# Brad: component development brief

Installing the Missing Middle | Luke Nathan Hayes | 29 October 2026

## The component

Assemble the core team and supplier relationships; define installation archetypes; develop site-survey and workload-input requirements; cost the packages; map procurement and lead times; establish commissioning, maintenance and handover; and design workforce scaling and generational upgrades. Return the proposed delivery model, the assumptions behind it and the decisions needed from the rest of us.

## Shared interfaces

Each candidate brief links location and geographic memberships, host and property owner, participating entities, proposed rack generation, workloads and users, heat use, power and connectivity, physical works, operating responsibilities, the commercial and funding arrangement, learning capture, ownership transfer and renewal. Missing inputs receive an owner and next action rather than an invented answer.

## Read first

- ../content/plan.md
- current-direction.md
- ../AGENTS.md
- ../content/sources.json

## Return

A developed component, its cost and timing assumptions where relevant, source-backed findings, dependencies, and proposals for the people responsible to decide. Distinguish confirmed inputs from choices still being developed.