Hey Catherine
2 minutes. Plain English. No jargon.
I know you think I'm crazy.
I know this is confusing.
So I built this just for you.
Two minutes. No jargon. Just the truth.
here is the problem
Every year, American cities spend
twelve billion dollars painting over graffiti.
The artist earns nothing.
The city wastes a fortune.
The wall goes blank and it starts over.
Nobody wins. For decades.
Elliott saw that and asked a simple question:
What if instead of paying to erase it,
you paid the artist to do it right?
Commission the murals. License the art.
Run youth programs. Build careers.
Cities save money. Artists get paid.
Neighborhoods get beautiful. Everyone wins.
it started with bananas
You know that story about the guy
who traded a paper clip up to a house?
Elliott's version started with bananas
pulled from the trash and turned into bread.
Trash into treasure.
That's always been the motto.
ok but how does it actually make money
SIX WAYS
year one revenue projections
If barely anything goes right: $31,000
If it goes as planned: $131,000
If it takes off: $417,000
Every number is sourced and documented
in a 20-section whitepaper he wrote.
people have already done this
Meow Wolf started as artists in a garage.
They now make $290 million a year.
KAWS started painting bus shelters.
His pieces now sell for $14.7 million.
Mural Arts Philadelphia has been running
for 40 years on $18 million a year.
Elliott built the system that combines all three.
the size of this market
$1.17TRILLION
That is the U.S. arts and cultural economy.
Growing faster than the rest of the economy.
This is not a side project. This is an industry
bigger than most people realize.
what he already built — with zero dollars
A 50+ page platform. Investor decks.
15 legal contracts. City proposals.
International expansion plans to Tokyo.
A whitepaper. An economics model.
32 AI agents that run the system.
All hand-coded. Between school pickups
and bedtime stories. For five kids.
Total infrastructure cost: $0
HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE
He built a real business from nothing.
In an industry worth a trillion dollars.
With a plan that is fully documented.
The platform is live and breathing.
The legal work is done.
The math works at every level.
All he needs is enough time
to close the first deal.
Catherine.
He is not making this up.
He built something that could change
how cities work with artists everywhere.
And he did it while raising five kids alone.
He doesn't need you to understand all of it.
He just needs you to know it's real.
with love
THE LOCAL MOTIVES
See it for yourself.
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