[Proposal setup] Proposal title

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Prisma Potentialise: Action-learning Journeys Orchestrator

[Proposal Summary] Budget Information

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77000

[Proposal Summary] Time

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6

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No

Original Language

en

[Proposal Summary] Problem Statement

What is the problem you want to solve?

As Cardano seeks to expand their real-world use cases, hackathons offer a pathway for innovation, however technical infrastructure limits developers capabilities to deliver.

[Proposal Summary] Supporting Documentation

Supporting links

• https://docs.prisma.events/processes/ground-potentialising/deploy
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• https://docs.prisma.events/patterns/action-learning%20journeys
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• https://github.com/prisma-collective

[Proposal Summary] Project Dependencies

Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

Yes

Describe any dependencies or write 'No dependencies'

Yes, as a deployment stack initially will depend on Github and Vercel integrations, which don’t require an additional license to use.

[Proposal Summary] Project Open Source

Will your project's outputs be fully open source?

Yes

License and Additional Information

All outputs (code, documentation, smart contracts) will be open-source on github.

[Theme Selection] Theme

Please choose the most relevant theme and tag related to the outcomes of your proposal.

Infrastructure

[Campaign Category] Category Questions

Describe what makes your idea innovative compared to what has been previously funded (whether by you or others).

Community driven marketplace: An open ecosystem for community-built apps to expand the ALJ toolkit. The first version will only include 4 in-house apps built by Prisma.

Drive Cardano ecosystem adoption by integrating Action-learning tools through in-person hosted hackathons: By leveraging the Potentialise publishing stack, in-person hosted event participants will be able to efficiently implement action-learning journeys that benefit their local systems.

Also:

• Integrate multiple action-learning journey tools
• Provide a straightforward CLI for reconfiguring and extending component

Describe what your prototype or MVP will demonstrate, and where it can be accessed.

Potentialise features will include:

1. Guided UI Wizard
2. Development CLI
3. Marketplace system
   1. Registering: Main authentication framework for event registration, issuing dIDs, and managing entry.
   2. Enacting: Group decision-making, coordination and scheduling actions.
   3. Evaluating: View, query, and chat with event data captured during an ALJ.
   4. Docs: A complete collaboration and documentation framework to publish event information, structure, activities and code documentation during ALJs.
4. Github and Vercel Integrations

Describe realistic measures of success, ideally with on-chain metrics.

• Reliable Integrations: 99% success in GitHub/Vercel deployments, ensuring high-volume onboarding (projected for 2028–2029) without technical bottlenecks.

• Faster Onboarding: Cut event setup time to less than 1 hour (from days/weeks), accelerating ALJ deployment and driving earlier contributions.

• Adoption at Scale: 5+ hubs in 1 year across 5+ regions, unlocking exponential growth, strengthening Cardano’s global network effect.

• Ecosystem Growth: 5+ community-built apps in the marketplace within 6 months, expanding utility for ALJ hubs.

[Your Project and Solution] Solution

Please describe your proposed solution and how it addresses the problem

We will build Potentialise as a no-code/low-code deployment orchestrator for ALJ infrastructure. Communities will be able to:

• Define event details. Metadata that represent the specifics of their event/hub.
• Connect their organization’s GitHub and Vercel accounts to seamlessly integrate the publishing stack of Potentialise into their organization.
• Select ALJ apps from a marketplace. Starting with our four in-house app products: Registering, Enacting, Evaluation and Docs.
• Deploy to a unique domain in under an hour. Setting up the whole array of tools and apps for an ALJ event, this includes a scalable database setup, apps configuration and deployment.

This addresses the key barrier of technical complexity while enabling rapid scaling of tools in Cardano’s ecosystem.

Innovation

1. Convention over configuration: Embracing this software development pattern, reduce the amount of decisions stakeholders or developers need to make to self-host their event infrastructure and extend it. Providing defaults for configuring, provisioning and deploying. Furthermore, Potentialize will also provide a straightforward CLI for reconfiguring and extending components in a standardized way, for generating new features and modules that are compatible with the current action-learning journey framework.

2. Integrate multiple action-learning journey tools: Seamlessly connects Register (Dids), Docs, Evaluation, and Enact apps to create a complete action-learning journey framework. However, each event is unique, users will be able to select which tools to use that fulfill their specific needs.

3. Community driven marketplace: An open ecosystem for community-built apps to expand the ALJ toolkit. The first version will only include the initial 4 in-house apps built by the Prisma team. (Register, Docs, Evaluation, Enact).

