The finished ebook of 2040, delivered in August 2026 in EPUB and PDF, before the retail edition goes live on Amazon and other platforms in September 2026.

Sixteen chapters. Chapters one through eight are the eight already published on Substack in polished, edited form. Chapters nine through sixteen are new, written and edited during this campaign and released with the book.

Delivery: August 2026.
Places: unlimited.

Everything above, plus the Reading Companion: a 15–20 page PDF explaining 2040 as a method of forecasting. Includes a working breakdown of 10-15 documented signals from 2026 that anchor the novel's realism, chapter cross-references, and the analytical logic backers can apply to their own field. Read the fiction with the reference layer open.

The method behind the Companion is previewed in 2040: A Novel With Practical Tools for Business and Self-Diagnosis, co-authored with Daryna Karuna. The essay walks through three of the documented signals in full: the EU Payment Services Regulation (April 2026), the UK's split-tier customer protections against arbitrary account closure (April 2026), and the US Treasury's proposal on programmable stablecoin controls (April 2026).

The Companion is the fuller version: ten to fifteen signals, chapter cross-references, and the reasoning template backers can apply to their own sector.

Read the fiction with the reference layer open. Plus your name in the backers' section at the end of the book if you wish.

Delivery: August 2026 (ebook); September 2026 (retail edition acknowledgements go live).
Places: unlimited.

Everything above, plus The 2040 Method Bundle: two working documents that operate as a single method — one for building structures that hold, one for reading spaces that do not want to be read.

The Practitioner's Section on subculture communities.

A practical playbook of the structural principles for building organisational cores that hold under pressure. Written for business owners, community managers, consultants, and team leads. Not motivation. A method, drawn from field research behind the novel's second foreword.

Developed publicly across the Subculture Communities series on Substack. Backers can read the essays before buying and know exactly what analytical layer they receive.

Why Subcultures Outlive the Fortune 500 sets the three engineering nodes — core myth, two-force engine, relationship with death — that separate centuries-long structures from those that collapse within a founder's lifetime. Case studies: the Order of Malta and the 'Ndrangheta.

Five Brands That Tried to Build a Subculture applies the framework to CrossFit, Theranos, WeWork, Zappos, and Patagonia. Only Patagonia passes.

Apple After Steve Jobs explains why the most valuable company in history is not a subculture.

The McKinsey Founder Test is the counter-example. Marvin Bower gave up his name, his liquidity, his control, and built a subculture inside a commercial firm that has outlived him by two decades.

The Practitioner's Section in the finished book takes the framework further than any of the essays. It is written for people who have read the case studies and want to know how to apply the diagnostic to their own organisation.

Dr Oleg Maltsev's Dancing with Time. Volume I. The Origin

A 180-page criminological monograph on the French banlieue, urban space, and protective navigation. First English translation.

Where 2040 reads the seams in financial architecture, Maltsev reads them in the architecture of cities. Same analytical chassis. His book gives the vocabulary; 2040 puts it to work.

The monograph teaches one skill: reading a space accurately enough to move through it without being registered. Sophie Clark moves €3,127 across fourteen jurisdictions in three-second windows because she has learned to read the graph. 

The first chapter is available in English on Substack: The France They Don't Show Tourists. 

Five sections: space, power, body, thinking, transmission. The closest thing in print to a technical manual for staying legible to yourself while remaining illegible to systems that presume to read you.

Why these two documents come together

One teaches how to build structures that hold. The other teaches how to move through structures built against you. A working method needs both.

Delivery: August 2026 (both digital, PDF and EPUB, DRM-free).
Places: unlimited.

Everything above, plus your name — or a name you choose — becomes a character in chapters 9 to 16.

How this works — the Privacat precedent

Chapter 8, published March 2026, introduces the Archivist inside the underground network Sophie Clark operates in. Her handle is Privacat. She is Carey Lening — real privacy adviser, DPO, author of Privacat Insights on Substack. She was written into the chapter with her consent, using material from her public work.

She appears in the side chapel of Azam bar, half-veiled by a carved column, a rolled cloth display beside her, a mongrel cat on her lap. Black hair shot through with silver. Sharp, tired legal eyes that have read too many policy drafts and euphemisms for surveillance. Her essay The Ladder to Nowhere is quoted directly in the chapter — its formulation of how convenience becomes infrastructure functions as the analytical spine of the scene.

Read Chapter 8 to see the exact level of integration this tier delivers.

What you get

Your chosen name becomes a named character in one of chapters 9 to 16. Physical description, position within the underground, narrative function. Where relevant, your own public work may be integrated into the character, on the Privacat principle.

No name, likeness, biography, public work, or identifying material will be used without a signed release form. If consent is not completed, the pledge converts to The Practitioner (Tier 3).

Limited Edition — what does not carry

This tier is Limited Edition. Three places, because each character is written by hand. The Character Cameo is reserved for the three backers at this tier and does not repeat in future campaigns or editions of the book.
This tier does not include the Founding Patron recognition from Tier 6 or the Roundtable seat from Tier 7. Both are their own Limited Editions.

If a backer later changes their mind about consent, the slot converts to Tier 3.

Delivery: August 2026.
Places: 3.

