Ameridura Manufacturing Company is a Louisiana benefit corporation. We manufacture factory-built ICF modular homes. Ameridura Homes is the home the family buys.

Identity

The company on the page

• Not Paparazzi Marketing Group LLC. That company stays a marketing affiliate, NAICS 541600, 0% of Ameridura.
• Not Ooh La La Boutique. Retail stays retail.
• Not an LLC. An LLC cannot elect Chapter 27.
• Not a Certified B Corporation. That is a later optional B Lab mark against Standards V2.2 after twelve months of operations — not this closing, not V7.
• Not a Delaware public-benefit corporation and not a Delaware purpose trust. Louisiana statute is the form.
• Not a trust. The factory is a corporation. Stock may later sit in trusts. The plant does not.
• Not HUD-code manufactured housing on a chassis. Not a shipping-container house.

How this file is argued

Repayment, the plant, management, customers, collateral, and cash equity.

SBA 7(a) eligibility is 13 CFR § 120.100 and SOP 50 10 8.1: operate for profit; located in the United States; small under SBA size standards; an eligible business; unable to obtain the desired credit on reasonable non-government terms; creditworthy; and a reasonable ability to repay.

Ameridura Manufacturing Company will be a Louisiana benefit corporation taxed as a C corporation. That election is identity and governance. It does not confer extra SBA approval points, a higher guarantee, extra loan amount or a DSCR waiver.

Benefit-corporation status is not an SBA scoring bonus.

1. Pitch 1 · Repayment

   Here is how Ameridura generates enough cash to service the debt.

   Stabilized debt service on $4.5 million is about $595,000 a year (~$50,000 a month). Credit-case DSCR is 1.47× in the commissioning year (partial-year production vs partial-year service), then 5.81× in the first full P&I year (FY2028 EBITDA ÷ $595,000). SBA covenant proxy is 1.25×. Proposed Day-1 invoices are $112/SF factory-gate and $125/SF family.

2. Pitch 2 · Manufacturing

   Here is the factory, equipment, production system and capacity.

   7 acres, 40,000 SF, Michoud industrial corridor adjacent to NASA Michoud Assembly Facility at 13800 Old Gentilly. Target listing 55197 not owned. Six catalog models; Phase I manufactures four. Underwritten production: commissioned 4–6 complete homes a month; mature one-shift 10–12; two-shift 20–24. Credit-path complete homes: 30 / 120 / 240 / 480 / 480. 40–45/month is the building envelope; 50 HE/month is not underwritten.

3. Pitch 3 · Management

   Here are the people who know how to run manufacturing, engineering, technology, finance, construction and quality.

   Founder is presented as an entrepreneur with seven-figure operating businesses, not as a plant engineer. CMO is a designate pending Appendix B. PE, controller, quality and plant manager are launch or commissioning hires. SOP 50 10 8.1: industry experience is helpful, not an absolute bar.

4. Pitch 4 · Market

   Here are the customers, developers, builders, DTC buyers and institutional opportunities.

   Proposed Day-1 prices: $112/SF factory-gate and $125/SF family. Those are company-set invoices, not contracted ASP. Hotel LOI is commercial-channel evidence in Appendix O. Housing offtake letters are not yet in the file. Committed homes today are zero.

5. Pitch 5 · Collateral

   Here is what secures the loan.

   The borrower holds the plant, the building, and the equipment register. 504 on real estate. 7(a) on equipment, inventory, and a blanket. Assets sit in the same name that signs the note.

6. Pitch 6 · Capital

   Here is the founder’s $500,000 contribution and the total capitalization.

   Phase I is $5,000,000 = $500,000 sponsor equity + $4,500,000 financing. Sponsor equity of $500,000 will be contributed in cash to Ameridura Manufacturing Company prior to or concurrently with closing, subject to lender verification.

7. Pitch 7 · Benefit corporation

   And here is why this company creates measurable public benefit.

   Louisiana benefit-corporation election is identity. It does not replace #1–6.

Pitch #7 — identity, not scoring

Why we keep the benefit corporation

We keep Louisiana Chapter 27 because the factory’s actual business is resilient housing, domestic manufacturing jobs, and measurable public benefit — not because SBA awards extra points for it.

Keep the Louisiana benefit corporation because the factory actually manufactures resilient housing, creates domestic jobs, and produces measurable public benefit — then let the SBA file stand on repayment, the plant, the people, the market, the collateral, and the $500,000.

Counsel aligns the articles, bylaws, independent benefit-director seat, shareholder provisions, stock-certificate legend, and benefit-reporting calendar before the lender sees the final organizational documents. Formation is complete when the Commercial Division stamps the articles.

