Vertical Challenge

The challenge

CTMP has 17 vertical slots. 16 are filled. One is open.

Your job: design the vertical that fills it. Propose a new industry that plugs into the platform's energy basis (baseload electricity at 0.08 cents per kilowatt-hour or $0.0008/kWh), produces real goods at the cost of production, feeds other verticals, and creates value the world actually needs.

The best design takes the slot. This is not a suggestion box. It is a design competition with a real outcome.

1Study Green Steel (the standard)

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2Study Urban Mine (the example)

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3Design your vertical

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4Submit

What a vertical is ?

The platform generates electricity. Electricity alone does not build tunnels, move water, or house people. Verticals convert cheap electrons into physical goods that the platform and the world actually need.

Each vertical is a ring-fenced business (its own SPE/SPV) that:

Receives energy from the platform at the internal transfer price (0.08 cents/kWh or $0.0008/kWh)
Produces goods at the cost of production, published and auditable
Feeds other verticals at cost (steel feeds turbines, concrete feeds tunnels)
Sells surplus to the open market below incumbent prices
Operates under the Sovereign Logic Engine: quality enforced by code, not promised by people

Your proposed vertical must work exactly like this. No exceptions.

The 17 slots ?

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Green SteelFilled (exemplar)

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Green ConcreteFilled

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DesalinationFilled

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Green H₂Filled (Green Molecules)

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Green NH₃Filled (Green Molecules)

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Green MeOHFilled (Green Molecules)

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Green SNGFilled (Green Molecules)

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Telecom NetworkFilled

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Data CentresFilled

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HVDC TransmissionFilled

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HousingFilled

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Ports & LogisticsFilled

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Green RefineryFilled

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Turbine FactoryFilled

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TBM FactoryFilled

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Penstock FactoryFilled

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??? Your design hereOPEN SLOT. This is the challenge.

Study the exemplars

Before you submit, study both of these. They show the standard your design must meet.

Green Steel The standard. Shows how cheap electrons transform an entire industry. Logic chain, arithmetic, allocation, QA, failure modes, workforce, carbon, doctrine. Read this first → Urban Mine The example. Shows what a Vertical Challenge submission looks like at full rigour. Buy dead EVs and smartphones at pennies. Process everything. Feed materials back into existing verticals. Zero waste. Study this second →

What your design must include ?

Look at Green Steel. Look at Urban Mine. Your submission must cover the same ground:

The thesis: What does this vertical produce? Why does the world need it? Why does the platform need it?
The logic chain: How do cheap electrons become the end product? Step by step.
The arithmetic: What does it cost to produce? What does it sell for? What are the margins?
Platform interfaces: What does it take from other verticals? What does it give to other verticals? What fails if this vertical fails?
Feedstock and sourcing: Where does the input material come from? At what cost? Is the supply constrained?
Output streams: What comes out? Where does each stream go? What revenue does each generate?
Failure modes: What breaks? What cascades? How is it mitigated?
Circularity: What waste becomes feedstock? What loops close? What emissions disappear?
Governance: How does it operate as an SPE/SPV? What SLE rules apply?

Submission lanes ?

You can submit a complete vertical design or contribute to one aspect of a design already in progress.

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Full Designcomplete vertical proposal

The whole thing. Thesis, logic chain, arithmetic, interfaces, failure modes, circularity. This is what wins the slot.

Submit Full Design

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CapEx / Economicscost analysis for a proposed vertical

You've seen a proposed design and you can sharpen the numbers. Cost drivers, unit economics, scaling path, bottlenecks.

Submit CapEx

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Circularityloop closure for a proposed vertical

You've seen a proposed design and you can close a loop. Heat recovery, byproduct routing, waste-as-feedstock, emissions elimination.

Submit Circularity

Non-negotiable constraints ?

No debt dependency. It must function without external financing. If it needs a loan to operate, it inherits someone else's cost structure. That is the problem we are solving.
No identity surface. No personal data required to participate. Privacy by architecture.
Must connect to platform interfaces. It must take inputs from or deliver outputs to existing verticals. Standalone ideas with no integration are out of scope.
Must address failure modes. If you cannot describe how it fails, you do not understand how it works.
No external scarcity pricing. If it only works because something is expensive, it will not survive cheap electrons. Abundance, not arbitrage.
Must be a new vertical. Not an improvement to an existing one. A completely new industry that fills the open slot.

What happens

Accepted: Your design enters the evaluation track. The best design takes the 17th slot.
Rejected: Archived with written rationale. If the rationale is wrong, submit again with the correction.
Pending: In the queue. Rigorous designs take longer to review.

Submit Your Vertical Design →