Detroit-based visibility engineer will lead “When AI Can’t Find You,” a workshop helping Black-owned businesses strengthen the proof AI systems need to find, verify, and recommend them.

DETROIT, MI — July 6, 2026 — Sorilbran Stone, Detroit-based visibility engineer and founder of Five-Talent Strategy House, will lead a workshop at the 126th National Business League Conference, taking place August 19–22, 2026, at the Hilton Atlanta Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference theme, The Book of AI™ / Project 2035: National Economic Sovereignty Think Tank, centers the role of artificial intelligence in the future of Black business, economic sovereignty, entrepreneurship, capital formation, procurement, public policy, and global Black enterprise development.

Stone’s workshop, “When AI Can’t Find You: A Survival Blueprint for Black-Owned Businesses,” will help Black business owners understand how AI-powered discovery systems influence who gets found, trusted, hired, funded, featured, and selected. The session frames AI visibility not as a marketing trend, but as an economic access issue.

“As consumers, we’ve grown accustomed to discovery being mediated by machines – whether that mediation shows up as a list of movie recommendations in Netflix or Google showing you the closest boba spot,” said Stone. “But for a Black-owned business, understanding how machines find, trust, and recommed you can keep you from being left out of opportunities you’re fully qualified to compete for. This isn’t about chasing AI trends – heaven forbid. But it is about protecting access to customers, capital, contracts, partnerships, and visibility for founder-led brands. Because like it or not, AI visibility is becoming economic infrastructure.”

The workshop is designed for business owners and community stakeholders who need practical, low-cost ways to strengthen how their companies are represented across the public record. Participants will get access to UnInvisible, a digital scoring and diagnostic tool that will help them evaluate how ready their brandswhether AI systems can find their business, explain what they do, connect them to their expertise, and understand why a customer, funder, partner, or decision-maker should trust them.

The session builds on Stone’s broader work around civic visibility infrastructure, founder proof trails, and AI-mediated discovery. Her research argues that visibility is no longer only a marketing function, media outcome, or public relations goal. For businesses and ecosystems, visibility now operates as infrastructure: a condition for being found, verified, trusted, funded, and included in economic opportunity.

Stone is the creator of the Minimum Viable Knowledge Graph framework and the LEE Mental Model for AI Visibility, practical systems that help organizations strengthen the signals that influence how they are understood, retrieved, and recommended in AI-powered environments. She is also the author of UnInvisible and leads research on the changing relationship between AI, discoverability, and economic participation through projects including the Detroit Visibility Study.

The 126th National Business League Conference is hosted by the National Alliance for Black Business, including the National Business League, the World Conference of Mayors, the National Black Chamber of Commerce, The Black Business School, the National Policy Alliance, Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance, Atlanta Business League, Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council, and the Greater Georgia Black Chamber of Commerce.

Registration is open for this year’s convference, scheduled to take place at the Atlanta Hilton August 19 – 22, 2026.

About the National Business League

The National Business League is the nation’s first and largest independent, not-for-profit trade association for Black-owned businesses and professionals. Originally founded as the National Negro Business League by Booker T. Washington in 1900, the organization has spent more than a century advancing Black enterprise, entrepreneurship, economic self-sufficiency, and commercial development. Today, the National Business League continues that legacy by supporting Black entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals working to build economic power across local, national, and global markets.

About Sorilbran Stone

Sorilbran Stone is a Detroit-based visibility engineer, researcher, author, and founder of Five-Talent Strategy House. She builds visibility infrastructure for founders, companies, and communities whose work needs to be found, verified, cited, funded, and remembered. Her work focuses on the growing gap between real-world expertise and what machines are able to recognize, retrieve, and recommend.

About Five-Talent Strategy House

Five-Talent Strategy House builds products, research, and civic systems that help businesses, founders, and entrepreneurial ecosystems strengthen their proof trails and become easier for people and machines to find, understand, trust, and recommend.