Vision Board
High Noon doesn't get funded as "a board game I want to sell." It gets funded by reframing the IP into the category a grant program already wants to pay for. One asset, many masks. Build a reusable grant-capture engine, aim it at High Noon first, productize it after.
Turn High Noon from "a game that needs money to grow" into the flagship content of a fundable technology and a fundable mission — pulling non-dilutive capital across arts, education, and defense verticals, while building a repeatable AI grant-capture engine that becomes its own product line.
Direct win
Non-dilutive $ into High Noon / the Nooniverse.
Meta win
The engine itself becomes a licensable grant-capture service.
Near-term oxygen. Narrative-heavy = our wheelhouse.
Reframe: High Noon = original narrative IP & illustrated work by a Florida creator.
Targets: FL Division of Arts & Culture, NEA Grants for Arts Projects
Range: $2K–$100K
Effort: Low — the application is a story, and we tell stories.
Dwight's parents own a private school AND a charter school.
Reframe: High Noon + 10X Kids + Mad Money Academy as curriculum/edtech, piloted in real classrooms.
Targets: DoE Charter Schools Program, Title I/II/IV, state edtech, STEM & financial-literacy foundations
Range: $10K–$1M+
Effort: Medium — schools bring eligibility AND a pilot site. Strong grant narrative.
Non-dilutive, stacks on the AI-infra thesis, builds a real asset.
Reframe: AI-assisted adaptive narrative engine / AI game master. High Noon = flagship demo content.
Targets: SBIR/STTR (NSF + civilian agencies), NEH digital humanities (secondary)
Range: Phase I ~$50K–$275K · Phase II ~$1M–$2M
Effort: High — but shares AI core + SBIR registration with Track C.
Military has a decades-old, funded 'analytic wargaming' budget line.
Reframe: High Noon reskin as squad-level decision / resource-management trainer under uncertainty.
Targets: DoD SBIR (training/human-performance), STE-adjacent; DOJ = LE de-escalation & tactical decision training
Range: SBIR Phase I/II (same as Track B)
Effort: High — combines with B into one 'AI-driven adaptive wargaming trainer.'
Sequence: A & D now (cashflow + eligibility) → B & C in parallel (shared AI core + shared SBIR registration).
The reusable machine. AI is genuinely strong on 1–2, assistive on 3, human on 4.
Recurring scan: Grants.gov, SBIR.gov, FL arts/culture, foundation DBs, creative-economy funds. Mission-match scoring.
Parse NOFOs/topics vs. a per-project profile. Kill/advance decisions before investing effort.
Voice-tuned first drafts per project. Human polish for narrative fit, data, relationships. Never ship raw AI.
SAM.gov, deadlines, reporting, relationships. The engine tracks and reminds.
Surfaced while speccing. The ones that change the calculus.
The engine built for High Noon immediately re-points at 10X Kids, Mad Money Academy, Festaiv, Spoiler Report. ROI is portfolio-wide, not High-Noon-only.
Skip the slow 501(c)(3) — route through a media-arts nonprofit that hosts the project for a fee. Unlocks foundation + gov grants now without incorporating.
Existing AI dev time + IP counts as in-kind match — makes bigger asks credible without spending cash.
FL & regional creative-economy / small-business creative funds. Often less competitive than federal.
Take This, iThrive, Games for Change. Faster cycles, no gov bureaucracy, good PR.
A modest successful crowdfund = evidence of demand that de-risks grant narratives in reviewers' eyes.
A High Noon tournament circuit anchored to a real frontier town → USDA Rural Development + state tourism-marketing grants.
A university partner unlocks STTR (requires research institution) and NEH/NSF education grants. One professor = multiple doors.
For DoD, sub under an established prime holding serious-games contracts. They bring past-performance we lack; we skip most compliance.
Everything we build is productizable — the Ellyson play with real automation underneath. Could become an OCPlatform revenue line.
🎓 Education institutions — HUGE unlock
Dwight's parents own a private school AND a charter school. Charter schools are eligible for a wide swath of federal + state education grants. This removes the biggest barrier (institutional eligibility) for the entire education-grant universe — and 10X Kids + Mad Money Academy ride along.
Entity vs. fiscal sponsor
Per-track call — default to fiscal sponsor / for-profit SBIR to avoid slow entity formation.
Veteran / senior programming — AVOID
Overlaps Ace Foundation. Family-political entanglement not worth it. Dropped.
Pull live open NOFOs across all tracks — real target list with names, deadlines, $ ranges, eligibility.
Draft the High Noon 'grant profile' doc (the reusable Stage-2 input).
Gather basic facts on the charter + private school (authorizer, enrollment, Title I status) to aim Track D.
Scope the discovery-scan pipeline (build vs. manual for v1).
One asset, many masks. We compare every grant move against this board.