At Kiro Action, our goal is to operate where others don’t and in the most remote locations with an emphasis to provide solutions in harsh climates. What makes us different is we operate and manufacture our products near the people that need it with our innovative “micro-manufacturing” sites. Our endeavor led us to create simplified and quick manufacturing plants coming online to serve customers and people that will use the product locally. Logistical issues can be minimized because we build where the final customer needs the Kiro Action product. We have our main micro manufacturing site in Austin with two more plants on the East and West Coast coming online. With smaller micro manufacturing sites, we are able to deliver units within a few hours drive of the majority of the population in the United States. Logistical issues it what hampers a great deal of great products because it’s unaffordable and inefficient to move a product across the country.
Prior to starting Kiro Action, our focus was to fix the logistical issues to get products to the people that need it today. In the next year, we will be introducing a model expanding our production abilities internationally to focus on regions of conflict. The future refugee and humanitarian version will be able to be packed into 2-3 large boxes and can be delivered to the site. This version will be utilizing some of the damage in war-ravaged regions, such as broken concrete from damaged buildings. Our future refugee and humanitarian version of will include a patent-pending solution that recycles, upcycles and reuses concrete left in war-ravaged cities, creating new structures from the old and destroyed. We are in the midst of long-term testing on this version to accommodate different climates.
Utilizing our base building solutions, the local and customized products can be delivered quicker and to specifications that meet local cultural appropriateness and needs. Creating the micro manufacturing sites in the United States today, that can be as small as 2000 square feet, will assist us as we grow and be able to build dignified housing to produce the international sites.
We know housing solutions is not an easy endeavor. We know that refugee housing is littered with examples of companies that have come and gone without making an impact. We know this because our team has been in camps where supposed housing solutions are used, whether they’re a tent or makeshift shed shipped halfway across the world. We know the world of refugee and homeless housing solutions is littered with ambitious designs that go nowhere because there is no product that supports it.
Our team consists of former refugees, former government officials, manufacturers, designers and entrepreneurs in different industries serving dozens of nations. Most of the time in business, people build a product and then go looking for a market, even without identifying potential consumers; we designed our products to be affordable, solve an actual problem and be a real solution for governments, companies and assistance groups all before the first designs were even formed. At KIRO ACTION housing, we are solving a real problem, because customers only buy solutions. While our focus is to help refugee and displaced housing, our solutions can be used across various commercial, government and humanitarian customers.
We understand the failures of previous players in the refugee and homeless housing market and why they don’t exist. At times, their solutions didn’t consider logistical issues, various weather climates, the product looked like it came from a space advert, had no practical ability to be deployed and cost was hundreds-of-thousands of dollars per unit.
Before starting the organization, we looked at the failures of others in-order to avoid the same mistakes. Our solution led us to the following milestones of Manufacturing, Design & Deployment and Variation.
The most important part is that the units are deployable, collapsible, flat packed, put together in hours with no heavy tools or machinery, built to the code of commercial and home applications, and aesthetically, a modern dignified beautiful structure.
