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Ondexx Announces Content Extraction API: Powering Your AI Initiatives

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Ondexx Announces Content Extraction API: Powering Your AI Initiatives

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Ondexx’s new API provides a technical framework that ensures accuracy and maintains permission structures for enterprise data used in internal AI solutions.

Ondexx today announced the availability of its Ondexx Content Extraction API, launched in conjunction with the rollout of its Ondexx 6.0 release. Engineered for enterprise operations across North America, the new API provides a secure framework to ensure data accuracy and preserve structural context at scale, by feeding verified business knowledge directly into internal AI initiatives.

The utility of AI depends on the data it consumes. Our API provides a secure pipeline for your enterprise knowledge, ensuring internal AI tools provide outputs that are accurate, reliable, and secure.”

— Paul Quigley, CEO, Ondexx

As enterprises adopt LLM’s and other AI tools, the accuracy of AI outputs is increasingly dependent on the structure and reliability of the source data. The Ondexx API addresses the ’garbage in, garbage out’ challenge by allowing systems to access a ‘single source of truth’ across all enterprise content and information contained within the Ondexx environment, ensuring that AI-driven insights are based on verified and compliant information. The REST-based interface is designed to provide organizations with a secure, automated method for transferring internal business knowledge into artificial intelligence (AI) models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows.

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“The utility of AI is directly tied to the structure and quality of the data it consumes,” said Paul Quigley, CEO of Ondexx. “This API functions as a secure pipeline, allowing corporate intelligence to move from our platform into any enterprise system that requires it”.

Technical Specifications and Enterprise Utility:
• RAG Optimization: The API extracts structured content alongside rich metadata to provide context for AI models, with the goal of reducing hallucinations.
• Integration Standards: Utilizing a RESTful architecture, the tool integrates with existing enterprise ecosystems and machine learning pipelines.
• Governance and Security: Authentication is managed via OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC), ensuring that data remains within governed enterprise boundaries during extraction.
• Operational Consistency: The automated extraction process is intended to replace manual data synchronization between departments, maintaining information consistency across disparate systems.

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Architectural Framework and Data Continuity
Unlike traditional data transfer methods that extract raw text into disconnected files, the Ondexx Content Extraction API preserves the original structure and meaning of enterprise information. By maintaining complete document relationships during transfer, the interface removes the need for technical teams to manually rebuild data frameworks, lowering the risk of inaccuracies and preserving organizational knowledge.

“To deploy internal artificial intelligence systems that actually work, organizations must feed them accurate data,” said Dr. Anthony ‘Tony’ Rhem, CEO of AJ Rhem & Associates. “This API ensures that downstream workflows draw strictly from a verified, permission-governed environment, automatically preserving correct user permissions and complete document structures. This structural continuity stops AI tools from guessing or generating inaccurate responses, giving teams reliable answers without forcing IT departments to constantly clean up messy data files.”

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SnapSoft Partners with ziggiz to Revolutionize Enterprise Data Management

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SnapSoft Partners with ziggiz to Revolutionize Enterprise Data Management

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SnapSoft announced the successful completion of a comprehensive cloud transformation and migration project for ziggiz.ai.

SnapSoft announced the successful completion of a comprehensive cloud transformation and migration project for ziggiz.ai. By transitioning ziggiz’s semantic data platform from Azure to Amazon Web Services (AWS), SnapSoft has enabled the cybersecurity company to scale its intelligent automation capabilities and accelerate client onboarding through a robust, automated infrastructure.

At ziggiz, we operate in sectors where data security and compliance are non-negotiable. Partnering with SnapSoft to migrate to AWS has been transformative.”

— George Webster, CEO of ziggiz

ziggiz.ai specializes in a semantic data platform that transforms how large multinational enterprises and non-profit healthcare organizations consolidate and analyze data. Facing ambitious growth targets, ziggiz required a more scalable environment capable of meeting stringent compliance standards, including those for healthcare sectors.

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SnapSoft spearheaded a phased migration strategy that modernized ziggiz’s entire technology stack. Key highlights of the transformation include:

Infrastructure Modernization: Migrating containerized services to Amazon ECS and transitioning legacy SQL databases to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

Advanced Data & AI: Integrating AWS Bedrock to power ziggiz’s AI strategy and implementing a high-performance streaming platform using Amazon Kinesis and Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka).

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Automated Scaling: Developing a robust CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to automate the provisioning of new client environments, significantly reducing time-to-market.

Security & Compliance: Establishing a refined AWS Landing Zone with AWS Organizations, CloudTrail, and AWS Config to ensure enterprise-grade governance.

“Our partnership with ziggiz is a prime example of how SnapSoft leverages our expertise to solve complex architectural challenges,” said Daniel Kerényi, CEO of SnapSoft. “By moving to AWS and integrating advanced services like AWS Bedrock, ziggiz is now equipped with a future-proofed platform that can handle the most sensitive data workloads in the world. We are proud to support their mission of transforming enterprise data management through intelligent automation.”

The migration has already yielded significant business outcomes for ziggiz, including improved operational efficiency and cost optimization. The automation of infrastructure updates has allowed ziggiz’s engineering team to shift their focus from manual maintenance to core product innovation.

“At ziggiz, we operate in sectors where data security and compliance are non-negotiable. Partnering with SnapSoft to migrate to AWS has been transformative; by implementing a sophisticated Landing Zone and automated governance, they’ve provided us with a fortress-like infrastructure. This foundation allows us to scale our semantic data platform with absolute confidence, knowing that we can meet the rigorous security standards of our healthcare clients while delivering innovation at speed.” — George Webster, CEO of ziggiz

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Caleb Hammer Launches Hammer Elite on Uscreen, Expanding the Financial Audit Universe Beyond YouTube

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New Streaming Platform Brings Ad-Free Episodes, Exclusive Shows, and Behind-the-Scenes Access to One of YouTube’s Biggest Podcast Shows

Caleb Hammer announced the launch of Hammer Elite on Uscreen, a leading video membership platform built to expand the world of Financial Audit far beyond YouTube. The new platform gives fans ad-free access to the show they love, a slate of exclusive original programming, and a deeper look at the team and personalities behind one of the most talked-about podcast shows on YouTube.

Hammer Elite gives us room to actually go deeper with these guests, get into the conversations that didn’t fit, and bring the audience along for everything that happens around the show. It’s still Financial Audit at the core. There’s just way more of it.

