Eden King / 2026
Washington, D.C. · 2026
I have to give my freedom a voice.
— founding statement

eden
king.

An artist, an operator, a builder —
held by a holding company called
DBA.
Investor Brief
Eden King · Founder Washington, D.C.
Manifesto
There is work this company declines
Three rules. Non-negotiable.

destiny before all. don’t bother artists. disrupt — become — articulate.

These are the operating principles. Every entity under the frame inherits them. Decisions that violate them are not made, regardless of the upside. An investor should read this as a stated constraint on the deal surface, not as decoration: there is work this company will decline.
Rules of engagement Stated constraints, not decoration
The founder
Eleven years building, alone
One body of research · multiple expressions

edenking.

I refuse to choose between the parts of this, because the parts are the product.
Legal entity: Jessica Weinstein DBA Eden King. Washington, D.C.
Five capabilities. One P&L.
  • Operator Eleven years in food & beverage brand and operations — concept development, opening playbooks, menu engineering, event program direction, business development. Ama, No White Plates, Compass Rose, Maydan, Maydan Market, Kirby Club, Hank’s Oyster Bar.
  • Creative technologist Self-taught. Designed, wrote and shipped every site in the portfolio — client work and her own platforms — including the brands and concepts behind them, not only the code.
  • Artist & filmmaker Painting series God’s Armor (2023–2026); six published moving-image works; a feature documentary in production.
  • Publisher Seventeen titles across four collections, plus KDP paperbacks and a trade workbook, under an imprint she designed and runs end to end.
  • Researcher Two published reports on the business models underneath American institutions, plus an ongoing public-education poster series.
14
Restaurants opened
11
Live web properties
designed, branded and coded
17
Titles published
under her own imprint
1
Feature documentary
in production
Built alone, without outside capital, while running a consulting practice with paying clients.
Founder · source · delivery unit Also the key-person risk — named later, in full
Traction
Thirteen items · every one inspectable
What is already real

This is not a blank page. It is a working portfolio.

A.01 Doing Business As The consulting practice, founded 2023, live and selling Revenue
A.02 Client site portfolio Four commissioned sites — brand, concept, copy and code — for Rose Previte, Medina, Hanes Healing and Travis Garrison Revenue
A.03 Fourteen restaurants opened Ama (2024–2026), No White Plates (2018–2024), Compass Rose, Maydan, Maydan Market, Kirby Club, Hank’s Oyster Bar (2015–2018) Track record
A.04 Menu Engineering Mastery Edition 01, 2026 — a published trade workbook. Proof that the consulting method packages Published
A.05 Readings & practice Cosmosomatic readings and healing-arts sessions, $25–$45, with payment taken directly Revenue
A.06 a Love Riot Fifteen print-on-demand products across five lines, started 2023 Revenue
A.07 Publishing catalogue Seventeen titles — Together, Field Notes, New Mythology, Junk Drawer — plus KDP paperbacks, under an imprint she designed and runs Published
A.08 Public platforms The Thirty-Two Paths, Resonance · Breath, The Living Pattern and The Quantum Body — free-to-use tools, designed and coded in-house Live
A.09 God’s Armor Painting series, 2023–2026. Exhibited on the founder site; studio visits bookable Complete
A.10 God’s Armour Feature documentary, working title. In source-gathering; source account being reconstructed from transcript In production
A.11 Moving-image catalogue Six published works, distributed on YouTube as channel “D BA” Published
A.12 The founder platform Eden King — seven sections, self-built, carrying the full catalogue and all booking flows Live
A.13 P.O.P. Culture research Two published reports and the GOVERNANCE poster series. Outside the raise Published
■ Revenue — has taken money ■ Track record — delivered, verifiable by reference ■ Live / published — publicly inspectable right now ■ In production — underway, not complete
Nothing here asks to be taken on trust. Every line above is something that exists today and can be opened, read, bought or referenced. Work that is prototyped, in development, proposed, or dependent on this round is labelled as such elsewhere in this brief and is deliberately absent from this page.
Every item above is inspectable today. Most are linked directly from the founder platform; the remainder are available on request. Full addresses are listed at the back.
Thirteen items · all verifiable Built without outside capital
The proposition
One practice · several forms of capital
Why these projects belong together

