Right now, laws are being written that decide who profits from AI, business acquisitions, and the largest ownership transfer in U.S. history — and most Black and Brown business owners never hear about it until it's already decided. The Power Table is the room where that changes: proven owners, investors, and dealmakers turning hard-won success into shared leverage.
You know the feeling — the only one in the room, doing the work of proving you belong there before you can do anything else. Built for Black and Brown owners, investors, and dealmakers doing seven figures and up. Here, showing up isn't the accomplishment. It's the floor.
Co-investment access and acquisition pipelines with people who can actually write the check — not just talk about it.
Advance word on the legislation, regulation, and policy moves that affect your money — before it's public.
Not open enrollment. You're invited in, or nominated by someone already at the table.
"Everyone at this table can make you more profitable. You're just as necessary to making them more profitable."
The room isn't just relationships — it's a running conversation on where Black and Brown capital and political power are headed next, plus the events where that conversation happens in person.
Live conversations inside the room today: how AI is reshaping who owns platforms vs. who staffs them, and how Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) lets members buy into the ownership transfer below instead of starting from zero.
Private Power Retreats twice a year, the Dinner Series rotating through Charlotte, the Triangle, the Triad, and Eastern NC, and small-group roundtables timed to whatever's moving that quarter.
in business assets projected to change hands as Baby Boomer owners exit over the next 10–15 years — the "Silver Tsunami."
U.S. businesses currently owned by Baby Boomers, most with no identified buyer lined up.
of those owners have no succession plan at all — the door is open to whoever moves first.
Figures reflect widely cited small-business transition and M&A research on the Silver Tsunami (Exit Planning Institute–style industry estimates).
This is one thread, not three separate topics — AI, the Silver Tsunami, and the future of work all come back to the same question: who owns what's next. It runs straight through The Edge and The Formula below.
A confidential circle of top-of-field Black and Brown owners, investors, and public figures — talk numbers with people fluent in your exact reality.
Co-investment access with people who can write the check, including acquisition deal flow via ETA Factory / CAF.
The Dinner Series and Power Retreats, rotating Charlotte, the Triangle, the Triad, and Eastern NC.
Succession and exit insight most advisors can't offer.
"This is what happens when Black and Brown excellence stops operating alone."
Members get direct time with the people who actually move policy and capital on AI, acquisition, and the rules shaping the future of work — experts, agency heads, and lawmakers who don't take general meetings. That access is part of the room; how it's built is a conversation for members.
Legal, tax, and deal advisors who specialize in exactly the transitions this room is navigating.
Agency heads and staff who shape the rules before they're public.
Direct relationships, not general-public access — the edge that comes from being in the room, not outside it.
This isn't a pitch about seats in Raleigh — it's what happens when peers with the same stakes start moving together. Two parts: what you get, and what it grows into.
More public contracts won by Black- and Brown-owned firms.
More capital circulating through Black- and Brown-owned banks.
Ownership of the AI-era platforms shaping the future of work, not just a seat building them.
More independent practices able to open and scale.
Every deal made at the table opens doors below it — acquisition opportunities through ETA Factory / CAF, contracts that flow to smaller Black- and Brown-owned vendors, capital that recycles into the next member's deal. The room compounds; it doesn't just distribute.
How this connects to NC's political map — 41 Black legislators, a #7 national ranking in Black buying power, and the specific asks that turn both into results — is part of what members work through together inside the room.
The Power Table grows the way real power does — through people who already trust each other. Also the path for civic leaders and connectors who aren't themselves a $1M+ prospect but know who is.
"You've already earned your seat. Come take it."