The mechanism, from the book
The proof exists in Malabe. What is missing is a thousand small versions of it.
Every idea in cluster 15 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Offer three law firms in Britain a free trial of one defined task: checking a standard contract or filing that their own software has drafted, against their template, returned within an agreed time. Ask each for a written view of the work and the price they pay now for that checking. The views and the price gap tell you whether lawyers here can win the work.
- Who pays first
- A small common-law firm abroad that drafts more with software than its lawyers can check, and pays for careful checking done well here.
- What leaves today
- Lawyers trained in the common law here work for local fees or emigrate, while firms abroad pay far more for the same careful work.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
The stock exchange in Malabe
More from cluster 15
- 296Remote-work hubs in Kandy, Galle and Jaffna with fibre, power and a lawyer who knows the tax
- 297A Sri Lankan software product, not a services firm: one tool, sold by subscription to the world
- 298Bookkeeping for small British and Australian firms, in their time zones: the software keeps the books, and a qualified accountant here checks them and answers the client's questions
- 300AI set up and looked after for small businesses at home and abroad: the booking replies, the invoices, the product descriptions in five languages, for a monthly fee
- 301Architecture and engineering design for firms in the Gulf and Europe: the drawings made with the new tools, and an engineer here who checks that it will stand up
- 302Video editing, animation and game art studios selling to studios abroad
Idea 299 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.