The proposition: one body of research, multiple expressions

One body of research. Multiple expressions. A single interdisciplinary practice — asking what happens when human bodies meet human systems — produces film, publishing, software, hospitality systems, objects and public-interest work as outputs of the same investigation, not as separate ventures.
The connective tissue
The same research produces each output. Eleven years inside hospitality systems became operating documentation and menu architecture. The same enquiry into institutions became a documentary and two published reports. The same interest in how people settle and pay attention became practice, objects and software. One method, applied in whichever form the question needs.
Why this founder
The work requires someone who has operated inside the systems being examined, can author the creative work, and can build the technology. That is not a team of three specialists with a shared deck — the translation between the three is the product, and it only happens in one head.
Why several kinds of capital
Some outputs should create enterprise value: the consulting practice, the publishing catalogue, the film and publishing rights, and the practice once it is packaged to be taught. Some should stay outside commercial models: the public-education research, the free tools. Those are funded separately, on purpose, and an investor is asked to fund only the first.
What this round funds. A consulting practice with paying clients is the cash floor — high margin, low multiple, founder-dependent, and deliberately not the ceiling. The owned intellectual property is the upside: film, imprint, catalogue and software, each able to be valued independently of the founder’s hours. This round buys the second, funded by the first.
Cash floor · IP upside One practice, not a portfolio of ideas
The moment & the market
Built bottom-up, not by adding industries together
Why now

The studio model came for software.
It has not yet come for culture.

Studios industrialised company-building in software: one team, one repeatable process, many ventures. The approach has been applied almost entirely to code. Cultural work — film, publishing, practice, objects, environments, tools — is still built one artist at a time, with no shared infrastructure and no balance sheet behind it.

The reason is supply. The model needs someone who can make the work and run the P&L. That combination is not produced by art school or by business school, and it cannot be assembled from two people who each do half.

This is that combination already operating. Fourteen restaurants opened. Eleven live web properties designed and coded in-house. Seventeen published titles. A painting series. A documentary in production. All built without outside capital.

Bottom-up, from the first customer outward
First customer Founder-led hospitality and independent brands Operators who need brand, financial modelling and a working site, and cannot assemble that from separate vendors. Two of the four commissioned sites to date came from exactly this customer; the other two were adjacent founder-led brands bought on the same capability.
First offer One fixed-scope engagement Identity plus pro forma plus a built site, delivered together. Average engagement value to confirm.
Reachable now Bounded by her calendar, not by demand At current capacity this arm is limited to the engagements one person can deliver in a year — to confirm. That ceiling, not market size, is the constraint this round is raised to lift.
Expansion 01 Operations documentation, productised Opening playbooks and training systems packaged to sell without her. One has already been published as a trade workbook.
Expansion 02 Publishing and digital products Seventeen titles and a growing digital catalogue. Low marginal cost, no delivery hours.
Expansion 03 Licensing and rights The practice trained and delivered by others; documentary and publishing rights. Long-dated, and the source of any outsized outcome.
Wider context — four sourced figures, deliberately not added together
Wellness
$6.8T
Global wellness economy, 2025 — forecast to reach $9.8T by 2029
Global Wellness Institute,
2025 Global Wellness Economy Monitor
Art
$59.6B
Global art market sales, 2025 — up 4% year on year
Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report 2026,
by Arts Economics
Creator
$480B
Projected creator economy by 2027, from $250B today
Goldman Sachs Research
Licensing
$389.8B
Global sales of licensed goods and services, 2025 — up 5.45%
Licensing International,
2026 Global Licensing Study
These four figures are context, not a market claim. They are not summed, and their total is not presented as an addressable market — adding whole industries together because a company touches each of them produces a number that means nothing. The addressable position is the funnel above: a first customer, a first offer, and a capacity ceiling this round exists to lift. Each figure names its publisher and its year; where a claim could not be sourced to a named publication, it is not on this page.
The gap is operators, not ideas Bottom-up · four figures sourced · none stacked
The architecture
What the investment buys, and what it does not
One source. Three commercial arms. One nonprofit, held separately.

