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CREATIVE PARTICIPATION · WORKFORCE INSPIRATION

DigiVerse™

You followed us on Indiegogo when the process was still taking shape. That earlier Genesis campaign introduced the beginnings of our creative and technological vision and invited people to follow its development. The campaign has now concluded.

The next stage is about introducing the evolving digiVerse™ experience, bringing Build Squadron™ to life, and inviting supporters to discover opportunities for appropriate participation.

REQUEST GENESIS BETA ACCESSMEET THE BUILD SQUADRON™digiVerse™ DEFINED

From Genesis to What Comes Next

digiVerse™ is an expression of the broader THIRTEENTH™ & Co. technology portfolio and one of LodeStone NVM’s™ 13 Application & Experience Surfaces. It is designed to make complex subjects more accessible, introduce participants to new interests, inspire creative exploration, and help connect discovery with meaningful development.

The Built Environment depends on people whose skills, judgment, creativity, and dedication make modern life possible. The digiVerse™ experience brings entertainment, education, community involvement, and intelligent technology into an environment that must accommodate different ages, interests, responsibilities, and participation requirements.

  • PREVIEW
  • PRACTICE
  • PARTICIPATE
  • PERFORM
  • PROVE
  • PROGRESS
  • PERPETUATE

Whether exploring the built world, learning how infrastructure works, discovering a profession, collaborating on a challenge, or creating something new, real-world experience begins with curiosity.

Physical Infrastructure

Equipment must be installed. Digital systems must be connected. Personnel must be trained.

Safety & Readiness

Security and safety requirements must be addressed. Emergency plans must be ready.

Commissioning & Service

A facility must be commissioned before it can begin serving its community.

You Followed When It Began.
Now Explore What It Is Becoming.

We are all practitioners and stewards in the production of the built world—shaping the governed lifecycle that turns ideas, labor, materials, data, and decisions into the environments people live, work, move, and rely upon every day.

Builders. Engineers. Technicians. Designers. Medical professionals. Security specialists. Educators. Emergency responders. Operators. Problem-solvers. All reside at the intersection of creativity and complex challenges across an interconnected world.

digiVerse™ and Build Squadron™ provide an entryway for discovering professional interests, understanding real-world challenges, and exploring potential career directions.

The Workforce Challenge Is Real.

As the United States continues to face significant demand for qualified construction and infrastructure talent, industry workforce research underscores why early awareness, technical education, mentorship, and practical pathways into skilled professions matter.

The reported figures include 349K estimated additional workers required by U.S. construction in 2026; 587K projected average annual U.S. construction and extraction openings for 2025–2035; and 88% of surveyed firms with craft openings reporting equal or greater difficulty filling them.

A workforce cannot be developed through recruitment alone. It has to inspire curiosity about the work that builds, operates, protects, and sustains our world.

349
Estimated additional workers required by U.S. construction in 2026.
587
Projected average annual U.S. construction and extraction openings for 2025–2035.
88
Surveyed firms with craft openings reporting equal or greater difficulty filling them.

Inspiration → Info-tainment → Integration

Workforce opportunity follows the development of connected pathways that bring people, projects, intelligent technology, industries, and interactive experiences together.

Build Squadron™ addresses the beginning of that journey: discovery and inspiration. Entertainment helps open the pathway. digiVerse™ extends the mission through creative expression, discovery, learning, and participation.

Through an evolving collection of digital experiences, participants can discover the relationships among construction, healthcare, technology, public safety, education, and operational readiness.

The lesson is that complex real-world outcomes require more than one profession, one technology, or one person. Yet many young people experience the end results of these professions without understanding how they work, imagining themselves participating, or knowing where to begin preparing.

Inspiration

Discover real professions, infrastructure, and the relationships among people and systems.

Info-tainment

Creative expression, discovery, learning, and interactive simulations.

Integration

Appropriate development, qualification, and participation pathways as available.

Imagine It. Experience It.
Now Help Us Build It.

digiVerse™ is envisioned as a progressively expanding environment for discovery, learning, creativity, social participation, simulation, and immersive implementation.

