CarbonStop.org will not install the technological upgrades to the homes contracted for conversion to low-carbon or net-zero carbon. CarbonStop.org will not be in competition with any technology provider. This is essential to the success of the CarbonStop.org operations. Rather, CarbonStop.org will start-up and remain as an IRS certified 501c3 educational service organization.
CarbonStop.org will develop trade ally relationship with the providers of the technologies recommended from the CarbonStop.org Net-Zero Carbon Footprint Audit. In addition, CarbonStop.org and its trade allies will enter into partnership contracts to provide a legal platform from which CarbonStop.org services can be provided via each ally. The contract will cover the technologies to be provided by each ally and the parameters associated with the specification, acquisition and installation of those technologies. In addition, pricing conditions will be negotiated with each ally such that a commitment is obtained from each ally to focus their efforts on the installation of only high-quality reliable technologies at fair market prices. While CarbonStop.org will not set or fix pricing for its trade allies, it will continually monitor geographically weighted technology pricing for those relevant technologies to maintain a focus on cost-effective price maintenance for contracted homes. Trade ally pricing will be monitored by CarbonStop.org and pricing issues will be addressed as they are identified. CarbonStop.org will not abandon its clients with respects to trade ally pricing or service quality.
CarbonStop.org will develop customer-focused service conditions that each trade ally will be required to follow. This will include general professional working conditions, installation standards, quality control procedures, clean-up requirements, payment conditions and follow-up service requirements. CarbonStop.org will inspect all jobs and job sites during and after each installation timeline to assure ethical and high-quality operations by its allies.
As CarbonStop.org, in conjunction with its customers, identifies the set of technologies appropriate for each home conversion, CarbonStop.org will work with the decision makers within each home to establish a contract for services and the payment conditions. That contract will be finalized after the technologies are identified and the prices for the installations are acquired by CarbonStop.org from the trade allies. This will require establishing partnerships with manufactures, builders, wholesalers, retailers, distributors, electricians, plumbers, HVAC contractors, renewable energy experts and installers, sequestration planters, land acquisition agents and transportation dealers to name a few.
Under the current plans, payments to the trade allies will be made by CarbonStop.org under payment contract conditions established between the clients being served and CarbonStop.org. The payments and payment conditions for, or financing of the conversion efforts will be established between the client being served and CarbonStop.org via a financial contract that is also acceptable to the trade ally providing those technologies and services. Once successful start-up financial arrangements are established, CarbonStop.org will receive partial payment from the customers being served prior to the installation of any technologies, such that the client and CarbonStop.org are not in an overly burdensome debt condition with any conversion project. Progress of the conversion process will only proceed to match the ability of the client to pre-pay for the conversions on their home prior to job sign-off. CarbonStop.org will establish a conversion timeline that is consistent with the client’s financial abilities.
These requirements will.
- Meet the client’s financial needs and timelines.
- Establish a mutually beneficial market force relationships (with the trade allies) associated with the installation potentials that are much stronger than single job contracts, setting up a valued ally relationship that serves the client, the trade ally and CarbonStop.org.
- Establish a competitive trade ally environment in which CarbonStop.org trade allies are not guaranteed any job, but are placed in a competitive position relative to each conversion contract. The ally technology, services and pricing must be matched to the value placed upon them by the client and by CarbonStop.org.