Enterprise Crawl
One drone operator. Five floors. One signed contract.
A free comic about what really happens between a great flight and a signed MSA. Lowball buyers, RFP swamps, vendor onboarding, ghosted pilots and legal redlines, drawn as a dungeon crawl.
SYSTEM:Welcome to the Procurement Dungeon, Operator. This crawl is broadcast live to every procurement department in North America. Exit condition: one signed MSA.
Five floors. Five bosses. You've met all of them.
Bargain Barry
"I can do it cheaper."
The Packet
"See Attachment C."
The COI Hydra
"Please resubmit with the correct limits."
The Phantom of the Pilot
"Let's revisit next quarter."
The Redline Lich
"This is our standard agreement. We don't negotiate it."
What's inside
The full five-floor crawl, from the Lowball Bazaar to the final MSA
A safe room after every floor with one real-world lesson and one move to make before the next floor
An Operator Character Sheet: tick the boss blocking your current deal and see which of the eight buyer screens it guards
Base, a survey base station that keeps a running tally of your bad decisions
Reese is fictional. The dungeon isn't. Steve Cochran of RaptorWorx cleared it for real and signed a $15K-a-month MSA.
All five floors. Free.
Download the full comic and see how Reese gets out with a signed MSA.
Why I made a comic
I'm a huge fan of Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Somewhere around book three I realized the dungeon felt familiar. A System that changes the rules without warning, bosses that guard every door, and a hero who survives by getting smarter instead of stronger. That's what selling drone services to enterprise buyers feels like.
So I drew it. Enterprise Crawl is my love letter to the series, and to every operator who has been ghosted after a great pilot.
Jason San Souci, The Drone StrategistEnterprise Crawl is an independent parody inspired by Dungeon Crawler Carl. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Matt Dinniman or his publishers.