Ennui, regarding your project to train Awakened, I thought it could be useful to give some numbers. Not to say it's impossible or anything, just to put things in perspective.
From different official books, we know that there are roughly 1% of the population that is awakened (a percentage in slight augmentation over the years, with big differences depending on the place). Of that pourcent, most aren't "functional": burned out, ignore their nature, etc.
If we get into number, among a population of 1'000'000, we'd get:
Population: 1'000'000
Mundanes: 990'000
Awakened: 10'000
Unaware, burned-out, incompetent: 7'500
Functional: 2'500
Among those 2'500 functional awakened, you have:
Aspected magicians: 1800
-> Conjurers 600
-> Sorcerers 600
-> Enchanters 600
200 Full magicians
500 adepts
-> Among those, 250 are mystic adepts
Those numbers are from
this discussion. Seattle's population is at a bit more than 3 millions in 2075.
Now you're interested in the "unaware" part of the awakened, which for simplicity's sake is a third of the "non functional" awakened, so 2'500 per million. You'd have a pool of 7'500 in all of Seattle to recruit. By no means a small number of course, but it's still 0.25% of the population. In addition to the difficulty to find those people, you'd be in competition with pretty much every AA+ corporation. Given those number, you can't really just assensse everyone you meet (takes time, risky, you probably wouldn't get more than one or two people...if such people are even identifiable by assenssing, which is not guaranteed at all) so you'd need some big scale tests.
I read somewhere (don't remember where, probably Street Grimoire or one of its earlier incarnations) that tests where handed to children in school, to test if they are awakened or not. I suppose you could do something like that, but you'll have to hide that under some other pretense, otherwise you'll quickly get a lot of problems ^^
