Rapid Prototyping

AcMo is about pushing everything to extreme levels.  We operate beyond the boundaries of conventional wisdom.  Just the fact we operate at all is beyond conventional wisdom. That's what separates us from the herd.  We provide a unique operating system that draws people into AcMo like ant traps.  The problems start when the employees discover they can't leave.  The readjustment period is always hardest for the younger employees.  We haven't yet perfected the formula to ease that pain, but we are working toward that goal.  Anyway, that isn't what I wanted to share with you today.  Since this is remote work week, I felt this was an appropriate time to discuss our newest initiative.

Remote work week would just be another lame week if we operated from our home computers, or the local coffee shop, or underneath that one bridge that has wifi access from the nearby coffeshop.  That isn't how we do things at AcMo.  We go big. I now have the next step in our ascent to Fortune 10 status.  I learned last night that Home Depot is about to start selling 3D printers.  I've created a new remote rapid prototyping plan that should get our next product to market much quicker than any of our previous creations and our competitors.  Up until now we've used popular online fundraising sites, anonymous donations, and other methods that don't need to be mentioned to obtain the proper funding for our projects.  The biggest drawback to the traditional method is that investors always want to see at least their initial investment returned, if not a profit.  People think they can provide a company money and then that somehow means they own it?!  I wish they would get a clue.

This new plan will alleviate the angry investor component and replace it with a corporate giant oblivious to our plan.  This works out even better now since AcMo has been establishing satellite bases across the country.  We are accelerating toward having at least one functional operation in every major market.  This coincides with the placement of most Home Depots.  It's almost like fate, destiny, or smart strategic planning dropped us in this fortuitous position.  At first the service will be labeled AcMo Prototyping with Home Depot, but that will transition into removal of the Home Depot affiliation as we grow.

By now the plan should be obvious to everyone reading along.  We are going to set up shop inside Home Depot's 3D printer stations.  Since we already have the uniforms (AcMo costume department), we will blend in enough to fool the actual employees.  Our paperwork from Home Depot "corporate" will be provided by AcMo Paper's memo services division.  It will be confusing enough to deter anyone from checking further into our Home Depot employment status.  Once we have taken control of the stations, we will hold "clinics" to teach consumers how to use their new 3D printers.  Of course these clinics will be sessions during which we plan to print our own prototype designs.

The best part is that we will be helping Home Depot sell printers.  A nice bonus is that our products will be prototyped for free and much quicker than we ever could using the old methods.  All of this will be in addition to our original fundraising methods because more cash into the business is always good.  By the time the corporate office at Home Depot figures out what we've been doing, we'll already have moved on to the next phase of our operation.  They won't even bother to prosecute us since we will have sold so many printers for them.  In fact, we will probably be able to get a few AcMo personnel hired on as actual employees to continue to run the free division until such point that Home Depot's operations grind to a halt.  We will of course open this program to our customers once we've proven our model won't result in charges being filed against us.

Now I need to create AcMo's next project so we'll be ready to print when we commandeer our new 3D printing stations.  One concept marinating in my head piece is a snake trap based on a Chinese finger trap design.  I even have a test snake in mind back at AcMo HQ.  If we do this right, Home Depot will never even know we were there.  Like Hannibal Smith, I love it when a plan comes together.