The idea is for these apps to be developed by a team that forms into an organisation, incubated during an ALJ. For that organisation to grow, it needs to be viable - i.e. have a sovereign income stream. These will be developed in a particular domain that of on-the-ground systems change action. So, the marketplace is like the ebay for apps of that kind. Developers who build those apps are giving themselves an income stream.

Prototype/MVP

1. Guided UI Wizard: From metadata collection, third party integrations, apps selection and finally deployment, the web UI wizard will facilitate users to kick-start their action-learning journey events and start developing.

2. Development CLI: This tool is for hub developers to extend infrastructure post deployment, providing a set of commands for creating adapters, modules and features that will make their own custom apps work seamlessly with the current apps in production. These plug and play tools are for developer and non-technicals users to set up a usable boilerplate

3. Marketplace system: The marketplace will consist of apps where users will be able to choose which apps will form part of their publishing stack for their action-learning journey events. In the MVP phase, an initial in-house group of apps will be available, these are core tools that make a strong full stack ALJ framework. It’s up to the clients to decide which ones to use.

These core tools are:

• Registering: Main authentication framework for event registration, collect sign-ups, issue dIDs, and manage entry.
• Enacting: Orchestrator tool for coordinating, making decisions, and schedule actions.
• Evaluating: View, query, and chat with event data captured during an Action-learning Journey.
• Docs: It’s a complete collaboration and documentation framework to publish event information, structure, activities and code documentation during action-learning journey events.

The idea behind the marketplace is to leave the publishing stack open for future custom apps to be integrated, as the local communities and different action learning journeys develop them.

4. Github and Vercel Integrations: Connect through Github/Vercel APIs to install the apps repositories into the clients organizations and manage deployment with ease.

[Your Project and Solution] Impact

Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community

Scalability means faster adoption, higher network participation, and more transactions directly increasing Cardano’s utility and global reach while creating a reproducible growth engine for governance powered communities through action-learning journeys.

By removing technical barriers, Potentialise empowers diverse communities, NGOs, DAOs, and local initiatives to adopt Cardano powered governance tools rapidly. This directly increases the number of active hubs, governance events, and ecosystem participants, driving both social impact and blockchain adoption globally. Both developers and non-developers will be able to contribute to these events.

[Your Project and Solution] Capabilities & Feasibility

What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

Technical Expertises

Our team combines technical depth with domain knowledge in multiple areas:

• Full-Stack Development: Experienced in building scalable, production grade web applications using modern frameworks (React, Next.js, Node.js, Neo4j, postgreSQL) and infrastructure automation (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines). Skilled in API design, database architecture, and cloud deployments following up to date industry standards.

• DevOps Knowledge: Expertise in GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, Vercel deployments and infrastructure-as-code tooling, ensuring automated and error free deployments for non-technical users.

• Project Management: Over a decade managing multistakeholder projects in governance, social innovation, and open-source ecosystems, both in Web2 and Web3 domains. Adept at translating complex technical workflows into accessible processes for diverse stakeholders.

This combination ensures we can not only build Potentialise to high technical standards but also deploy it in ways that work as a strong foundation for organizations adopting Cardano governance processes.

[Milestones] Project Milestones

Milestone Title

Base Application Groundwork

Milestone Outputs

Main repository setup with all required dependencies. This includes testing frameworks, linter, app folder structure, Github / Vercel integrations and general framework tooling and ui/ux mocks of the whole app.

The complete technical specifications document published in Prisma Docs and Github, this detail the app architecture and design. Additionally, CLI tooling will be completely detailed from design to how to use it effectively to develop, and short tutorials for using the Agent to aid in non-code development flows.

Acceptance Criteria

Functioning repository with a working build/test pipeline and docker compose to deploy a complete local environment for developing. Also, the whole technical design will be published on Prisma docs and github for documentation, this includes UI/UX mocks, CLI design, app components and tutorials. Testing framework ready to work with.

Evidence of Completion

Public repo with commits, working test suite ci/cd pipeline, published tech specs documentation in the Prisma Docs and github. Repo is forkable and usable.

Delivery Month

1

Cost

15000

Progress

20 %

Milestone Title

Core Deployment Flow

Milestone Outputs

4 in-house Prisma apps completely integrated into the framework for deployment and local setup, all usable and deployable in Vercel. CLI allows creating boilerplates for apps and also extends existing ones.

Acceptance Criteria

Core deployment works end-to-end with 4 in-house apps; modular architecture documented. CLI allows creating boilerplates and extending components of existing apps; newly created apps are also deployable.

Evidence of Completion

Demo of functional deployment to Vercel/GitHub; Video and documentation on how to extend the system in place.