The first discovery is opportunity. digiVerse™ supports a proposed progression of individual participation designations and pathways toward appropriate creative and commercial participation.

It is intended to evolve toward creating, contributing, and collaborating within an expanding participatory digital environment.

Selected experiences may support creators, educators, program facilitators, mentors, organizations, and appropriately qualified commercial participants.

Additional activities and opportunities may connect participants with other platform capabilities where appropriate, subject to eligibility, qualification, authorization, and applicable participation conditions.

The broader LodeStone NVM™ governed-execution foundation is designed to support qualified, authorized, evidence-preserving actions when participants and technologies enter consequential operating environments.

GENESIS EXPLORERS™ → Extraordinary Impact

From Genesis to Lasting Legacy.

The original Indiegogo Genesis initiative introduced LodeStone NVM™ as the Operating System of Operating Systems. That crowdfunding chapter has concluded and is being retired from active commercialization. Its historical significance is preserved—today, we are introducing GENESIS-BETA, to help advance the next chapter of THIRTEENTH™ & Co. and digiVerse™.

Genesis-BETA Participation.

Genesis Explorers™ recognizes verified followers of the original campaign. Genesis Explorers™ will receive preferred placement in the Genesis-BETA participation lineup and assurance of available beta capacity.

New visitors and supporters are equally invited and encouraged to participate in Genesis-BETA, subject to verification, published eligibility requirements, and available beta capacity.

All participants will participate through voluntary contributions to HILAS Foundation™ and the associated donation-receipt verification process.

Support the Next Chapter. Explore What Comes Next.

HILAS Foundation™ is an independent 501(c)(3) charitable organization supporting memorial initiatives, scholarships, leadership development, family services, community programs, and its broader mission.

All donations are made to and administered by HILAS Foundation through its existing customized-engagement options:
Individual / Family; Corporate Sponsor; Organization / Official Partner; or Anonymous.

GENESIS-BETA invitations are subject to published eligibility, availability, verification, and program terms; qualifying participants explore complimentary, fixed-duration technology evaluation, to support emerging digiVerse™ experiences.

DISCLAIMER Participation remains voluntarily.  Contribution amounts, as determined by donors—does not establish financial interests, royalty rights, professional qualifications, subscriptions beyond published entitlements, or independent execution authority within LodeStone NVM™.

How to Participate.

STEP 1: Visit the HILAS Foundation™ Impact page and choose your preferred existing donation pathway.

STEP 2: Choose any voluntary contribution amount. Anonymous donation may be selected where supported by the appropriate HILAS form.

STEP 3: In the appropriate designation, reference, or comments field, enter GENESIS-BETA.

STEP 4: Retain the official HILAS receipt and transaction reference. Your receipt or donation record will securely preserve your GENESIS-BETA designation and support qualification.

STEP 5: Follow the THIRTEENTH™ & Co. website for public beta-activation timelines and referenced updates.

STEP 6: THIRTEENTH™ & Co. verifies the receipt, designation, eligibility, applicable benefit valuation and redemption status before issuance of a fixed-duration beta invitation.

Charitable Participation Notice.

Contributions to HILAS Foundation™ support its independent charitable mission and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

HILAS Foundation™ retains charitable records and acknowledgments; of the fair-market value of any goods or services provided—to properly substantiate a contribution.

Any applicable fair-market-value disclosures and charitable contribution requirements will be observed in accordance with applicable law.

CHARACTERS · EDUCATION · WORKFORCE INSPIRATION

Who Will You Become?

Inspiring the Workforce that Builds Tomorrow, Build Squadron™ introduces unique characters whose different backgrounds, abilities, and purpose, inform and inspire through interactive and collaborative development activities and simulated built-world experiences.
Their adventures foster more engaging and accessible relationships among education, technical skill, teamwork, and the built environment.

jujuMANN™

Alignment, Unification, Stewardship; The brains and protective force of the operation. Adaptive multimodal intelligence, spiritual acumen, uncanny memory and pattern recognition.

ParamediX™

First in, Last out; identifying the most effective restoration of endangered people, systems, and operating conditions.