Researched from the seven Louisiana documents in this file: R.S. 12:1803 — Definitions; R.S. 12:1804 — Election of status; corporate name; R.S. 12:1811 — Corporate purposes; R.S. 12:1823 — Standard of conduct for officers; R.S. 12:1831 — Annual benefit report; Louisiana Benefit Corporation How-To Guide (September 2013); Louisiana Act 765 (SB 398, 2026 Regular Session).

Why this is the file

SBA can guarantee a manufacturer. This is that manufacturer — one company, one note, one owner at closing.

SBA underwrites this file because the applicant is a for-profit U.S. manufacturer, the plant and the equipment sit in that applicant, the $500,000 cash equity lands in that applicant, one 20%+ owner guaranties, affiliates are disclosed instead of recoded, and the NAICS on the first Form 1120 will match Form 1919. That is eligibility and repayment. Chapter 27 is why the manufacturer is a Louisiana benefit corporation rather than a generic C corp or an LLC. It is not a secret SBA scoring bonus. SOP 50 10 8.1 does not list benefit-corporation status as an approval advantage.

SBA can guarantee this structure because the borrower is the factory — for-profit, one company, assets in its name, $500,000 equity in its bank, one owner who guaranties, affiliates told in full, NAICS that will match the first manufacturing return. That is the file they can underwrite. Chapter 27 is how we chose to be that manufacturer. It is not why they approve the note.

Why the other shapes lose

Best means the only structure that is simultaneously SBA-eligible, a Louisiana Chapter 27 corporation, a C corporation that can issue QSBS, one 20%+ owner at closing, collateral in the borrower, and Paparazzi left on its own transcripts.

• It is the only shape that is simultaneously (1) an SBA-eligible for-profit manufacturer with matching NAICS, (2) a Louisiana Chapter 27 corporation, (3) a C corporation that can issue QSBS, (4) one 20%+ owner at closing, (5) collateral in the borrower, and (6) Paparazzi / Ooh La La left on their own transcripts.
• Every alternative we actually considered fails at least one of those six. That is what ‘best’ means on this file — not a slogan, and not a claim that SBA published a benefit-corporation bonus.
• SBA’s Made-in-America / ITL 90% guarantee is written for this applicant class: a NAICS 31–33 manufacturer expanding U.S. production. The structure puts that applicant on the page. The guarantee is still to the lender. The plant still has to repay.

What SBA does not score — and why we still have it

What we are setting up

Six layers. One borrower.

Counsel — precise instructions

What we are setting up. Why. Exact steps for counsel.

This document tells counsel what to file and why this company is built this way. It is not a legal opinion, not a tax opinion, and not a substitute for a stamped filing. Do not invent a formation date. Do not put Certified B Corp, 8(a), or a booked QSBS exclusion on the 1919.

1. 1. Louisiana Secretary of State / geauxBIZ: reserve and file articles of incorporation for a business corporation under R.S. 12:1-201 et seq. Filing type is a corporation, not articles of organization for an LLC, not a nonprofit, not a benefit LLC.

   Why. R.S. 12:1803(2) and 12:1804(A) limit Chapter 27 to a business corporation that elects in its articles.

   Corporate name on the filing: Ameridura Manufacturing Company (A Benefit Corporation).

   Do not file an LLC. Do not use Dualra, AmeriDor, Paparazzi Manufacturing, or any retired working name.

2. 2. Put the Chapter 27 election in the articles. Put general public benefit in the articles. Put specific public benefits (a), (b), and (c) only. Authorized shares: 10,000 common. Incorporator: Philbert Andre Honore. Duration: perpetual. Registered office and agent: counsel’s choice, Louisiana.

   Why. R.S. 12:1804 election. R.S. 12:1811 general purpose is mandatory. R.S. 12:1803(10) is a closed list — we elect (a)(b)(c) only.

   Election sentence: “This corporation is a benefit corporation subject to the Benefit Corporations Law, R.S. 12:1801 et seq.”

3. 3. Obtain a stamped SOS printout. Do not invent a formation date in this file or on the website. The date is the date the Commercial Division stamps.

   Why. SBA and the IRS will match transcripts to the articles. A 2011 or 2013 date on a new factory is how a file dies.

4. 4. IRS Form SS-4. EIN on this corporation. Legal name exactly as stamped. Entity type: corporation. Fiscal year: counsel/CPA. Principal activity: manufacturing factory-built ICF modular housing. Candidate NAICS 327390 (Other Concrete Product Manufacturing), confirmed from actual receipts once producing.

