PDW Training — three months, October to December
Goal: Get the training team ahead of the payloads, with the curriculum, guides and tools built alongside Josh week by week.
Between now and the end of December the training team has three week-long trainings to deliver. The first multi-mission payload arrives at the end of October, with more in December and next year, and the new variant with its different radio needs its own Fort Bliss materials. That’s a lot of new curriculum on a short clock for a short-handed team. Josh and I have worked together before: in May I built a working common operating picture for PDW leadership with him.
- The story of the program: why it exists, and how to explain it to trainers, soldiers and leadership.
- Set up with PDW IT and tuned to the program. It drafts, files and keeps track of the work between sessions.
- What’s open, what’s done and what’s next, so Josh’s week isn’t all in his head.
- Guides the trainers can teach from, on the web and in print, timed to the payload deliveries.
| Training program narrativeNarrative sprint | $15,000 |
| AI working system on Josh’s Mac miniInstrument | $20,000 |
| Weekly priorities page$4,000 a month × 3 | $12,000 |
| Two training guides$9,000 each | $18,000 |
| Priced separately | $65,000 |
| Three months, together | $22,000 |
Three months minimum, paid in three monthly installments. That’s $43,000 less than the same work bought piece by piece. This rate is for a first engagement and goes up after.
- More on request. Anything on the rate card (appendix A) can be added during the engagement at 25% off.
- After three months, we decide together: another term, or done. What was built stays with PDW either way.
- Josh shares this with whoever signs off.
- A 20-minute call to walk through it and set the start date.
- Kickoff: the first working session, in time for the first payload.
This proposal is valid through October 31, 2026.
Mike Marrotte
Founder & Principal, Signalform Studio
mike@signalformstudio.com
703-431-9026
| Narrative sprintThesis, positioning, messaging | $15,000 |
| Paper or guide on the readerA web reading room plus a print PDF | $9,000 each |
| Film, about 90 secondsIllustrated or animated | $15,000 |
| Film series of three | $39,000 |
| Weekly dropsA recurring format, set up and then produced weekly | $3,500 + $2,500/mo |
| Graphics setOne round, a matched pair | $3,500 |
| Brand systemBrand book, public brand page, internal guide | $30,000 |
| WebsiteA new site, or one round on an existing one | $25,000 / $6,000 |
| Weekly priorities pageThe Monday page and the rhythm that keeps it current | $4,000/mo |
| InstrumentA bespoke AI tool for the team, on its own repo | from $20,000 |
Each line is that piece bought on its own. Recent work: the Frontier Security Institute’s website, brand system, research papers and film series (frontiersecurityinstitute.org).