Working Proposal / August 2026
Institutional Working Proposal / Scope, Investment and Sequence
A disciplined six-month framework for defining, deploying, operating and measuring one governed LA28 Cultural Companion pilot built on VibePass™ cultural infrastructure.
Proposed Six-Month Pilot Partnership Investment
$64,620
Six-Month Pilot Engagement
Proposed working investment for one mutually defined six-month pilot deployment.
Initial Deposit
$12,750
Included in the total
Remaining Pilot Balance
$51,870
Proposed Balance Schedule
6 × $8,645
Engagement Term
6 Months
Estimated Pilot Solution Value
$157,860
Represents the estimated broader value of the VibePass™ platform infrastructure, reusable product systems, cultural-data architecture, implementation, governance, accessibility, analytics, operations, deployment capabilities and technology represented within the pilot. This figure is not the proposed invoice amount.
Why transit-connected cultural discovery matters now.
01
Visitors arrive in Los Angeles able to reach a venue, and largely unable to reach the culture around it. Transit gets them close. Nothing connects the last stretch to districts, businesses, institutions, public art and community stories.
02
Cultural districts, small businesses and community institutions carry the burden of being found. Discovery today rewards whoever already has visibility, not whoever holds the cultural significance.
03
A governed cultural technology layer sitting between transit and community can intentionally connect visitors with places they otherwise may not discover, and can measure that connection responsibly.
Capability
The technology and intelligence capability
Helps understand and facilitate how visitors discover and move between transit, cultural districts, institutions, businesses, public art, events, community experiences and destinations.
Outcome
The intended human, cultural and economic outcome
The measurable movement of attention, visits and spending toward cultural districts, community institutions, local businesses, artists and cultural experiences.
VibePass uses Visitor Flow Intelligence to help create measurable Cultural Flow between transit, visitors, cultural districts, institutions, businesses and community experiences.
The two terms are not interchangeable. Visitor Flow Intelligence is the system. Cultural Flow is the outcome the system is designed to produce.
What VibePass proposes to build within the six-month engagement.
Pilot scope statement
One mutually defined six-month pilot deployment and the architecture necessary to validate future interoperability, measurement and scale.
Discovery, architecture, cultural-data development, implementation, QA, launch, operation, measurement, optimization and scale planning all occur inside the six-month pilot engagement.
The pilot is designed to establish real operating requirements, validate the deployment model, measure performance and inform the appropriate post-pilot sustainment and expansion structure.
Access layer
QR-first access with NFC proof-of-concept capability where approved and technically appropriate.
The pilot may support
Physical implementation remains subject to technical feasibility, scope and appropriate approvals.
Not promised in this pilot
The central validation question
Can one governed VibePass deployment use transit-connected cultural discovery to intentionally connect visitors with cultural districts, local businesses, public art, institutions, community stories and experiences they otherwise may not discover, and can that activity be measured responsibly?
This is the central validation question. Every capability included in the pilot exists to support answering it.
The technology and cultural infrastructure included in one defined pilot deployment.
01
A mobile-first entry point connecting the pilot audience with the selected cultural environment.
02
Transit-connected routes to cultural destinations, landmarks, public art, businesses, institutions and experiences.
03
A governed source of truth for approved cultural assets and visitor information.
Governed dataset. Not an open scrape of the internet.
04
A bounded conversational layer grounded in approved pilot information.
Grounded in the approved pilot dataset. This is not unrestricted internet AI.
05
Structured discovery supporting participating businesses, organizations, artists, institutions and cultural destinations.
06
Contextual narratives that help visitors understand the places and communities they encounter.
All public content remains subject to provenance, attribution and rights.
07
Pilot-ready pathways for community storytelling, reflection and approved cultural memory collection where applicable.
08
Accessibility integrated into the product architecture rather than treated as a post-launch enhancement.
09
Architecture capable of supporting agreed pilot language requirements.
Initial language set is subject to pilot definition.
10
Operational visibility into agreed platform activity, performance, engagement and pilot measurements.
Measurement for public value and learning, not surveillance.
11
Consent, provenance, data governance, cultural-governance controls and responsible use of AI.
The entire engagement is six months. Implementation and learning occur inside that window.
Establish
Develop
Configure and implement
Conduct
Focus on
Deliver
The entire engagement is six months. Activities are sequenced for clarity and are not rigidly limited to a single month. Sequencing may shift with partner approvals, geography, content availability, procurement requirements and technical dependencies.
One proposed six-month pilot partnership investment. The estimated solution value is a separate reference figure and is not the invoice amount.
Proposed Six-Month Pilot Partnership Investment
$64,620
Six-Month Pilot Engagement
Discovery, architecture, cultural-data development, implementation, QA, launch, operation, measurement, optimization and scale planning all occur inside the six-month pilot engagement.
Initial Deposit
$12,750
Included in the total
Remaining Pilot Balance
$51,870
Proposed Balance Schedule
6 × $8,645
Engagement Term
6 Months
Initial Deposit
Included in the total
$12,750
Remaining Pilot Balance
$51,870
Proposed Balance Schedule
6 payments of $8,645
Total Six-Month Pilot Investment
$64,620
Deposit
The initial deposit is part of the total proposed investment. It is not an additional charge.
