144K Collective

What 144K Collective does

144K Collective, LLC is a private for-profit cooperative founded in 2024 and registered in Sheridan, Wyoming, with operational offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and New York. The organization operates a decentralized philanthropic network in which up to 144,000 partner-members each contribute $1 per day ($28 billed every 28 days) in exchange for equal, perpetual equity ownership of the Collective's ventures and a 90% profit-reinvestment mandate dedicated to charitable distribution. Membership is acquired exclusively through referral from existing partners and onboarding occurs via weekly invite-only webinars. The stated annual distribution goal is $250 million, supported by a "Power In Numbers" 12-step strategic framework that applies Metcalfe's Law to network-driven value creation.

The Collective's product surface includes the Nexus App, a partner-facing digital hub launched September 2025 that provides real-time financial dashboards, contribution tracking, expense management, and project management tooling. It also operates iMused.ai, an ethical AI music platform co-developed with 9th Ward Productions that uses Musical DNA Technology to generate lyrics, chord progressions, and style instructions while guaranteeing Muse artists automatic 10–20% royalty splits and co-producer credit. Additional revenue streams include PR services delivered through Relationship Management Consultants and member branding support. Go-to-market relies on community-led and event-driven channels, including YouTube docuseries, multi-platform organic social, earned media (PRNewswire, Black Enterprise, AfroTech, AI World Today), and participation at summits such as NEXTEN 2025 in Dakar.

The customer base is highly distributed, targeting entrepreneurs, creators, community leaders, C-suite executives, and Black women through HBCU-focused campaigns. Recent execution milestones include the two-year 144,000-member enrollment campaign (March 2025), Dallas and Austin gas giveaway activations, a Barber-Scotia College GoFundMe campaign (February 2026) that raised over $100,000 in two weeks, and an invitation for founder Jay Davis to join the NEXTEN Board of Directors for 2026.

Name

144K Collective

Legal name

144k Collective, LLC

Website

https://144kcollective.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Short description

144K Collective is a private for-profit cooperative that recruits up to 144,000 members who each pay $1 per day for equal equity, redistributing 90% of profits to philanthropic causes via community-led campaigns, a partner-facing Nexus App, and the iMused.ai ethical AI music platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Impact Cooperative

NAICS

Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures (7114), Music Publishers (51223), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Creator Monetization Tools (Subscriptions, Tips, Merch) (BPAMALAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Fan Membership, Subscriptions & Patronage Platforms (MPACABAF), Merchandising & D2C Management (Artists) (MPAIAGAI), Direct Fan Messaging & Paid DMs (1:1/1:Many) (MPACAFAH)

Keywords

• Philanthropic cooperative
• Membership subscription
• AI music platform
• Brand management
• Collective philanthropy

Headquarters

HQ city

Sheridan

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Member Contributions: Each of the 144,000 members contributes $1 per day ($28 billed every 28 days), generating $52 million in capital contributions annually. This forms the core funding engine for the organization's philanthropic activities.
2. Business Ventures and Operations: The for-profit entity develops, launches, and facilitates profitable business ventures, with 90% of profits reinvested into philanthropic work. Revenue streams include PR support services through Reputation Management Consultants, member branding services, and collaborative business initiatives.
3. 90% Profit Reinvestment Model: Returns 90% of all profits from business operations back into philanthropic distribution, creating a self-sustaining cycle of impact. The remaining 10% supports organizational operations and growth.
4. iMused.ai Royalty Revenue: Ethical AI music platform generating revenue through music creation services while ensuring Muse artists automatically receive 10-20% royalty splits and co-producer credit on commercially released works.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The 144K Collective is a for-profit cooperative that unites 144,000 equal partners, each contributing $1 per day ($28 every 28 days) for equal equity ownership in the Collective's ventures. It develops business ventures, provides collective branding and PR support to members, and reinvests 90% of profits into philanthropic initiatives with a $250 million annual distribution goal. Supporting platforms include the Nexus App (partner digital hub) and iMused.ai (ethical AI music platform with Musical DNA Technology that ensures artists receive 10–20% royalty splits).

Product overview

144K Collective operates as a unified platform combining a decentralized philanthropic network with multiple technology products. The core 144K Collective platform unifies 144,000 equal partners under a for-profit cooperative model with $1/day membership. The Nexus App serves as the partner-facing digital hub providing financial dashboards, contribution tracking, and project management. The iMused.ai platform, built on Musical DNA Technology, provides ethical AI music generation with guaranteed artist royalties. Together, these products enable the organization's mission of socially responsible capitalism through collective branding, AI-powered creative tools, and community-driven social impact initiatives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• iMused: An ethical AI music platform backed by 144K Collective featuring Musical DNA Technology that analyzes artists' creative fingerprints to generate lyrics, chord progressions, and style instructions while ensuring Muse artists receive royalty splits and co-producer credit.
• Nexus App
• SongCraft™ AI

Products and services

• 144K Collective Membership Decentralized philanthropic network and for-profit coalition where 144,000 equal partners each contribute $1/day ($28 billed every 28 days) for perpetual equity ownership. Members receive collective branding power, PR access, networking, influence platforms, and participate in community-driven social impact initiatives. 90% of profits are reinvested into philanthropic distribution.
• Nexus App Digital hub for partners featuring real-time financial dashboards (profit/loss, tax write-offs), contribution tracking, expense management, project management tools with milestone tracking and intelligent team-matching, member directory, integrated messaging, and analytics/insights for community growth and engagement. Designed for cooperative partners to strengthen collaboration and financial transparency.
• iMused.ai Platform Ethical AI music platform backed by 144K Collective and 9th Ward Productions. Uses Musical DNA Technology to analyze an artist's creative fingerprint across 12+ dimensions and generate lyrics, chord progressions, and style instructions. Ensures Muse artists automatically receive 10–20% royalty splits and co-producer credit on commercially released works. Enables musicians to create fully produced, studio-quality songs in as little as three minutes.

