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OrganicWorks

Open Economics for Organic Resource Recovery


OrganicWorks is the specification for modeling organic resource recovery businesses from feedstock collection and processing through product development, market pricing, sales, profitability, and scalable growth.

Purpose

OrganicWorks provides a comprehensive economic and operational framework for businesses that recover value from manure, bedding, agricultural materials, and other suitable organic feedstocks. The specification models the complete path from available feedstock to finished products, revenue, costs, profit, break-even, capital requirements, and sustainable growth.

The system is designed to support businesses that begin with free or low-cost organic feedstock and generate revenue through processing, composting, vermicomposting, blending, packaging, distribution, wholesale, retail, and other value-added products and services.

OrganicWorks is designed around transparent economics. Every major recommendation should be supported by visible assumptions, calculations, costs, revenues, constraints, margins, and alternative scenarios. Human operators retain control over commercial decisions.

Design Principles

  • Model organic materials as potential economic resources.
  • Support free-feedstock, paid-feedstock, and contracted-feedstock models.
  • Calculate the complete economic path from feedstock to finished product.
  • Support businesses from one-person operations through enterprise-scale organizations.
  • Treat owner labor as both an economic value and, where appropriate, a cash-equivalent cost.
  • Distinguish cash profit from economic profit.
  • Model actual measured results separately from estimates and assumptions.
  • Make costs, revenues, yields, margins, and constraints transparent.
  • Compare production pathways rather than assuming a single best process.
  • Support capital-constrained startup planning.
  • Help businesses earn the right to scale through measurable economic performance.
  • Prevent market pricing recommendations from falling below sustainable operating costs without explicitly identifying the economic consequence.
  • Preserve human approval for consequential commercial decisions.
  • Support local, regional, and broader market analysis.
  • Support multiple organic feedstock types and product categories.
  • Provide auditable calculations and decision history.

Core Modules

Core Business Economics

The Core Business Economics Module defines the fundamental economic model for an organic resource recovery business.

Features include:

  • Feedstock volume calculation
  • Feedstock availability forecasting
  • Free-feedstock modeling
  • Paid-feedstock modeling
  • Feedstock acquisition costs
  • Collection costs
  • Transportation costs
  • Processing costs
  • Composting costs
  • Vermicomposting costs
  • Screening costs
  • Blending costs
  • Packaging costs
  • Storage costs
  • Distribution costs
  • Sales costs
  • Administrative costs
  • Labor costs
  • Owner labor valuation
  • Equipment costs
  • Maintenance costs
  • Insurance costs
  • Financing costs
  • Fixed-cost allocation
  • Variable-cost calculation
  • Revenue calculation
  • Gross profit
  • Contribution margin
  • Operating profit
  • Economic profit
  • Cash profit
  • Return on invested capital
  • Break-even analysis
  • Required sales calculation
  • Required production calculation
  • Required feedstock calculation
  • Capital requirement calculation
  • Cash-flow requirements
  • Profit-per-ton analysis
  • Profit-per-cubic-yard analysis
  • Profit-per-bag analysis
  • Profit-per-customer analysis
  • Profit-per-route analysis
  • Profit-per-employee analysis
  • Profit-per-equipment-unit analysis

The economic model should trace the complete business flow:

Available feedstock → acquisition and collection → transportation → processing and composting → losses and yield → finished product → packaging and distribution → sales price → revenue → costs → profit → break-even → required sales → capital requirements.

Scale Planning

The Scale Planning Module supports business modeling across different operational sizes and helps identify the appropriate scale for available capital, supply, labor, equipment, facilities, and demand.

Features include:

  • Micro-scale operation modeling
  • One-person operation modeling
  • Owner-operator modeling
  • Two-to-three-person operation modeling
  • Small commercial operation modeling
  • Emerging commercial operation modeling
  • Regional operation modeling
  • Enterprise operation modeling
  • Minimum viable operation
  • Capital-constrained startup planning
  • Scale comparison
  • Growth ladder
  • Expansion triggers
  • Maximum sustainable scale
  • Capacity planning
  • Labor planning
  • Equipment planning
  • Facility capacity planning
  • Storage capacity planning
  • Production capacity planning
  • Scale selection
  • Labor substitution analysis
  • Equipment acquisition strategy
  • Growth-stage analysis
  • Minimum viable business calculation
  • Maximum sustainable business calculation
  • Small producer optimization
  • Large producer optimization
  • Scale-agnostic economic modeling

The system should determine what can be started with available capital, how much feedstock is required, how much material can be processed, how much must be sold, when additional labor or equipment becomes justified, and when expansion is economically supportable.

