Methodology
Every Number Has a Basis. Here Is Ours.
A figure is only as defensible as the basis beneath it. In Black Women’s Wealth Lab® private analytical work, every figure is held to the standard set out here: what it rests on, how far it reaches, and where its limits are. The method that produces the figure is proprietary. The standard it must meet is not.
How the Lab works
Companies put a value on everything they own: equipment, software, patents. The one asset they never put on the books is the woman whose work built them.
Black Women’s Wealth Lab® does.
She carries decades of documented results into every proposal, renewal and offer. What she does not carry is a price for them.
That is not a confidence problem. It is an unpriced record.
Most research measures what Black women are paid. We measure what her documented work is worth, one portfolio at a time.
We are a lab. Nothing is accepted on anyone’s word, including yours. It’s tested. You bring the records. We measure what they support against licensed industry research. Every figure shows its work.
You leave with your value, your ask, your floor, your concessions, and the evidence behind each.
Every woman on the Black Women’s Wealth Lab® Register counts toward 100,000 Black women by 2030.
What a claim requires
Two sources. There is no third category.
Every finding in a Value Audit, the analytical mechanism inside the Decision Desk™, is traceable to one of two sources: your confirmed record, or a clearly labeled estimate with its logic shown. If a win cannot be attributed, the Audit says so. If a number cannot be calculated from available records, the Audit names the gap and states the assumption used in its place.
What we will not claim
The limits are printed in every Appendix.
The Audit does not establish your objective market value; no document can. It does not predict what an employer, buyer, or committee will decide. It establishes what your documented portfolio proves, what remains an estimate, and what would strengthen the record. The limits are printed in every Appendix, because a valuation that hides its limits is not one you can defend.