There are a lot of moving parts to FireFly and setting it up from scratch, including the blockchain is not an easy task. Kaleido does make this very easy. I'm not trying to do a sales pitch here, but I'm just trying to find the path of least resistance for your team to get a PoC up and running somewhere.
I talked to the team here at Kaleido, and we would love to help out if you're interested. We have a partner program for special relationships like this. The pricing of the partner program is designed only to recoup the cost of the infrastructure (AWS machines, etc) that our services run on, so it would be the same exact cost if you were to go build all of this in AWS yourself. The benefit is that you get to use all of our automation and management tools to set everything up in a few clicks. Is this something you would be interested in?
I'm not sure if Kaleido would want to timebox it - e.g. an agreement to run the PoC for X amount of months until it is complete. We would also need to make a few engineering changes on our side (which we need to do anyway), so it wouldn't be available for the setup that you need today, but very soon.
How does that sound?
Thanks,
Nicko
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