Hammer Elite is already one of the largest creator membership communities on YouTube. With the launch of the dedicated Hammer Elite app, members now get a full streaming experience built entirely around the Financial Audit universe with organized show hubs, a binge-worthy content library, expanded archives, exclusive programming, and improved viewing across devices. Fans can access Hammer Elite directly through YouTube Memberships or unlock the full premium experience on the dedicated Hammer Elite app, powered by Uscreen.

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“Our community shows up for the real conversations, the chaos, and the moments that go deeper than the episode itself,” said Caleb Hammer. “Hammer Elite is where we get to give them more of all of that. More episodes, more access, more of the team, and an experience built specifically for the audience that made Financial Audit what it is today.”

On June 27th, Hammer Elite will host Hammer Elite Day, a four-hour livestream showcasing all of the platform’s premium shows and giving fans a live look at what the membership has to offer.

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“The biggest creators today are building more engaged audiences through platforms they own while continuing to grow on YouTube,” said Allison Yazdian, CEO of Uscreen. “Hammer Elite is a textbook case of what that looks like when it’s done right: YouTube as the front door, and the Uscreen app as the more immersive, unfiltered behind-the-scenes experience.”

The Hammer Elite app launches with a lineup of original programming built around the Financial Audit world, including: Post Show, Audit Update, Audit Breakdown, Member’s Exclusive Financial Audit, Behind the Scenes, Dating Audit, Budget Buddies, and Hammer It Out.

“This is the part of the show our community has been asking for,” Caleb Hammer added. “Hammer Elite gives us room to actually go deeper with these guests, get into the conversations that didn’t fit, and bring the audience along for everything that happens around the show. It’s still Financial Audit at the core. There’s just way more of it.”

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CrossCheck Media Inc. Announces Launch of the Biz Talk Today TV App

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CrossCheck Media Inc. Announces Launch of the Biz Talk Today TV App

New Streaming Platform Expands Global Access to Premier Business, Finance, Politics, Sports & Entertainment Programming

CrossCheck Media Inc., the innovative media company behind Biz Talk Today TV (BTT), officially announced the launch of the Biz Talk Today TV app, now available for download on both Apple and Android devices worldwide. The app delivers live and on-demand access to BTT’s rapidly growing lineup of premium television programming focused on business, investing, economics, politics, law, sports betting, artificial intelligence, and pop culture.

As consumer viewing habits continue shifting toward digital streaming platforms, the Biz Talk Today TV app provides audiences with direct access to high-quality, engaging content anytime and anywhere. The app further strengthens CrossCheck Media’s expanding global footprint across streaming television, podcasts, and digital publishing.

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The Biz Talk Today TV platform features a diverse lineup of original programs hosted by prominent market strategists, economists, media personalities, sports analysts, and business leaders. Popular shows include The Money Path, Financial Compass, Hatfield Economics, Wayve Wire, Power Hour, Buy Hold Sell, and Madden On The Line.

“Our mission has always been to build a modern media platform that delivers intelligent, entertaining, and impactful content directly to audiences across the globe,” said Todd M. Schoenberger, Chief Executive Officer of CrossCheck Media Inc. “The launch of the Biz Talk Today TV app represents a major milestone for our company as we continue expanding our reach beyond traditional television and legacy business networks. Consumers want instant access to credible information, compelling personalities, and dynamic conversations — and that’s exactly what BTT delivers.”

The app allows viewers to stream live broadcasts, watch archived interviews and market analysis, and stay connected to breaking financial and business news in real time. Programming is designed to appeal to investors, entrepreneurs, business professionals, sports enthusiasts, and consumers seeking thoughtful commentary and engaging discussions on today’s most important topics.

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In addition to mobile access on Apple and Android devices, Biz Talk Today TV content is also available across major connected television platforms, including AppleTV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TV, and additional streaming services.

CrossCheck Media continues to aggressively expand its media ecosystem through strategic growth across video streaming, audio podcasts, and digital publishing initiatives, including The American Wealth Brief and other financial media properties.

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utilasoft Expands AI Development Services for Franchisees and Small Businesses

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utilasoft Expands AI Development Services for Franchisees and Small Businesses

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Public Products company helps operators adopt practical AI tools with custom software and rapid deployment

utilasoft, a software development company within Public Products Venture Studio, is helping franchisees and small businesses adopt AI through custom software, automation, and platform development services built for daily operations.

Most franchisees and small businesses want systems that solve real problems, save time, and improve efficiency. Our role is to make AI practical and accessible.”

— Chris Abbott, Chief Product Officer

Many small businesses want to use AI but face limits in staffing, technical expertise, and implementation speed. utilasoft works directly with operators to build practical systems that improve customer communication, reporting, scheduling, workflows, and internal efficiency without requiring large enterprise budgets.

With more than 20 years of development experience and over 30 major projects completed, utilasoft focuses on rapid deployment and tailored solutions that align with each client’s operational needs. The company develops AI-enabled platforms, internal business tools, customer-facing applications, and workflow automation systems designed to support growth and reduce repetitive work.

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“Most franchisees and small businesses are not looking for experimental technology,” said Chris Abbott, Chief Product Officer at utilasoft. “They want systems that solve real problems, save time, and help their teams operate more efficiently. Our role is to make AI practical and accessible.”

utilasoft’s development approach combines custom engineering with operational planning to help businesses implement AI in ways that fit existing processes. The company works across industries and supports organizations that need scalable software without long development timelines.

“AI adoption should not be limited to large corporations with massive budgets,” Abbott said. “Smaller businesses are often the fastest to adapt when they have the right tools and support. We help clients move from ideas to working products quickly.”

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The company says franchise operators have shown increasing interest in AI-powered customer support, internal knowledge systems, employee onboarding tools, automated reporting, and lead management platforms. utilasoft develops these systems with flexibility in mind so businesses can expand capabilities over time.

As AI adoption continues across the business sector, utilasoft plans to expand its software and consulting services for organizations seeking custom implementations instead of off-the-shelf products. The company expects demand to continue rising among operators looking for measurable operational improvements and long-term scalability.

“Businesses do not need to replace their teams to benefit from AI,” Abbott added. “The right implementation supports employees, improves consistency, and creates more time to focus on customers and growth.”

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Infolinks Appoints Chao Liao as Chief Operating Officer and General Manager to Accelerate Agency and Advertiser Growth

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Veteran media and adtech executive brings deep expertise across advertiser strategy, revenue operations, partnerships, and business transformation

Infolinks Media, the premium advertising marketplace offering advertisers premium proprietary placements, data, and creative solutions, announced the appointment of Chao Liao as Chief Operating Officer and General Manager. Liao will lead operational strategy, client operations and integrations, revenue operations, and go-to-market execution as the company continues scaling its premium direct marketplace and omnichannel advertising business.

