CAST x MCC
Partnership Proposal
CAST connects the entertainment industry with the technology ecosystem. Through our platforms, we map what companies are building, match it to the problems an industry faces, and track what gets adopted.
This proposal sets out a two year engagement. Year one builds the internal capability and the framework. Year two turns that framework into a structured startup program with MCC at the centre of it. Our goal is to empower MCC and its' staff to use these tools to make technology trial and adoption part of their everyday.
MCC does not need to buy innovation. It needs the internal muscle to find, assess and adopt technology on its own terms.
Every activity in this proposal is built around the same principle. Empowering the staff that own a problem to be in control of solving that problem with real tech built for the industry.
MCC creates a culture where staff feel empowered to find the solutions to their challenges.
$1,250 per year
CAST products. MCC gains access to all CAST tools. **5 seats are included in the yearly fee.
MCC joins CAST as a member organisation. Membership includes access to CAST products.
The account gives MCC the ability to see the technology landscape mapped to venue, membership and live event challenges, discover and shortlist tools against real internal problems, maintain a record of what has been trialled, adopted and retired, receive ongoing intelligence on emerging solutions, and give staff a place to search technology whenever a problem surfaces rather than waiting for a scheduled session.
A dedicated view shaped around MCC’s challenge set. Mapped challenges, shortlisted tools, active trials, adoption status. This becomes the organisational record of what MCC has looked at and why decisions went the way they did.
BURGER.OS · Network intelligence
MCC Group View
Mapped challenges
The live challenge register
Shortlisted tools
Matched to real internal problems
Active trials
Three light lift trials in year one
Adoption record
Trialled, adopted and retired, with reasons
Four phases in sequence. Three threads that never stop. Four hard milestones.
Select a phase to open its detail
Twelve month adoption plan agreed
Month 3
Three technologies in trial
Month 9 · end of Q2 2027
Medium lift platform implemented
Month 15 · end of 2027, mid phase 03
Heavy lift platform rolled out
Month 24
Running threads · these never stop
Founder sessions
Quarterly, eight sessions across the engagement. MCC staff in working conversations with founders building at the centre of entertainment.
AI Platform workshops
Optional. Practical AI capability building for MCC staff. Usage, prompting, applied workflow.
Continuous problem discovery
The challenge register is a living document, not a one time exercise. Every session, workshop and trial retro adds to it. New problems enter constantly from departments not in the original cohort.
A half day session with MCC leadership before anything else begins. Clear agreement on expectations, the departments in scope, what success looks like at three, six and twelve months, and which problems are genuinely open to being solved differently.
$10,000 · first three months ($30k)
CAST works two days a month on site at MCC across the first three months. This period covers discovery across departments to build the initial challenge register, a public call for technology with review and triage of all inbound interest, bucketing of surfaced platforms into light, medium and heavy lift adoption tiers, identification of internal champions, and a defined twelve month adoption plan with named owners and milestones.
The output is a plan MCC can act on, not a report.
A joint press announcement positioning MCC as taking a public position on technology adoption in Australian sport and entertainment. It also serves a working purpose: a public call for technology built for venues, membership organisations and live events, inviting founders to come forward with solutions.
Outcome: a pipeline of solutions that exists because MCC asked for it.
$7,500 per month · from month four
Support with active adoption including champion coaching and vendor management. Quarterly technology sessions bringing MCC staff into working conversations with founders. One day a month on site at MCC, with teams and startups working out of the space. Continuous challenge register maintenance, so new problems keep feeding the pipeline. Optional educational workshops with Solaris on AI usage, prompting and applied workflow.
A publicly announced hackathon built around MCC’s real operational challenges, open to staff and to external builders. CAST would work with Build Club for prizes and platform partnerships.
The purpose is not to build products MCC deploys. The purpose is exposure. MCC staff spend time working alongside people who build technology, on problems those staff own.
1. Discovery identifies the priority problems
2. Problems become the public brief
3. CAST runs the hackathon
4. Partners and prizes secured
5. Outputs feed the challenge register and the adoption plan
Year one exists to make year two possible. By month twelve MCC has a live challenge register, staff who have worked directly with founders, an internal record of what has been trialled, and a public reputation as an organisation that engages with technology builders. We want to empower staff to better understand technology and know how to adopt it.
That is the foundation for a structured startup program. The indicative shape:
A cohort of startups building against MCC’s challenge set, with access to the venue as a testing environment
MCC staff as the operational counterparts, continuing the model established in year one
Continued adoption support, quarterly founder sessions.
Medium lift implementation completed and one heavy lift platform contracted, with rollout landing by end of year two
Challenge discovery owned internally, with CAST supporting rather than driving
Year two scope and investment to be defined at the twelve month review, once the challenge register and the startup pipeline are established.
CAST membership, annual
$1,250
Technology planning and adoption strategy, months 1 to 3
$10,000
Alignment session and two days per month on site, months 1 to 3
Included
Ongoing adoption support, months 4 to 12, nine months at $7,500
$67,500
Year one total
$78,750
Optional challenge hackathon
$10,000
Year one total with hackathon
$88,750
Year two is scoped at the twelve month review. Continuing adoption support at the same monthly rate would be $90,000 across twelve months plus membership renewal, with the startup program costed separately once the cohort model is defined.
1. MCC reviews and confirms interest in the core partnership
2. Schedule the alignment session within four weeks of sign off
3. MCC nominates the departments and staff in scope for the first discovery period
4. Agree joint announcement timing and messaging
5. Confirm whether the hackathon proceeds and set a date