The architecture: what the investment buys and what it does not

The entity that receives the investment
DBA — Doing Business As
Currently operating as Jessica Weinstein DBA Eden King · Proposed — counsel to finalise
Arm 01 · the engine
Doing Business As
creative operations studio, founded 2023
  • Brand strategy & identity
  • Financial planning & pro forma
  • Web & custom technology
  • Experience & hospitality design
  • Menu engineering & operations
Revenue
Arm 02 · the practice
Prima Materia
readings, practice & objects
  • Cosmosomatic readings
  • Practice sessions, 1:1 and group
  • Oils, roller balls, prayer oils
  • Hand-made wearables, short runs
  • Direct payment, no platform cut
Revenue
Arm 03 · the work
Eden King
art, film & publishing
  • Feature documentary
  • God’s Armor, 2023–2026
  • 17 published titles
  • New Mythology imprint
  • a Love Riot — 15 products
  • Six moving-image works
Film in production
Outside the raise · separate entity
Paradise Over Power · P.O.P. Culture
Public-interest project
The nonprofit public-education arm. It is not inside the holding company, its assets are not part of what an investor acquires, and it is not funded by this round. It raises grant and donation capital on its own merits. Its research, publications and programming are intended to remain freely accessible, which is precisely why they sit outside a commercial structure. Any value moving from the commercial arms to P.O.P. is a documented charitable contribution made from profit, after tax.
What a reader should be able to establish, and what is not yet established. The commercial arms operate today under the founder’s registered trade name. The formal holding structure — the receiving entity, the instrument, which intellectual property is assigned into it, and which works remain founder-owned — is proposed, not completed, and is to be finalised with counsel as a first use of this round. This brief does not present that architecture as done. An IP inventory and the draft structure are available to a party in diligence.
Three arms in · one deliberately out Proposed structure · counsel to finalise
Arm 01 / the engine
The arm with revenue today
Doing Business As · founded 2023

A creative operations studio that pays for the rest.

An independent, female-owned design strategy practice — positioned as “turning business dreamscapes into profitable realities,” with “creativity is medicine” as its stated value.

It sells the same capability the studio uses on itself — brand, money, technology, operations — to founders and operators who need all four at once.

This is the arm with revenue today, and it is modelled honestly rather than dressed up as a platform. Its job is to hold the floor while the owned assets are built.

Client sites designed, branded and built in-house: Rose Previte · Medina · Hanes Healing · Travis Garrison. Addresses are listed in full at the back.
https://doingbusiness.studio
Brand strategy · experiential design · hospitality
Doing
Business As
An independent, female-owned design strategy practice turning business dreamscapes into profitable realities.
WorkStrategyExperienceAboutContact
Creativity is medicine →
The live site. Designed, written and coded in-house.
01
Brand & Identity
Positioning, visual identity, copy, naming, SEO. Built as complete systems, not logo files.
02
Financial Planning
Pro forma modelling, unit economics, pricing architecture. The rare half of a creative practice.
03
Custom Technology
Websites, tools and internal systems, designed and coded in-house. No agency markup, no template stack.
04
Experience & Hospitality
Concept development, experiential design, F&B strategy, special programs.
05
Menu Engineering
Margin-led menu and beverage strategy. Already packaged once as a published workbook.
06
Operations Documentation
Opening playbooks, SOPs, training systems. Productisable — the clearest path off founder time.
Premium pricing · selective clients This arm funds the others
Arm 02 / the practice
Direct to person · no platform cut
Prima Materia

readings,
practice
& objects.

The arm that meets a person directly — and the proving ground where the studio’s ideas are tested on real people before they become products.

Cosmosomatic readings, healing-arts sessions, and a small line of hand-made objects. Priced accessibly and sold directly, with payment taken in person or by card — no marketplace, no platform cut.

The claims language is deliberately narrow and stays narrow. This work is non-clinical. It is designed to explore embodied and sensory experience; it does not diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any medical or psychiatric condition, and nothing published about it says otherwise. No physiological, neurological or clinical effect is claimed anywhere in this company’s material.

That discipline is a commercial asset, not a limitation: it is what lets this arm grow, and lets the work sit alongside research and institutional partners, without inheriting regulatory exposure.

  • ReadingsCosmosomatic card readings, simple and advanced. $25–$45
  • SessionsHealing-arts practice, 1:1 and group
  • ObjectsPrayer oils, roller balls, custom blends. $7–$45
  • WearablesHand-painted and lettered hats and robe shirts, limited runs. $85–$110
  • PaymentTaken directly — card and in person. No marketplace fee
  • NextPackaging the practice as a trainable curriculum — the first growth step, funded by this round. In development
Accessible pricing · direct payment Where the ideas get tested on people
Arm 03 / the work
Where the long-dated value sits
Eden King

art, film
& publishing.