Liao joins Infolinks with deep leadership experience across adtech, media, SaaS, and data-driven advertising organizations. Most recently, he served as VP of Strategy & Operations at Permutive, leading partnership strategy and growth initiatives across the company’s data platform and curation media practice. Prior to that, he held senior leadership roles at Business Insider, overseeing global revenue operations, ad strategy, data strategy, and client operations across North America, EMEA, and APAC.

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Earlier in his career, Liao held strategy & operations roles at Nativo, BuzzFeed, and AOL, where he built strong relationships across agencies, advertisers, and media partners while driving business growth, integrated advertising strategies, and innovative solutions.

“Chao brings a rare combination of operational leadership, advertiser expertise, and strategic vision across the modern advertising ecosystem,” said Bob Regular, CEO of Infolinks. “His experience spanning agency partnerships, enterprise data strategy, revenue operations, and product commercialization will be instrumental as Infolinks continues expanding its relationships with brands and agencies seeking more transparent, efficient, and performance-driven advertising solutions.”

Known for aligning market needs, technology, product development, and strategic partnerships to drive operational scale and revenue growth, Liao has built a reputation for helping organizations modernize advertising infrastructure while improving business performance and execution across teams.

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“Infolinks has built something genuinely differentiated – a premium proprietary marketplace with direct publisher relationships and proprietary signals that deliver exceptional outcomes,” said Chao Liao. “I’m excited to join the company at a time when advertisers and agencies are increasingly conscientious about media quality while embracing new innovations across platforms. There is a tremendous opportunity to help brands drive stronger business outcomes through smarter media execution and innovative advertising experiences while delivering healthy demand to publishers.”

The appointment further reinforces Infolinks’ continued investment in scaling its premium marketplace strategy, strengthening advertiser and agency relationships, and building a more transparent and efficient media ecosystem across display, video, CTV, and emerging omnichannel environments.

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Captello Launches AI-Powered Conversation Intelligence with Enterprise-Grade Compliance

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Captello Launches AI-Powered Conversation Intelligence with Enterprise-Grade Compliance

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Captello, the leading platform for event lead capture, meeting management, and engagement solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its innovative Conversation Intelligence feature. This cutting-edge AI-powered solution will revolutionize how event professionals capture, analyze, and follow up on conversations during live events and meetings, helping them close deals faster and make more informed decisions.

Event technology has been evolving at a rapid pace, but the challenge of capturing and utilizing valuable in-person conversations has remained largely unsolved…until now. With Captello’s new Conversation Intelligence feature, event organizers, sales teams, and exhibitors can record and transcribe live meetings and booth conversations with complete compliance and accuracy.

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Unlocking Real-Time Insights from Every Conversation

The power of Captello’s Conversation Intelligence lies in its ability to provide instant access to real-time insights. By leveraging advanced AI algorithms, Captello automatically transcribes conversations and produces concise summaries, extracting key points, action items, and next steps. This process eliminates the need for manual note-taking and ensures no crucial details are missed.

“As events increasingly drive sales and revenue, real-time intelligence is key to staying competitive. Our new AI-driven solution gives event professionals the ability to instantly capture actionable insights from their conversations, allowing them to respond swiftly, follow up effectively, and close more deals.” – Ryan Schefke, CEO of Captello.

Secure Recording and Compliance

Captello Conversation Intelligence incorporates compliance-focused controls designed to help organizations meet applicable data privacy and recording regulations. Captello’s solution captures live event conversations with complete transparency, offering features like speaker diarization and automatic transcription.

“Data privacy and security are at the heart of everything we do at Captello. Our solution ensures that event professionals can capture critical conversations securely and use that data responsibly, all while maintaining compliance with industry regulations.” -Nassir Jamal, CTO of Captello.

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AI-Powered Actionable Insights

Once the conversation is recorded and transcribed, Captello AI produces summaries and identifies critical action items, including potential buying signals, next steps, and follow-up priorities. This helps sales teams act on leads immediately after each conversation, drastically reducing the time between engagement and conversion.

Smarter Follow-Ups, Faster Conversions

With the integration of conversation intelligence, sales teams can better prioritize their leads, follow up with precision, and ensure that every interaction is personalized to the attendee’s needs and interests. By delivering these insights in real-time, Captello accelerates the sales cycle and boosts ROI for event-driven strategies.

A Seamless, Integrated Solution

Captello’s Conversation Intelligence integrates effortlessly with its demand generation platform for events, which includes lead capture, meeting management, engagement and networking solutions, and enterprise analytics. This integration ensures that sales teams and event professionals have everything they need in one unified platform, enabling enterprises with a revenue operating system for events.

“Events are increasingly becoming a driving force in demand generation, and Captello AI helps companies streamline their processes and convert leads faster. With Conversation Intelligence, we’re giving event teams the edge they need to outperform their competition.” – Ryan Schefke, CEO at Captello

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KERV.ai Appoints Joshua Koran as Chief Product and Technology Officer to Accelerate the Future of Contextually Intelligent, Commerce-Driven Media

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KERV.ai Appoints Joshua Koran as Chief Product and Technology Officer to Accelerate the Future of Contextually Intelligent, Commerce-Driven Media

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AdTech Veteran to Lead Product and Technology Innovation as KERV.ai Continues to Transform Passive Video Viewing into Interactive Commerce Experiences

KERV.ai, the leader in video analysis, performance, and monetization, announced the appointment of Joshua Koran to Chief Product and Technology Officer. In this role, Koran will lead KERV.ai’s global product and technology team, accelerating the company’s mission to redefine how consumers engage with content across Connected TV (CTV), streaming, and digital media.

Koran, based in Silicon Valley, brings more than 30 years of global adtech leadership experience across organizations such as InMarket, Criteo, Zeta Global, Sizmek, Turn, AT&T AdWorks, and ValueClick. Over the course of his career, he has been granted 26 patents related to digital marketing, audience intent intelligence, and content optimization technologies, was a multi-year winner of the IAB Service Award, and served as a board member at NAI for several years. As part of his policy advocacy to improve online experiences, he co-architected the AdChoices and TCF programs for improved consumer signaling of their online personalization preferences. He currently chairs the governance working group for AdCP, an emerging decentralized agentic framework designed to help shift billions in advertising spend back toward media owners from today’s dominant walled gardens.

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This leadership appointment comes as brands, publishers, and platforms increasingly seek more contextually intelligent, measurable, and outcome-based brand experiences across all screens. KERV.ai is helping lead this evolution by analyzing video content at the scene and moment level – pinpointing when viewer attention peaks and intent signals emerge, then matching those moments to relevant brands, products, and interactive commerce experiences.

