Embody SPE: Pre-proposal Intelligent Public Pipelines

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Hey Rich, thanks for your feedback. Indeed, there was a lot of feedback we implemented to make sure this is a win win for both Livepeer and our team. Currently waiting on Livepeer stakeholders to review v5(hopefully last iteration) to make sure it improves on all of private feedback.

  1. It is true NaaP and WEAVE conceptually trying to solve the same problem. But they are doing so in a different way. While NaaP attempts to offer a dev plugin that users can utilize to create and iterate on Livepeer workloads - WEAVE offers an agentic orchestration tool that goes from intent to workload creation and distribution. NaaP focuses on making it easier for developers to resolve the devloper stage of the workload lifecircle while WEAVE takes the user through all 6 life-circle stages. That does not mean that WEAVE replaces NaaP as they fullfill different function and in fact WEAVE can implement NaaP as part of it’s developer life-circle stage solution. This answer is given relevant to my understanding of NaaP, please correct us if we are wrong in that understanding.

  2. Regarding demand, our company is currently the main consumer of the workloads - while we are pushing towards getting more developers to use the workloads through the skill.md implementation. In our Published Retrospective you can see that there are two items: Startup Integration Program and usage incentives. The Embody SPE after the separation from the Agent SPE did not receive these financial packets and therefore all efforts and initiatives for consumer acquisition are being pushed through personal expenses. This proposal seeks new financial packets to incentivize consumer adoption and prove demand. We hope that it is understandable throughout the community that we are a small startup with limited headcount that does not yet possess the resources and backing that entities such as the Livepeer inc righfully enjoy - passing this proposal will also assist us with accumulating bigger external support which can be used to achieve fee growth for Livepeer orchestrators. We hope that Livepeer stakeholders clearly understand this.

Thank you for asking those important questions and for the ongoing support that you personally and everyone in the Livepeer foundation gave generously to the Embody team.

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