   Why. The 1919, the bank, and Form 1120 all need the EIN. Paparazzi’s EIN stays Paparazzi’s EIN.

   Do not recode Paparazzi’s NAICS 541600. Do not use Paparazzi’s EIN on the factory.

5. 5. Do not file Form 2553. Do not elect S corporation. Do not check any box that makes this an S corp, a partnership, or a disregarded entity.

   Why. QSBS is C-corp stock. §1202(c)(2)(A) requires the issuer to remain a C corporation for substantially all of the holding period. An S election typically kills QSBS on that stock.

6. 6. Opening bank account in the corporate name, EIN, and stamped articles. Signers per bylaws. No commingling with Paparazzi or Ooh La La operating accounts.

   Why. 10% cash equity has to land in this company. ITL proceeds cannot sit in a marketing LLC.

7. 7. Adopt bylaws. Organizational consent or minutes: accept articles, issue the share certificate, elect the initial board (founder named; independent seats designated empty until agreements), appoint officers (CEO named; others as engaged), designate seat 2 as benefit director, adopt a fiscal year, authorize the SBA application and the 10% equity wire.

   Why. The 1919 asks who owns and who governs. Minutes are the paper that matches the org chart.

8. 8. Issue 100 shares of common to Philbert Andre Honore as original issue for the $500,000 cash equity (10% of the $5,000,000 Phase I project, inside the ceiling) and/or for services to this corporation. Stock ledger. Certificate with the Chapter 27 legend. Consideration is money or services — not Paparazzi stock, not land speculation, not another company’s stock.

   Why. §1202(c)(1) original issue. §1202(c)(1)(B)(ii) services are allowed. Issuing stock for stock is not.

   Certificate legend: “This corporation is a benefit corporation subject to the Benefit Corporations Law, R.S. 12:1801 et seq.” (R.S. 12:1832).

   Do not issue stock for Paparazzi units, Ooh La La assets, or extra land.

9. 9. Path A is the closing default: Phil 100% at the 1919. If counsel later gifts QSBS into non-grantor trusts, document the gift under §1202(h). Path B (trusts subscribe at original issue for money) only if counsel requires original issue in each trust’s hands — then list every 20%+ trust on the 1919/413.

   Why. One principal, one guaranty, one 20%+ owner is the clean manufacturing 1919. Stacking is shareholder architecture, not a second borrower.

10. 10. Board organizes with five designed seats. Seat 2 is independent and is the benefit director. Collect an independence affidavit (no officer/employee role, no 5%+ ownership, no material relationship under R.S. 12:1803(7)–(8)). Do not name a person in the SBA file until résumé, references, and a director agreement exist.

    Why. R.S. 12:1822. The professional-corporation exception does not apply to a housing manufacturer.

11. 11. Adopt a qualifying third-party standard for the annual benefit report before the first fiscal year-end. Using B Lab Standards / B Impact as that standard is not Certified B Corp status. The report goes to shareholders within 120 days after year-end and is posted on the public website. It is not filed with the Secretary of State.

    Why. R.S. 12:1831. R.S. 12:1803(12) third-party standard. Certified B Corp is a private mark after 12 months of operations — not this closing.

12. 12. The corporation holds the plant real estate used in manufacturing. If the purchase is 55197 Old Gentilly Road (12.70 acres across from NASA at 13800), occupy 7 acres and keep the remainder as same-parcel industrial yard — not lots, not a rental subdivision. Do not contribute speculative extra land.

    Why. §1202(e)(7): more than 10% of assets in real property not used in the active qualified business fails the test. Owning or renting dirt is not the qualified trade.

13. 13. Counsel delivers a complete formation packet — stamped articles, bylaws, share certificate with the Chapter 27 legend, independence affidavit for seat 2, and the benefit-reporting calendar — before the lender sees the final organizational documents. Then SBA Form 1919 and Form 413: applicant is this corporation. Owner is Phil 100% (Path A). Disclose Paparazzi Marketing Group LLC and Ooh La La Boutique as affiliates. Personal guaranty follows SOP. SOP 50 10 8.1 environment.

    Why. Affiliation already exists because Phil owns the old businesses. Forming Ameridura does not create that fact. Hiding it does.

14. 14. Louisiana licenses on this corporation, not on Paparazzi: Act 765 manufacturer and factory-built housing dealer (effective January 1, 2027); employed salesman licenses; LSLBC residential contractor with Qualifying Party as required. Counsel opinion on lot-plus-home developer license before claiming or skipping it.