The arm that produces appreciating assets rather than billable hours. This is where the long-dated value sits.

A feature documentary in production. A painting series spanning three years. Seventeen published titles under an imprint she designed, typeset and runs. Six moving-image works published and distributed.

None of it is speculative. It exists, it is public, and every item appears in the inventory earlier in this brief with a verifiable location. What the work lacks is not creation — it lacks production budget, distribution, and a rights strategy.

The film is an independent work, not marketing for the company. It keeps its own authorship and its own editorial judgement, and is being developed for documentary funding, festivals and distribution on its own terms. The artistic practice is where the long-form research happens — field work, narrative development, visual language, participatory practice — and it is the source the commercial arms draw from, not a byproduct of them.

https://www.edenkingcreative.com
Artist · writer · filmmaker · designer
My Pen Name
Is Eden King.
Washington, D.C. Working anywhere the project is worth it.
ArtHospitalityPublic EmpathyDBAEdenOSContactShop
Book a discovery call ↗
The founder platform. Seven sections, one self-built file, carrying the full catalogue and every booking flow.
  • FilmGod’s Armour — feature documentary, working title. In source-gathering; a written source account is being reconstructed from transcript. Film in production
  • PaintingGod’s Armor, 2023–2026. Studio visits bookable from the site.
  • Publishing17 titles — Together, Field Notes, New Mythology, Junk Drawer — plus KDP paperbacks.
  • Moving imageSix published works: Ciao For Now, The Door, Seeking Eden, Dreaming Up New Ways to Lose Control, Applessss, i listened to the music that makes me curse you out.
  • Producta Love Riot — 15 print-on-demand products across five lines, started 2023.
Everything named on this slide is published on that site and can be opened right now.
Owned IP · appreciating Needs budget and distribution, not permission
The technology practice
Eleven live properties · all self-built
Design and engineering, in-house

Every site in this portfolio was designed, branded and coded by the founder.

Client work and her own platforms are the same discipline, built by the same person to the same specification. On the client side that removes agency markup and the template stack. On her own side it supports a standing practice in public-interest technology: free, open, non-commercial tools for reflection and self-observation, built as humane interfaces rather than attention products.

The tools are non-clinical and research-led. They are designed to explore embodied interaction and sensory environments — not to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure anything, and nothing published about them says otherwise.

Doing Business As
The studio’s own practice site. Brand, copy, structure and code.
Own  ↗
Rose Previte
Client — hospitality. Identity and site.
Client  ↗
Medina
Client — restaurant. Brand and site.
Client  ↗
Hanes Healing
Client — practitioner. Brand, concept and site.
Client  ↗
Travis Garrison
Client — personal brand and reputation strategy, with the site built to carry it.
Client  ↗
Eden King
The founder platform. Seven sections, full catalogue, booking flows.
Own  ↗
The Thirty-Two Paths
A Kabbalistic learning environment with an embedded regulation module.
Own · free to use  ↗
Resonance · Breath
A breath-pacing instrument.
Own · free to use  ↗
The Living Pattern
An artist-led research environment on the body as an interface.
Own · free to use  ↗
The Quantum Body
Four concepts from physics set against four biological systems.
Own · free to use  ↗
Paradise Over Power
The public-education platform for the nonprofit arm.
Nonprofit  ↗
The engineering posture — verified against the shipped source
Live Public-interest project In development Research Seeking partners
This is not minimalism for its own sake. It is what makes the work auditable, archivable, cheap to host in perpetuity, and eligible for public-interest and civic technology funding that a tracker-laden stack is not. Accessibility, archivability and the absence of tracking are design commitments, not side effects. Further tools are in development and are not listed until they ship. Every address above is written out at the back of this brief.
Built by one person, without capital Grant-legible by construction
Held separately
Not inside the holding company
Paradise Over Power · P.O.P. Culture

public
education.

A community-care movement disguised as an art project. Posters in the wild become museums without walls.

P.O.P. Culture publishes research and public-education material on the business models underneath institutions — care, diagnosis, insurance, custody, schooling.

