# StewardsIQ.com Pitch Deck Outline

## Slide 1: Title
- StewardsIQ.com
- Urgency-first crisis navigation and verified sponsor support for Americans in financial hardship

## Slide 2: The problem
- Financial crisis is clustered, not isolated
- Hunger, rent, lost income, benefits churn, and health access fail at the same time
- Existing systems are too slow, fragmented, and paperwork-heavy for people in immediate distress

## Slide 3: Who we serve
- Senior citizens
- Homeless or housing-unstable households
- Low-income or no-income households
- Trusted intermediaries that help them: libraries, nonprofits, clinics, churches, and counselors

## Slide 4: Product thesis
- Start with urgency, not eligibility
- Ask: what has to happen before tonight?
- Route users into simple, bounded action plans instead of generic resource lists

## Slide 5: Product demo
- Quick-start buttons: `Food today`, `Safe place tonight`, `Rent or bills`, `Lost income`, `Health or prescriptions`
- Segment-aware action plan
- Trusted links and prep checklist
- Saved plan and repeat-use flow

## Slide 6: Why StewardsIQ is different
- Cross-domain instead of single-issue
- Designed for low bandwidth and stressed users
- Verified sponsor workflow instead of an open marketplace
- Free for households in need

## Slide 7: Crowdsourced help model
- Money, time, goods, and short-term household sponsorship
- Verification through trusted partners
- Specific needs instead of vague fundraising asks
- Guardrails that reduce fraud and privacy risk

## Slide 8: Business model
- Free household access
- Supporter membership
- Paid partner dashboards for referral tracking, sponsor coordination, and reporting

## Slide 9: Go-to-market
- Pilot with libraries, housing partners, senior-serving nonprofits, and faith networks
- Start in one metro or state corridor
- Use trusted intermediaries, not app-store discovery alone

## Slide 10: Early traction plan
- MVP launched locally
- Founder materials ready
- Pilot conversations with one senior-serving partner, one housing partner, and one community organization
- Grant and fellowship applications underway

## Slide 11: Funding strategy
- Blue Ridge Labs Founder Fellowship
- AWS Imagine Grant through nonprofit alignment
- HUD or local housing partnership pathway
- Philanthropic and civic sponsorship once pilot data exists

## Slide 12: The ask
- Pilot partner introductions
- Warm introductions to nonprofit or public-sector partners
- Funding for MVP refinement, verification workflows, and first pilot launch