In this role, Koran will lead the development and execution of the company’s next-generation of patented AI-powered products that deliver enhanced performance for advertisers and net-new monetization opportunities for media owners. Under his leadership, KERV.ai plans to accelerate the development of its contextual enrichment and creative solutions, in addition to investing in advanced media planning, analysis, and optimization agents that provide greater signal transparency to improve strategy recommendations and natural-language reporting across premium video environments. This appointment reinforces the company’s commitment to operational excellence, product innovation, and customer success in an ever-evolving media landscape.

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“I am thrilled to be joining KERV.ai at this crucial ecosystem inflection point,” said Joshua Koran, Chief Product and Technology Officer, KERV.ai. “KERV.ai is the undeniable leader in transforming passive video into interactive commerce by identifying high-value moments that align to consumer intent. I was drawn to the company by its culture and people. The atmosphere is a rare balance of kindness and drive, essential qualities to building both strong teams and innovative technology. I look forward to accelerating the growth of KERV.ai’s clients, as we automate the future of connected commerce.”

“The rapid shift towards more intelligent, measurable ad experiences has redefined how audiences engage and connect to content,” said Gary Mittman, CEO, KERV.ai. “Joshua will help us unlock true commerce and advertising interactivity within and around the viewing experience at scale. As TVs increasingly adopt the same dynamic functionality that consumers expect from the web, Joshua’s expertise across media, adtech, and data will help accelerate our ability to continue delivering the next generation of immersive, shoppable, and outcome-driven advertising experiences across any screen.”

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Deece Unveils AI-powered Platform Transforming How Marketers Brief Campaigns

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Deece Unveils AI-powered Platform Transforming How Marketers Brief Campaigns

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Built to tackle one of marketing’s most expensive problems, Deece’s AI-powered platform helps marketers create stronger briefs, align agency partners, and improve campaign effectiveness.

Deece, an Irish marketing technology startup, has developed a platform designed to help marketers unlock their agency’s best work.

Developed with input from senior marketers and agency leaders worldwide, Deece is now making its platform available more broadly.

Findings from a global study published by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which included the US, reveals that 78% of marketers believe the briefs they give their advertising agencies provide clear strategic direction. Yet only 5% of agencies agree.

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It also estimates that poor quality briefs and misdirected work account for:

  • The loss of 33% of marketing budgets globally
  • Equivalent to approximately $429 billion annually

Deece user data shows significant improvements in brief quality, 165 hours saved per campaign brief, project timelines reduced by three weeks, and improved marketing ROI.

“Nothing wastes a marketing budget faster than a bad brief. Yet it remains one of the most neglected issues in our industry,” says Richie Taaffe, co-founder of Deece.

  • At the core of the platform is a Brief Builder that uses artificial intelligence to help marketers improve the quality of their briefs.
  • The model has been trained using strategic learnings drawn from award-winning campaigns over the last 25 years, together with curated marketing insights and industry trends.
  • Marketers can incorporate relevant effectiveness case studies into briefs, giving agency partners proven examples to inform and inspire their work.

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Despite being powered by AI, human expertise remains central to Deece. Shaped by the Deece team’s decades of experience on both the agency and brand side, including work with Unilever, Mastercard, Ford and PepsiCo, the platform is designed to support, educate and empower marketers.

Taaffe said the team set out to solve challenges experienced by marketers and agencies.

“We didn’t set out to build an AI platform. We wanted to solve problems we’ve experienced time and time again throughout our careers. AI was the best way to bring that solution to life,” he said.

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Saddleback Communications Launches Salt River Connect as Dedicated Business Technology Brand

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Saddleback Communications Launches Salt River Connect as Dedicated Business Technology Brand

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Community-owned provider brings focused business technology platform to the Scottsdale corridor, delivering connectivity, communications, networking, security and AI-enabled solutions

Saddleback Communications, the fiber-based voice and internet provider serving residents and businesses on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC), announced the launch of Salt River Connect, a dedicated business technology brand built to serve commercial organizations across the greater Scottsdale, Arizona, area.

Salt River Connect formally separates Saddleback Communications’ business services division into a focused, standalone entity purpose-built for the complexity and pace of modern commercial technology needs. The new brand brings together managed connectivity, unified communications, networking, cybersecurity, cloud solutions and AI-enabled services under one platform, with a single point of accountability for the businesses it serves.

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Saddleback Communications residential services are unchanged. Residential internet and voice customers will continue to receive the same service, billing and local support they always have through the same team, under the same name.

“Salt River Connect gives our business services organization an identity that reflects who we are and where we are going,” said Justin Catlett, President and CEO of Saddleback Communications and Salt River Connect. “Saddleback Communications built an exceptional infrastructure foundation, and Salt River Connect is built on top of it. The new name reflects our roots in this community and our commitment to the businesses that operate here.”

Purpose-Built for Business
Salt River Connect’s commercial customers, which include recognized national brands and local businesses across a range of industries operating along the 101 Scottsdale corridor, have long relied on Saddleback Communications’ fiber network for connectivity. Salt River Connect expands that offering into a full-service technology partnership, delivering:

  • Unified Communications — voice, collaboration and contact center solutions that keep teams and customers connected
  • Networking — high-availability infrastructure designed for the performance and reliability modern business demands
  • Cybersecurity — protection for business data, networks and operations
  • Managed & Co-Managed IT — extending internal technology capabilities without replacing existing teams
  • AI & Automation — tools that help businesses operate smarter, reduce friction and move faster

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Salt River Connect continues to leverage Saddleback Communications’ carrier-grade fiber network as the backbone for its connectivity and communications solutions.

Community Ownership & Enterprise Capability
Salt River Connect operates as part of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s business enterprises. Community ownership is the foundation of the company’s accountability, its investment decisions, and its long-term commitment to the businesses and people it serves.

“The businesses operating on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community deserve a technology partner that’s genuinely invested here,” said Catlett. “Salt River Connect is that partner, not because it’s convenient to say, but because who we are makes it structurally true.”

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InMobi Advertising Launches First Agentic Seller, Opening Mobile and Exclusive CTV Ad Inventory to AI Buying Agents

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InMobi Advertising Launches First Agentic Seller, Opening Mobile and Exclusive CTV Ad Inventory to AI Buying Agents

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Partners with Scope3 to bring Glance’s 300 million first-party users and InMobi’s nearly 2 billion mobile users to AI-powered buying agents — through a single connection.

