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30 DAYS TO 50K · THE SERIES

Hosted by MVSA & Kaya

MVSA and Kaya, the series hosts, sitting side by side at a wooden table and looking into the camera. Kaya, on the left, is smiling, in glasses, a dark head wrap and a light blue shirt. MVSA, on the right, wears an olive head wrap and shirt, chin resting on one fist, a silver cuff on the wrist. A bright window is behind them.

EVERY CONTRIBUTION IS ON THE RECORD

Days to $50KHelp us build the future.

A GARAGE NOW. A COMPANY IN JORDAN.

ROUND 4 · THE CLOCK RESETS

Thirty more days. The same raise.

The first thirty days closed on 26 August at $3,885 of $50,000, with one of the fifty founding seats claimed. That is the whole result and it is printed here rather than folded quietly into a new number.

The clock resets. The progress does not. Everything given so far stays on the bar below — the goal is still $50,000, there is still one pot and one figure, and nothing about where the money goes has changed.

Every round, the room comes back. That's the whole point.

Round 4 runs 4 November to 3 December 2026 — day one to day thirty, counted to one fixed end time like the first.

Reading the total…

Give any amount — it lands in Stripe's records and gets entered onto this counter by hand, same as everything on the direct-donations lane. Give any amount →

WHERE WE ARE NOW

Where this is being built right now

The whole operation is fourteen square metres of garage. Four metres of it is materials and tools, six is blocks curing, four is the machine and the dies. Three bins: two of sifted soil, one of cement and sand. One press. That is the entire factory, and everything the platform has shipped so far was built around it.

The constraint is not the press — it is the floor. Blocks cure flat, then elevated, then stack five high, and until they can stack they are floor. So the floor is the ceiling: the room decides how much can be in production at once, no matter how fast the machine runs. That is why a yard is the first thing on the list and not the last.

And a yard buys more than room. Running real volume out of a residential garage spends goodwill that cannot be bought back — a yard buys permission as much as it buys space. Registration, a bank account and the right to work here are the same kind of purchase: none of them are equipment, and none of them can be skipped.

WHAT THE THIRTY DAYS ARE FOR

This is the first thirty days of a village.

30 Days to 50K funds the first steps of the Sanctuary Village Project: the first land, the first workers, the first bricks. The garage, the press and the paperwork on this page are not the destination — they are what has to exist before a village can be started at all. The village page is where that plan is set out in full.

See the Sanctuary Village Project →

WHERE THE MONEY GOES

Six things, and a number.

Not “operations”. Not “growth”. These are the actual categories the $50,000 pays for, in the order they have to happen.

Published as categories and a total. The specifics of how the entity is structured are still being worked through with counsel — and are exactly the sort of thing that cannot be un-published once it is wrong — so they are not on this page.

  1. 01

    Legal, counsel and registration

    Getting established properly, with real counsel, before anything else is committed. This is its own visible line because it is the work — not overhead hidden inside another number.

  2. 02

    Licences, permits and syndicate registration

    The permissions required to operate at all. Sequential, slow, and non-negotiable.

  3. 03

    Residence and work authorisation

    Authorisation to live and work where the build happens. Without it the rest cannot be run day to day.

  4. 04

    Machinery and dies

    The production hardware and the tooling it runs. The first line on this list that makes a physical thing.

  5. 05

    Yard, storage and covered curing

    Somewhere to work, somewhere to keep material, and covered space for output to cure properly rather than fast.

  6. 06

    Twelve months of compliance and operating runway

    Registration is not the finish line. Roughly $5,000–$9,000 a year of compliance and operating cost continues after the campaign ends, so a year of it is funded up front rather than left to hope.

Total

$50,000

The costs do not stop when the campaign does. Roughly $5,000–$9,000 a year continues after the campaign — which is why a year of runway is on this list. A raise that funds a launch and not its first year is a raise that buys a second emergency.

That is the whole list. If you want to move one line of it, the four slots above are where to point a one-time contribution — or back the build monthly instead.

