What Makes the Stavatti Business Model Unique?
Stavatti employs a commercially focused approach that emphasizes the importance of a valid business model. The Stavatti business model concentrates upon producing a product that satisfies a market demand sufficiently large to justify the product’s development and manufacture. The product must be sold at a gross margin which will address both non-recurring development costs as well as provide a reasonable rate of return to program stakeholders. As a privately financed, for-profit venture, Full Scale Development (FSD) of a new Stavatti aircraft is directly dependent upon the existence of a verifiable market for the aircraft. To confirm the existence of a market, Stavatti studies the global need for an aircraft and engages end users and procurement bodies directly to determine actual needs. Once the potential market is verified, Stavatti employs an iterative concept design approach to create a product that will address the real requirements of the end-user, be them warfighters or civil ow