Fund the Operations team for 3 months to maintain Gnars infrastructure, enable other workstreams, and transition the DAO into an AI-native, product-oriented organization.
Gnars is evolving from a cultural experiment into a sustainable infrastructure business. Physical products need digital storefronts. Marketing campaigns need websites that work. AI agents need organized data.
Operations is the team that builds the rails. While Marketing creates brand guidelines, we apply them to gnars.com. While Products ships physical goods, we integrate the e-commerce platform. While governance happens on Discord, we maintain community infrastructure that keeps it functional.
Without Operations, nothing else ships.
For the past year, this team has been maintaining:
We've done this work unpaid or sporadically funded because it had to be done. This proposal formalizes that work into a structured 3-month sprint.
Gnars is entering a new phase:
Operations makes this transition possible. We're not just keeping the lights on - we're building the foundation for Gnars' next era.
| Workstream | What They Do | What Operations Delivers |
|---|---|---|
| Products | Ships physical goods (skateboards, apparel) | E-commerce platform integration (Shopify or crypto-enabled), /shop route on gnars.com |
| Marketing | Creates branding guidelines, content strategy | AI agents trained on content, social media data pipelines (Farcaster, Discord, Hive) |
| Governance | Runs proposals, votes, treasury decisions | Historical archive consolidation, BI dashboards, interactive governance reports |
Operations is infrastructure. We don't compete - we enable.
Focus: Baseline metrics, data pipeline setup, governance history consolidation
What we're building:
Deliverable: Baseline metrics report (internal) - revenue streams, expenses, tokenomics dashboard
Focus: Public-facing tools, searchable governance data, business intelligence
What we're building:
Deliverable: Public dashboard + searchable archive - BI-grade insights for members and investors
Focus: E-commerce, governance analytics, testing + documentation
What we're building:
/shop route on gnars.com - E-commerce platform integration (Shopify or crypto-enabled solution for physical products). Platform selection based on Products workstream requirements (crypto acceptance, inventory management, international shipping).Deliverable: Live /shop route + interactive governance dashboards + complete documentation
AI has changed how we work. Bob Gnarley (our community agent) already supports governance questions, builder assistance, and Discord moderation - but agents are only as good as their data.
This sprint focuses on making Gnars AI-digestible:
Result: Any member (or investor) can ask an agent, "What has Gnars funded in the past 2 years?" and get a real answer.
(Example use cases: Bob Gnarley for community support, experimental governance tools like Gnars Zero Weight - but the infrastructure is what matters.)
| Contributor | Role | USDC | ETH | Total USD (~) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vlad | Technical lead, AI infrastructure | $1,200 | 0.6 Ξ | $2,400 |
| r4topunk | Web development, data pipelines | $1,200 | 0.6 Ξ | $2,400 |
| fcarva | Community infrastructure, documentation, QA | $600 | 0.3 Ξ | $1,200 |
| TOTAL | $3,000 | 1.5 Ξ | $6,000 |
Operations is not glamorous. But without it, nothing else happens.
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