Delivery Month

3

Cost

30000

Progress

50 %

Milestone Title

Initial Marketplace & Testing

Milestone Outputs

Marketplace live with core ALJ apps (Register, Docs, Evaluation, Enact) fully functional and modifiable with the CLI or manually by code, community onboarding and documentation in the Prisma Docs. Community apps can be published in the marketplace for other users to use in their own publishing stack.

Acceptance Criteria

Users can install and deploy the apps from the marketplace, selecting whichever fulfill their needs. Additionally, custom apps can also be plugged into the system seamlessly, during any moment of the development by running the Guide wizard marketplace or the CLI and simply selecting which to add or remove.

Evidence of Completion

Marketplace available in the publishing stack and interconnected with the Prisma network, allowing users to view and publish their apps, and others to add or remove them at any time.

Delivery Month

5

Cost

10000

Progress

70 %

Milestone Title

Pilot Onboarding & Public Launch

Milestone Outputs

Public launch of the Potentialise Publishing Stack framework, with at least 1 hub that uses it for an action learning journey event. Onboarding videos and documentation for users in the Prisma Docs, showing how to use the framework effectively. Roadmap of future features published and system in place for bug tracking.

Acceptance Criteria

At least 1 pilot hub successfully deployed and running, providing a real world use case for the framework, showing its effectiveness in aiding development for both technical and non technical users when leveraging the tools it provides.

Evidence of Completion

Launch announcement, documentation and onboarding videos ready, published roadmap and bug tracking systems in place. Live pilot hub metrics tracked to evidence its use of Cardano ecosystem.

Delivery Month

6

Cost

20000

Progress

90 %

Milestone Title

Audits and Legal Costs

Milestone Outputs

• Deliver a final security and compliance report to guarantee the framework sustainability, resilience and user trust, ensuring the platform is safe for widespread adoption in Cardano communities and adhering to software industry standards.
• Closeout report and video.

Acceptance Criteria

• An independent third-party security audit and legal review are successfully completed, with detailed reports demonstrating no unresolved critical vulnerabilities or compliance gaps.
• Recommendations for improvements must be documented, with high-priority items addressed post-launch to ensure operational readiness, scalability, and regulatory alignment.
• Submited closeout report and video.

Evidence of Completion

• Signed third-party security audit and legal compliance reports are delivered and verified by the project team.
• Public summaries of findings are published for transparency in Prisma Docs, and implementation logs or pull requests demonstrating adoption of recommended fixes are documented in open repositories, providing verifiable proof of closure.
• Closeout report and video.

Delivery Month

7

Cost

7000

Progress

100 %

[Final Pitch] Budget & Costs

Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

Development Resources (₳70,000):

Product Owner: ₳40,000 (full-time, 6 months)

Full-stack developer: ₳30,000 (part-time, 3 months)

Community Manager: ₳10,000 (part-time, 3 months)

Operations and Infrastructure (₳7,000):

Testing and security audit (third-party): ₳5,000

Legal and compliance review (third-party): ₳2,000

Total: ₳77,000

[Final Pitch] Value for Money

How does the cost of the project represent value for the Cardano ecosystem?

Potentialise represents exceptional value for the Cardano ecosystem for several reasons:

Strategic Alignment: The project directly supports Cardano’s mission of enabling decentralized governance and collaboration, making it faster and easier for communities to adopt Cardano-powered tools for real world in-person events and decision-making.

Multiplier Effect: Each deployed ALJ hub represents not just a single use case but an ongoing governance infrastructure. Every hub can host dozens of events per year, each bringing new participants into Cardano’s ecosystem and generating more on-chain and off-chain activity.

Open-Source Contribution: All code, documentation, and deployment processes will be open-sourced, allowing the community to reuse, adapt, and build upon Potentialise ensuring long-term value beyond the funding period.

Community Building: The integrated marketplace and CLI tools create opportunities for developers and communities to contribute apps, share configurations, and innovate together, expanding the ALJ ecosystem and Cardano’s impact.

Cost Efficiency: The requested budget is proportional to industry-standard rates for experienced full-stack and blockchain developers, designers, and community engagement managers. We leverage existing Prisma tools to maximize efficiency and minimize duplicated work.

By funding Potentialise, Catalyst will enable a scalable growth engine for governance and collaboration infrastructure on Cardano, one that lowers adoption barriers, fosters innovation, and compounds value as each new hub brings more people, projects, and transactions into the network.

[Required Acknowledgements] Consent & Confirmation

Terms and Conditions:

Yes