Weekly Update - September 17

Week ending on September 17, 2023.

Carry over from last week

• Hot Sauce

  • Custom AAPES hot sauces

    • replaces minting process

Completed this week

• After hours of work this past week, we are happy to announce that AAPES Hot Sauce re-launch is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 18th. Look out for an official X space to kick this off. We will give updates and answer questions.

• Fleshing out the new Primal Partner Program.

  • Token-gated a sales and marketing tool-set that will be shared to help AAPEs who want to actively sell and promote AAPES CPG products.

  • Ongoing discussions with Bites of Luv on packaging and freight options. The fine details would bore you.

• The good news is that we continue to receive communication from the retail distributor who has advised us that they are in discussions with three new stores. Some well-known. Due to NDAs, we cannot disclose much more but we are very excited to see this escalating.

• Finished artwork and mocks for our second Celebrity Sauce. You'll see when it's live and we'll be talking more about it.

• Nessy x Apocalyptic Rations official brand theme song is scheduled for release on September 29th.

  • Presale starts this Friday, Sept. 18th: https://bit.ly/nessyrations

• Continued alternative packaging and product configuration testing for major retailers.

  • Research and testing for environmentally friendly packaging options

• More small stuff and business development and discovery phone calls.

• Finalizing the design of the official Nessy hot sauce. "I put that on everything!"

To do

• Hot Sauce

  • Custom AAPES hot sauces - September release

    • Replaces minting process.

Challenges

• Hot Sauce

  • How to pay royalties?

    • Group rev share/royalties.

      • How to allocate?

      • How to claim?

Other updates

• N/A