**Note** from Bead: Business Model And Strategy · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/fa3b0dc9-9dc9-479d-b40a-d6d5400ae313/2026-06-11/notes/01-commercial-offerings-survey.md) · session 2026-06-11 · discussion: Talk: Business Model And Strategy
Digest of what the guerin `.agents` commons says the Redfish commercial offerings ARE, as input to business-model/strategy work. Compiled 2026-06-11 by survey over prior beads. Bead sources are cited by GUID + file; chat logs in those beads are ground truth where this digest conflicts.
## Source beads - **31bd5380** — AnyHazard user-model critique. Key notes: [account-layer.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/31bd5380-d743-420f-81a1-9258e7fbbf9a/2026-06-03/notes/account-layer.md), [customer-integration-pattern.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/31bd5380-d743-420f-81a1-9258e7fbbf9a/2026-06-03/notes/customer-integration-pattern.md), [acequia-as-group-ics-template.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/31bd5380-d743-420f-81a1-9258e7fbbf9a/2026-06-03/notes/acequia-as-group-ics-template.md) - **f5b21ea4** — AnyHazard-as-ICS-architecture + Santa Fe RFEI proposal: [anyhazard-as-the-digital-architecture-for-ics.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/f5b21ea4-2b73-4c8b-96f0-892f63ad86cf/2026-06-04/artifacts/anyhazard-as-the-digital-architecture-for-ics.md) - **96597c32** — DLA-2026 working bead (product ecosystem inventory, Era-3 web positioning, data sovereignty) - **2a62ccb1 / 41aebe50** — Simtable AnyHazard manual v4.0 (browser-native; en/es/fr/pt/**zh**/el translations — a zh manual already exists)
## What is sold (synthesis) The ecosystem is **pattern (free) → platform (paid) → applications (customer-facing)**: | Tier | Offering | Deployment | Commercial surface | |---|---|---|---| | Pattern | **Acequia pattern** (decentralized identity, capability tokens, P2P data flow) | Open; DIY self-hosting allowed | Free | | Platform | **acequia.io** (WebDAV namespace/auth substrate, ~30 NM domains in production) | Redfish-managed SaaS | Subscription: free participant layer + for-pay **account layer** | | Applications | **AnyHazard** (ICS-shaped emergency response), **Simtable** (ABM sand-table), **realtime.earth** (real-time imagery/GIS collab), **alert.live** (sensor/camera acequia), **AnySurface** (AR), **AgentScript** (ABM JS library) | SaaS on acequia.io, self-hosted, or browser-first (no install) | Bundled in platform subscription or standalone; integration-tier pricing emerging | **Account model:** two-layer. Participant layer is free, URI-anchored, anonymous-capable. Account layer is the for-pay surface: personal premium + organization accounts (multi-seat, N-of-M admins), entitlements for backup/archival, TURN relay, reverse proxying, subdomains, federation, mayordomo agents, compliance retention, priority routing, branding, high-volume session hosting. **Customers:** fire departments, county EMS, emergency-management agencies, interagency teams, mutual-aid networks; plus citizens (free/premium), news media orgs, sensor-network operators, developers/researchers (AgentScript), academic/pedagogy (Simtable + realtime.earth + AnySurface). **Positioning:** "the digital architecture for ICS" — peer-to-peer topology matching ICS doctrine vs incumbent hub-and-spoke GIS (ESRI). Differentiation is architectural, not feature-based.
## Deployment models assumed by the beads 1. **acequia.io SaaS** — Redfish-hosted WebDAV + service worker + WebRTC + discovery + tunnel broker; crypto device-linking auth (no passwords); chain-token capability delegation. 2. **Self-hosted/DIY** — customer runs an acequia-conformant stack on own infra; sovereignty for operational burden. 3. **Browser-first** — Simtable/realtime.earth run with no install; local File System Access API or WebDAV-backed.
## International/foreign deployment notes in the commons - **Nothing China-specific exists in any prior bead.** The design frame assumes the US emergency-response ecosystem (NIMS/ICS, federal interagency). - Data sovereignty is a core *feature claim*: "agent location = agent loyalty"; communities retain control; architecture works without federal data infrastructure. - That sovereignty stance is double-edged for China entry: the self-hosted/DIY path is a natural fit for in-country deployment (data stays onshore by design), but the P2P/WebRTC/tunnel-broker substrate and citizen-imagery framing touch several regulated areas (see [02-china-minimum-requirements.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/fa3b0dc9-9dc9-479d-b40a-d6d5400ae313/2026-06-11/notes/02-china-minimum-requirements.md)). - A **Chinese (zh) translation of the Simtable AnyHazard manual already ships** in v4.0 — the only existing China-facing artifact found.
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead: 31bd5380 · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/31bd5380-d743-420f-81a1-9258e7fbbf9a/) - Bead: F5b21ea4 · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/f5b21ea4-2b73-4c8b-96f0-892f63ad86cf/)