traditional building techniques. And the landscape will be replete with permaculture gardens, ponds, managed forests, and other natural areas for residents (and wildlife) to enjoy.
- Regenerative Wellness Communities will be exceptionally capital efficient.
Over the next decade, agricultural land values will likely plummet. ~40 million acres in the US are devoted to corn-ethanol which will no longer be viable in an autonomous EV dominated transportation paradigm. Furthermore, by 2030 precision fermentation and lab-grown meats will likely contribute to displacing half of the cow-based meat production in the United States—as predicted by exponential technology researcher Tony Seba and his team at RethinkX in their groundbreaking report, Rethinking Food & Agriculture. By 2035, 485 million acres currently designated for corn ethanol, pasture, rangeland, and feed production will likely no longer be economically viable for agricultural purposes.
This disruption will have enormously deflationary impacts on farmland values and farm equipment. Biom plans to purchase low-cost agricultural land in climate resilient locations near places people want to live. We will 3D print RWCs and purchase steeply discounted tractors and combines to grow much of food needed for our food business (and for residents of our RWCs). And of course, we will make use of the burgeoning precision-fermentation industry to help drive down the cost of essential beneficial ingredients in our food products.
Biom will install community-scale solar and battery energy systems. We are also watching progress of geothermal pioneer, Eavor Technologies for year-round community-scale heat and baseload power. Biom will provide shared mobility services and community level internet.
We expect Biom's eldercare and assisted-living facilities to be a significant profit center. Biom will provide the aging baby-boomer generation with the best end-of-life care available, including spas, retreat centers, and recreation facilities. Biom's retreat centers will give an experience similar to Esalen and will be another profit center for the business.
Regenerative Wellness Communities will provide homes for purchase, as well as long and short-term rental. Everyone living in the communities will essentially have all of their needs provided and will have access to the spa, retreat center, recreation/fitness centers, and more.
Employees will primarily be compensated in equity and will have most of their needs met by the community. This will free cash flow to expand the model to other locations.
As Biom scales this model, another interesting opportunity will be a lifestyle subscription plan for travelers who like to explore the world. As we build out communities all over the world, retirees, freelancers, and people with remote jobs will be able to subscribe to a total lifestyle package and hop from community to community, getting a consistent spa/wellness experience wherever they go.
Biom plans to IPO once we are able to demonstrate the financial leverage of our model; sometime after the successful completion of our first Regenerative Wellness Community. We believe we will be able to achieve a cult-like retail ownership-base (and valuation premium) given our powerful socially-beneficial mission and how many lives we will be able to directly impact through our food and RWC businesses.
Phase Five
Health Insurance Pool
Our fifth phase focuses on member insurance pools to drive down the cost of healthcare. The best healthcare is to be healthy enough not to need healthcare. Prevention and low-cost wellness management are essential for a low-cost health system.
Regenerative Wellness Communities will employ health coaches, dieticians, fitness trainers, yoga and martial arts instructors, physical therapists, accupuncturists, life coaches, and mental health therapists. We will offer an integrated health insurance pool available for all of our community members and employees. We will work with each member to develop a custom wellness plan and offer generous discounts based on the members' ability to maintain, or work towards, their individualized wellness goals. And members will have all the tools necessary to achieve those goals with our fitness centers and cafeterias serving up delicious, super(duper)food packed meals.
We are confident that this approach will lower the average healthcare costs, and thus insurance costs, below anything comparable on the market.
Phase Six
Post-Scarcity Society
The sixth phase is the culmination of Biom's mission; a post-scarcity society in which everyone has the opportunity of a healthy, prosperous lifestyle.
Our first target audience in this phase are the self-employed. We will create opportunities for self-employed people to do what they already love doing, as part of the Biom ecosystem. Biom will take care of billing, payroll, accounting, and other adminsitrative services enabling freelancers to focus on their work. Biom will essentially leverage economies of scale (and AI) to do what individuals might not be as efficient at. Biom will also give freelancers the opportunity participate in Biom's employee equity program and homes in Regenerative Wellness Communities.
However, Biom's mission will not be complete until we are able to create opportunities of prosperity and health for homeless populations and other marginalized people. We believe that, to maximize collective human prosperity, we need everyone's contribution.
Biom will employ life coaches, mental health therapists, drug counselors, and social workers to help get marginalized people's lives stabilized and, if they so choose, help them find a place in the Biom ecosystem. Many people drop out of society because they have become disillusioned. We hope to inspire these people with Biom's mission and opportunities for a prosperous lifestyle in Biom's Regenerative Wellness Communities.
And Biom will explore partnerships with local governments to print simple transitional communities where people can build life skills and social trust as they begin to turn their lives around. We believe that when people are given a safe place to sleep and store their belongings, along with a clear pathway to a more prosperous life, many will choose that path.
Are you inspired by Biom's mission and can you envision the possibily for a post-scarcity society described in our roadmap? Join Biom!