Feedstock Intelligence

The Feedstock Intelligence Module models the characteristics, availability, economics, and risks associated with organic feedstocks.

Features include:

  • Horse manure modeling
  • Cow manure modeling
  • Dairy manure modeling
  • Poultry manure modeling
  • Sheep manure modeling
  • Goat manure modeling
  • Rabbit manure modeling
  • Pig manure modeling
  • Bedding material modeling
  • Agricultural organic material modeling
  • Other approved organic feedstock modeling
  • Feedstock quality scoring
  • Feedstock availability
  • Feedstock seasonality
  • Feedstock density
  • Feedstock moisture
  • Feedstock composition
  • Feedstock contamination
  • Feedstock maturity
  • Feedstock processing requirements
  • Feedstock yield estimation
  • Actual versus estimated feedstock tracking
  • Supplier concentration analysis
  • Feedstock supply risk analysis

The system should allow feedstock assumptions to be replaced with actual measurements as operational data becomes available.

Feedstock Supplier Management

The Feedstock Supplier Management Module manages the organizations, farms, barns, facilities, and other sources that provide organic materials.

Features include:

  • Supplier profiles
  • Supplier locations
  • Supplier feedstock types
  • Animal population tracking
  • Feedstock generation estimates
  • Bedding information
  • Pickup frequency
  • Pickup scheduling
  • Recurring pickups
  • On-demand pickups
  • Supplier availability
  • Site access requirements
  • Loading requirements
  • Contamination reporting
  • Supplier quality scores
  • Supplier reliability scores
  • Historical pickup quantities
  • Actual versus estimated supply
  • Supplier notes
  • Supplier status
  • Supplier forecasting
  • Supplier concentration analysis
  • Supply shortage alerts
  • Excess-feedstock alerts
  • New supplier identification
  • Supplier incentives
  • Volume commitments
  • Preferred supplier management
  • Free-feedstock agreements
  • Paid-feedstock arrangements
  • Feedstock supply contracts

Collection and Transportation

The Collection and Transportation Module determines the cost and economic efficiency of acquiring feedstock and delivering finished products.

Features include:

  • Pickup scheduling
  • Collection route planning
  • Route density analysis
  • Vehicle capacity
  • Trailer capacity
  • Load utilization
  • Collection distance
  • Empty-return mileage
  • Fuel consumption
  • Fuel cost
  • Driver labor
  • Loading labor
  • Pickup cost
  • Cost per mile
  • Cost per pickup
  • Cost per load
  • Cost per ton collected
  • Cost per cubic yard collected
  • Minimum profitable pickup
  • Route profitability
  • Collection capacity
  • Vehicle utilization
  • Transportation profitability

Contamination and Quality Control

The Contamination and Quality Control Module evaluates incoming materials, processing conditions, and finished-product quality.

Features include:

  • Contamination tracking
  • Plastic detection
  • Metal detection
  • Wire detection
  • Rock and debris tracking
  • Excess bedding tracking
  • Chemical contamination tracking
  • Weed-seed risk tracking
  • Moisture testing
  • Maturity testing
  • Organic matter tracking
  • C:N ratio tracking
  • pH tracking
  • Salinity tracking
  • Nutrient analysis
  • Batch rejection thresholds
  • Supplier contamination scoring
  • Processing-loss calculation
  • Contaminant disposal cost
  • Finished-product quality scoring

Compost Production

The Compost Production Module models conventional compost production from incoming organic materials through finished product.

