A 12-city traveling activation bringing the BLK:INV Terminal — the first live system-of-record for Black American innovation — into museums, universities, libraries, membership houses, professional services groups, and corporate venues across 2026. One thesis: culture is the asset class.
For 250 years, Black American invention, design, performance, language, and cultural production has built modern industries — from the electrical grid and refrigeration networks to the dominant grammar of global popular media — without a system of record that registers its origin, prices its value, or returns capital to its makers.
That gap is structural. It is not a story problem. It is an infrastructure problem. MADE CX exists to build the infrastructure. The BLK:INV Terminal is the working artifact: a live, public ledger demonstrating what becomes possible when culture is registered, valued, and licensed as a recognized asset class.
This tour is how we put it in the room — across museums, universities, libraries, houses, professional services groups, and corporate venues — through the year that America turns 250.
America 250 marks the anniversary.The 50,000 Black inventions that built America are the record.The Terminal is how we finally make them count.
The BLK:INV Terminal is a live, queryable interface backed by a 250-year dataset (1619–2025) of Black American intellectual property. Every host event includes a live walkthrough — three exemplar lookups requested in real time from the audience.
The 2026 program runs in three coordinated phases. The Terminal Museum Exhibition opens the year publicly; the Community Activation Tour takes the demonstration to twelve cities; the Conferences track brings the same demonstration to global stages where capital decisions get made.