The piece you scanned is a working lightbox, made for the International MLS Forum. It was designed, printed, and assembled one part at a time in a workshop in Mooresville, North Carolina, then finished and wired by hand. There is exactly one of it.
It was built to be kept. If it has found a shelf somewhere with the lights on, it is doing what it was made to do.
Ricardo de León is a physician and the founder of Clear Showings. Medicine is where the company's instincts come from — consent before anything happens, and information held carefully, briefly, and only for the person it belongs to. He builds each of these boxes himself: the same hands that wrote the company's first policies print, sand, and wire every one. The lightboxes began as a way to introduce the company to people he admired in the MLS world, one object at a time, instead of one more email.
Clear Showings is a consent-based identity layer for property showings. Before a door opens, a visitor confirms who they are — government ID and a face match — and the agent knows, in seconds, that the person at the property is who they claim to be.
It is built to respect the people it verifies: identification images are purged within days, and the company keeps as little as possible for as short as possible. Clear Showings is in conversations with MLSs and associations across the United States, and the questions it works on — who is at the door, and who should know — are the same on every continent.
If this box made you curious, that is the whole idea. You can find the company at clearshowings.com — and if you write, mention the box. Ricardo answers those first.