THIRTY-THREE DEGREE

Thirty-Three Degree (TTD) is not a company, title, or brand. It’s my interior compass—my lived covenant with legacy, resistance, and authorship. It’s how I make sense of who I am, where I come from, and what I must build.

TTD is the architecture I use to carry forward the unfinished work of those who came before me. My grandfather, Dr. George D. Kelsey, gave moral language to the Civil Rights Movement. My father, Everett N. Kelsey Sr., brought economic wisdom to postcolonial Africa and international banking. I inherited not their careers—but their convictions.

Through TTD, I translate their principles into new mediums—code, coalitions, and culture. It’s a system of accountability between myself and the world: that what I create must remember, must restore, and must resist.

TTD is how I measure truth in an age of synthetic speech. It is how I protect dignity in data, story, and design. It is where I find alignment between spiritual ethics and civic action.

Outwardly, TTD animates the ventures I lead:

• The Digital Sovereignty Coalition 
• Fifth Industrial Revolution AI
• BLKMKT AI (sovereign machine intelligence) and its tools like: OliveGPT, Ethnographic Repository, and Civic Machina
• BLKMKT Tech, BLKMKT Media, and Organic Polyester Productions

But inwardly, TTD is how I remain whole while building under siege. It is a private oath I’ve made public—where theology meets protocol, and memory guides invention.