It sits outside the holding company and outside this raise. It appears here because it is materially part of the founder’s output and reputation, and because an investor should be able to see exactly where the wall is.

  • PublishedHow Financial Math Shapes What Counts as Science — August 2026
  • PublishedThe Architecture of Diagnosis — September 2026. A working draft; unconfirmed figures are flagged in the text
  • SeriesGOVERNANCE — a public-education poster series on profit-based systems
  • PlatformThe Paradise Over Power site — address at the index
  • Channel@loveriotdc
  • FundingGrants and donations. Not this round.
Partner organisations are named in P.O.P. material only where a partnership is executed and current. No partner is claimed in this document.
Separate entity · separate capital The wall is described next
How the capital works
One wall · one direction · after profit
Where the wall is

Investor dollars fund the company. Nothing else.

Consulting revenue → Studio runway & IP build
Owned IP → Premium consulting rates
Practice & products → Direct revenue & audience
DBA profit, after tax → P.O.P. Culture
Only the last row crosses the wall, and it crosses in one direction, after profit, as a board-approved charitable contribution — the same way any company gives. P.O.P. Culture raises its own grant and donation capital against its own work. No investor dollar funds a charitable grant.
  • The consulting practice is the cash floor. It is founder-dependent today; productising operations documentation is the first move off that dependency.
  • The IP is the return. Film, imprint, published catalogue, software — each licensable, each able to be valued independently of the founder’s hours.
  • The practice arm is the audience engine. It is also where new products are tested on real people at low cost before any of them are built.
  • Cultural footprint is a real commercial input, not a vanity line: it is what wins premium consulting work and what makes the published work saleable.
  • An investor can underwrite the three for-profit arms on their own merits without taking a position on the nonprofit’s programme.
One wall · one direction · after profit Auditable by construction
The model
Eight lines · three scale past founder time
Where the money comes from

Eight revenue lines. Three of them scale without the founder.

ArmRevenue lineStructureScales past founder time
Doing Business As Consulting engagements Project fee — brand, strategy and build together. Rate card on request No — founder-delivered
Doing Business As Menu engineering A discrete, repeatable, priced deliverable — already published once as a workbook Partly — templatable
Doing Business As Operations documentation Opening playbooks, SOPs, training systems. The first productisation target Yes — once packaged
Prima Materia Readings & sessions $25–$45 per reading; 1:1 and group practice, payment taken directly No — founder-delivered
Prima Materia Objects & wearables Oils, roller balls, hand-made hats and robe shirts. $7–$110, short runs Partly — capacity-bound
Prima Materia Trainable curriculum Packaging the practice so others can deliver it. Not yet started — this round begins it Yes — the key line
Eden King Publishing & print-on-demand Seventeen titles, KDP royalties, and fifteen products under a Love Riot Yes — low marginal cost
Eden King Original art & film rights Paintings and studio visits today; documentary distribution and rights later Yes — long-dated
Financial detail is furnished in diligence, not printed in a brief. Trailing twelve-month revenue by line, gross margin on consulting, current pipeline and signed engagements, and founder compensation to date are all available to a party under NDA. They are absent here rather than estimated: no number appears in this document that the company cannot produce a record for.
Cash today · assets tomorrow Full financials on request
Positioning
The advantage is combination, not absence of competition
Where the defensibility actually is

There are competitors in every one of these fields.

Better-resourced firms do brand strategy. Better-funded studios build software. Established houses publish. Experienced producers make documentaries. Any claim to have no competition would be false, and a diligence conversation would establish that in about ninety seconds.

The advantage is that these capabilities are almost never held by one person, and the translation between them is where the value is created.

