Ukraine has 235,000 open industrial vacancies against 93,000 registered unemployed, and 2.01 million veterans — roughly a third out of work. 85% of employers say they will hire a veteran, yet 38% of veterans leave their first post-service job within three months. The failure is not vacancy supply or employer willingness: no employer is built for this workforce. The Veteran Workforce Platform is built for it, and it sells into the one demand curve in Ukraine that is both accelerating and funded: distributed generation (1.8 GW installed, 532 MW under construction, 825 MW in the 2026 pipeline).

THE BUSINESS — Four revenue streams: installation and commissioning of third-party distributed generation (22% gross margin); full-service O&M contracts on own and third-party fleets (40%, recurring); owned generation supplying electricity and heat to industrial and municipal hosts at a discount to grid tariff (27%, 7–10 year BOOT terms); and fabrication of containerised enclosures, acoustic housings, control panels and boiler-house shells (26%).

FINANCIAL SUMMARY (BASE CASE, MANAGEMENT ESTIMATES) — Revenue US$ 2.5M in year 1 rising to US$ 23.3M in year 10; EBITDA turns positive in year 2 and reaches US$ 3.7M (16% margin) by year 10; recurring share of revenue grows to 45%; veterans employed grow from 32 to 220.

THE ASK — Total project cost US$ 12.0M (investment US$ 8.5M + grant US$ 2.0M target + sponsor in-kind US$ 1.5M). Recommended instrument: US$ 3.0M senior secured note at 13% with warrant over 15% of equity, alongside US$ 5.5M of equity — the secured note structure returns 15.1–24.4% IRR across scenarios because the return is contractual and collateralised. Grant capital of EUR 1.8M funds recruitment, training, certification and retention support across 1,800 veterans.

STATED WITHOUT DECORATION — An US$ 8.5M industrial platform in Ukraine does not generate a 25% equity IRR and this project does not claim it does: the unlevered project earns 8.8% in the base case; the secured-note structure is the product. Stage: concept — no entity, no site, no signed contract, no grant award; a twelve-month path to investment readiness with five critical readiness gaps costing under US$ 100,000 to close.

WHAT IS BEING ASKED FOR NOW — Not capital: a conditional indication of interest from an investor who accepts the infrastructure-return profile. Apply for collaboration to sign a mutual confidentiality agreement and receive the financial model in native format and a ninety-minute management session.