InMobi Advertising, part of global technology company InMobi, announced a strategic partnership with Scope3 to make its premium CTV and mobile in-app supply — including Glance, InMobi Group’s consumer platform pioneering new models of agentic commerce — accessible to AI-powered buying agents on Scope3 Interchange.

The connection is built on the AgenticAdvertising.org’s Ad Context Protocol (AdCP), the open industry standard for agentic advertising transactions. In practice, what previously required days of manual setup, custom integrations, and back-and-forth between trading desks can now happen in minutes: a buying agent submits a brief, InMobi responds with matched inventory, audience signals, and campaign parameters ready to activate.

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For years, supply owners with differentiated inventory have faced an uncomfortable tradeoff: enter the programmatic ecosystem and watch your premium surface get priced like everything else, or stay out and limit your reach. Glance’s app and lock screen surfaces, available across mobile and CTV, is valuable precisely because it’s scarce and contextually distinct. Agentic buying is the first mechanism that can honor that — and the infrastructure to do it at scale didn’t exist until now.

What makes InMobi’s offer distinct is the combination of scale and signal. Buying agents get access to about 2 billion mobile users globally, alongside first-party behavioral intelligence from Glance’s 300 million global active devices through one AdCP connection. No other supply platform offers this.

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“There’s a whole category of supply sitting outside the programmatic ecosystem because the auction model is the wrong mechanism for it,” said David Fischer, Global Head of Partnerships, Scope3. “Glance is a good example — their surfaces across mobile and CTV are high-attention, high-intent inventory that lose something fundamental when it gets commoditized. Agentic buying removes that tension. It gives buyers a way to discover and access inventory that was never reachable before, and gives supply owners a path to market that doesn’t require giving up what makes them valuable.”

The partnership accelerates InMobi Advertising’s broader Ad Experiences strategy, which packages inventory, targeting, and measurement into outcome-engineered solutions. Agentic buying removes the last layer of manual mediation — AI agents can now match campaign objectives directly to the right environment, whether driving brand recall on Glance or performance outcomes across premium in-app supply.

“The brands and platforms that move into this infrastructure early will have advantages that compound over time,” said Kunal Nagpal, Chief Business Officer, InMobi Advertising. “Partnering with Scope3 makes every mobile surface a premium destination in the agentic ecosystem — reachable immediately, with real first-party intelligence behind every impression.”

Pilot campaigns are expected to go live in the coming weeks, marking the first time brands can reach mobile in-app supply at this scale through a fully agentic buying workflow.

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Full-Stack Marketing Sets the New Growth Benchmark for 2026

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Full-Stack Marketing Sets the New Growth Benchmark for 2026

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Integrated marketing model combining SEO, paid media, content, CRO & web development gains traction as businesses move away from fragmented digital strategies.

Digital marketing is getting harder to run effectively when SEO, paid advertising, content, web development, and conversion optimization are handled in separate silos.

In 2026, a new model is rapidly becoming the preferred approach for growth-focused companies: full-stack marketing services.

Rather than treating marketing channels as isolated disciplines, full-stack marketing combines SEO, paid media, content creation, conversion rate optimization (CRO), and web development into a single integrated growth engine designed to drive measurable business outcomes.

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THE END OF THE FRAGMENTED MARKETING ERA

For years, businesses assembled marketing efforts piece by piece.

One agency handled SEO. Another managed Google Ads. A freelance writer produced content. A web developer maintained the website. Internal teams attempted to coordinate strategy while juggling multiple vendors and conflicting priorities.

The result was often a disconnected customer journey.

Traffic increased but conversions stagnated. Paid campaigns generated leads that the website failed to convert. Content was published without a clear SEO strategy. Technical website issues undermined months of marketing investment.

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MARKETING WORKS BEST AS A SYSTEM

The core principle behind full-stack marketing is simple: every growth channel should work together.

SEO generates long-term organic visibility.
Content builds authority and captures demand.
Paid advertising accelerates traffic and lead generation.
Web development ensures technical performance and user experience.
CRO turns visitors into customers.

When these functions operate under a unified strategy, each component strengthens the others.

A high-performing landing page improves paid advertising ROI. Strong content enhances SEO rankings. Technical optimization increases conversion rates. User behavior insights from CRO inform future content and campaign decisions.

Instead of separate marketing activities, businesses gain a coordinated growth ecosystem.

WHY FULL-STACK MARKETING IS BECOMING THE NEW STANDARD

Several industry trends are accelerating adoption.

RISING CUSTOMER ACQUISITION COSTS

Advertising costs continue to increase across major platforms, making efficiency more important than ever.

Organizations are realizing that spending more on traffic is not enough. The quality of landing pages, website performance, content relevance, and conversion paths now have a direct impact on marketing profitability.

SEARCH HAS EVOLVED

Search is no longer limited to traditional search engines.

Businesses now compete for visibility across AI-powered search experiences, voice search, local search, and traditional organic rankings. This requires a coordinated strategy involving technical SEO, authoritative content, website optimization, and brand authority.

DATA DEMANDS INTEGRATION

Modern marketing generates enormous amounts of data.

When SEO, paid media, content, and website analytics exist in separate systems and teams, valuable insights are often lost.

Full-stack marketing creates a centralized view of performance, enabling faster decision-making and more accurate attribution.

SPEED CREATES COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Companies that can launch campaigns, create content, optimize landing pages, and adjust technical website elements quickly gain a significant advantage.

Unified teams eliminate bottlenecks and reduce delays caused by cross-vendor coordination.

WHAT A FULL-STACK MARKETING SERVICE INCLUDES

In practice, full-stack marketing typically combines search engine optimization, technical SEO audits, content strategy and creation, Google Ads and Microsoft Ads management, social media advertising, conversion rate optimization, landing page and website development, along with analytics, reporting, and strategic consulting.

Together, these capabilities form a continuous cycle of traffic generation, engagement, conversion, and ongoing optimization that improves performance over time.

MARKETING THAT WORKS AS A REVENUE SYSTEM

Perhaps the most significant shift is philosophical.

Traditional marketing often focuses on individual activities—rankings, clicks, impressions, website visits, or content output.

Full-stack marketing focuses on business outcomes.

The objective is not simply generating traffic but creating a repeatable system that converts visibility into leads, customers, and revenue.

This approach aligns marketing investments with broader business goals and provides leadership teams with greater accountability and transparency.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR MARKETING TEAMS

As businesses seek greater efficiency and measurable ROI, companies are increasingly turning to providers like The Real Thing Marketing, a full-stack digital marketing agency that unifies SEO, paid media, content marketing, conversion rate optimization, and web development into a single, results-driven growth engine. The company’s own “Real Deal” service is built around this exact philosophy: combining SEO, Paid Ads, Content, CRO, and Web Development into one seamless growth engine.