Features include:

  • Compost feedstock calculation
  • Compost batch management
  • Composting capacity
  • Composting time
  • Composting yield
  • Volume reduction
  • Weight reduction
  • Moisture loss
  • Organic matter loss
  • Screening loss
  • Reject material tracking
  • Finished compost calculation
  • Batch tracking
  • Batch costing
  • Production forecasting
  • Actual versus projected yield
  • Finished-product inventory

Product Formulation

The Product Formulation Module defines finished products and determines the materials, quantities, costs, characteristics, and economic results associated with each formulation.

Features include:

  • Product definitions
  • Product grades
  • Product formulations
  • Raw-material allocation
  • Input percentages
  • Minimum blend percentages
  • Maximum blend percentages
  • Target product characteristics
  • Product yield
  • Product cost
  • Product pricing
  • Product margin
  • Product profitability
  • Specialty products
  • Premium products
  • Bulk products
  • Bagged products
  • Agricultural products
  • Garden products
  • Nursery products
  • Soil amendments
  • Growing-media products

Blending Optimization

The Blending Optimization Module evaluates combinations of organic materials to produce products that meet economic and quality requirements.

Features include:

  • Multi-material blending
  • Blend cost calculation
  • Blend yield calculation
  • Moisture balancing
  • Nutrient balancing
  • C:N optimization
  • Particle-size optimization
  • pH considerations
  • Salinity considerations
  • Quality constraints
  • Minimum and maximum material percentages
  • Lowest-cost formulation
  • Highest-margin formulation
  • Highest-value formulation
  • Inventory-aware blending
  • Excess-inventory reduction
  • Slow-moving material utilization
  • Blend profitability
  • Product-path comparison
  • Blend scenario comparison

Packaging Economics

The Packaging Economics Module models the costs and profitability of converting bulk products into packaged products.

Features include:

  • Bag-size modeling
  • Bulk packaging
  • Pallet packaging
  • Tote packaging
  • Custom packaging
  • Packaging material costs
  • Packaging labor
  • Labeling costs
  • Packaging equipment
  • Packaging capacity
  • Cost per package
  • Cost per pound
  • Cost per cubic foot
  • Cost per cubic yard
  • Packaging margin
  • Packaging channel comparison

Sales Channel Economics

The Sales Channel Economics Module compares the economic performance of different ways to sell finished products.

Features include:

  • Direct sales
  • Farm-gate sales
  • Pickup sales
  • Direct-to-consumer sales
  • Online sales
  • Retail sales
  • Garden-center sales
  • Nursery sales
  • Landscaper sales
  • Agricultural sales
  • Wholesale sales
  • Distributor sales
  • Marketplace sales
  • Subscription sales
  • Channel pricing
  • Channel fees
  • Payment processing costs
  • Marketplace fees
  • Sales commissions
  • Customer acquisition costs
  • Returns
  • Discounts
  • Delivery costs
  • Channel contribution margin
  • Channel operating margin
  • Revenue per channel
  • Profit per channel
  • Channel comparison
  • Channel optimization
  • Channel conflict analysis

Wholesale Accounts

The Wholesale Accounts Module models commercial customers, contracts, recurring orders, pricing structures, and account profitability.

Features include:

  • Wholesale customer profiles
  • Commercial customer management
  • Customer location
  • Customer product requirements
  • Historical purchase volume
  • Contract volume
  • Contract pricing
  • Wholesale price tiers
  • Minimum order quantities
  • Truckload pricing
  • Pallet pricing
  • Recurring orders
  • Delivery requirements
  • Payment terms
  • Wholesale discounts
  • Wholesale profitability
  • Account contribution margin
  • Contract profitability
  • Contract capacity requirements
  • Customer concentration risk
  • Wholesale capacity allocation
  • Wholesale versus retail comparison

Customer Profitability

The Customer Profitability Module measures the actual economic contribution of individual customers and customer segments.

Features include:

  • Customer profiles
  • Customer segmentation
  • Customer purchase history
  • Customer volume
  • Customer revenue
  • Customer acquisition cost
  • Delivery cost
  • Discounts
  • Returns
  • Payment costs
  • Account servicing costs
  • Contribution margin
  • Customer profitability
  • Customer lifetime value
  • Customer retention
  • High-value customer identification
  • Low-margin customer identification
  • Customer concentration risk

Delivery Economics

The Delivery Economics Module determines the cost and profitability of delivering products to customers.

