By Nomination Only · Founding Cohort

Individual success gets you in the room. Connected ideas change the laws.

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.

On The Table NowAI, ETA & the $10T ownership transfer
Deal Flow & KnowledgeExpert conversations, not theory
Political IntelligenceAdvance word, before it's public
By NominationInvited in, not signed up
Who This Is For

You're in the room. This is the table.

Built for Black owners, investors, and dealmakers with real revenue, real equity, and real leverage. Doing the work that builds each other and the community. Here, showing up isn't the accomplishment. It's the floor.

Deal Flow & Knowledge

Experts shape these conversations — on the deals, the technology, and the future of work — before it shows up on your P&L.

Political Intelligence

Advance word on the legislation, regulation, and policy moves that affect your money — before it's public.

By Nomination

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."
Live Intelligence

Insight you can't get anywhere else.

Every conversation here starts with the same question: how do we maximize the opportunity in what's changing — for ourselves, and for our community.

AI & the Future of Work

The platforms are still being built. Ownership hasn't been decided yet.

74%

of AI's gains go to the top 20% of firms.

92M

jobs displaced by AI by 2030.

79%

of Black owners already use AI — ahead of the curve.

PwC 2026 AI Performance Study; World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report; Intuit QuickBooks Black Business Owner survey.

The Silver Tsunami

A $10T ownership transfer. Build generational wealth, or put dividends to work if you already have it.

$10T+

changing hands as Boomer owners exit.

10M+

businesses with no buyer lined up.

~60%

of owners have no succession plan.

Widely cited small-business transition and M&A research (Exit Planning Institute–style estimates).

AI & the Future of Work
ETA / M&A Deal Flow
Quarterly Policy Briefings
Dinner Series
Power Retreats
The Edge

Knowledge and access most rooms can't offer.

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.

Subject-Matter Experts

Legal, tax, and deal advisors who specialize in exactly the transitions this room is navigating.

Policy Players

Agency heads and staff who shape the rules before they're public.

Lawmakers

Direct relationships, not general-public access — the edge that comes from being in the room, not outside it.

The Formula

What being in the room actually builds.

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.

Contractors

More public contracts won by Black- and Brown-owned firms.

Bankers & Investors

More capital circulating through Black- and Brown-owned banks.

Technologists

Ownership of the AI-era platforms shaping the future of work, not just a seat building them.

Healthcare Owners

More independent practices able to open and scale.

The Trickle-Down Effect

Every deal made at the table opens doors below it — acquisitions for members ready to buy and run a business, 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.

Nominate A Peer

Know someone who belongs at the table?

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.

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"You've already earned your seat. Come take it."
$10,000/year — or $1,000/month · 100 Founding seats, by nomination only