Idea 301 of 500. Cluster 15: Software, services and the remote desk
Architecture 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
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
Take one real design from your portfolio, draw it again with the new design tools to the standards used in the Gulf and in Europe, and have a qualified engineer here check the structure. Send it with a price per sheet to small practices there, and offer one sheet of a live project free. A paid second sheet is the proof, and the feedback tells you which standard to master first.
- Who pays first
- A small architecture or engineering practice in the Gulf or Europe with a design backlog, which pays per sheet delivered on time and checked.
- What leaves today
- Design skill trained here is sold at local rates or leaves with the engineer, while the same checked drawings earn foreign rates elsewhere.
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
- 299Lawyers here checking the contracts and filings that AI drafts for foreign law firms, since commercial law here follows English law, the higher courts work in English and the lawyers are here
- 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
- 302Video editing, animation and game art studios selling to studios abroad
Idea 301 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.