Since we're supporting Black business right now, I want to take 90 seconds and show you exactly what I've been building for the last 6 months.

Since we're supporting Black business right now, I want to take 90 seconds and show you exactly what I've been building for the last 6 months. Because most people don't know this company exists yet, and that's about to change. I'm Brian O'Neal, Black tech founder out of Minnesota. Self-taught AI developer. No CS degree, no co-founder, no Silicon Valley backing, and I built an AI company called BlackX Technologies. And here's what nobody says out loud, and we're going to say it today. Black creators made the creator economy, period. The dances on TikTok, ours. The slang every brand puts in their ad copy six months later, ours. The aesthetic, the cadence, the format of short-form content itself, built by us, scaled by everybody else. We lead the culture, we make the trends, then we watch a $250 billion industry get built on top of our work without us owning a single piece of the infrastructure underneath it. That stops with this generation. That stops with us. For the last 6 months, I've been head down building BlackX solo from my desk in Minnesota. Here's what it is. The creator economy is $250 billion today, $480 billion by 2027. That's Goldman Sachs talking right there. 270 million creators worldwide, and the most important document in every single deal, the contract. It has no standard, no score, no protection, nothing. That's why 87% of creators have been paid late, wrong, or never. That's why Black creators specifically earn 35% less on identical work. Same reach, same engagement, same deliverables. That's why brands ran up $1.15 billion in class-action lawsuits in three weeks this year because no one was reading the fine print. So I built the standard. BlackX has three products. They're all live. You can use them today. First one is Deal Score. AI reads any brand contract in 60 seconds and scores it 0 to 100. Like a credit score for your deal. Catches the perpetual usage rights, the net 90 payment terms, the AI likeness clauses brands are quietly burying in their contracts right now. Second one is BlackX Negotiate. AI writes your counter-offer automatically. Real contract language, benchmarked against industry standards. Pro plan is $39 a month. One counter-offer pays for it for years. Third one is BlackX Verified. A certification standard for brands. They upload their contracts, get audited against nine benchmarks, earn a public badge so creators can see which brands play fair before they sign. Measurement, action, trust. The full stack. Look, every industry that ever got respected had to force its standards. The actors did it through SAG. The musicians did it through ASCAP. The auto workers did it through the union. Standards never get handed to anybody. They get demanded by the people getting hurt without one. Black founders building infrastructure isn't a charity case, it's a correction. We've been the engine of this industry since day one. It's time we own the rails it runs on. So here's what I need from you today in this moment. One, comment the word "built" below. Just built. Every comment tells the algorithm this matters and shows the next Black creator scrolling they're not alone in this fight. Number two, repost this video, not for me, for the creator in your DMs right now negotiating a deal they didn't know is bad. They need to see this before they sign, not after. And three, tag a Black creator who's been in the game and deserves to know there's finally infrastructure built for them by one of us. If you're a creator, BlackX.app. Three contract scores a month on me. The founding creator program is open. 100 lifetime pro spots, no card. If you're a brand who actually pays fair, get verified. Show your work publicly. If you're an investor watching this, I'm raising my seed round. DM me the word "deck" and you'll have the pitch deck in your inbox within the hour. We made the culture, time we own what it runs on. I'm Brian O'Neal, BlackX.app. Let's build.