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The Ke'nekt Cooperative — Cold Outreach

Target: The Ke'nekt Cooperative (Westview, Atlanta — Black-owned coffee shop and community cooperative)

Tier: C — community / long-game

Channel: Email events@thekenekt.com (primary — general/events inbox). Instagram DM @thekenekt (alternate).

Contact: Kiyomi Rollins (Founder) — published in the I1 row.

Ref: I1 in targets.md (Web-sourced candidates 2026-09-20 batch)

Built: 2026-09-20

Context

The Ke'nekt calls itself a "Black Liberated Third Space." That's a bigger claim than a coffee shop usually makes, and the I1 row says why: it runs a microfinancing co-op, business marketplaces, and mutual aid out of the shop. The row carries the org's own published numbers (151 Black businesses served, $328,422 economic impact) as its stated figures. Cooperative economics, not just coffee.

A website can say "third space" and list a menu. It can't show the co-op actually doing the work — the member businesses, the mutual aid, the people who keep it running from a coffee counter in Westview. That gap is one honest short piece.

The offer: One free short piece, they pick the story. No strings on the first one, they own the footage.

What I have: A verified org and its public channels — events@thekenekt.com (a general/events inbox, may not reach the founder directly), IG @thekenekt, FB @thekenekt, YT @thekenekt4258, phone (404) 748-1149. Kiyomi Rollins is named as Founder in the row, so the email addresses her; if events@ routes to a general inbox, the greeting still holds but the send is labeled accordingly below.

Email (primary — events@thekenekt.com)

Subject: A free short piece on the co-op

Hi Kiyomi —

"Black Liberated Third Space" is a bigger thing to run than a coffee shop. Anyone can open a café, sell espresso, and call it a community space. Running a microfinancing co-op, a business marketplace, and mutual aid out of a coffee counter in Westview is a different thing, and it's the part a website can't really show.

I'm Brandyn, Ghost Coast Video out of Atlanta. I make short documentary pieces for the kind of people-and-neighborhood stories that don't fit on a menu page. I'd like to make one for the co-op, free. You pick the story — the shop, the co-op, a member business, whatever's real and worth showing. You own the footage, no strings on the first one.

Worth a reply?

— Brandyn

ghostcoast.video

Word count: ~135 words.

Instagram DM (alternate — @thekenekt)

Hey — Brandyn, Ghost Coast Video. I shoot short documentary pieces for Atlanta spots.

A coffee shop in Westview running a microfinancing co-op, a business marketplace, and mutual aid, and calling itself a Black Liberated Third Space, is a story a menu can't tell. I'd like to make one short piece for y'all, free. You pick the story, you own the footage.

Worth a reply?

— Brandyn / ghostcoast.video

Word count: ~60 words.

Before sending

1. Named contact is Kiyomi Rollins (Founder), from the I1 row. Address her by name. events@thekenekt.com is a general/events inbox and may not reach her directly — if Brandyn wants a guaranteed founder route, he'll need a direct address; the email above still opens on her name so it forwards cleanly either way.

2. Facts confined to the I1 row. "Black Liberated Third Space," microfinancing co-op, business marketplaces, mutual aid, Westview — all from the row. The 151-Black-businesses / $328,422 figures are the org's own published numbers as captured in the row; the message keeps them non-specific rather than quoting them, and nothing else is invented. No new emails, handles, names, events, dates, metrics, clients, or testimonials.

3. Channels confirmed in the row. WEB thekenekt.com, EM events@thekenekt.com, ph (404) 748-1149, IG @thekenekt, FB @thekenekt, YT @thekenekt4258. Email is primary; the IG DM is a labeled alternate — do not triple-send.

4. Tier C register. Friendly/community, no hard sell. The wedge is the free piece, not a pitch.

5. Word counts under cap. Email ~135 words, DM ~60 words.

6. No AI attribution, no AI tells. Reads as one person writing to one person; no corporate scaffolding, no em-dash stacking, no "not just X, it's Y" scaffold.

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