01 · Domain
Operator experience, not researched
Eleven years inside hospitality operations and fourteen restaurants opened. A consultant who has run the service cannot be replaced by one who has studied it, and clients can tell the difference inside one meeting.
02 · Authorship
A real body of work, made not commissioned
A painting series, seventeen published titles, six moving-image works, a documentary in production. This is authored output with its own audience and its own rights — not portfolio pieces made for clients.
03 · Full stack
Concept through to shipped code
Brand, copy, financial model, design and production build, delivered by one person. It removes the handoffs where most agency work loses its intent, and it removes the margin that four vendors each take.
04 · Method
One investigation, many outputs
The same research becomes a film, a report, an operating manual and a tool. A competitor can copy any single output. Reproducing the practice that generates them across forms is a different problem.
05 · Position
Credible on both sides of a line most firms pick
Legible to a restaurant group and to an arts funder. That dual standing is what lets the same work draw on commercial capital and institutional support without either party discounting it.
06 · Assets
Owned IP already on the balance sheet
An imprint, a published catalogue, a film in production, a portfolio of working software, and a set of documented operating systems — all built before this round, all owned outright, none licensed in.
The honest limit of this. None of the six is individually defensible in the way a patent or a network effect is. The combination is unusual and takes years to assemble, but it is not a legal barrier, and it currently depends on one person — which is the first risk named in the risk section. An investor should underwrite this as an exceptional operator with real owned assets, not as a structurally protected market position.
Six advantages · one honest limit No claim of having no competitors
25-year horizon
Stated intent · not a financial projection
Long-arc plan

Built to compound across decades, not quarters.

YR 1–3 / SEED
root the umbrella
  • Formalise the holding company and its three arms
  • Productise operations documentation — first revenue off founder time
  • Package the practice as a trainable curriculum
  • Close three to five anchor consulting clients
  • Complete principal photography on the documentary
  • Reach self-sustaining annual revenue
YR 4–8 / SPROUT
prove the system
  • First physical location — studio, gallery and practice space
  • Ten or more recurring consulting relationships
  • A trained network delivering the practice
  • Documentary completed and distributed
  • Imprint publishing beyond the founder’s own titles
  • First full-time creative and operations hires
YR 9–15 / CANOPY
scale the umbrella
  • Multiple locations across regions
  • Owned IP portfolio — film slate, book imprint, product line
  • An accredited training pathway
  • Annual cultural programme and gatherings
  • Licensing as a material share of revenue
YR 16–25 / ROOT
become the institution
  • A multi-generational creative institution
  • Owned land — permanent studio and residency campus
  • Endowed foundation arm, funded from realised gains
  • Founder moves to a chair role; second-generation leadership
  • The work outlives the founder — by design
This describes intent and sequencing. It is not a financial projection, and no line on it should be read as one.
Fruit to root Intent, stated as intent
Risk
Named by the founder, not found in diligence
What would make this fail

The honest version, before you ask.

Risk 01
Key-person concentration
Every arm currently routes through one person. If she stops, everything stops. This is the single largest risk in the company, and it is not overstated by saying so.
MitigationProductising operations documentation and packaging the practice as a trainable curriculum are the two moves that separate revenue from her hours. Both are funded by this round, in year one, on purpose.
Risk 02
Breadth reads as unfocused
Four arms and eight revenue lines look like a lack of discipline to an investor trained on single-product companies. Some will not get past it.
MitigationThe arms share one delivery capability, not four. Focus here means sequencing, not amputation: consulting funds, practice proves, IP appreciates. An investor who needs a single SKU is not the right investor.
Risk 03
Services revenue is a low-multiple floor
The cash arm is a consulting practice. Consulting does not compound and does not exit well. If the IP never matures, an investor owns a boutique studio.
MitigationStated plainly rather than dressed up. The return case rests on publishing, curriculum and film rights. Those are the milestones tracked and reported.
Risk 04
Financial history is thin
The company has been run lean and self-funded, without institutional bookkeeping, audited statements or a formal cap table.
MitigationEntity formation, clean books and IP registration are a line item in the use of funds. Diligence-grade records are a deliverable of this round, not a precondition of it.
Risk 05
Film is long-dated and uncertain
A feature documentary is capital-intensive, slow, and may never find distribution. It is the asset most likely to disappoint on timing.
MitigationThe film is underwritten as culture and IP, not as a return line. The model does not depend on it. Any distribution outcome is upside.
Risk 06
Regulatory adjacency
Somatic and wellness work sits next to health claims. Overreach there is how companies in this category get into trouble.
MitigationAlready governed. The practice language is fixed at “creates conditions” and never diagnoses, treats or cures. Health-adjacent statistics are kept out of company material entirely.
Six risks · six mitigations Disclosed up front, by choice
The ask
Figures furnished on request, not printed here
Currently raising · the commercial arms only

Seed
round.