Features include:

  • Delivery zones
  • Delivery distance
  • Delivery cost
  • Cost per mile
  • Cost per stop
  • Load utilization
  • Delivery minimums
  • Free-delivery thresholds
  • Delivery surcharges
  • Fuel surcharges
  • Route density
  • Customer-specific delivery economics
  • Delivered-margin calculation
  • Pickup versus delivery comparison

Equipment Management

The Equipment Management Module models equipment acquisition, ownership, financing, operating costs, and replacement.

Features include:

  • Equipment profiles
  • Equipment acquisition cost
  • Used-equipment pricing
  • New-equipment pricing
  • Rental cost
  • Lease cost
  • Financing cost
  • Useful-life modeling
  • Capacity
  • Fuel consumption
  • Maintenance
  • Insurance
  • Operator requirements
  • Equipment depreciation
  • Equipment replacement planning

Equipment Utilization

The Equipment Utilization Module measures whether equipment is being used efficiently enough to justify ownership or expansion.

Features include:

  • Available equipment hours
  • Productive equipment hours
  • Idle time
  • Downtime
  • Maintenance time
  • Utilization percentage
  • Capacity utilization
  • Equipment bottleneck detection
  • Cost per operating hour
  • Cost per productive hour
  • Cost per pickup
  • Cost per load
  • Cost per ton
  • Cost per cubic yard
  • Cost per finished product unit
  • Buy-versus-rent analysis
  • Buy-versus-contract analysis
  • Used-versus-new analysis
  • Equipment expansion analysis
  • Equipment payback
  • Break-even utilization
  • Equipment replacement triggers

Inventory Management

The Inventory Management Module tracks raw materials, work in process, finished products, packaging, and storage capacity.

Features include:

  • Raw-material inventory
  • Work-in-process inventory
  • Compost inventory
  • Worm casting inventory
  • Blend inventory
  • Packaging inventory
  • Finished-product inventory
  • Inventory valuation
  • Inventory age
  • Storage cost
  • Reserved inventory
  • Available inventory
  • Slow-moving inventory
  • Inventory loss
  • Storage capacity
  • Inventory turnover
  • Production-to-demand comparison

Demand Forecasting

The Demand Forecasting Module estimates future demand and connects market demand to production and inventory planning.

Features include:

  • Historical sales analysis
  • Product demand forecasting
  • Seasonal demand
  • Geographic demand
  • Customer-segment demand
  • Wholesale demand
  • Retail demand
  • Recurring demand
  • Production planning
  • Inventory planning
  • Seasonal production planning
  • Demand uncertainty
  • Demand scenarios

Market Intelligence and Price Comparison

The Market Intelligence and Price Comparison Module provides transparent market analysis for comparable products and pricing decisions.

Features include:

  • Competitor product discovery
  • Comparable product discovery
  • Full market product display
  • Product catalog
  • Seller identification
  • Product type identification
  • Feedstock identification
  • Package-size comparison
  • Weight comparison
  • Volume comparison
  • Retail pricing
  • Wholesale pricing
  • Bulk pricing
  • Delivered pricing
  • Pickup pricing
  • Shipping costs
  • Mandatory fees
  • Price normalization
  • Price per pound
  • Price per bag
  • Price per cubic foot
  • Price per cubic yard
  • Price per ton
  • Price per pallet
  • Like-for-like comparison
  • Product comparability scoring
  • Lowest market price
  • Highest market price
  • Average market price
  • Median market price
  • Market percentiles
  • Regional pricing
  • Geographic pricing
  • Price history
  • Market-price freshness
  • Source verification
  • Competitor catalog
  • Competitive price positioning
  • Minimum sustainable price
  • Maximum competitive price
  • Recommended price
  • Target price
  • Promotional price
  • Premium price

The module should display the underlying market products used in pricing calculations rather than presenting only aggregated results.

Price comparisons should account for meaningful differences in feedstock, maturity, processing, screening, particle size, moisture, nutrients, organic matter, composition, packaging, weight, volume, intended use, certification, geography, delivery, and other relevant characteristics.