Everything above, plus a two-hour live session with Farida Khalaf on the architecture and mechanics of building subculture-type communities. This is the layer the Practitioner’s Section (Tier 3) points to but cannot fully deliver in writing.

Who is Farida Khalaf

An economist by degree, a data engineer by profession. She has worked across international finance, NGOs, multilateral programs, and government contracts. She now writes Lights On on Substack, on systems, incentives, and entropy inside modern organisations. Her working thesis is that most organisational failures are structural distortions of reality, not operational. This sits alongside the framework introduced in the Practitioner’s Section. She is one of 2040's endorsers and shares Mila's line of thinking on subcultures.

In her essay Beyond Web3: The Architecture AI Systems Actually Need Farida picks up Mila Agius's subculture framework and tests it against her own field evidence. The session in this tier turns that same framework into practical work.

What the session delivers

The Practitioner's Section provides the framework. The session covers what written material cannot: how the architecture holds under load, why some node configurations survive shocks that break others, and the second-order dependencies that only become visible in live discussion.

Three components across the two hours:

The roadmap and technological schema. An implementation map for building subculture-type communities from scratch: step-by-step architecture, decision points, diagnostic checkpoints at each stage. Farida walks the group through it live as the structural spine of the session.

Case work. Functioning models walked through with the mechanisms exposed.

Open Q&A. Open to questions from all five participants together. Detailed individual case analysis can be arranged separately with Farida outside the campaign.

This is the operational layer that follows the framework. It is not a duplicate of Tier 3.

Format

Two-hour Zoom session, in English, August 2026. On the intake form, participants select one of three focus tracks:

• Building from zero: a community that is still forming or does not yet exist.
• Repairing existing: a community that is not working the way it was meant to.
• Brand and marketing application: the framework applied to brand loyalty, product communities, and customer groups.

If any focus track fills first, additional sessions run under the same program. Recordings of all sessions are shared with every workshop backer. Each backer receives one paid place and access to all session material.

What backers get: the architecture at a depth the written material cannot reach; the Blueprint as a personal reference; the case work as traceable models; direct answers to questions; recordings of all parallel sessions; hands-on exposure to the method.

Estimated delivery: August 2026.

Places: 15

A patronage position of the kind that used to fund the first editions of books worth publishing. Three names, recorded in the opening pages of 2040 as those whose support brought the first edition to print. The position is not for sale after the campaign closes and cannot be replicated in future editions.

Only three names will become part of the first edition forever.

Everything from Tier 3 (The Method Bundle) is included, along with recognition on the dedicated Founding Patrons page in the book's front matter.

What this tier is for

This tier is for readers who want to support the release of 2040 — the book, the method, the project — and for whom acknowledgement in the opening pages is a fitting form of that support. No bonuses. No layered contents. The gesture is the point.

Optional: Community Architecture Session with Farida Khalaf

If a Founding Patron wishes to take one of the 15 seats in the Tier 5 Community Architecture Session, a seat is reserved on request through the intake form after the campaign closes. Subject to workshop availability at the time of the request. This is not automatic — it is at the Founding Patron's discretion.

Limited Edition — what does not carry

This tier is Limited Edition. Its recognition — the Founding Patrons page — is reserved for the three backers at this tier and does not transfer to Tier 7.

This tier does not include the Character Cameo from Tier 4. Character Cameo is its own Limited Edition, reserved for its three backers.

Delivery: August 2026.
Places: 3.

A private two-hour roundtable with Dr Oleg Maltsev on how subculture-type systems are actually built — from zero, step by step, at the level where the mechanics work. Six seats. Not available in any other format, and it does not repeat.

What backers get

The Practitioner's Section (Tier 3) provides the framework. Farida Khalaf's workshop (Tier 5) covers the operational layer. This tier goes further: the methodology in the hands of the person who built it.

The specific topics for the roundtable are shaped by the group. After the campaign closes, the six backers submit their focus areas through the intake form, and the session is built against the group's collective interest — two or three working themes that are actually useful to the people in the room, at the depth written material cannot reach.

This is the layer transmitted directly by the source. What the roundtable delivers is calibrated by who is at the table.

Who is Dr Oleg Maltsev

Academician of the European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Full member of the International Society of Criminology, the American Psychological Association, and the American Philosophical Association. Editor on the boards of American Behavioral Scientist, Baudrillard Now, and Dogma.

Founder and director of the Memory Institute. His Expeditionary Corps has conducted more than 40 field expeditions across Europe, the United States, Mexico, Egypt, and South Africa — with particular focus on the 'Ndrangheta, the Camorra, the Mafia, and the Russian and South African criminal traditions. That research is the primary source material behind the subculture framework in Tier 3.
Format

Two-hour Zoom session, in English, August 2026. Six participants. Recording provided afterwards.

Optional: Community Architecture Session with Farida Khalaf

If a Roundtable backer wishes to take one of the 15 seats in the Tier 5 session, a seat is reserved on request through the intake form. 

Limited Edition — what does not carry

This tier is Limited Edition. The Roundtable seat does not repeat in future campaigns. This tier does not include the Character Cameo from Tier 4 or the Founding Patron recognition from Tier 6.

The session is educational and analytical; it does not provide legal, financial, security, or operational advice.

Delivery: August 2026.
Places: 6.