The organizations that succeed in 2026 and beyond will likely be those that view marketing not as a collection of channels but as a unified growth engine.

Full-stack marketing represents that evolution—a practical, data-driven model that combines SEO, paid advertising, content marketing, conversion optimization, and web development into a seamless system designed to maximize growth.

What was once considered a premium service offering is quickly becoming the new standard for businesses seeking sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

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SEO FOR TODAY Continues Its Mission to Help Businesses Navigate the Future of Search

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The Independent SEO learning platform continues to provide practical insights on Google Search, AI-powered discovery, technical SEO, and digital visibility.

SEO FOR TODAY, an independent SEO learning and publishing platform, continues its mission to support its content library, designed to help businesses, marketers, website owners, and SEO professionals better understand modern search engine optimization and the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Since beginning its journey on June 15, 2023, SEO FOR TODAY has been committed to making SEO knowledge more practical, transparent, and accessible. The platform was established to help readers navigate the increasingly complex world of search engines, digital marketing, and emerging AI-powered search experiences.

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As artificial intelligence reshapes how people find information online, businesses face new challenges in maintaining visibility across traditional search engines and AI-driven discovery platforms. SEO FOR TODAY addresses these challenges by publishing educational content that focuses on actionable strategies, industry developments, and search best practices.

The platform covers a wide range of SEO-related topics, including technical SEO, keyword research, content optimization, website performance, Core Web Vitals, search engine updates, backlink strategies, AI-generated content, and evolving search trends.

“Search is changing faster than ever before, and businesses need reliable information to adapt successfully,” said Moinul, the founder of SEO FOR TODAY. “Our mission is to provide clear, practical, and trustworthy SEO resources that help readers make informed decisions and build sustainable online visibility.”

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Recent publications on SEO FOR TODAY explore subjects such as:

• The impact of AI-generated content on search engine indexing
• Modern keyword research and content optimization strategies
• Google algorithm updates and their implications for website owners
• Technical SEO best practices for improved search visibility
• Website performance and user experience optimization
• The relationship between search rankings, authority, and content quality

By focusing on practical implementation rather than short-term tactics, SEO FOR TODAY aims to support businesses, digital marketers, entrepreneurs, content creators, and learners seeking dependable SEO knowledge.

As search technology continues to evolve, the platform plans to expand its library of educational resources, industry insights, guides, and research-driven content to help readers stay informed and competitive in an increasingly dynamic search environment.

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Adswerve Named North American Partner for Google’s New Data Strength Program, GIP

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Adswerve Named North American Partner for Google’s New Data Strength Program, GIP

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Delivers on Growing Demand for First-Party Data Infrastructure Amidst Increased Signal Loss

The selection builds on Adswerve’s success in Google’s Data Strength Partner Program (DSPP), where the company has helped enterprise brands modernize first-party data infrastructure to recover lost conversion signals and improve performance.

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With both GIP and DSPP, Adswerve is a distinguished partner to help mid-market and enterprise brands improve their data strength. Adswerve brings together its clients’ marketing and IT departments to implement Google Tag Gateway (GTG) and enhanced conversions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The comprehensive data setup enables marketers to better leverage first-party data to drive positive business impact.

Across DSPP implementations to date for Google Large Customer Sales (LCS) clients, Adswerve has seen conversions increase from 9% to 18% using GTG.

The Google GIP program introduces a unique “hands-on shoulder” consulting model. This enables Adswerve to guide implementation directly within client environments without requiring deep system access, making the program incredibly nimble and accelerating the time to impact while maintaining security.

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“Too many marketers are still making decisions based on incomplete data, and Google GIP and DSPP improve first-party data collection, quality, and activation. Google’s unique server-to-server process provides a security-safe methodology for gaining a more complete view of the consumer journey to conversion in spite of signal loss and ad blockers,” said Brian Anderson, senior data engineering manager at Adswerve. “We’ve already seen how strengthening first-party data improves both reach and efficiency through DSPP, and we’re excited to bring that same impact to a broader set of organizations through the GIP program.”

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Lifesight Launches MCP to Bring Unified Marketing Measurement Directly Into Claude and ChatGPT

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Lifesight Launches MCP to Bring Unified Marketing Measurement Directly Into Claude and ChatGPT

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New capability gives marketing and finance leaders direct access to causal measurement models inside the AI assistants they already use, shrinking insight-to-decision cycles from weeks to minutes

Lifesight, the Agentic Unified Marketing Measurement Platform, launched Lifesight MCP, a new connector that gives Claude and ChatGPT direct, secure access to a company’s measurement model. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the emerging open standard for connecting AI assistants to external data and tools, Lifesight MCP allows marketing and finance teams to query their live measurement model directly inside the AI assistants they already use.

Lifesight customers collectively manage over $4 billion in marketing spend, operate across global markets, and have achieved at least a 20% improvement in return on ad spend (ROAS) for brands.

For most marketing teams, turning measurement into action remains slow and analyst-dependent. Insights are extracted, translated into presentations, reviewed, revised, and often delayed before decisions are made. Lifesight MCP changes that workflow. Instead of waiting days or weeks for reports, CMOs, Heads of Growth, and finance leaders can ask questions directly inside ChatGPT or Claude and receive answers in seconds, framed around the business decision they are trying to make.

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“For a long time now, marketing measurement insights lived in notebooks and dashboards that only some specialists could read correctly,” said Tobin Thomas, CEO and Co-founder of Lifesight. “Lifesight MCP changes who gets to ask the question. When a CMO or a CFO can query the model directly – inside the assistant they already work in – the distance between insight and decision collapses from weeks to minutes. That decision speed, compounded over a year, is a real competitive advantage.”

The launch reflects a broader shift underway across enterprise software, where AI assistants are increasingly becoming operational interfaces rather than standalone productivity tools.

Historically, accessing measurement models required routing requests through analysts or specialized teams. That bottleneck limited not only the decision-making process but also the number of questions organizers were able to ask

“The hardest part was never the model – it was getting the right answers and decisions out of it,” said Rajeev Nair, Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Lifesight. “Every question used to be routed through a small team, which meant most questions never got asked at all. Lifesight MCP opens the model up to everyone who needs it. The people closest to the decision can finally ask their own questions and act on the answers – and the experts get their time back for the work that actually needs them.”

Lifesight MCP also launches with a Skills Library designed around common marketing and finance workflows.

