Kampela Productizing Proposal, Redux

As always, Alzymologist takes community feedback (made both publicly and via private channels) really seriously — so we’ve incorporated that feedback after community rejected our referendum #736, and are now ready to resubmit.

The major points improved are:

Dock station is no longer in scope. We’ve understand the worries regarding the added complexity of having yet another device for us to design, debug and manufacture. While our engineering team is still conﬁdent about our ability to deliver the dock as speciﬁed, we’re hearing your concerns and will not be designing and building the device as a part of this grant. If adoption of Kampela would make it evident that the ability to use Kampela with desktop wallets is wanted, we would apply for a separate grant for USB dock design or figure out another funding source for it, if possible.
We’re omitting all metadata-related work from this proposal. This was probably the most controversial topic in the original proposal; we understand the general stance of the community on this topic. In any case, we won’t be applying for any extra Treasury funding for metadata-related work, and will ﬁgure out other funding sources to do this work if it would become necessary.
With initiatives like Polkadot UX Guild maturing, there’s little sense for us to bundle the work on ecosystem-wide UX improvement (even if narrowed down to only signing and key management-related topics) into this particular proposal.

The budgets, timeframes and team composition to fulﬁll these goals have been adjusted accordingly, please ﬁnd the updated breakdown below.

Milestone	Duration (weeks)	UX	Kampela firmware	Siltti	Hardware design and manufacturing
#1	2	User research	Resolve minor tech debts of Kampela with respect to ecosystem advance	iOS app MVP	New casing layout and simulations
#2	10	Kampela UX redesign	Derivations support; Ledger-compatible seed recovery; “UX meets security” iterative work	Andriod and iOS apps functional, derivations support, iOS app in Testflight	First prototypes in the new layout; fast-iteration prototypes for UX and ﬁrmware work
#3	4	Siltti redesign	Wrapping up the design work; hardware-assisted secret erasure	Iterative redesign implementation	Final touches on case ergonomics and possible touch/antenna interactions; optimizing device’s resistance to temperature, moisture and vibration
#4	4	Integrations, manuals, tutorials	Full design, test system, sealed release	Design implementation, store publication	Designing manufacturing processes for the production scale
People involved		1 x UX Lead; 0.5 x Technical Writer	1 x Embedded Rust Engineer	0.5 x Android Engineer; 0.5 x iOS Engineer	0.5 x Electrical Engineer; 0.5 x Mechanical Engineer; 1 x Manufacturing Technician

On top of that we would need a 1× Project Manager/Ecosystem Coordinator role, 1×Logistics and Operations manager, as well as 0.5× Head of Engineering (to make and supervise architectural decisions and cross-team integration and collaboration) throughout the duration of the project.

Job title	Weekly price	Count	Total / week
UX Lead	€7,000.00	1	€7,000.00
Technical Writer	€1,750.00	0.5	€875.00
Embedded Rust	€4,700.00	1	€4,700.00
Mobile Developer	€2,300.00	1	€2,300.00
Electrical Engineer	€3,500.00	0.5	€1,750.00
Mechanical Engineer	€2,750.00	0.5	€1,375.00
Manufacturing Technician	€1,000.00	1	€1,000.00
Head of Engineering	€8,000.00	0.5	€4,000.00
PM/comm	€1,500.00	1	€1,500.00
Ops	€1,000.00	1	€1,000.00

Total price tag: €565,000 = €510,000 + 10% safety.
As always with our proposals, the recipient of money is Alzymologist Oy, a registered Finnish company (Business ID: 3162030-9). All personnel listed above would be directly employed by Alzymologist Oy, and all relevant Finnish taxes are already included in the ﬁgures.