THE THIRTY DAYS

What happens, and when.

The slow items go first, because they are slow. Paperwork does not move faster for being started later.

Days 1–7

Filing starts, and so does the press

Counsel engaged and the registration and licence paperwork started — the slow-moving items go first precisely because they are slow. And the first blocks get pressed in week one, because curing takes fourteen days and that clock has to start early enough to finish inside the month.

Days 8–15

Permissions in motion, site decided, blocks curing

Applications sitting with the people who decide them, and the yard and covered curing space chosen. The first blocks are curing through this whole stretch — flat, then elevated — which is exactly the kind of unglamorous waiting a build-in-public run should show rather than skip.

Days 16–23

Tooling ordered, runway ring-fenced, blocks cured and stacked

Machinery and dies specified and ordered, and the twelve months of compliance and operating cost set aside rather than spent. The first blocks come off cure and stack five high — the point at which they stop being floor and start being inventory.

Days 24–30

The first piece built from our own blocks

Something built, on camera, out of blocks pressed and cured inside these thirty days. Not a finished building — the honest end of a first month is a first real piece, made start to finish from our own material.

THE DAILY RECORD

One line a day, whatever the day was.

Every day of this gets one sentence and, where there is one, a video. Including the days where the sentence is “we waited”. A build-in-public run that only reports good days is not a record, it is marketing.

Day 1 has not run yet.

Nothing has been logged, so there is nothing here. The first entry appears the first day the campaign actually runs — this space stays empty until then rather than filling up with a placeholder.

Thirty entries, whatever each day turns out to be. If you want the record to have more in it than waiting, that is what the money buys.

BACK THE BUILD

Become a founding member.

Every tier below is a membership or a pre-sale — you get something, permanently, for taking part. That is deliberate. This is not a collection tin; it is the front of the room, sold early.

Memberships are handled on Studio Comms directly. Monthly tiers can be cancelled any time. The lifetime seat is a one-time purchase and is capped — Cohort I is fifty seats and is not reopened later at a different price.

Insider

$10/mo

Step inside and follow the build from the inside.

  • ·Members Discord role & member-only channels
  • ·Early podcast access — 2–7 days early
  • ·Everything in The Circle
Join →

Syndicate

$25/mo

For the ones building alongside us.

  • ·Priority community access & drops
  • ·Recognition in the Syndicate ranks
  • ·Everything in Insider
Join →

Founder's Crest

$75/mo

Stand at the front of the room, month to month.

  • ·Top-tier Discord role & direct line
  • ·Founding-member recognition
  • ·Everything in Syndicate
Join →

Founder's Crest — Lifetime, Cohort I

$1,000once

A numbered seat. Capped at 50, and it is not sold again later.

  • ·A permanent numbered founder seat (No. 001–050)
  • ·The physical Founder's Crest ring, engraved with your seat number
  • ·Everything in Founder's Crest, for good
Claim a lifetime seat →

Physical items — the engraved Founder's Crest ring and its stand — are collected after purchase, from a short form. Nothing is shipped until you have entered where it goes.

Three of those rungs have a slot pointing at them. Every rung unlocks on the campaign total, so a contribution of any size — once or monthly — moves all ten.

QUESTIONS

The ones worth answering.

Give any amount — it lands in Stripe's records and gets entered onto this counter by hand, same as everything on the direct-donations lane. Give any amount →

FOLLOW IT

Watch it happen, or help decide it.

The daily record above is the public version. The community is where the decisions get argued about before they are made.

The nightly stream

The build runs live most nights, hosted by MVSA & Kaya — new music, new artists, the work toward the farm and the yard, the press, the mixing, the paperwork, and the days nothing works. No schedule to sign up for and nothing to buy: it either happens on camera or it did not happen.

Announced each day with the daily line

The community server

Daily progress, the open questions, and the votes on the calls that are genuinely still open. Free to join.

Join the server →