Love this post, especially the work around deliverable metrics. I think setting these metrics will be key to a well-functioning grants program. I’ve been part of grants programs whose goals were ill-defined, and it caused a lot of unnecessary downstream confusion.
Related to metrics: what does Primary ROI mean? It feels like you are saying this is the metric to optimize, but i was confused by the phrasing. If it is indeed an ROI, can you tell me how gas fees benefit the SAFE ecosystem?
For 40 hours/month, that’s about $37.5/hr. It’s ok, but I think you might have trouble attracting the quality of talent one might expect from the SAFE Grants team for this stipend. Might I suggest adding some $SAFE to the compensation? That would certainly help ensure the reviewers are value-aligned.
Once again, really happy to see you post this and look forward to see how it develops.