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 framework. Year two hands it over. The goal is to make technology trial and adoption part of how MCC staff work every day.
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 one principle. The staff who own a problem are the ones in control of solving it, with real technology built for the industry.
$1,250 per year
CAST platform subscription · Access to every CAST tool. Five seats are included.
MCC gets a live view of the technology landscape mapped to venue, membership and live event challenges.
MCC can shortlist tools against real internal problems, keep a record of what has been trialled, adopted and retired, and give staff a place to search technology the moment a problem surfaces rather than waiting for the next scheduled session. Additional seats are available on request.
A dedicated view shaped around MCC’s challenge set. 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
Monthly on site day
One day a month, every month, in the space with staff and startups working through live trials and additional support.
Between-session support
Champions have CAST available in the weeks between. Vendor calls, process work, blockers.
Continuous problem discovery
The challenge register is a living document, not a one time exercise. Every session and trial retro adds to it. New problems enter constantly from functions not in the original cohort.
How we drive change · Champions
It takes only a handful of committed and curious team members to change the direction of an organisation. Year one identifies three function leads, one for each technology in trial. Year two adds another three, recruited and coached by the first. That is how this stops being a CAST program and becomes something MCC runs.
What is a champion?
They feel the problem. They can describe it in specifics without being prompted, and they would still want it solved if CAST were not in the room. Authority is common; ownership is not.
They have their team behind them. Adoption happens in the daily work of a team, not in a leadership decision.They can make the call.
They can commit their function to a trial, and end one, without escalating.
A champion is the person who owns the problem, not the person with innovation in their title. If the champion is chosen for enthusiasm rather than ownership, adoption ends the day they change roles.
What CAST gives them
Protected time · Agreed at the alignment session.
Vendor cover · Champions do not run procurement conversations alone against a founder who does this every week. CAST sits in.
A cohort · The three champions meet as a group, not as three separate trials. It gives them peers when something stalls, and it is what makes them capable of coaching the next three.
Year one to year two
Year one
Year two
Champions
Focus
CAST role
Running total
3, coached by CAST
Light lift trials
Leading
3
3 more, recruited by the first cohort
Medium and heavy lift
Supporting
6
A 90 minute session with MCC leadership before anything else begins. We agree the named leadership sponsor, the functions the first three champions come from, the weekly time protected for them, what success looks like at three, six and twelve months, and which problems are genuinely open to being solved differently.
The first three months set up everything that follows. Discovery across departments builds the challenge register, a public call for technology brings in and triages inbound interest, platforms are bucketed into light, medium and heavy lift adoption tiers, and a twelve month adoption plan is set 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.
Champion coaching and vendor management. Between-session support. One day a month on site, with staff and startups working out of the space. Continuous challenge register maintenance.
Additional opportunities
These sit outside the core engagement and can be added at any point.
01 · Quarterly
Founder sessions
MCC staff in working conversations with founders building at the centre of entertainment. A selected group or open to whole company. Run as a series across the year to get staff curious about technology.
02 · With Solaris
AI capability
An AI education program with Solaris by Build Club: team diagnostics lead into role-based courses mapped to daily work, turning early adopters into AI champions.
03 · Optional activation
MCC challenge hackathon
A public-facing hackathon built around MCC’s operational challenges, bringing staff and external builders together to develop ideas with real application. Working with Build Club
04 · Scoped to participants
League and team technology sessions
Focused sessions for leagues and teams that work with MCC, extending the technology adoption conversation beyond the club.
Year one exists to make year two possible. By month twelve MCC has a live challenge register, three champions who have run trials end to end, an internal record of what has been trialled, and a public reputation as an organisation that engages with technology builders.
Year two moves to medium and heavy lift implementation, and the first champion cohort recruits and coaches the second. CAST supports rather than drives.
Trial evaluation: retain, extend or retire
One medium lift implementation, champion led
Challenge register reviewed quarterly with function leads
Staff sourcing light lift tools independently
Heavy lift candidate scoped, including procurement and data requirements
Scope and investment are set at the twelve month review, against what year one actually produced.
CAST platform subscription, annual, five seats
$1,250
Technology planning and adoption strategy, months 1 to 3
*Fixed cost
$30,000
Alignment session, monthly on site day and between-session support
Included
Ongoing adoption support, months 4 to 12. ($7,500 pm)
*MCC can drop this at any point after month 3. Move back to lower level of support $2,500 pm
$67,500
Year one total
*If full year taken
$98,750
Year two scope and investment
Year two scope and investment are set at the nine month review against what year one actually produced.
1. MCC confirms interest in the partnership
2. Schedule the alignment session within four weeks of sign off
3. MCC names the leadership sponsor and the functions in scope for the first champion cohort
4. Agree joint announcement timing and messaging