Monolith™

the Ultimate Fix Man; with the power of extraordinary physical strength and brute-force intervention to build, reinforce, repair, and anchor any physical structure.

SwaggerJacker™

In-crowd, Intelligencer; a shapeshifter with special access. Can alter appearance, voice, posture, style, and identity.

CodeKracker™

Expose and transform; systems and logic. Can crack any code, unlocking underlying patterns and hidden digital relationships.

Accolade™

Extraordinary perceptiveness; to recognize earned excellence, and hidden worth with speed, accuracy, and depth.

PlayBack™

Frame-freezed, re-action; to replay previous actions and sequences frame by frame, examining what occurred beyond ordinary observation.

Identity Crisis™

Population Dynamics; unknown Identity, undiscovered Mission, one unfinished narrative. A world of possibilities—to be imagined.

Meet the Build Squadron™

JujuMANN™ — Dr. Jamal Mann

UNSTOPPABLE CONVERGENCE™

The strategist and diplomat of the Squadron, jujuMANN™ (Multi-modal Adaptive Neural Nexus) brings people, perspectives, resources, and competing priorities together when complex challenges require collective alignment and unambiguous direction. His strength is understanding the wider mission while orchestrating successful implementation that depends on the contribution of many different disciplines.

Explore: Leadership, strategy, negotiation, systems thinking, coordination, and collaboration.

ParamediX™ — Parker Williamson

Rapid Stabilization™

A former special-forces and private-security professional with a disciplined approach to preparedness, protection, and critical response. ParamediX™ is the calm, focus, operational awareness, and rapid stabilization in situations where people and systems face unexpected challenges. He is jujuMANN’s second-in-command.

Explore: Emergency response, preparedness, safety, medical support, security, and resilience.

Monolith™ — Finnegan O’Tool

Structural Dominion™

A formidable New Yorker with a complicated past and an instinctive appreciation for strength, structure, and getting things built. Monolith™ represents the physical realities of construction: materials, structures, equipment, field conditions, and the people who turn plans and perspectives into the built world realities.

Explore: Construction, structural engineering, architecture, skilled trades, heavy equipment, and infrastructure.

SwaggerJacker™ — Brayden Iskandar

Culture Shifts™- External Expression

A Yale-educated creative thinker and cultural dynamics influencer whose abilities reflect adaptation, communication, imagination, and the changing ways people interpret their environment. SwaggerJacker™ is the culture, identity, design, and creative problem-solver of the squad. He is the twin brother of CodeKracker™.

Explore: Creative arts, design, communications, culture, media, technology, and innovation.

CodeKracker™ — Braxton Iskandar

Culture Shifts™- Internal Expression

An MIT-educated technology genius whose strengths lie in code, cybersecurity, systems analysis, and uncovering how digital environments work. CodeKracker™ brings the analytical and computational perspective to the Squadron, tackling puzzles, technical obstacles, and challenges involving intelligent systems. He is the twin brother of SwaggerJacker™.

Explore: Computer science, cybersecurity, programming, data, AI, and digital systems

Accolade™ — Alundra Jain

Honorable Mention™

A 21-year-old neuropsychology student exploring the next stage of her education during her gap year before medical school. Accolade’s™ curiosity about the human mind, learning, health, behavior, recognition, and the importance of human achievement that elevates deserving potential and distinction that others may overlook— even before it is fully realized, reminds the Squadron that intelligence, development, and technical progress must remain connected to people.

Explore: Medicine, neuroscience, psychology, healthcare, research, education, and human development.

PlayBack™ — Beto “Benny Guns” Segundo

Reframed Review™

A boxing coach and youth-sports director who combines discipline, development, teamwork, mentorship, and learning from experience, with speed, agility, acute awareness and a practical coaching philosophy that allows his students to grasp unspoken motives and patterns that most people filter out. PlayBack™ supports review of what happened, to recognize what matters, learn from the experience, and prepare to perform better, that goes beyond ordinary training or performance analysis.

Explore: Sports, coaching, mentorship, youth development, physical fitness, training, and performance improvement.