Quantifiable outcome

• 144,000 equal partners united under a for-profit model generating $52M+ in annual contributions
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• iMusedcoreTechnology or Integration · 20 February 2026iMused is an ethical AI music platform backed by 144K Collective and 9th Ward Productions and Promotions Company. The platform's Musical DNA Technology analyzes an artist's creative fingerprint across 12+ dimensions to generate music while ensuring automatic royalty splits and co-producer credit for Muse artists.
• 9th Ward Productions and Promotions CompanycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 February 2026Co-development partner for iMused.ai platform and collaborative charitable initiatives including the 'Do Wid It' song with Var Don supporting Barber-Scotia College. Shakara Weston serves as Ninth Ward Productions Co-Founder and Board Member of 144K Collective.
• Barber-Scotia CollegecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2026Historically Black women's college in Concord, North Carolina facing financial distress. 144K Collective Secretary Kirbie Speights co-organized GoFundMe campaign challenging 144,444 Black women to donate $2 each. Artist Var Don released 'Do Wid It' with 100% of proceeds directed to the college in perpetuity. Over $100,000 raised in first two weeks.
• Kirbie SpeightscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2026Secretary of The 144K Collective and founding partner who co-organized the Barber-Scotia College GoFundMe campaign alongside President Chris V. Rey. Also serves as Brand Champion for the Collective and Company Secretary.
• NEXTEN SummitflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2025Jay Davis invited to join NEXTEN Summit Board of Directors for 2026 following participation as exhibitor and keynote speaker at December 2025 summit in Dakar, Senegal. The summit gathered 5,000+ innovators, 200+ speakers, and 100+ startups. 144K team showcased iMused.ai and contributed to AI Policy panel discussion.
• Relationship Management Consultants (RMC)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerThe #1 PR and Relationship Management firm in the USA providing professional public relations support to transform community service into compelling narratives aligned with members' authentic personal brands. Contact: Reputation Management Consultants, [email protected], 949-259-6377 x 225.
• NAACP (Cabarrus County Chapter)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerContributed $1,765 to the Barber-Scotia College GoFundMe campaign, supporting the HBCU's restoration efforts.
• R & R Share and Care MinistryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUnder Bishop Robert Kinard, donated $6,600 to support Barber-Scotia College's fundraising campaign.
• Local Indie Artists (Dallas)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDJ 2Klean, Marley Santana, IDM, and Yodchai partnered with 144K Collective for Dallas Gas Giveaway from March 14-16, 2025, funding free fuel for community patrons at multiple Dallas metro stations.
• University of Houston Bauer College of BusinessminorOthersBauer College of Business/Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship experts vetted and endorsed the Power In Numbers program as 'THE most powerful TRUE Economic Stimulus Program ever seen.'

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Patreon: Patreon operates a subscription-based creator-membership platform where fans pay recurring fees for exclusive content and community access — the closest analogue to 144K's $1/day paid-membership, referral-gated community model, though without the equal-equity cooperative structure.
• Mighty Networks: Mighty Networks powers paid communities and membership courses with branded apps, mirroring 144K's Nexus App hub and community-led growth motion for creators and entrepreneurs building paid audiences.
• Circle: Circle is a modern community platform for creators and brands offering paid memberships, courses, and discussions — directly comparable to 144K's member portal, integrated messaging, and project/community tooling inside Nexus App.
• Suno: Suno is a leading generative-AI music platform that turns text prompts into songs, competing head-on with iMused.ai's Musical DNA Technology in the AI-music-creation category — though without 144K's embedded royalty-split and co-producer-credit framework.
• Udio: Udio is another well-funded AI music generation platform producing studio-quality tracks from prompts; it competes with iMused.ai for creator attention and represents the category benchmark for output quality that iMused must match or differentiate around ethically.

Broad incumbents

• Kajabi: Kajabi is an established all-in-one platform for creators to sell courses, memberships, and coaching — a broader incumbent serving the same entrepreneur/creator segments as 144K Collective's member benefits stack.
• UnitedMasters: UnitedMasters provides music distribution and artist services that let independent musicians retain ownership and monetize catalog — comparable to iMused.ai's artist-protection and royalty-split value proposition, but at significantly larger scale.
• TuneCore: TuneCore is a long-standing music distribution and publishing-administration platform — a broad incumbent in the music-rights management space that overlaps with iMused.ai's PRO registration and royalty administration capabilities.

Emerging players

• Stan Store: Stan Store is an emerging creator-monetization storefront letting influencers sell digital products, links, and bookings from a single page — overlapping with 144K Collective's branding-and-monetization-roadmap value proposition for creators and influencers.
• GoFundMe: GoFundMe is the dominant crowdfunding platform used by 144K Collective for its Barber-Scotia College campaign; it represents the alternative donation-based philanthropic infrastructure against which 144K's cooperative-philanthropy model must differentiate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• TikToktiktok.com/@the144kcollective

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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