The Agentis-Powered
APVG/ClubZERO Self-Funding Strategy™
Building an Intelligent Ecosystem Through Transparency, Technology, and Recurring Membership Revenue
Simone, our VP of AI Media Presentations shares details about our self-funding strategy
A Vision Designed to Fund Its Own Future
Every ambitious vision eventually reaches the same question. "Where will the money come from?"
It is a fair question. To answer it, we ask you to endure this rather long webpage as we share our strategy.
The APVG/ClubZERO ecosystem includes an integrated membership platform, hospitality companies, environmental technology ventures, ocean conservation programs, future Aquarium Plaza Corporate Centers, Intelligent Business Systems™, a growing Human + AI Workforce™, and a long-term vision for a Physical AI platform connecting these diverse operations.
Building an ecosystem of this scale requires more than innovative ideas. It requires a practical, transparent, and sustainable financial strategy.
Many organizations answer this challenge through venture capital, institutional investment, or traditional debt financing. While those funding sources may accelerate growth, they often become the primary financial engine upon which the organization dependsh.
From the very beginning, founder Peter “The AngelPreneur” Ortmann envisioned a different approach. He believed that if the ecosystem consistently created meaningful value for its members, it could eventually generate much of the capital required to finance its own long-term growth.
That philosophy became the foundation of what we call the Agentis-Powered APVG/ClubZERO Self-Funding Strategy™.
Rather than relying exclusively on outside capital, the strategy combines community crowdfunding, recurring membership revenue, transparent revenue sharing, and an integrated technology platform to create a long-term path toward sustainable growthIt is not simply a funding plan.
It is the financial blueprint for building an intelligent ecosystem.
Why Agentis Came First
As the ClubZERO Rewards vision evolved, one important realization quickly became clear. ClubZERO could not simply be launched as another online membership website.
The long-term vision included hospitality, travel, rewards, environmental technologies, venture development, media, nonprofit initiatives, intelligent buildings, future Physical AI technologies, and dozens of Intelligent Business Systems™ working together as a single coordinated enterprise.
Before those businesses could be built, the ecosystem first needed something capable of connecting them. It needed an intelligent operating platform. That platform became Agentis Interactive™.
Agentis was intentionally developed before most of the operating companies take root and grow because it serves as the technological brain of the ecosystem.
Rather than working with multiple outside software developers, Agentis was formed to design, build, integrate, and continually improve the Intelligent Business Systems™ needed. To develop the enterprise software, AI agents, websites, automation platforms, analytics, communications, knowledge systems, and future Physical AI technologies that power every organization throughout the APVG/ClubZERO family.
Every company remains independently managed. Every company retains its own mission. But Agentis provides the intelligent foundation that allows them to operate together as one connected ecosystem.
Without Agentis, there would be no unified ecosystem
A Five-Stage Roadmap
The Agentis-Powered APVG/ClubZERO Self-Funding Strategy™ was never intended to rely upon a single funding event. Instead, it was designed as a long-term roadmap consisting of five progressive stages, each building upon the success of the previous stage.
Stage One — Plant Your Seed™
Every forest begins with a single seed. Our Plant Your Seed™ Initiative represents the first stage of the journey.
Through direct community crowdfunding, early supporters help finance the technology foundation, Intelligent Business Systems™, initial staffing, websites, marketing, and infrastructure required to launch many of the APVG/ClubZERO models and begin building the membership community. Plant Your Seed™ is not intended to replace the Self-Funding Strategy™. It is designed to launch it.
Stage Two — Membership Growth
ClubZERO Rewards plans to soft launch its free Silver memberships in early September. As its expands, recurring monthly memberships become the ecosystem's primary long-term revenue source. Every new member strengthens both the community and the recurring financial resources available to support future growth.
Stage Three — Revenue Sharing
Recurring paid membership revenue is transparently allocated among the organizations responsible for building, operating, and continually improving the ecosystem.
Stage Four — Ecosystem Expansion
Growing revenue supports new businesses, hospitality development, Human + AI Workforce™ expansion, Physical AI technologies, Aquarium Plaza Corporate Centers, which will serve as our technology HUBS, and enhanced member experiences.
Stage Five — Sustainable Growth
As the ecosystem matures, recurring revenue continually finances innovation, future expansion, and increasing member value, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of long-term growth.
How Every Membership Builds the Ecosystem
Every paid ClubZERO membership contributes far more than access to member benefits. It contributes to the long-term development of the ecosystem itself.