    Why. The manufacturer invoices the house. A marketing LLC does not hold a factory-built housing manufacturer license.

Exact articles language

The board shall include a director designated the benefit director, who shall be independent. Philbert Andre Honore cannot be the benefit director. He is founder, chairman, CEO, and 100% shareholder — a material relationship under R.S. 12:1803(7)–(8) (officer/employee and 5%+ ownership). Board seat 2 — Independent Manufacturing Director — is designated the benefit director until the board names another independent director to that statutory role.

Federal tax default is C corporation. This file does not file Form 2553. Qualified small business stock under IRC §1202 (as amended by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, P.L. 119-21 §70431, for stock issued after July 4, 2025) requires C corporation stock. An S election typically kills QSBS. Shareholder-level exclusion is not a factory P&L line and is not a reason to skip the 10% SBA cash equity. Counsel and the CPA keep the issuance records. This is not booked tax advice. SBA 7(a)/504 can lend to a C corporation.

Why C corporation — tax, not an SBA bonus

QSBS trusts — after the 1919 unless counsel forces Path B

Accountability on this file is the independent benefit director. A purpose trust is later, optional, and not a QSBS stacking trust.

Louisiana R.S. 12:1821 already gives directors latitude to consider workers, customers, community, and the environment. R.S. 12:1822 already requires an independent benefit director. Board seat 2 is that seat. Philbert Andre Honore cannot hold it. That is the disinterested public-benefit overseer on this 1919.

A Louisiana purpose-trust analog — a voting class held only by a trust whose purpose is the corporation’s public-benefit purpose, with financially disinterested trustees — is specified as later optional. It is for a mature company with real outside capital, not a pre-revenue $5 million manufacturing note.

Anthropic is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. The PBC form is statutory latitude — directors may consider the public benefit. Anthropic’s own write-up says that latitude is not enough for accountability.

• Do not reincorporate in Delaware for this loan.
• Do not create Class T, or any second voting class, on this 1919.
• Do not give a trust the right to elect a majority of the board on a pre-revenue manufacturer.
• Do not name Anthropic as a comparable, a partner, or a governance consultant.
• Do not call Ameridura an experiment. We are a housing manufacturer with a statutory benefit-corporation board.
• Do not mix this with QSBS stacking trusts. Interested economic holders and disinterested voting trustees are opposite jobs. Putting both in one instrument is a conflict.

Later, if ever: After the plant is operating and real outside capital is on the cap table — not to decorate a startup 1919. Counsel chooses the instrument under the Louisiana Trust Code (or another jurisdiction counsel actually wants). Do not assume Delaware purpose-trust mechanics exist in Louisiana by copying Anthropic’s term sheet.

• Do not put a purpose trust, Class T, or extra voting class in the articles filed for this 1919.
• Phase I accountability is already filed: Chapter 27 election + independent benefit director on seat 2.
• If, after the plant is operating and real outside capital is in, the board wants a purpose-trust analog: counsel drafts under the Louisiana Trust Code (or another jurisdiction counsel actually wants). Trustees must be financially disinterested. Corpus is a special voting/protective class only. Purpose = the articles’ public-benefit purpose. Board-election rights, if any, stay a minority unless and until the board sizes them later. Majority control is off this file.
• Never use a QSBS stacking trust as the purpose trust. Interested taxpayer and disinterested trustee are opposite jobs.

The digital plant is configuration → Autodesk BIM → OpenUSD twin → BOM → production → QC → shipping. NVIDIA compute. Every house has a digital twin. The house is the product.

Native editable Revit from the configuration — walls, floors, roofs, doors, windows — inside the booked Autodesk seat. Drafting velocity on a frozen plate. The PE still stamps.

Year-1 Autodesk seats are booked as sw-bim at $12,000. BIM automation rides that line. Do not add a capital cell. Do not buy a $500,000 AI-factory brand.

Ameridura manufactures on the industrial 3D stack: Autodesk BIM, OpenUSD interchange, NVIDIA compute. Every house has a digital twin. The Alliance for OpenUSD is the standard. NVIDIA Inception is the program.

Ameridura’s digital manufacturing architecture is OpenUSD-class. Configuration composes the house. Autodesk is the stamped BIM. OpenUSD is the interchange across engineering, production, QC, and the digital twin. NVIDIA is the compute. That is how a global manufacturer runs a 3D production pipeline. AOUSD General Membership ($10,000 plus Linux Foundation) is operating infrastructure executed with the Autodesk stack after the Commercial Division stamps the articles — not a new $5 million line.