Identity Crisis™ — Identity: Unknown

Population Dynamics™

Transforms digiVerse™ into an expanding population-development experience, where individual identities, professions, relationships, communities, and shared contributions advance the connected digital built environment. Participants begin by creating their own characters, developing distinct identities, abilities, personalities, professions, and narratives, that participate, interact, and contribute to increasingly complex communities, simulated societies, and emerging built-world experiences.

Explore: Progressive identities, evolving communities, infrastructure, institutions, commerce, education, and technology.

Progressive Pathways.

The goal of LodeStone NVM’s™ immersive Info-tainment layer is to connect inspiration with opportunity without confusing participation with professional qualification, operating authority, or entitlement to rewards.

Build Squadron™ & digiVerse™ experiences are intended as educational and creative representations that encourage discovery and inspiration—not evidence of actual deployments or substitutes for professional training.

These concepts form part of the overall LodeStone NVM™ development direction. Individual experiences and capabilities will be made available according to their respective development, qualification, safety, and release conditions.

The Built-World Classroom.

Within this immersive experience, each Squadron member sees part of the challenge through a different lens to bring different perspectives together around ONE/WON/1™ coordinated effort.

Participants can discover the relationships among construction, healthcare, technology, public safety, education, and operational readiness.

Real-world simulations and future-forward fictional activities may explore interconnected industries including energy, transportation, logistics, finance, manufacturing, research, infrastructure, and advanced computing through proprietary digiVerse™ experience concepts that include:

Gray Zone™

Explore uncertainty, alternative perspectives, emerging ideas, and situations where information or decisions may not initially be clear.

Caution: Children at Play™

Age-appropriate discovery, playful learning, imagination, and youth-oriented experiences developed with suitable safeguards.

Shhh… Class in Session™

Structured learning, guided instruction, educational challenges, and opportunities to explore subjects through interactive participation.

Active Work Zone™

Experience how professionals, tools, systems, and different disciplines come together to complete practical work.

ONE/WON/1. World™

Explore how people, communities, industries, technologies, and physical infrastructure form an interconnected operating world.

Population Dynamics™

Create Your Identity. Build Your Narrative. Explore interconnected industries. Become Part of the Built-World.

LodeStone NVM™—Governed Consequential Execution.

The governed-execution environment designed to connect appropriately qualified people, capabilities, technologies, and current operating conditions with authorized, evidence-preserving real-world activities may include—an approved BUILD COUNCIL™ review and recognition pathway, selected participant-created Identity Crisis™characters that become eligible Immortalized Stewards, whose identities and contributions remain part of the evolving digiVerse™ population dynamic.

The broader LodeStone NVM™ ecosystem provides additional distinct, complementary progression pathways:

ROMWORX™ — DEVELOP & PREPARE

Practical workforce-development pathways, skills preparation, training, and readiness for professional participation.

HIRE-IQ™ — QUALIFY & PARTICIPATE

Workforce lifecycle, eligibility, qualifications, onboarding, talent connections, and appropriate participation opportunities.

TRAININGWHEELS™ — TRAIN & EXPERIENCE

Guided learning activities and experience-based training that connects practical skill development with real-world exposure.

STE(A)M-TOO-EZ™ — LEARN & DEVELOP

Age-appropriate learning activities, educational milestones, progress evidence, and education-to-workforce continuity.

Over time, the combination of individual identities, evolving communities, infrastructure, institutions, commerce, education, technology, and shared activities supports the progressive development of a more advanced, interconnected civilization. The world grows. The population expands. Civilization evolves.

Explore digiVerse™ Participation

Request Genesis BETA Access.

Initiate — Free

Basic character creation, name, profession, mission, and initial digital profile.

Apprentice — $9.99/month

Expanded character customization and saved identity-development options.

Journeyman — $19.99/month

Advanced character challenges, alternate configurations, and collaborative experiences.

Master — $39.99/month

Advanced character creation, expanded creation tools, narrative development, and eligible showcase opportunities.

Grandmaster — Earned / No Monthly Fee

Recognition of exceptional creative, community, mentorship, or service-related contributions.

Viceroy — Selective Designation

Eligibility-controlled advanced creative stewardship; BUILD COUNCIL™ consideration / immortalization.

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