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Design Grants

The Product Design Grant is designed to help validate your idea or the problem you aim to solve. Rooted in the principles of lean startup methodology and disciplined entrepreneurship, this grant focuses on research, iterative development, and testing. It provides a structured framework for builders and entrepreneurs to assess whether their vision should move forward. Key considerations include evaluating if the problem is real, whether there’s a market opportunity, if potential customers find the idea compelling, and if a sustainable business model exists. If you're seeking to explore these questions before committing significant resources, this grant is tailored for you. The final deliverable of the Product Design Grant is a comprehensive Product Blueprint.

Product Blueprint Deliverable

The Product Blueprint is a comprehensive document required as the final deliverable for the Product Design Grant. It serves as a prerequisite for applying for the larger Build Grants, which fund development. As part of your blueprint you will submit critical elements such as a clickable prototype (the most significant part), success KPIs, a market analysis, go-to-market strategy, technical specifications, budget estimates, and more. The blueprint ensures a thorough evaluation of your project’s feasibility, risks, and potential impact on the Voi ecosystem before moving into the build phase. This helps minimize the advancement of unfeasible projects and sets the foundation for a successful build.

Application & Deliverable Checklist

Design Grant Application Checklist

  • Completed Product Design Grant Application. We recommend reviewing the questions asked in the form and preparing a separate documnet with your responses prior to submitting this form as the form does not save responses and to avoid losing any hard work. Submitted as a google form.
  • Completed Token Allocation Plan with planned milestones/activities, anticipated completion dates, and tokens allocated to each milestone. To be submitted via email at grants@voi.network.
  • Completed Milestone Manager & Token Release Request to be used to keep track of all milestones listed in the Token Allocation Plan, completion status, supporting documentation for completed milestones, and to request a payout for successfully completed milestones by the Council and Foundation. Anytime a milestone is successfully completed this Milestone Manager & Token Release Request should be completed. The form should then be submitted to the Voi Council at grants@voi.network.
  • Completed Product Design Grant Pitch Deck. Submitted via the google form application as a link.

Please also upload all supporting materials (bullets 2-4) in your proposal's relevant Discord chat for easy access

Product Blueprint Deliverable Checklist

All materials below other than the Final Report google form should be email directly to the Council at grants@voi.network. They should also be upldoaded into your respective proposal's channel in the Discord.

  • Completed general grant Final Report. We recommend preparing your responses in a separate document to avoid losing any hard work.
  • Completed and filled in Milestone Manager & Token Release Request for final payout with KPIs achieved and final dates milestones were completed. Final payout should be requested via email at grants@voi.network.
  • Community feedback - seek out community feedback on completed blueprint in your proposal channel on discord and via a Voi AMA (request your project be featured on Voi’s next AMA). Include feedback in your presentation.
  • Completed Product Blueprint document.
  • Completed Product Design Blueprint presentation.
  • Demo Video (requested in application) to showcase your design to the community.