Every Ameridura house is a composed 3D production: configuration → Autodesk BIM → OpenUSD interchange → BOM → CNC → stations → QC serial → digital home record. Engineering releases a PE-stamped plate. The twin travels with the house. That is manufacturing, at the standard Autodesk and NVIDIA already built for industry.

Ameridura is an NVIDIA Inception manufacturer. The digital plant — configurator, BIM, OpenUSD twin, production data — runs on the NVIDIA industrial stack. Application is free, no equity, no cohort. CTO and CEO file after EIN and the live site. Credits and preferred hardware pricing are operating. They do not replace the booked Autodesk seats and they do not fund the $5 million uses.

The public configurator and model village deliver glTF. The plant interchanges OpenUSD. Autodesk authors. NVIDIA renders. That is the same split global manufacturers use.

Ameridura runs LF-hosted industrial standards. AOUSD General Membership includes Linux Foundation membership. That is how Autodesk and NVIDIA already sit in this alliance.

CTO provisions the digital plant as code. OpenTofu is the default. Enterprise discipline, open license.

The digital plant is pinned and rebuildable. That is how a global manufacturer runs software, not a snowflake PC on the shop floor.

Ameridura Manufacturing Company is a commercial manufacturer. We buy industrial software at enterprise terms — Autodesk, NVIDIA, Microsoft. TechSoup is a nonprofit discount counter. This company is not a charity. A later housing foundation, if formed as 501(c)(3), keeps its own account and does not license the plant.

Customer configurationAutodesk BIM / CADOpenUSD digital twinEngineering release — PE stampAutomatic bill of materialsAI purchasing (human approval)MES job releasePLC / machine / CNCKitting / stations / digital work instructionsComputer vision QC — AI inspects 100%Human exception QCDigital birth certificate / house serialLoad plan / transport / setField performance back into the factory

• The PE stamps the issued drawing set. Automation does not stamp.
• A frozen plate stays frozen. Configuration lays out options on that plate. It does not invent a new structural system on Tuesday.
• First article is still The 1,250 with actual hours and invoices.
• Autodesk, NVIDIA, AOUSD, Khronos, and Geopogo are vendors and standards bodies. Do not put them on the 1919 as related entities.
• OpenUSD is this plant’s interchange. Autodesk remains the stamped BIM. NVIDIA is compute. glTF is dealer delivery.
• OpenTofu pins plant infrastructure. Nix pins the BIM / MES / PLC toolchain.
• No $500,000 AI-factory brand. Chief AI & Digital Manufacturing Officer owns the nervous system. Do not hire a twelve-person IT department. Do not buy humanoids to say we are an AI plant.
• AI thinks → MES coordinates → PLC executes → machine acts → vision verifies → human handles exceptions. ChatGPT does not drive a robot.

• Autodesk remains the PE-stamped drawing set. OpenUSD is interchange. glTF is delivery. NVIDIA is compute.
• AOUSD General Membership and NVIDIA Inception credits are operating. They are not a $5,000,000 cash source and not a reason to cut the booked Autodesk line.
• NVIDIA did not buy this company. Inception is the manufacturer program. Capital Connect is introductions. The note still has to repay.
• NAICS is the factory. The product is the house. The digital twin is how we manufacture it.
• TechSoup, Microsoft nonprofit, and charity software discounts do not run this plant.

• Buy the booked Autodesk seats (sw-bim, $12,000). Revit / AutoCAD / Navisworks. Industrial BIM automation (Geopogo Claude-to-Revit class, or Autodesk’s own) rides those seats — not a new capital line.
• CTO owns the industrial thread: configuration → Autodesk BIM → OpenUSD interchange → engineering release → BOM → procurement → CNC → production → QC → shipping → digital home record. NVIDIA is compute. glTF is dealer delivery.
• Chief Engineer / PE issues the drawing set. Automation does not stamp. A frozen plate stays frozen.
• The 1,250 is still first article. Software does not skip measured hours and invoices.
• After EIN and the live site, CEO and CTO file NVIDIA Inception (free, no equity): https://programs.nvidia.com/phoenix/application. Unique company-domain emails. Credits stay operating — not a $5 million source.
• After the Commercial Division stamps the articles, execute AOUSD General Membership ($10,000 plus Linux Foundation) as operating. Join: http://join.aousd.org. Autodesk is already a founder. This plant already buys Autodesk.
• Pin plant infrastructure with OpenTofu. Pin BIM / MES / PLC toolchains with Nix. Enterprise pins, not capital lines.
• Do not hire a Chief AI Officer or a Chief Open Source Officer. Do not put NVIDIA, AOUSD, or Autodesk on the 1919 as related entities. Do not raid sw-bim.

