Essential Partners AI

Ethical-Native AI Infrastructure for the Creative Economy
To Our Colleagues at the Guilds: We know you’ve been asked to do more with less—tasked with protecting members and enforcing contracts in a system that was never built for the streaming era. The 2023 strike exposed just how deeply broken that system is. When members aren’t paid properly, they fall behind on dues—not because they don’t believe in the guild, but because they’re simply trying to survive. With dues representing the majority of your operating budget, these gaps compound over time, weakening your ability to serve the very people you were built to protect. Essential Partners was designed to stop those gaps at the source—before they drain your resources, erode trust, or spark another crisis. We’re not here to replace your mission. We’re here to reinforce it with infrastructure that finally matches the weight you carry.This is some text inside of a div block.

Every year, over $8 billion in residuals vanish before reaching the people who earned them.
That loss doesn’t just hurt creators—it drains the entire economy.

  • $2.3 billion in lost federal tax revenue

  • Millions more lost by California, New York, and Georgia

  • Pension funds underpaid

  • School systems and local services impacted

  • Untraceable rights transfers and bankrupt SPVs shield accountability

This is not a creative problem. It’s an infrastructure problem.
And it’s gone unresolved—until now.

Why I Built Essential Partners I spent years working inside the for-profit world—first at Xerox, then Gartner, and eventually as a founder myself. But what’s stayed with me most isn’t the titles or exits—it’s the people I mentored, coached, and helped rise up. That’s why I co-founded Cybersecurity Jr. DIVAS, a nonprofit dedicated to developing the next generation of women leaders in tech and security. I didn’t want to just honor those who made it—I wanted to ensure they paid it forward, and it’s why I built Essential Partners, not to restore fairness to the entertainment industry, but to build it for the first Time Aaron P. Collins, Founder