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$INVESTFESTEvery August, a New Asset

Invest Fest isn't a conference that sells seats. It is a cultural-asset generator that mints new property every edition: an archive, a capital event, a marketplace and a format. Here is what one edition generates, who captures it, and how a registered event pays the community back by protocol, every year.

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$INVESTFEST: every August, a new asset Invest Fest 2026 drew 31,300 attendees and an estimated $12–15M gross. CPRS BCPV 79.10, Tier 4, modeled edition TCPMV $31.2M. Registered as cultural property, 4% of every edition, about $1.25M, returns to the community through the CX Foundation, every year. MADECX Culture Market Data · CPRS™ Soft Pass · IF-CX-2610-030 $INVESTFEST Every August, a New Asset Festivals are asset generators that mint new cultural property every edition. Registered, 4% returns to the community, every year, by protocol. 2026 attendance 31,300 Aug 7–9 · GWCC Atlanta Est. gross $12–15M Third-party estimate Edition TCPMV $31.2M BCPV 79.10 · Tier 4 Community Return $1.25M Per edition · $0 today The Main Stage · Invest Fest 2026 Every conversation recorded here becomes part of the archive the edition mints. 01 · The mint — what one edition generates Estimated commerce vs. CPRS™ modeled value (×0.70 × sector multiplier) Gate 31,300 × ~$275 · 3.0× Gate · estimated: $8.6M (Third-party estimate, before discount) Gate · modeled TCPMV: $18.06M (Realization discount × sector multiplier) $8.6M est. $18.06M Sponsor Invesco QQQ, Block · 4.5× Sponsor · estimated: $3.5M (Third-party estimate, before discount) Sponsor · modeled TCPMV: $11.03M (Realization discount × sector multiplier) $3.5M est. $11.03M Floor ~400 vendor booths · 3.0× Floor · estimated: $1.0M (Third-party estimate, before discount) Floor · modeled TCPMV: $2.10M (Realization discount × sector multiplier) $1.0M est. $2.10M Edition TCPMV $31.2M Band $20.3M – $45.2M · confidence 0.64 One edition, not the franchise · +$9.8M local impact floor Estimate Modeled Mints · Archive Main Stage recordings Mints · Capital Open Pitch · $125K Mints · Commerce ~400 businesses Mints · Format Literacy as a festival 02 · The economic stack — who captures it Top: layers already priced. Bottom: layers no instrument meters. Layer 01 · Originators: $12–15M gross (Gate, sponsors, booths · est.) 01 Originators Earn Your Leisure $12–15M gross Gate, sponsors, booths · est. Layer 02 · Sponsors: $3.5–5.0M (Trust, bought as marketing) 02 Sponsors Invesco QQQ, Block $3.5–5.0M Trust, bought as marketing Layer 03 · Host city: ~$9.8M floor (~$0.52M tax · 2027 talks) 03 Host city Atlanta, GWCC, hotels ~$9.8M floor ~$0.52M tax · 2027 talks Layer 04 · Talent: Fees private (Likeness keeps working) 04 Talent The Main Stage Fees private Likeness keeps working Layer 05 · Floor: ~$1.0M booths ($125K prize · sales unreported) 05 Floor Vendors & Open Pitch ~$1.0M booths $125K prize · sales unreported Layer 06 · Derivative ▲: $62–156M (AI exposure 2–5× · unregistered) 06 Derivative ▲ Archive, voice & AI $62–156M AI exposure 2–5× · unregistered Layer 07 · Community: $0 → $1.25M (Per edition, once registered) 07 Community Community Return $0 → $1.25M Per edition, once registered 03 · The protocol — how an event registered as $CULTURE pays the community back Community Return is a rule written into the record, not a donation, so value regenerates every edition, in perpetuity. Every edition 4% ≈ $1.25M in perpetuity 1 · Register Edition titled · $IF27 2 · License Sponsor, city, archive, AI 3 · Settle Every license on the ledger 4 · Split 80 / 16 / 4 at source 5 · Allocate CX Foundation, on the ledger 6 · Regenerate Community fills the next room 80 / 16 / 4 · 2026 edition Originator · 80%: $24.95M (Stays with Earn Your Leisure) Infrastructure · 16%: $4.99M (Compliance, enforcement, ledger) Community Return · 4%: $1.25M (Allocated by the CX Foundation) $24.95M originator $4.99M infra $1.25M CPRS™ impact categories Sustainable Communities UBI pilot · 75 households Sustainable Communities: $450K (UBI pilot · 75 households) $450K Culture Alignment Youth heritage trips Culture Alignment: $300K (Youth heritage trips) $300K Health & Wellness Mental health vouchers Health & Wellness: $250K (Mental health vouchers) $250K Entrepreneurship Vendor & founder grants Entrepreneurship: $250K (Vendor & founder grants) $250K Regenerates · cumulative Flat 2026 base, no growth Through $IF26: $1.25M (Cumulative Community Return, flat base) $1.2M IF26 Through $IF27: $2.49M (Cumulative Community Return, flat base) $2.5M IF27 Through $IF28: $3.74M (Cumulative Community Return, flat base) $3.7M IF28 Through $IF29: $4.99M (Cumulative Community Return, flat base) $5.0M IF29 Through $IF30: $6.24M (Cumulative Community Return, flat base) $6.2M IF30 Sources: Emerald Book (Aug 9, 2026) revenue estimate; In The City Magazine; AJC (Jul 30, 2026); theGrio (Aug 9, 2026); investfest.com; CAA Speakers. Commerce lines are third-party estimates with a 30% realization discount. TCPMV, impact floor and Community Return are MADE CX models. Soft CPRS™ valuation, not an appraisal or investment advice. Unattributed ≠ unpaid. Independent analysis, not affiliated with Earn Your Leisure. Register your festival made.cx