FastStart is Louisiana’s workforce program for this manufacturer — recruit, screen, train. Discretionary. Application before commencement. Operating, not a $5 million cash source.

LED FastStart creates customized employee recruiting, screening, and training for eligible new or expanding companies, at no cost if the Secretary awards it. Recruit. Train. Sustain. It is a service, not a check.

SBA does not score FastStart. A lender likes a state that will help staff a plant. The 1919 still needs a CMO, a PE, and a production system. FastStart, if awarded, is Louisiana operating infrastructure — the same category as Act 765 licensing and the New Orleans East site. It is not a substitute for the note, the equity, or Appendix B.

Manufacturing. A net of at least 15 new, permanent manufacturing jobs. The 50-job service door (digital media, headquarters, R&D, inbound call center) is not this plant. FY2027 books 46 people on the projection tables — a one-shift commissioning year. That is above the 15-job manufacturing floor. It is not a promise LED has accepted, and it is not the $400,000 launch-payroll bucket, which is a lean stand-up team.

1. Talent attraction for this plant. Custom recruitment for New Orleans East manufacturing seats — ICF, rebar, weld, cassette, MEP, QC, PIT, maintenance, EHS — aimed at in-state talent. Employer brand for a factory, not a jobsite crew. LED’s one-pager also names LA expats. We do not invent a signed college MOU.
2. Screen the line, not a generic construction résumé. Pre-hire evaluations: behavioral interviews, job observations, situational role-play, hands-on simulations for ICF assembly, rebar cages, forklift, and crane awareness. The Company selects. FastStart scores.
3. Train the manufacturing bible and the OSHA program. Technical: ICF forms/jigs, rebar, cassette, MEP prefab, QC gates, takt. OSHA that FastStart may deliver to the Company’s written program: LOTO, PIT (1910.178), crane, HazCom, PPE, silica awareness, welding. Soft skills and team. Video and digital platforms as LED publishes. Final approval of all training plans rests with Ameridura — CMO and EHS, not HR.

1. Ask LED Business Development before major hiring and before the line is already staffed. Discretionary incentives are evaluated prior to commencement.
2. CMO (Terry Washington, designate) is the manufacturing SME FastStart pairs with. Chief Engineer supplies the process. EHS Coordinator owns the OSHA curriculum FastStart may deliver. HR/payroll does not invent the training.
3. Scope is agreed in advance. Duration follows hiring commitments, not a marketing calendar.
4. Training still has a Company owner: SOPs, drawings, BOM, QC procedures, backup personnel. FastStart delivers. Ameridura keeps the manufacturing bible.
5. If awarded, FastStart substitutes for paid recruiters and outside training vendors on the seats it covers. It does not replace wages, workers’ compensation, or the $400,000 launch payroll.

• Not the 50-job service door (digital media, headquarters, R&D, inbound call center). This is a manufacturing plant.
• Not the distribution-center reading of the 15-job floor. We manufacture houses. We are not asking FastStart to staff a warehouse as the product.
• Not Quality Jobs, ITEP, Restoration Tax Abatement, or a payroll rebate.
• Not wages, workers’ compensation, or the $400k launch payroll.
• Not writing the OSHA program, the QMS, or a PE stamp.
• Not recruiting Realtors, dealers, Paparazzi, or set crews.
• Not a substitute for a CMO, a Plant Manager, or an EHS Coordinator. FastStart trains those seats. The Company hires them.

• Award status: discretionary. The Secretary decides. This file does not treat FastStart as granted.
• Sources and uses: FastStart is not a cash source in the $5,000,000 uses, the $2,000,000 ITL working capital, or the 10% equity.
• Payroll: launch payroll, operating reserve, and training remain Company cost until LED executes. A published “no cost” program is not a substitute for booked wages.
• Scope: FastStart is recruit, screen, and train. It is not Quality Jobs, ITEP, Restoration Tax Abatement, or a payroll rebate.
• SBA: qualified manufacturing leadership remains on this file. FastStart does not replace a CMO or a PE.
• Applicant: Ameridura Manufacturing Company. Paparazzi is not the manufacturer. The jobs are on this plant.
• Headcount door: the 15 manufacturing jobs are this plant’s payroll. Realtors, dealers, and set crews are not counted.

SHARP is the plant safety path — OSHA On-Site Consultation at commissioning, recognition after a year of qualifying rates. Hardware stays in the uses.