Price Match Guarantee

The Price Match Guarantee Module determines whether a competitor’s price is sufficiently comparable to qualify for a price match.

Features include:

  • Price-match policy configuration
  • Competitor verification
  • Comparable-product verification
  • Quantity verification
  • Quality verification
  • Geographic verification
  • Delivery-term verification
  • Current-price verification
  • Normalized competitor pricing
  • Matching-price calculation
  • Minimum-margin protection
  • Price-floor calculation
  • Match decision
  • Conditional match
  • Quantity-adjusted match
  • Pickup-only match
  • Alternative-product offer
  • Discount alternative
  • Price-match audit trail
  • Price-match history

Financial Planning

The Financial Planning Module models startup capital, working capital, operating reserves, financing, cash flow, and reinvestment.

Features include:

  • Startup capital calculation
  • Working capital calculation
  • Operating reserve
  • Capital expenditure planning
  • Equipment financing
  • Debt modeling
  • Cash-flow forecasting
  • Revenue forecasting
  • Expense forecasting
  • Profit forecasting
  • Break-even forecasting
  • Owner compensation
  • Owner distribution
  • Reinvestment planning
  • Retained earnings
  • Return on capital
  • Payback period

Scenario Simulator

The Scenario Simulator allows users to compare different operating conditions before committing capital or changing the business model.

Features include:

  • Startup scenarios
  • Conservative scenarios
  • Expected scenarios
  • Growth scenarios
  • High-demand scenarios
  • Low-demand scenarios
  • High-cost scenarios
  • Low-price scenarios
  • Equipment scenarios
  • Worm-farming scenarios
  • Blending scenarios
  • Wholesale scenarios
  • Sales-channel scenarios
  • Capital scenarios
  • Labor scenarios
  • Feedstock scenarios
  • Yield scenarios
  • Pricing scenarios
  • Revenue scenarios
  • Cost scenarios
  • Profit scenarios
  • Break-even scenarios
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Stress testing
  • Scenario comparison
  • Scenario saving
  • Scenario-versus-actual analysis

Business Optimization Engine

The Business Optimization Engine evaluates the business as an interconnected system and identifies economically preferable uses of available resources.

Features include:

  • Whole-business optimization
  • Feedstock allocation
  • Processing-path optimization
  • Product-mix optimization
  • Pricing optimization
  • Sales-channel optimization
  • Customer-mix optimization
  • Equipment allocation
  • Labor allocation
  • Capital allocation
  • Inventory allocation
  • Capacity allocation
  • Route optimization
  • Margin optimization
  • Revenue optimization
  • Profit optimization
  • Return-on-capital optimization
  • Minimum-capital optimization
  • Owner-income optimization
  • Bottleneck detection
  • Constraint analysis
  • Resource allocation
  • Product-path comparison
  • Conventional compost versus worm casting comparison
  • Bulk versus bagged comparison
  • Wholesale versus retail comparison
  • Direct versus delivered comparison
  • Buy versus rent analysis
  • Expansion analysis
  • Minimum viable business calculation
  • Maximum sustainable scale calculation
  • Growth recommendations
  • Expansion triggers
  • Capital-constrained optimization
  • Profitability thresholds
  • Market-supported capacity
  • Supply-supported capacity
  • Demand-supported capacity

Optimization should consider the interaction between supply, capacity, costs, pricing, demand, labor, equipment, capital, inventory, and product pathways rather than optimizing a single metric in isolation.

Optimization Transparency

The Optimization Transparency Module makes recommendations understandable and reviewable.

Features include:

  • Recommendation explanations
  • Assumption display
  • Input visibility
  • Calculation visibility
  • Cost breakdown
  • Revenue breakdown
  • Margin breakdown
  • Sensitivity display
  • Constraint display
  • Risk display
  • Alternative scenarios
  • Recommendation confidence
  • Human approval
  • Decision history
  • Audit trail

Business Intelligence

The Business Intelligence Module provides operational and financial views across the business.