01: hatched = third-party estimate before discount, black = CPRS™ modeled value. 02: the economic stack, top to bottom. 03: the Community Return protocol and its four CPRS™ impact categories. Hover or tap a bar for detail. Print-ready PNG: 2400 × 3000 (8 × 10 in at 300 dpi).

Key figures
2026 attendance
31,300
Aug 7–9 · Georgia World Congress Center
Est. gross
$12–15M
Tickets, sponsors, booths · Emerald Book estimate
CPRS™ BCPV · Tier
79.10 · 4
Landmark · confidence 0.64
Edition TCPMV
$31.2M
Band $20.3M – $45.2M · one edition
Local impact floor
$9.8M
31,300 × $185 × 1.7 · ~$0.52M city tax
AI exposure
$62–156M
Main Stage archive at 2–5× · unregistered
Community Return
$1.25M
4% per edition · CX Foundation allocates
Five editions, flat
$6.2M
Regenerating, no growth assumed

Every festival is a mint. Put yours on the ledger.

Invest Fest, CultureCon and AfroTech each draw tens of thousands of people a year, and none of them has a cultural-property record. MADE CX scores, titles and registers live events so each edition becomes an asset and the community return becomes protocol.

  • A CPRS™ score and a modeled value band for every edition
  • Registration on the public cultural-property ledger
  • An 80/16/4 split, with 4% allocated by the CX Foundation across four impact categories
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Method & sources

Attendance (31,300) and the commerce estimate (tickets ~$8.6M, sponsorship $3.5–5.0M, vendor booths ~$1.0M) are from Emerald Book (Aug 9, 2026), a third-party estimate, not organizer-reported. Each line carries a 30% realization discount and is multiplied by its CPRS™ sector multiplier (live 3.0×, fintech sponsorship 4.5×); sponsorship is taken at the low end. Daily attendance, metro-Atlanta share and vendor count: AJC (Jul 30, 2026). The August reconciliation with Mayor Dickens: theGrio (Aug 9, 2026). The local-impact floor applies $185 × 1.7 per attendee for a single day; city tax ~9% of visitor spend.

CPRS™ figures are a soft pass: BCPV 79.10 (CIS 88 · CCI 72 · LIP 80 · CUV 78 · HLM 70), confidence 0.64, modeled edition TCPMV $31.2M. Community Return applies the 80/16/4 standard to modeled TCPMV; CPRS™ designates the four impact categories and the CX Foundation distributes and allocates community benefits on the cultural property ledger. Programs, shares and the five-edition projection are illustrative. Not an appraisal, price or investment advice, and not a valuation of Earn Your Leisure as a business. Unattributed ≠ unpaid. Main Stage photography is Invest Fest promotional imagery, used descriptively. Independent analysis, not affiliated with or endorsed by Earn Your Leisure or Invest Fest.

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About this analysis. This valuation is an editorial estimate produced under the Cultural Property Rights Standard (CPRS), a proprietary methodology developed by MADE CX. It is not an appraisal, a fairness opinion, an audit, or a certified valuation, and it has not been prepared under USPAP or any other appraisal standard. It is not suitable for financial reporting, lending, tax, insurance, or transactional purposes.

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