Launch capabilities include:

  • Board Briefing – creates board-ready summaries
  • P&L Translator – reframes marketing performance in finance language
  • Scenario Planner – models alternative investment paths
  • Q4 Reallocation Stress Test
  • Channel Deep-Dive
  • Anomaly Triage for week-over-week performance changes

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Lifesight MCP is available immediately to all Lifesight customers in Claude (Desktop) and ChatGPT (with Custom Connectors). Set up requires no code and uses the existing Lifesight login via OAuth. No API tokens or configuration files are required, and connector permissions map to the user’s existing workspace access.

At launch, Lifesight MCP is read-only, with future roadmap plans including assistant-guided recommendations and workflow automation requiring explicit human approval.

Lifesight MCP inherits the Lifesight platform’s privacy and security posture, including GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 compliance. Every request is recorded in the customer’s Lifesight audit trail.

Lifesight supports more than 500 global brands and provides a unified view of causal marketing performance across marketing mix modeling, incrementality testing, and attribution.

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Dentsu extends Magnite partnership to streamline CTV activation across Sweden

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Dentsu extends Magnite partnership to streamline CTV activation across Sweden

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Collaboration builds on existing partnership in EMEA to support more intelligent, efficient and transparent CTV activation across premium inventory

Magnite, the largest independent sell-side advertising company, has announced a partnership with dentsu in Sweden to help accelerate innovation and performance across the media supply chain. This builds on the companies’ existing EMEA partnership which sees dentsu leverage Magnite’s built-for-video tools and technology to power AMX Premium Video, dentsu’s premium video solution delivering improved reach and efficiency.

As programmatic adoption continues to accelerate, this signals a step forward for the Swedish CTV market. By leveraging Magnite’s programmatic infrastructure and relationships with premium publishers, dentsu is helping drive the next evolution of CTV buying in Sweden by enabling more intelligent, data-driven and scalable activation across premium CTV inventory.

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“Sweden’s CTV market has matured rapidly over the past year, and we’re seeing growing demand from advertisers for smarter, more transparent ways to activate premium CTV at scale,” said Natasha Westlund, Head of Nordics at Magnite. “dentsu is at the forefront of this evolution, helping shape the future of programmatic CTV buying in the Nordics. By combining Magnite’s technology with dentsu’s forward-looking approach to algorithmic planning, we’re enabling more efficient activation and greater control.”

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“As we continue to evolve our dentsu premium video solution, AMX Premium Video, it’s critical that we work with partners who can provide the technology, transparency and interoperability needed to make smarter decisions across the media ecosystem,” said Christian Rissel, Head of dentsu Amplifi. “Magnite is helping us move beyond transactional media buying towards a more curated, intelligent and outcome-driven approach.”

Magnite helps dentsu gain greater visibility and control across its media buys, enabling more informed decision-making and optimisation across video. In consolidating access to premium supply and streamlining deal execution, Magnite enables dentsu to reduce operational friction, move faster from planning to activation, and drive measurable business outcomes for clients.

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Joist AI Rebrands to Kantiv, Bringing Pursuit Intelligence to AEC Marketing Teams

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Joist AI Rebrands to Kantiv, Bringing Pursuit Intelligence to AEC Marketing Teams

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The Rebrand Marks The Company’s Evolution from Proposal Generation Tool to Firm-Wide Pursuit Intelligence

Kantiv, formerly Joist AI, has rebranded its proposal and business development platform built specifically for AEC marketers, expanding its pursuit intelligence offerings to bring firms strategic insights built on their proposal data. Founded in 2022 as Joist AI, the Kantiv rebrand reflects decades of industry expertise from its founding team, four years of learning alongside more than 200 AEC clients, including 1 in 5 of the ENR Top 50 design firms, and a conviction that AEC marketers deserve more than faster proposals.

The platform is agentic and works by going beyond database operations, churning out faster proposals, file-organization, and storage, and adding an intelligence layer for AEC marketers to develop better proposals that learn from each win or loss. From the very first upload, the platform extracts the firm’s tone, project descriptions, images, client history, and resumes, then organizes, reconciles, and labels the data automatically to ensure data hygiene without manual effort. Data is sorted by project, personnel, client, and sector, with additional options available, bringing both high-level and detailed visibility. Marketing teams can then find critical information by content, topic, or a need tied to an RFP rather than file name, analyze incoming RFPs, generate first drafts grounded in the firm’s prior successes and expertise, and run compliance checks before submission.

Moreover, the platform understands the ins-and-outs of AEC-specific RFPs, and is particularly designed for AEC use cases. Rather than relying on a single model, Kantiv is built for multi-LLM orchestration, routing each task to the best-suited model so customers get the highest-quality output and avoid the default responses, lags, or outages that come from depending on one system. This diversified foundation ensures Kantiv customers receive an interruption-free experience, enabling the company to serve enterprise-level clients like those in the ENR Top 50.

Over time, the platform builds a record of a firm’s pursuit history. Marketing leaders can use it to inform go/no-go decisions, identify which markets the firm is winning in, track where project experience is aging, and spot patterns in past wins and losses. The intelligence layer provides automated data governance, natural language processing, predictive analytics, and contextual grounding through an AEC lens. Ultimately, Kantiv allows AEC marketers to tie themselves to data and surface years of institutional knowledge.

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“AEC marketers are among the most talented, most overlooked teams in the industry. We started this company to change that,” said Rohan Jawali, CEO and Co-Founder of Kantiv. “When pursuit teams can access everything their firm knows, they spend less time searching and more time winning. And when marketers get that time back, they can reach further to see around corners and pursue the right work with real strategy.”

“For marketers with deep institutional knowledge and an ever-growing inbox, this is like a second brain that you can share with your whole organization,” shared Joey Sminchak, Communications Manager at Horner & Shifrin Inc and Joist AI, now Kantiv, customer. “Not only is the platform a space to store your information, it’s the key to unlocking that information and improving your win strategy.”

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The rebrand reflects a change in how the company defines its category. Since launching as Joist AI in 2022, the company has extended the platform’s scope beyond proposal generation into pursuit analytics and business development decision-making. The new name is intended to reflect what the platform delivers rather than how it is built. Kantiv remains an AI-native company but has moved away from AI as a brand identifier, noting that AI capabilities have become standard across the software industry, while AI data intelligence has not. As the industry evolves, data intelligence is emerging as a core competency for AEC marketing leaders.

The name Kantiv is derived from the cantilever, a structural form in which a beam extends into open space, carried by the strength of its anchored base rather than by anything beneath its reach.Co-founder and CEO Rohan Jawali, a former Hensel Phelps engineer, chose the name to reflect the platform’s premise: that a firm’s accumulated institutional knowledge, proposals, and client history can serve as the foundation from which its marketing team extends further into new markets and project types.