Features include:

  • Executive dashboard
  • Production dashboard
  • Feedstock dashboard
  • Supplier dashboard
  • Equipment dashboard
  • Inventory dashboard
  • Sales dashboard
  • Wholesale dashboard
  • Pricing dashboard
  • Profitability dashboard
  • Cash-flow dashboard
  • Growth dashboard
  • Market dashboard
  • Worm-farm dashboard
  • Product dashboard
  • Scenario dashboard

Sustainability and Material Recovery

The Sustainability and Material Recovery Module measures how effectively organic materials are recovered and converted into useful products.

Features include:

  • Feedstock diversion tracking
  • Organic-material recovery
  • Finished-product recovery
  • Processing-loss tracking
  • Reject tracking
  • Recovered-value calculation
  • Material utilization rate
  • Feedstock-to-product conversion
  • Waste reduction
  • Local sourcing analysis
  • Transportation impact tracking
  • Water-use tracking
  • Energy-use tracking
  • Environmental impact metrics
  • Economic value per ton recovered

Human-in-the-Loop Controls

The Human-in-the-Loop Controls Module ensures that consequential business decisions remain subject to human review.

Features include:

  • Human approval of pricing
  • Human approval of price matching
  • Human approval of product formulations
  • Human approval of supplier relationships
  • Human approval of wholesale contracts
  • Human approval of equipment purchases
  • Human approval of expansion
  • Human approval of optimization recommendations
  • Manual override
  • Assumption editing
  • Decision recording
  • Recommendation rejection
  • Recommendation acceptance
  • Audit history
  • Explainable calculations
  • No automatic binding commercial decisions

Optional Plugin Modules

Optional plugin modules extend OrganicWorks with specialized capabilities without requiring every deployment to support every business model or product pathway.

Worm Farming and Worm Castings Plugin

The Worm Farming and Worm Castings Plugin adds vermicomposting and worm-related product economics.

Features include:

  • Worm farm feasibility
  • Worm species management
  • Initial worm population
  • Worm population growth
  • Worm biomass
  • Worm reproduction
  • Worm mortality
  • Feed consumption
  • Feeding rate
  • Worm-bed capacity
  • Worm-bin capacity
  • Worm processing time
  • Worm harvesting
  • Worm replacement
  • Worm stock economics
  • Worm sales
  • Breeding-stock sales
  • Starter colony sales
  • Worm kit sales
  • Worm casting production
  • Casting yield
  • Casting screening
  • Casting grades
  • Premium castings
  • Bulk castings
  • Bagged castings
  • Casting batch tracking
  • Casting costing
  • Casting market pricing
  • Casting price normalization
  • Casting price comparison
  • Casting price-match analysis
  • Casting versus conventional compost comparison

The plugin should support standalone worm production, a secondary product line, a processing stage following conventional composting, or an integrated compost and worm operation.

It should model suitable feedstock characteristics, pre-processing requirements, worm population, feeding rates, processing time, infrastructure, labor, production yield, harvesting, screening, packaging, storage, sales, and profitability.

Subscription and Recurring Delivery Plugin

The Subscription and Recurring Delivery Plugin supports recurring product orders and scheduled delivery relationships.

Features include:

  • Subscription products
  • Recurring customer orders
  • Delivery schedules
  • Pickup schedules
  • Subscription pricing
  • Recurring revenue
  • Customer retention
  • Subscription profitability
  • Route density
  • Recurring delivery costs
  • Minimum subscription quantities
  • Cancellation tracking
  • Renewal forecasting
  • Capacity planning for recurring demand

Compost Quality Certification Plugin

The Compost Quality Certification Plugin provides specialized quality, testing, certification, and product-grade management.

Features include:

  • Quality standards
  • Product specifications
  • Testing requirements
  • Batch testing
  • Laboratory results
  • Quality certificates
  • Certification tracking
  • Product-grade requirements
  • Compliance documentation
  • Quality history
  • Certificate expiration tracking
  • Customer quality documentation

Waste-to-Revenue Plugin

The Waste-to-Revenue Plugin evaluates organic materials that have disposal costs or negative economic value and identifies pathways for recovering economic value.

