Idea 301 of 500. Cluster 15: Software, services and the remote desk
Architecture and engineering drafting services for firms in the Gulf and Europe
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 drawing from your portfolio and redraw it to the standards used in the Gulf and in Europe, then send it with a price per sheet to 20 small architecture and engineering practices there. Offer to draft one sheet of a live project free. A paid second sheet from any practice is the proof, and its feedback tells you which standard to master first.
- Who pays first
- A small architecture or engineering practice in the Gulf or Europe with a drafting backlog, which pays per sheet delivered on time.
- What leaves today
- Drafting skill trained here is sold at local rates or leaves with the engineer, while the same sheets 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
- 298Accounting and bookkeeping outsourcing for small British and Australian firms, in their time zones
- 299Legal paperwork done for foreign law firms, since the common law is the same and the lawyers are here
- 300Typing up doctors' notes and reading scans for foreign hospitals, overnight, to their standard
- 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.