Schedule
Specific payment dates would be defined in a final agreement. The proposed balance schedule does not extend the six-month engagement.
Estimated Pilot Solution Value
$157,860
Represents the estimated broader value of the VibePass™ platform infrastructure, reusable product systems, cultural-data architecture, implementation, governance, accessibility, analytics, operations, deployment capabilities and technology represented within the pilot.
Technology pilot, not sponsorship
The proposed $64,620 investment represents the six-month technology pilot. It is not a sponsorship commitment, sponsorship fee, advertising package or purchase of commercial inventory.
What the proposed pilot assumes, and what remains future or separately scoped work.
Pilot assumptions, each to be confirmed
Future / separately scoped
Not includedThe proposed $64,620 pilot does not automatically include:
Future deployments, integrations, geographic expansion, partner activations and network-scale implementations would be separately defined and scoped based on pilot findings and stakeholder priorities.
Game Enhanced Transit / GET
Potential future interoperability with Game Enhanced Transit and other Games-period mobility systems may be explored subject to available data, technical feasibility, partner requirements, permissions and scope.
These milestones represent proposed opportunities for demonstrating, testing and validating the platform. Participation, production requirements, deployment scope, partner involvement, timing and associated costs remain subject to confirmation.
Milestone 01
VibePass proposes exploring presentation of a concise two to three minute cinematic demonstration, using the live Leimert Park Village Companion and the LA28 Cultural Companion concept to communicate the potential of transit-connected cultural discovery.
The demonstration would emphasize
VibePass is not confirmed on the program. Any Metro representation, partner branding, event placement, speaking role or production requirement remains subject to approval.
Milestone 02
A proposed near-term field validation experience in which appropriate stakeholders use the Companion while moving through transit and community. The intent is to move the conversation from demonstrating the technology on a screen to experiencing cultural wayfinding in real conditions.
Potential learning areas
Timing, route, participants and scope remain subject to confirmation.
Milestone 03
A concept for exploring the Companion as the live cultural-wayfinding and discovery layer for a future diplomatic cultural experience involving diplomats, consular representatives and potentially invited National Olympic Committee representatives.
Potential experience
This is a future concept, not a confirmed event. Attendance is not guaranteed and VibePass has not been selected as its technology provider.
Strategic milestone sequence
Step 01
October 5
Demonstrate the Vision
Step 02
Field Experience
Validate in Real Conditions
Step 03
Future Day With the Diplomats
Demonstrate Global Cultural Connectivity
Step 04
Pilot + Measurement
Generate Evidence
Step 05
2027–2028
Evaluate Responsible Expansion
This sequence represents a strategic pathway, not contracted commitments.
How validated infrastructure could support Hospitality Houses, cultural corridors and appropriate future partnerships.
The pilot funds the infrastructure. Future partnerships can help fund the network.
Guiding principle
Sponsors do not buy the culture. They help fund access to it.
Future institutional and private-sector participation may help underwrite cultural discovery, accessibility, multilingual access, community storytelling, cultural wayfinding, local-business visibility and other approved public-benefit components of the network.
No sponsorship rights currently exist and no sponsorship inventory has been approved by Metro or any partner.
Potential future layer
Potential support for shared technology, accessibility, connectivity, mobility or other approved infrastructure.
Potential future layer
Potential support for approved, locally governed cultural experiences serving Hospitality House audiences.
Potential future layer
Potential institutional or private-sector support that helps equity-focused communities participate without requiring individual community organizations to carry the entire infrastructure cost.
Potential future layer
Potential future participation in approved cultural experiences, storytelling, Cultural Passport concepts, media or physical-to-digital activations.
All rights, pricing, categories, inventory, exclusivity, production requirements and approvals are future work.
Future sponsorship must never purchase control over
Sponsorship must remain visually and structurally distinguishable from governed cultural content.
Future partnership programs should require
No personally identifiable visitor information would be sold to sponsors. Where appropriate, future partners may receive aggregated, privacy-respecting impact reporting.
Technology pilot
The proposed $64,620 investment represents the six-month technology pilot. It is not a sponsorship commitment, sponsorship fee, advertising package or purchase of commercial inventory.
Future commercial work
Any future sponsorship inventory, commercial rights, Hospitality House participation, partner activation, exclusivity, revenue-sharing structure or pricing would be separately developed following pilot discovery and appropriate stakeholder review.
Reused
Configured
Future deployments are not included in the pilot.
How Visitor Flow Intelligence can help demonstrate Cultural Flow. The output of the pilot is not just a launch. It is evidence.
The decisions required to move from working proposal to final pilot scope.
This document is not
Platform and intellectual property
VibePass™ retains ownership of its pre-existing and underlying software, platform architecture, reusable modules, design systems, prompts, AI workflows, technical infrastructure, methodologies and intellectual property unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing.
The proposed pilot investment does not include transfer of VibePass platform ownership or source code ownership.
Upon alignment on the pilot definition, VibePass can translate this working proposal into a final pilot scope, implementation schedule, deliverables matrix and agreement.
For $64,620, VibePass proposes a disciplined six-month deployment designed to prove how a governed cultural technology layer can connect transit with community, generate measurable Cultural Flow and establish the operating model for responsible regional expansion.
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