Features include:

  • Disposal-cost modeling
  • Avoided disposal costs
  • Recovery-value calculation
  • Feedstock acquisition economics
  • Processing economics
  • Product conversion
  • Revenue recovery
  • Waste diversion economics
  • Negative-cost feedstock modeling
  • Positive-value product modeling
  • Recovery pathway comparison

Circular Revenue Plugin

The Circular Revenue Plugin models businesses that generate multiple revenue streams from the same recovered organic materials.

Features include:

  • Multi-product revenue
  • Byproduct revenue
  • Secondary product revenue
  • Worm sales
  • Casting sales
  • Compost sales
  • Blend sales
  • Soil amendment sales
  • Agricultural product sales
  • Packaging revenue
  • Service revenue
  • Feedstock service relationships
  • Revenue-stream comparison
  • Revenue diversification
  • Revenue concentration analysis
  • Circular value allocation

Organic Material Arbitrage Plugin

The Organic Material Arbitrage Plugin evaluates differences between feedstock availability, processing costs, regional product demand, and finished-product pricing.

Features include:

  • Feedstock value comparison
  • Regional feedstock comparison
  • Regional product-price comparison
  • Transportation-adjusted value
  • Processing-cost comparison
  • Product-value comparison
  • Geographic arbitrage analysis
  • Material allocation
  • Market opportunity identification
  • Margin opportunity analysis

Data and Calculation Requirements

OrganicWorks should distinguish between:

  • User-entered values
  • Measured operating values
  • Historical values
  • Market observations
  • Estimated values
  • Assumed values
  • Calculated values
  • Forecast values
  • Recommended values

Each material, product, supplier, customer, market observation, calculation, and scenario should retain sufficient context to understand where the value originated and how it was used.

Calculations should preserve the relationship between inputs and outputs so that users can inspect how changes to feedstock, yield, costs, pricing, capacity, demand, or capital affect the resulting business model.

Growth and Expansion Framework

OrganicWorks should support a growth model based on measurable economic readiness.

Expansion recommendations should consider:

  • Available feedstock
  • Feedstock reliability
  • Production capacity
  • Equipment utilization
  • Labor utilization
  • Storage capacity
  • Market demand
  • Sales capacity
  • Inventory levels
  • Cash reserves
  • Working capital
  • Profitability
  • Return on invested capital
  • Route density
  • Customer concentration
  • Equipment payback
  • Capacity constraints

The system should identify when a business should remain at its current scale, add labor, purchase equipment, increase processing capacity, expand its service area, add products, add sales channels, or establish additional operating capacity.


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License & Notice Requirements

OrganicWorks is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).
By contributing to any Open Arsenal project, you agree that your contributions will also be released under this license.

Please note the following:

  • All contributions must comply with the AGPL-3.0+ terms.
  • Under Section 7 of the license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works must preserve attribution to:
    Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
  • OrganicWorks specifications are free to use with attribution. A Specification Branding License can be negotiated upon request.
  • The project’s notice.md file tracks attribution requirements and contributor acknowledgments.
    Any update that adds new contributors or modifies attribution should also update notice.md.
  • When submitting a pull request, ensure that any new files maintain the attribution headers where applicable.
  • Network-deployed versions of this software must also remain fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant, including exposure of source code modifications when applicable under the license.

For full legal details, please refer to the AGPL-3.0+ license and the project’s notice.md file.


Notice – OrganicWorks

Attribution Requirement: Under Section 7 of the AGPL 3.0+ license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works, including network-deployed versions of this project, must provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.

Contributors

This file tracks contributors and their specific contributions to the project.

  • Roxanne Ardary, roxanneardary.com – September 14, 2026
    Created the repository for OrganicWorks and developed the specification for modeling organic resource recovery businesses, including feedstock collection, processing, production, pricing, sales, profitability, and scalable growth.
  • [Add other contributors here] – [Date]
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License – OrganicWorks

This repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).

Key Points

  • You are free to use, modify, and distribute the code.
  • All redistributions, forks, and derivative works or network-deployed versions must also be licensed under AGPL-3.0+ and provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com as required under Section 7 of the license.
  • The software is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind.

For the full license text, see GNU AGPL-3.0 License.