Some of this is finished. Some of it is happening right now. The rest has a clock on it.
CrowdSmith Foundation Inc. incorporated in Wyoming as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. EIN filed December 20, 2025.
Public-facing site built and launched. Front door is open.
A complete operations binder spanning governance, strategy, curriculum, facilities, and finance. The institutional spine of the organization, built through SmithTalk methodology.
Seven interconnected financial models with three-year projections. 27-source grant pipeline totaling $4.07M identified across federal, state, foundation, and corporate categories.
Form 1023-EZ filed. 501(c)(3) determination pending. Washington State foreign registration and charitable solicitation to follow upon approval.
In active negotiation for a commercial property in one of Tacoma’s federally designated Opportunity Zones. Property identified. Discussions ongoing.
147 letters to national and local leaders in philanthropy, industry, and government. Architecture complete. Letters in production.
WorkForce Central engagement initiated. Funded training model designed. Academic partnerships with Tacoma Community College and UW Tacoma identified.
Board chair with Tacoma credibility. Nonprofit attorney. CPA with nonprofit experience. People who carry weight, not fill seats.
3–4 people around the founder. Operations, development, community relationships. The people who make the building run when the founder isn’t in it.
Tool Store opens. Tools moving. AI Café active. Community showing up. Grants landing. Revenue diversifying. Every assumption tested against reality.
Locations 2–5 in the Pacific Northwest. Affiliate model tested. The question answered: what breaks when the founder isn’t in the building?
Federal partnerships activate. National brand recognition. A CrowdSmith in every mid-size American city that needs one. The model either scales or it doesn’t — and everything before this point was designed to make sure it does.
Robb Deignan. Twenty years in the fitness industry. Over ten thousand membership contracts sold. Cancer survivor. He lost shop class at fourteen when his family moved and never recovered from it. Spent decades building businesses, surviving things that should have stopped him, and carrying an idea he couldn’t put down.
CrowdSmith isn’t a pivot or a passion project. It is the thing that was always underneath everything else. The entire institutional infrastructure — the binder, the financial models, the curriculum, the strategic correspondence, and this website — was built by one person working in sustained dialogue with artificial intelligence. That methodology is called SmithTalk, and it is taught in the AI Café.
Entity: The CrowdSmith Foundation — Wyoming 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.