SHARP is OSHA’s recognition program for small employers who request a comprehensive On-Site Consultation visit, involve employees, correct every identified hazard, run a safety and health program that meets OSHA’s Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines, and keep Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred (DART) and Total Recordable Case (TRC) rates below the national average for the industry. Louisiana Workforce Commission runs the free, confidential 21(d) consultation. Consultation is not enforcement. It does not issue citations or penalties.

SBA does not score SHARP. A lender likes a plant that will call consultation before someone gets hurt. The 1919 still needs the booked safety kit, workers’ compensation, and a CMO who will run the floor. SHARP, if awarded later, is OSHA operating infrastructure — the same category as Act 765 licensing and the New Orleans East site. It is not a substitute for the note, the equity, or Appendix B.

This plant. FY2027 books 46 people. The five-year tables top out at 140. That is inside the 250-onsite / 500-corporate SHARP size door. Paparazzi crews, Realtors, dealers, and set contractors are not this site’s headcount. FY2027’s 46 manufacturing seats clear the small-employer size door and do not come close to the 250-onsite ceiling. Do not invent headcount, and do not count Paparazzi or set crews, to ‘qualify.’ Size is not the hard part. A year of operations and the rates are.

Commissioning / stand-up. Request the LWC comprehensive On-Site Consultation visit as the line is built. Correct hazards. Install the booked safety kit. Write the program. Log hours and cases from day one.

After at least one year of operations at this plant, with DART and TRC below the industry national average, apply for SHARP through LWC. Inquiry form: laworks.net SHARP inquiry.

Louisiana Workforce Commission — OSHA / Safety Consultation (21(d)). (800) 201-2495 or (225) 342-8441. workplacesafety@lwc.la.gov.

1. CMO owns the plant safety program. EHS / Safety Coordinator writes and runs it (commissioning hire, one seat). VP Quality & Regulatory owns the written QMS overlap (incident records, training records, nonconformance). EHS hardware is in the equipment register — sf-guard, sf-loto, sf-eye, sf-ppe, sf-light, welding fume extraction. Those lines stay in the $5 million uses.
2. Request LWC On-Site Consultation when the building is being commissioned — before first-article production is treating safety as optional. Comprehensive visit. Employee involvement. Hazard punch list with dates.
3. Keep OSHA 300 / 300A from the first hour of production. SHARP rates are this worksite’s rates after a year. Do not wait until someone asks for the log.
4. Apply for SHARP only after the year and the rates exist. Use LWC’s inquiry form. Pre-SHARP only if LWC says we are in that lane.
5. If awarded, SHARP is recognition and a programmed-inspection deferral. It is not a grant, not a workers’-compensation rebate (LWC’s Cost Containment Program is a different page), and not a reason to skip the insurance binder.

• Award status: SHARP is recognition after a year of qualifying DART and TRC rates. The plant is not yet operating. This file does not treat SHARP as granted.
• Sources and uses: SHARP is not a cash source in the $5,000,000 uses, the $2,000,000 ITL working capital, or the 10% equity.
• Hardware: machine guarding, LOTO, eyewash, PPE, light curtains, and welding ventilation remain in the equipment register. Recognition does not replace hazard control.
• SBA: the 1919 still carries the booked safety kit, workers’ compensation, and a CMO who runs the floor.
• Scope: SHARP is OSHA recognition. FastStart trains people. VPP is the larger-employer path. Quality Jobs and ITEP are different LED programs.
• Worksite: the consultation request is this plant. Paparazzi is not the manufacturer.
• Headcount door: the 250-onsite ceiling is this floor. Realtors, dealers, and set crews are not counted.
• Inspection: an initial consultation visit is not an OSHA inspection exemption. Completed SHARP defers regularly programmed inspections only.

OSHA 1910 — who we hire to run it

OSHA’s Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs: management leadership, worker participation, hazard identification, hazard prevention and control, education and training, program evaluation. SHARP requires a program that at least addresses those guidelines. FastStart, if awarded, can train to the program. It does not write it.

One manufacturing seat on the FY2027 roster of 84. Not a Chief Safety Officer. Not a VP of EHS. Not a $200k executive. FastStart can recruit and train this seat if awarded. Until then it is a Company hire from operating payroll, not a new line in the $400k launch bucket.

FY2027 is 46 named seats. FastStart trains the manufacturing floor if awarded. The OSHA hire is the EHS Coordinator at commissioning.

