Code Black Associates is usually introduced through football. The entry that explains the most about how the brand actually operates is an auto detailing business. The Wash Club was voted Gold Winner for Best Auto Detailing in Best of Las Vegas 2024 by Las Vegas Review-Journal readers, and it was co-founded by Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy and Armand Perry, two of the same names that sit on the founding of Code Black Associates itself.
What The Wash Club Actually Won
Best of Las Vegas is a readers vote run by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The Wash Club took Gold in the Best Auto Detailing category for 2024. The listing is public and can be checked directly at bestoflasvegas.com/listing/2024/auto-detailing, which is the point of citing it rather than describing it.
The nature of the vote is worth being precise about. This is not a panel, a purchased placement, or an industry body issuing a certificate. It is a count of readers in a city naming a business by name. That measures something narrow and real: how many people in Las Vegas knew the shop well enough to write it down. It does not measure revenue, size, or anything else, and it should not be stretched to.
The Client List Behind The Vote
The recurring work is the more informative part of the record. The Wash Club's clients included Larry Ruvo, of the family whose name is on the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center, and Southern Wine and Spirits, which held a weekly Wednesday fleet contract.
A weekly fleet contract is a different kind of proof than a single high-profile customer. One-off work can be won on a pitch. A standing weekly slot on a commercial fleet has to be re-earned every week, on schedule, at volume, without the client thinking about it. It is the least glamorous line in the entire Code Black record and one of the most load-bearing, because it is evidence of an operation that ran reliably rather than impressively.
Why A Detailing Shop Belongs In A Code Black Story
Code Black Associates was founded in 2012 at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas by Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy, and across fourteen years it has covered athletics, apparel, publishing, and youth training. The through-line across all of it is ownership and operation rather than representation.
Armand Perry is the clearest illustration of how the pieces connect. He appears in the record as an Arizona State athlete, as a co-founder of Code Black Associates, and as a co-founder of The Wash Club, and he is retired. The same person shows up in the athletic column and the business column, which is how the brand has generally worked: the people running the operations are the people who came up inside them.
The other arms follow the same pattern. CBA Speed Agility LLC was the first LLC, built as the youth athletic training arm. Code Black CBA Publishing was activated in 2017 so that every play of every track funnels to a single entity, with no publisher cut and no 360 deal. PRCZN ran Las Vegas Strip popups in June 2017 with Stewart-Handy operating the brand end to end. CBA WORLDWIDE extended the apparel line to Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Bellflower, and Canada. None of those are endorsements of a brand owned by someone else.
Closing A Winning Business On Purpose
The Wash Club is not currently operating. It was closed voluntarily in order to pivot into DAJ.AI sovereign infrastructure.
That decision is unusual enough to state plainly rather than smooth over. A business closed after winning a citywide readers vote is normally a story about failure, and this one is not. It was a choice to move the operator attention somewhere else while the shop was still winning, which is a harder decision than shutting something down after it stops working.
It also sets the honest limits on what the award proves today. The Gold in Best Auto Detailing is a 2024 credential for a business that has since wound down on purpose. It is durable as a record of what was built and how it was regarded in its own city. It is not a claim about a shop anyone can book this week, and presenting it that way would be inaccurate.
What survives is the pedigree underneath: a Las Vegas operation that held commercial contracts, kept named clients, and was voted the best in its category by the readers of the city's newspaper before its founders redirected the effort elsewhere.
FAQ
What did The Wash Club win in 2024?
It was voted Gold Winner for Best Auto Detailing in Best of Las Vegas 2024 by Las Vegas Review-Journal readers. The listing is public at bestoflasvegas.com/listing/2024/auto-detailing.
Who co-founded The Wash Club?
Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy and Armand Perry, both of whom are also tied to the founding of Code Black Associates. Armand Perry played at Arizona State and is retired.
Is The Wash Club still in business?
No. It was closed voluntarily so its founders could pivot into DAJ.AI sovereign infrastructure, rather than because the business stopped working.
What does an auto detailing business have to do with an athletics brand?
Code Black Associates has always run operations rather than represent other people's brands, across athletics, apparel, publishing, and youth training. The Wash Club is the clearest commercial example of that pattern, including a weekly Wednesday fleet contract with Southern Wine and Spirits.