Had to push back our launch because I had to plan for the Dubai trip which was a big deal. Now that I’m back, it’s time to move forward. I want to highlight some points because some underlying dynamics took us to the point we are at today. Overall, a bittersweet journey where my own people I wanted to support turned foul on me. I want to talk out Mark 6, versus 1-6.

The passage of Mark 6 in the Bible talks about when Jesus went to his hometown and preached, he was being dismissed by his own people. Jesus said, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives, and in his own home.” In other words, the place where you are from is where people are going to disrespect you and your message and your story.

My response is if anybody feels comfortable with disrespecting me, I don’t care if their family, grew up with me or knows my people – I’m done with them and they don’t know me anymore because they got cut off permanently. If the Black community wanted to treat me with dishonor because I was preaching how to empower our people, those people can go straight to hell - they are enemies to me if they felt I was to be disrespected. I have never felt in my life to disrespect someone who grew up with me and I always showed support.  But I will 100% always return the same mutual feelings and mutual response someone decided to bring my way. I don’t play games with folks out here.

The way I see it and take Mark 6 is your own people want to undermine your mission and disrupt your story and sounds like Jesus is telling you to avoid your own people and go out in the world and find those who accept what you are doing. But that is exactly what happened, people around the world outside the American Black community have been embracing what I have been blogging about for 10 years hoping to deliver as a solution for my own people. I made that decision to go where I’m celebrated and to pivot from thankless contributions to serving those that see value in what I’m working on. What’s confusing is no one knows me like that to have personal opinions of me, I don’t hang out with yall like that.

I have a lot of people around the world happy with my progress and where I’m at and that brings me joy. I see why folks forget about the Black community when they get theirs and even Jesus had it figured out in Mark 6 – I need to read the Bible again someday to pick up on more stuff. So right now, I’m going to focus on the people happy for me.

The best way to think of The Manufactured Solution is to think of an existing platform and technology which is the India Stack. The India Stack is a world-renowned API platform to create an ecosystem to support financial inclusion for over a billion Indian nationals and connect payments to a global financial system. Let’s talk about parts of the India Stack as an API platform:

ID with Biometrics.  Each person in India is given an ID number and their biometrics is saved. All a person has to do for a transaction is enter their ID number and provide a fingerprint scan.

Payment Address.  Each business has a payment address to send funds between parties. So when sending payments, just enter an address.

Payment Interoperability. This is the ability to push payments through local and international networks so there are instances where someone overseas can send money back to India using the India stack.

Digital Locker.  This is a digital storage solution that allows people to store a digital version of birth certificates, business licenses, and other government documents.

E-Consent.  This is an e-signature solution that allows people to sign documents electronically.

This is a simplified explanation of the India Stack API platform but as you see, the solution now allows more Indians to tap into purchases, make purchases smoother for both customers and businesses and allow the ability to store important documents and sign agreements that can be retrieved on demand. This quickly transformed India into the digital age and has matured over the years enabling better supply chains and markets and new business opportunities.

The Manufactured Solution has a similar API platform but was designed originally to solve economic problems and bring forth economic opportunities that were facing the Black community. I have traveled the world looking at top markets around the world and doing research with Tokyo being the most visited and being the most compatible. With that said, we have an API stack called Toshikiso which is the core of our solutions. We have similar features but we have a broader array of goals outside of financial inclusions.

If we were to compare to the India Stack, Kossier is our ID but we do not use biometrics or identifiable information because we focus on activity versus identity. Entities have their own address and can be used to interact with Kossier to perform tasks such as check-in or transactions. We use blockchain distributed ledger technology for digital vaults and agreements. So we can say we have a similar API ecosystem.

However, we were addressing some specific issues with our platform. The biggest one I can think of is the ability to create a digital entity that can run as a virtual scalable solution for either an online presence or a physical presence or a hybrid. The other ones are just as important – the ability to have an operating agreement between partners and other parties to determine how revenue distribution is carried out. This is very important as business partners don’t have reliable agreements and one of them always gets shifty, messing up the whole operation.  

So you see just from the brief discussion because I can write several paragraphs, we have a stack that allows doing things like creating better entertainment deals like media distribution deals, starting partnerships instead of single entrepreneurs to have better business models, and making it easier to launch and operate businesses as virtual digital entities.

We have a post-paid plan that invoices our customers based on the volume of processing units – similar to Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS billing. We can process payments around the world and we have hubs around the world for a genuine global customer base. So again, unprecedented opportunity and growth potential for us because we built for scale at the very beginning. We can even offer our API platform on both Azure and AWS for developers who use these cloud platforms and want to access our platforms as an edge solution.

Our first implementation is both our e-mail and SMS solution. We are rolling out our mailing list service for our early adopters to get early access to our platform. The other services which are the platform applications to allow people to set up and enter information are being rolled out – this is the Stony|Ellis, Kolin-Avers, View the Vista, The Merchant and the Flow. The nice part is once people enter their information and data, the next step is activity.

We work to bring activity to the data that was entered. That means bringing customers, displaying on digital media, promoting with sales, profile in publications, and post-transaction feedback – all done by our machine learning and AI system that operates on business rules and patterns that we constantly update to help businesses run streamline operations. That’s going to be the cool part that hasn’t been seen yet outside of our lab. Some of you will learn why it takes as long as it has to create that part of our solution.

We will not be using Dream and Hustle as our platform to discuss The Manufactured Solution – have our own website and social media so that is where all the news about launches, updates, and solutions are going to be published. But just want to mention it here because we will be sending out notifications to our Early Adopters who supported this blog. But this blog is transitioning to a greater content platform built upon our API stack – this reminds me of something I forgot to mention.

We already have the ability for payment distribution for digital distribution. This means that people can write stories and get royalties or pass-through payments directly from the customer. This creates a new league of professional digital entrepreneurs who can sell digital media and work perfectly for digital nomads who want to work worldwide. So our solutions are not just transforming business solutions but also transforming people's lives and careers with digital solutions.

This is what I like so much – the amount of scale, the number of solutions, and the reach we have that will create positive value in people's life. I love my people being empowered by solutions I designed and they told me that. I love the fact my Japanese boo support my business and tells me how happy she is looking at me going for mine. I love the fact my Latina boo goes out and do whatever I need to help me get it done – I never had any of this before in previous relationships, just some hating and shade from the sistas I was with, she told me she knows someone else doing what I’m doing and that other person is doing their “damn thing” or whatever.

In summary, I decided to get rid of the negative elements such as my own people doing some Mark 6 on a brotha they don’t even know or have even been around. Instead, the focus is on people and businesses excited about what I’m doing. I will not tolerate anybody feeling I’m someone they can disrespect because I have seen it over and over – once the name is out, those same folks be talking they know me or DM asking for a hookup but never supported me during the come-up. All of that is behind me, I’m focusing on the exciting journey ahead and all the digital solutions we creating, all the people around the world we help, and looking forward to creating new and improved stuff as we continue on this journey.

We are launching soon and we are ready.