# Prior Work
> The four projects these requirements came out of: an arts charity staging plays in a game world, a creative district, a grant practice, and a county records API.
Source: https://docs.ozmium.org/amusement/prior-work/
Keywords: a stage reborn, accessible arts charity, creative district nebraska, x402 civic data, volunteer theatre production, agentic amusement background
Updated: 2026-09-06
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**Four projects produced the requirements on the last two pages.** Three of them ran outside crypto
entirely. All four are public and named here so a reader can check them.

## A Stage Reborn

A Stage Reborn is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 82-2040383, founded and chaired by the operator.
Its purpose is to make arts opportunities and experience more accessible, and its method is to use
interactive digital technology as the venue.

The company began staging plays inside Final Fantasy XIV in 2015. Open auditions, a rehearsal
schedule, in-game assets for set and costume and light, and a live performance with an audience
present in the room. *I Want to Be Your Canary* opened in December 2016 and Walter Wykes'
*The Worker* followed the next year. Ushers were trained to usher.

Admission was free. You stood in the venue in-game or you watched the stream. The company was
volunteer-run and remote, and it cast from wherever its players lived. Workshops, table readings,
voice work, internships, and a mentorship and grant program came later.

| What it settled | Where that lands here |
|---|---|
| An audience treats a virtual space as a venue and behaves accordingly | A game world, a stream and a parade route are one production problem |
| Rehearsal and cue discipline are what get a volunteer company to curtain | [On Stage](/amusement/on-stage/) is that list, written for a machine performer |
| The binding limit is how many people are free on the night | The gap a character is being built to hold |

## A Creative District

Nebraska created a state Creative District program in 2020, administered by the Nebraska Arts
Council, which certifies districts that use the arts as an economic driver. A Stage Reborn built the
software for one in Minatare, a town of under a thousand people in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska.

It is a progressive web app: an interactive map of businesses, venues and events, survey collection
for the certification file, live streaming for civic meetings, and a social feed integration for
distribution. It is published under CC BY-SA 4.0 and configured for a different town by changing
environment variables and images, so the next town does not pay for it again.

A town that size has no software budget, and what it asks for is administrative: evidence for an
application, a record of who attended, and a way for someone who could not get to the meeting to see
it.

## Grant Work

The operator works as a funding consultant to the development corporation serving Scottsbluff and
Gering, finding, writing, administering and reporting grants for housing rehabilitation, small
business development and community development.

Small organizations lose funding they already qualify for because nobody on staff has time to look
for it. Open grant rounds and contracting opportunities are a standing segment on
[Ozwald's Signals](/ozwald/signals/) for that reason.

## Build Scotts Bluff

[Build Scotts Bluff](https://buildscottsbluff.com) publishes a free public map of every parcel in
the county: ownership, assessed value, property tax and tax-sale status, sale history, zoning,
census and workforce indicators, and the funding programs a parcel qualifies for with the rule
cited.

The same records are sold to software per call in USDC over x402 on Base, with no account and no API
key. A parcel record is $0.010 and the county tax-sale list is $0.250. Search and funding-program
matching are free at any volume.

[One System, Two Users](/amusement/overview/) describes the same arrangement. It ran on county
records before it ran on markets, and the question it settled was who pays: a person looking up
their own block pays nothing, and a firm pulling the county every morning pays per pull.

## The Common Structure

None of these had an audience that could fund it. Each one worked because the cost landed somewhere
else: a volunteer cast, a state program, a grant, or a machine that pays per call. The terminal is
free and the agent API meters for the same reason.