The founder is committing the first capital. This round opens the door to aligned partners — investors, patrons and strategic operators — who want to be inside the umbrella before the canopy fills out.
Every dollar is deployed inside the for-profit holding company. None of it funds the nonprofit.
What is not on this page The amount sought, the allocation across the categories opposite, and the instrument are furnished on request rather than published. No instrument has been selected: a convertible note, a SAFE and a priced round are all open, with mission-aligned terms preferred over headline valuation. The receiving entity and the IP assignment schedule are to be finalised with counsel as a first use of the round, and are proposed rather than completed. Seeking three to five strategic partners.
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Where the capital goes, in priority order
  • 01 IP production & slate — film, publishing, product Largest line
  • 02 Product & platform engineering — tools, and packaging the practice to be taught
  • 03 Consulting bench & client acquisition
  • 04 Founder runway — 24 months
  • 05 Legal, entity formation, IP registration, reserves Smallest line
The first two lines together take the majority of the round. They are the two moves that separate revenue from the founder’s hours — productising the operating documentation, and packaging the practice so others can deliver it. Exact percentages and amounts are in the materials sent on request.
Seeking 3–5 strategic partners It all starts with me
Two pathways
Different work, different capital, evaluated separately
Where to start the right conversation

Some of this should create enterprise value.
Some of it should simply exist.

Portions of this ecosystem are developed through arts funding, research partnerships, public-interest technology support, documentary funding, residencies, institutional collaboration and philanthropic support. Those activities are evaluated separately from the commercial investment opportunity, and neither is a route into the other.

Pathway 01 · capital
Investors
For anyone evaluating the commercial arms, the owned intellectual property, the founder, the portfolio, the capital requirement and the return case.
  • The consulting practice and its clients
  • Publishing catalogue and imprint
  • Software and operating systems
  • Documentary and publishing rights
  • Seed round — amount and instrument on request
Discuss investment →
Pathway 02 · public interest
Funders & institutions
For foundations, arts funders, documentary funds, residencies, research institutions, public-interest technology programmes and cultural partners.
  • The documentary, as an independent work
  • Interdisciplinary and field research
  • Free public tools and open resources
  • P.O.P. Culture public education
  • Residencies, fellowships, collaboration
Funding & institutional partnerships →
Additional materials
Listed below is what exists and what is still being assembled. Nothing is claimed as ready that is not. Materials marked on request can be sent to a qualified party; those marked in preparation are a first use of this round.
  • Founder CV & full portfolio  on request
  • Live product and site walkthrough  on request
  • Published catalogue & imprint archive  on request
  • Documentary materials & source account  on request
  • Research references & published reports  on request
  • Client references  on request
  • Detailed financial model  in preparation
  • Corporate structure & cap table  in preparation
  • IP inventory & assignment schedule  in preparation
  • Development roadmap & budget  in preparation
  • Technology documentation  in preparation
  • Grant & funding history  in preparation
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Eden King · Washington, D.C. · edenkingcreative@gmail.com
Two pathways · one conversation at a time Nothing listed that does not exist
Index
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The company
Doing Business As — the consulting practice doingbusiness.studio
Eden King — the founder platform edenkingcreative.com
Client work
Rose Previte roseprevite.com
Medina medinadc.com
Hanes Healing haneshealing.com
Travis Garrison travis-garrison.com
Public platforms — free to use
The Thirty-Two Paths edenkingcreative.com/projects/thirty-two-paths
Resonance · Breath resonancebreathe.netlify.app
The Living Pattern thelivingpattern.netlify.app
The Quantum Body quantumbodies.netlify.app
The nonprofit — outside the raise
Paradise Over Power · P.O.P. Culture governance-public.youware.app
Channel @loveriotdc
The work itself
Moving image — six published works YouTube · “D BA”
Zines & field notes — seventeen titles On the founder platform
God’s Armor — paintings, and studio visits On the founder platform
a Love Riot — fifteen products On the founder platform
Reports — two, published 2026 On the founder platform
Financial records, client references, and the film’s source material are furnished in diligence. Contact: edenkingcreative@gmail.com
Nothing here asks to be taken on trust Open any of it
Closing

Closing

we are all storytellers. it starts with you.
Eden King · Founder, DBA Washington, D.C. edenkingcreative@gmail.com Addresses at the index
I have to give my freedom a voice Washington, D.C.