After affiliate commissions are paid, the remaining membership revenue is intentionally allocated across targeted organizations or divisions responsible for building, operating, and expanding the APVG/ClubZERO ecosystem.
Rather than concentrating all cash resources within a single company, the revenue-sharing model allows technology, hospitality, venture development, ocean conservation, member services, and ongoing future expansion to grow together through one well-coordinated funding strategy.
Transparency has always been one of our core values. That is why we openly publish our Revenue Sharing Allocation Agreement so members, partners, and future investors can clearly understand where membership revenue is intended to go.
ClubZERO Membership Revenue Sharing Allocation Agreement
The allocation model above illustrates how recurring membership revenue supports:
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ClubZERO Rewards Trust
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ClubZERO Hospitality Group
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ClubZERO Ventures
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ClubZERO Operations
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AngelPreneur Venture Group
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AngelPreneur Impact Fund (development phase)
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Agentis Interactive
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Clear Blue Oceans Foundation
Each allocation has a clearly defined purpose. Together, they create a coordinated investment strategy designed to build every major component of the ecosystem simultaneously.
The Power of Numbers - One Membership At A Time
Every significant enterprise begins with individual customers, and in our case members. The APVG/ClubZERO ecosystem is no different.
For example, one Gold Member contributes $45 per month. After a $10 affiliate commission, approximately $35
remains as recurring net membership revenue available to help build the ecosystem.
One membership may seem modest. Thousands become meaningful. Millions become transformational. As ClubZERO membership grows, those individual monthly contributions combine to create substantial recurring development capital capable of supporting technology, hospitality, operations, venture development, conservation, and future expansion.
According to our current projections, the long-term membership model has the potential to generate approximately $200.8 million in recurring monthly net revenue, representing approximately $2.41 billion annually, after affiliate commissions.
Across the initial 50 month development period (November 2026 to December 2030), the model projects more than $6 billion in cumulative net membership revenue, based on the growth assumptions presented in our financial model. These figures are forward-looking projections rather than guaranteed outcomes.
The strength of the strategy is not found in a single membership. It is found in millions of recurring memberships working together.
Projected Membership Growth & Development Capital
This projection demonstrates how recurring membership dues growth translates into increasing cash flow that can be reinvested into technology, operations, hospitality, environmental innovation, conservation, workforce development, and future expansion.
The projections illustrate the intended progression from early-stage community support to a mature, recurring financial engine capable of helping finance long-term ecosystem development. It is shown here because Agentis earns 5% of the net dues revenue flows.
It is important to note the above chart only showcases the revenue flow from ClubZERO membership dues income. It does not include expected travel sales, resort lodging, entertainment, experiences, retail, food and beverage, and sponsor sales. It is shown only
Can Five Million Members Really Be Achieved?
A common question we receive is not whether the financial model works, but whether ClubZERO Rewards can realistically grow to five million paid members. It's a fair question, and believe they can.
Rather than asking readers to simply accept our projections, we developed a separate Affiliate Validation Strategy™ that examines the mathematics behind community-driven growth.
Using conservative referral assumptions, publicly available social media statistics, and transparent membership projections, it demonstrates how recurring member referrals—not expensive corporate advertising—can become the primary driver of long-term expansion.
The analysis also explores multiple participation scenarios, ranging from members who never refer anyone to highly engaged affiliates who introduce hundreds of new members over time.
Rather than relying on unrealistic assumptions, the validation focuses on one simple principle. Millions of members are not created by a few extraordinary people.
They are created by millions of ordinary people making small, consistent contributions to a growing community.
Explore the Affiliate Validation Strategy™ to see the numbers behind the growth.
Membership Organizations People Already Pay To Join
Consumers routinely pay membership fees to organizations that help them save money or gain access to exclusive benefits. Some well-known examples include:
Organization Members Primary Member Value
Costco 80 Million Warehouse pricing & Shopping Discounts
Sam’s Club 30 Million Bulk purchasing and exclusive pricing
AAA 66 Million Roadside assistance, travel services, and member discounts
AARP 38 Million Discounts, travel offers, insurance, and educational resources
AMAZON Prime 200 Million Free Shipping and special discounts
These organizations are large in size, but demonstrate that consumers are comfortable paying recurring membership fees when they consistently receive meaningful value in return. ClubZERO seeks to apply that same proven membership principle while expanding the range of benefits available through an integrated hospitality, travel, rewards, and technology ecosystem.
The Economics of One Gold Membership
Consider a Gold Membership. Monthly dues are $45. During the initial 50-month development period, that represents a total membership investment of $2,250.
Now consider the potential value.