Outside the Phase I roster

• Safety: one EHS Coordinator. Accountability sits with the CMOO. No safety C-suite.
• People: FastStart, if awarded, is the recruit / screen / train function. No Chief People Officer in Phase I.
• IT: one digital leader plus builders and contractors. No infrastructure department, no help desk row, no twelve-person AI team.
• Consultation: LWC On-Site Consultation is the OSHA 21(d) visit. A CSP may sit on the specialist bench if the written program needs a second set of eyes.
• Payroll door: Realtors, dealers, Paparazzi crews, and set contractors are not this plant’s headcount.
• Engineering: licensed PE is contracted through the $225k engineering bucket. CMOO runs the factory. Head of Industrial Automation owns labor-hours per house.
• Scale: Phase I launch payroll is the $350k bucket. Eight disciplines, not a twelve-person C-suite. Do not tell the lender AI cuts the roster in half.

Filing constraints

• Do not file articles of organization for an LLC.
• Do not file Form 2553.
• Do not convert, recode, merge, contribute, or rename Paparazzi Marketing Group LLC or Ooh La La Boutique.
• Do not put Chapter 27 on an LLC operating agreement and call it a benefit corporation.
• Do not put a Certified B Corp logo on the 1919, the website, or the model-village sign.
• Do not contribute extra land, rental dirt, or a hotel operation into this issuer.
• Do not issue Ameridura stock for Paparazzi stock or any other stock.
• Do not redeem founder shares around issuance (§1202(c)(3)).
• Do not form QSBS trusts and a purpose trust as the same instrument.
• Do not reincorporate in Delaware for this loan.
• Do not give a trust majority of the board on this 1919.
• Do not invent serial numbers, a formation date, or a booked QSBS exclusion.
• Do not make Paparazzi the SBA borrower or a WCP borrower.
• Do not raid the $1,000,000 building line to fund ICF/CFS vertical cells.

Formation checklist

1. Counsel files articles of incorporation for a Louisiana business corporation under R.S. 12:1-201 et seq. — not articles of organization for an LLC.
2. The articles state that the corporation is a benefit corporation subject to Chapter 27 and set out general public benefit plus specific benefits (a), (b), and (c).
3. The corporate name on the filing is Ameridura Manufacturing Company (A Benefit Corporation).
4. EIN on the corporation. Opening bank account. Bylaws. Organizational minutes. Share certificate to Philbert Andre Honore with the R.S. 12:1832 legend.
5. Board organizes with five seats. Seat 2 is independent and is designated the benefit director. That person is not named in this file until a résumé, references, independence affidavit, and director agreement exist.
6. Adopt a qualifying third-party standard before the first fiscal year-end report. Using B Impact / B Lab Standards as that standard is not Certified B Corp status.
7. Remain a C corporation. Do not file Form 2553. QSBS under IRC §1202 requires C-corp stock acquired at original issue after July 4, 2025, held through the statutory period, with the issuer remaining a C corporation for substantially all of that hold.
8. Form Ameridura now. Leave Paparazzi Marketing Group LLC and Ooh La La Boutique exactly as they are — same EIN, same NAICS, same returns. Do not convert them. Do not recode them. Do not contribute them. Do not put Chapter 27 on an LLC.
9. Do not put a Certified B Corp logo on this file. Register on B Impact after 12 months of operations if the board wants the mark.
10. QSBS trusts, if formed now or later, take Ameridura common stock only. They do not take Paparazzi or Ooh La La.
11. Counsel aligns articles, bylaws, independent benefit-director seat, shareholder provisions, stock-certificate legend, and the benefit-reporting calendar before the lender sees the final organizational documents.

What counsel puts in the packet

• This instruction book
• Draft articles with the exact language above
• Draft bylaws and organizational consent
• Share ledger template and legend
• Independence-affidavit template for the benefit director
• Affiliation chart: Phil → Ameridura 100%; Phil → Paparazzi; Phil → Ooh La La; trusts 0% until funded
• SBA 1919 / 413 drafts with Path A ownership
• Cap table: 10,000 authorized, 100 issued, one class

After the Commercial Division stamps

• Replace every ‘named borrower / counsel files’ line in the lender file with the stamped date, SOS charter number, and EIN.
• Put the SOS printout, EIN letter, bylaws, minutes, and share certificate in Appendix N.
• Do not backdate. Do not claim the factory has operated since 2011.
• Annual benefit report clock starts at the first fiscal year-end after formation.
• QSBS holding period starts on the original-issue date on the certificate.
• CEO and CTO file NVIDIA Inception with unique company-domain emails. Free. No equity. Credits stay operating.
• Execute AOUSD General Membership as operating ($10,000 plus Linux Foundation). Autodesk seats stay booked.