Not another technology sale. A practical partnership to learn whether a physical product can create a measurable reason for customers to return.
Old World Olive Co. has the opportunity to become the first Founding Culinary Innovation Partner helping State of Stick configure, validate, and launch the culinary application of an already-built connected-experience platform.
This is the physical starting point: a fabricated acrylic countertop sign with a precision-made Old World Olive Co. emblem. StickLink™ makes that sign useful by opening the product story, recipes, events, customer signup, or reorder path in a tap.
This is not a generic prospect page. We chose Old World Olive Co. because the business already behaves like an experience brand.
Customers discover flavors, recipes, gifts, and stories—not simply bottles. Products are naturally replenishable, education matters to the purchase, and the store gives us three meaningful moments to test: discovery, checkout, and return. That makes Old World Olive Co. unusually well positioned to help define what connected specialty retail should become.
Our ambition is larger than connected packaging. We see a market where chefs, culinary artists, specialty retailers, events, collectors, and customers meet through physical objects that keep opening useful experiences.
Old World Olive Co. understands the customer, the products, the stories, and the people who can make this credible. We do not want you standing at the edge of that market. We want to explore building its first real playbook with you.
A possible campaign format pairing a featured oil, approved recipe, participant story, and connected collectible. Initial launches use a managed workflow and require participant agreements and recorded approvals.
A possible physical-and-digital collection configured on the existing platform, with each edition, participant, license, production run, and fulfillment plan separately approved.
A planned capability for customers to record tastings, discover approved participants, save favorites, and follow future experiences. It is not included as a live product today.
Use existing StickLink destinations for approved recipes, product guidance, pairings, replenishment links, complementary products, and the next invitation.
A future expansion opportunity for connecting products to tastings, classes, demonstrations, cultural moments, and follow-up. Event operations are separately scoped.
A future expansion opportunity for approved holiday, corporate, hospitality, Michigan-maker, and sponsor collaborations, each with separate rights, inventory, and fulfillment terms.
You already see beyond a single tap. You understand chefs, tastings, education, hospitality, gifts, repeat purchase, and the emotional pull of discovery. That practical market instinct is exactly what State of Stick, Co. needs beside its product, platform, fabrication, and connected-experience capabilities.
The opportunity is to prove the first experience, identify mutually approved culinary collaborators, learn what customers revisit, and turn the evidence into a reusable playbook for later chef, maker, event, and specialty-retail campaigns.
Old World Olive Co. already creates an experience around tasting, discovery, and storytelling. State of Stick, Co. adds a physical connection layer that helps customers continue that relationship beyond the moment of purchase. This first deployment is designed to prove the experience before expanding across the broader product line.
One featured bottle becomes a connected product.
10 connected StickLink™ bottle emblems for one featured product experience.
The 10 connected bottles represent one connected product experience—not 10 separate digital experiences.
A countertop moment near the register gives customers a useful next step.
One countertop connected display or emblem, a dedicated StickLink™ destination, and engagement tracking.
A connected entrance or display becomes a digital front door for the store.
One connected entrance or display element, designed around the storefront experience.
Strategy, physical touchpoints, destinations, and reporting are packaged together so the first deployment can be experienced as one customer journey.
Connected experience strategy
Three connected touchpoints
One product experience
Checkout experience
Store experience
10 connected StickLink™ bottle emblems
Initial StickLink™ setup
90 days of platform access
Basic engagement reporting
We should not ask Old World Olive Co. to believe in a giant platform on faith. We should agree on the questions the first deployment must answer, measure the results together, and let evidence earn the larger conversation.
Which stories, recipes, events, and reorder paths people actually choose.
Whether a physical product gives customers a useful reason to come back.
Which touchpoints earn attention at the product, checkout, and storefront.
Whether the first proof supports seasonal campaigns, more products, or more locations.
The pilot remains the simplest yes. The founding launch path is the recommended choice if Old World Olive Co. wants to help shape the category—not merely test one activation. Strategic capital is a later, separately documented conversation after value is visible.
The complete bounded pilot already defined on this page: three touchpoints, initial production, 90 days of platform access, and a first learning review.
A 12-month innovation and market-development engagement: configure the existing platform for Old World, establish the culinary playbook, and develop up to three mutually approved concepts.
If the work creates measurable value, we can discuss a separately documented relationship such as sponsorship, pre-purchase, equipment support, introductions, or investment.
The $12,500 engagement is a distinct 12-month founding innovation and market-development scope; it is not three fully produced campaigns. Up to three mutually approved culinary campaign or collection concepts are included, with production, inventory, talent compensation, licensing, media, fulfillment, paid advertising, events, and third-party costs separately scoped unless expressly included in a signed statement of work.
This proposal covers Old World’s implementation only. It does not grant exclusive rights, reseller rights, channel rights, or ownership interests. Those opportunities may be explored separately by mutual agreement.
Deploy the first customer journey, establish a baseline, and learn which touchpoints earn action.
Refine content and calls to action, then decide whether a second product or seasonal moment is justified.
Explore a refill, gifting, recipe, class, or seasonal campaign using the evidence from the first launch.
Review the year and choose: maintain, expand, introduce the model to suppliers, or discuss a larger strategic relationship.
We establish the working schedule during kickoff. The sequence stays simple so Old World Olive Co. can review each stage before physical production and launch.
Confirm the featured product, storefront moments, goals, and required brand assets.
Build the StickLink™ destinations and prepare the physical display and emblem direction for approval.
Produce the approved touchpoints, connect them to their destinations, and test the customer journey.
Deploy the experience, monitor engagement, and review the first 90 days together.
Final timing depends on approvals, asset delivery, material availability, payment, and any third-party services selected for the experience.
A project investment for the complete founding connected retail experience—not a retail price for labels or individual physical products.
The investment includes the strategy, three touchpoints, initial physical production, StickLink™ setup, 90 days of platform access, and basic engagement reporting.
The initial launch period is included in the founding partner investment.
The experience is hosted
Engagement is measured
Analytics are reviewed
Adjustments can be made
After the included 90-day launch period, Old World Olive Co. can continue the experience through the StickLink™ Connected Brand Plan.
The launch checkout does not automatically enroll Old World Olive Co. State of Stick, Co. will confirm continuation in writing before recurring billing begins.
The bounded pilot proves one customer journey. The founding innovation-partner option adds a structured first year for shaping the larger culinary opportunity together. Our companion brief shows where chef collections, tastings, gifting, events, and customer programs can go.
See the market ideas behind the $12,500 founding role before choosing your path.
Explore Beyond the First LaunchOld World Olive Co. can choose a bounded implementation pilot or a $12,500, 12-month founding innovation engagement. The larger path configures the existing platform for Old World, establishes the culinary playbook, and develops mutually approved concepts while dedicated culinary tools continue to evolve.
Culinary-market strategy and implementation planning
Definition of the first reusable culinary playbook
Platform configuration, initial client record, portal provisioning, and an assigned owner
Quarterly planning sessions during the 12-month term
Up to three mutually approved culinary campaign or collection concepts
Priority consideration for qualified collaborations and preferred pricing for separately scoped execution
Early access to culinary features developed during the term
Mutually approved founding recognition
Let us put the initial concepts, qualified collaborators, implementation plan, and evidence goals on the table. Every public chef-branded campaign remains subject to participant agreements, recorded approvals, and a separately approved execution scope.
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