A member who personally refers just 10 Gold Members as a ClubZERO Partner Affiliate could receive $10 per month for each active referral, every month, under the current affiliate model. That represents:
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10 referrals x $10 = $100 in recurring monthly affiliate income
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$5,000 in potential affiliate income over 50 months, assuming those referrals remain active and the member continues to qualify under the affiliate program.
In this illustration, the affiliate income alone would exceed the member's own 50-month Gold membership cost by $2,750.That example does not include the potential value of travel discounts, hotel savings, reward vouchers, shopping discounts, exclusive member experiences, or other membership benefits.
For many members, the combination of savings and potential affiliate income may significantly outweigh the cost of membership, leading most, especially those with large social media followings, to become affiliates in the initial years.
The Power of Network Growth
The long-term membership projections presented throughout this website are based on our current planning assumptions. The primary driver behind those projections is a social-media-powered affiliate referral strategy.
Unlike traditional advertising models that rely primarily on corporate marketing budgets, ClubZERO encourages satisfied members to share the program with friends, family, colleagues, and their online communities.
As members benefit from travel savings, rewards, and recurring referral income, they have a natural incentive to continue participating in the ecosystem.
Our published financial projections use a conservative development schedule that reaches the planned maximum membership over several years. If membership growth occurs more rapidly than projected, recurring membership revenue—and the development capital available to build the ecosystem—could exceed the figures presented in our current financial model.
While no future growth can be guaranteed, ClubZERO believes that combining meaningful member value with a recurring referral opportunity creates a scalable foundation capable of supporting long-term expansion in a global digital marketplace
Building the Physical AI Platform
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Self-Funding Strategy™ is the role of Agentis Interactive™. Agentis is not simply building websites. It is building the intelligent operating platform that connects every company throughout the ecosystem.
As the Physical AI platform for APVG/ClubZERO, Agentis develops the Intelligent Business Systems™, enterprise software, AI agents, websites, automation platforms, analytics, communications infrastructure, business intelligence, and future intelligent technologies that allow the ecosystem to function as one connected enterprise.
Its recurring share of dues allocation is compensation for completing all individual ClubZERO related projects, not for work performed for other ecosystem clients.
It is a long-term investment by ClubZERO in Agentis engineers, software developers, AI specialists, designers, systems architects, analysts, and technology professionals responsible for continually expanding the ecosystem's capabilities.
As membership grows... Agentis grows. As Agentis grows... The ecosystem becomes smarter. As the ecosystem becomes smarter... Member experiences improve.
Those improvements attract additional members. The cycle repeats.
Creating Companies. Creating Careers. Creating Member Value
The Agentis-Powered APVG/ClubZERO Self-Funding Strategy™ does far more than generate recurring revenue. It creates opportunity.
Recurring membership revenue helps launch new companies, develop environmental technologies, expand hospitality, strengthen conservation initiatives, create intelligent operating systems, and build a growing Human + AI Workforce™.
Every new company creates careers, every new Intelligent Business System™ improves operational efficiency, and strengthens the member experience. Every satisfied member helps grow the community.
This continuous cycle allows the ecosystem to become progressively stronger over time. Not through speculation. But through recurring participation
Transparency Builds Confidence
We believe transparency creates confidence. That is why we openly share our membership assumptions, financial projections, allocation methodology, and long-term development strategy.
We want our members, partners, supporters, and future investors to understand not only our vision, but also the practical financial roadmap designed to support it.
The Agentis-Powered APVG/ClubZERO Self-Funding Strategy™ does not suggest that outside investment will never play a role in our future. Strategic partnerships, institutional investment, and project financing may accelerate selected initiatives as opportunities arise.
Instead, it demonstrates that the ecosystem has been intentionally designed with an internal financial engine capable of supporting substantial long-term growth from within. It answers one of the most important questions every visionary organization must eventually answer.
"Where will the money come from?"
Our answer begins with a community. One supporter. One planted seed, and one ClubZERO recurring monthly
membership at a time. Multiplied by millions of people who believe in building something greater than themselves. Together we will prove the American Dream is still alive and that there is truly power in the numbers.
Plant Your Seed.™ Grow the Forest.™ Build the Future.™
Plant Your Seed™ plants the first seeds.
ClubZERO membership helps grow the forest.
Agentis Interactive provides the intelligence that connects every tree.
Together, they form the Agentis-Powered APVG/ClubZERO Self-Funding Strategy™
a transparent roadmap designed to build intelligent businesses,
create meaningful careers, strengthen communities, and
deliver lasting value for generations to come.