The Academy · Course catalog
What we are building.
Sixteen courses across four tracks, launching over two years. Each course is taught by a practitioner — the kind of person who has actually done the thing they are teaching you how to do. Registration for the beta cohort opens Juneteenth 2026.
Personal Finance
PF-201
Debt Freedom Strategy
In developmentMoving from debt management to debt elimination. Order of operations, negotiation tactics, credit rebuilding, and the mathematics of paying debt versus investing.
Black History Month 2027
PF-301
Generational Wealth Planning
In developmentEstate planning, life insurance, family trusts, and teaching children about money. How we build wealth that outlasts us.
Black History Month 2027
PF-210
Ujamaa Accounting for Small Businesses
In developmentCooperative-economics-informed profit allocation for sole proprietors and small businesses. Pay yourself first, operate from discipline, circulate capital in community.
Black History Month 2027
Entrepreneurship
EN-101
First Business Fundamentals
PlannedFrom idea to revenue. Market validation, first customer, legal structure, and the discipline that separates companies from hobbies.
Black History Month 2027
EN-201
Capital Stack for Founders
PlannedBootstrapping, friends and family, grants, revenue-based financing, SAFEs, priced rounds, debt. When to use what, and what each costs beyond money.
Black History Month 2027
EN-210
Hiring Your First Five
PlannedCompensation, equity, contractor versus employee, remote versus local, and how to build a team when you have more conviction than cash.
Black History Month 2027
EN-301
Operator to Scaled
PlannedSystems, hiring executives, delegating without abandoning, the CEO shift, and the question no founder wants to ask: when should I be replaced?
Later 2027
EN-401
Exits and Transitions
PlannedAcquisitions, ESOPs, succession, shutting down with grace. The conversation founders avoid until the moment arrives.
Later 2027
Investing
IN-101
Public Markets for Professionals
PlannedThinking about equities as a capital allocator, not a gambler. Portfolio construction, tax efficiency, and the discipline to do nothing when nothing is right.
Black History Month 2027
IN-201
Angel and Private Investing
PlannedWriting your first check. Deal evaluation, term sheets, follow-on strategy, and the portfolio math angels rarely talk about.
Black History Month 2027
IN-210
Real Estate as Infrastructure
PlannedResidential, multifamily, commercial, and land. Financing structures, tax treatment, and how real estate fits inside a full portfolio strategy.
Black History Month 2027
IN-301
LP to GP: Building Your Own Fund
PlannedThe path from writing personal checks to raising institutional capital. Fund one mechanics, LP relations, and the questions emerging Black fund managers get asked that their peers do not.
Later 2027
AI Literacy
AI-101
AI for Working Professionals
PlannedPractical literacy for people whose industries are being reshaped. What AI actually is, how to use it without becoming dependent, and how to keep humans in the loop.
Later 2027
AI-201
AI for Entrepreneurs
PlannedBuilding AI into a company without pretending to be an AI company. Workflow integration, cost discipline, and how not to outsource your judgment.
Later 2027
AI-301
AI and the Next Economy
PlannedThe displacement conversation nobody wants to have. Which professions are at risk, which are safe, and where Black capital should be positioned.
Later 2027
Teach at the Academy.
We are recruiting practitioners — fund managers, operators, founders, tax professionals, estate attorneys, technologists — to teach these courses. If you have done the work and want to transfer what you know, there is a seat at the table for you.