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RudderStack Launches RudderAI to Help Snowflake Customers Drive Measurable Results from Their Customer Data

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RudderStack Launches RudderAI to Help Snowflake Customers Drive Measurable Results from Their Customer Data

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RudderAI unlocks agentic capabilities across RudderStack’s full Snowflake footprint — from real-time data pipelines and customer 360 profiles to downstream activation

RudderStack, the customer data platform for the AI era, announced at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 26, RudderAI, a suite of CLI, MCP tools, and agents that enable agentic workflows across the customer data lifecycle. RudderAI accelerates the data engineering work behind building a robust customer-data stack while giving business teams and agents direct access to all the rich customer context living in Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.

Even the most sophisticated teams still struggle with data fragmentation challenges: collecting clean data from various sources, stitching together data from different systems, defining metrics, identifying interesting customer segments, and activating those segments at the speed the business demands. RudderAI brings AI-native capabilities to every stage of that work, helping Snowflake customers close the gap between their customer data and the results it should be driving.

RudderAI leverages RudderStack’s CLI and MCP to give humans and agents what they need to build and debug infrastructure, unify data into customer 360 profiles, analyze data to answer business questions, and generate audiences for marketing activation.

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RudderAI enables teams to build their own use case specific agents, and it launches with five RudderStack agents, designed to solve the most difficult challenges across the customer data lifecycle:

  • Tracking — Audits codebases across platforms and generates high-quality tracking code to ensure accurate and complete data capture.
  • Debugging — Diagnoses pipeline issues across the customer data stack, surfacing root causes and providing actionable fixes to reduce time to resolution.
  • Customer 360 — Helps data teams tackle the complexity of resolving identities and building unified customer profiles in Snowflake.
  • Analytics — Enables business teams to explore Snowflake data, build funnels, identify customer segments and create validated dashboards without writing SQL.
  • Activation — Empowers performance and lifecycle marketers to build audiences from Snowflake profiles and push segments to downstream tools for campaign execution.

RudderAI meets teams where they already work – in RudderStack’s App, through the command line, via Slack, and in Claude.

Looking ahead, RudderStack is building on its real-time strengths to develop a real-time decisioning agent that can execute end-to-end activation workflows as behavioral signals arrive.

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“Every stage of the customer data lifecycle comes with unique challenges – instrumentation gaps, quality issues, hard to maintain profiles, insights locked in dashboards,” said Soumyadeb Mitra, CEO of RudderStack. “RudderAI brings AI-native capabilities to the full lifecycle. We’re starting with the foundation, making sure the data is trustworthy, and extending all the way to activation, so teams can close the loop from Snowflake to customer experience.”

“RudderAI marks a major step toward the agentic enterprise for Snowflake customers,” said Amy Kodl, SVP, Worldwide Alliances & Channels at Snowflake. “RudderStack is giving our joint customers the strong foundation for building intelligent, autonomous workflows and taking full advantage of their customer data in Snowflake.”

RudderAI empowers every team and every agent that relies on customer data. It frees data teams to focus on higher-leverage initiatives, and it enables business teams to easily turn Snowflake data into effective campaigns and personalized experiences.

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Brandi AI Launches Sentiment Hub, a First-of-its-Kind, Patent-Pending Brand Intelligence Capability for Tracking Market Definition and Sentiment Inside AI-Generated Answers

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Brandi AI’s new capability helps enterprise marketing and PR teams define target market categories, monitor how AI answer engines describe their brand, identify source-level sentiment drivers, and track whether AI-generated answers reinforce or weaken brand positioning

Brandi AI, the industry’s most comprehensive, intelligence-driven platform for enterprise Brand Intelligence, AI visibility and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), announced the launch of Sentiment Hub the first and only solution that enables brands to define, own and track their market narrative inside AI answer engines like ChatGPT, CoPilot, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity.

The capability allows marketers and public relations (PR) professionals to define the market categories, buyer questions, competitive comparisons and brand attributes they want to track, then measure whether AI systems reinforce that positioning, favor competitors or repeat outdated or misinformed third-party narratives.

“Establishing and maintaining market category ownership has always been a central objective of marketing and PR strategy — yet until now, no technology ever made it measurable inside AI-generated answers,” said Leah Nurik, CEO of Brandi AI. “Brandi’s Sentiment Hub changes that. Marketers and communications professionals can define the market they want to own and track whether AI answer engines are reflecting that positioning or handing it to a competitor — because the gap between the story a company is telling and the story AI is repeating can quickly become lost revenue.”

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Why AI-Generated Brand Characterization is Now a Competitive Imperative

Brandi AI’s Sentiment Hub addresses a new reality in consumer and business-to-business (B2B) decision-making. It provides marketers and public relations (PR) teams with visibility into AI-generated brand perception at a time when:

  • Consumers and B2B buyers are using AI answer engines to evaluate brands and vendors before visiting a website, using an ecommerce platform or speaking with sales.
  • Nearly three in five consumers have replaced traditional search engines with generative AI for product recommendations.
  • Two-thirds of B2B buyers use generative AI as much as or more than traditional search when researching vendors.
  • Brands need to know not only whether they appear in AI-generated answers, but how AI systems characterize them, which competitors are favored and which sources influence those descriptions.

Marketers have long faced a fundamental measurement problem: they can track clicks and conversions, but not how people feel about what they’re clicking on — and, crucially, why their brand’s sentiment is changing.

“For years, the hardest thing in communications has been proving that reputation moves revenue. We could feel it, but we couldn’t measure it — and now buyers are forming opinions inside AI answers before they ever reach us,” said Gini Dietrich, founder of Spin Sucks and creator of the PESO Model®, the operating system that marketing and communications teams use to integrate paid, earned, shared and owned media to drive measurable business outcomes. “What makes Sentiment Hub matter is that it doesn’t just tell you whether AI mentions your brand. It shows you how you’re being characterized and which sources are shaping it. That’s the missing measurement layer for the PESO Model® in an AI-first world. It turns sentiment from a rear-view report into something teams can actually manage.”

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How Brandi AI’s Sentiment Hub Measures What No Other Platform Can

At the core of Sentiment Hub is Brandi AI’s proprietary scoring algorithm, which makes market-category ownership and AI-generated brand sentiment measurable over time for the first time. It helps marketing and public relations (PR) teams move from observation to action by showing:

  • Which publisher, article or third-party source is influencing AI sentiment
  • Whether a source is improving or weakening brand perception
  • How sentiment shifts over time at the individual tracked-link level
  • Where competitor narratives are gaining ground on specific buying criteria
  • Which perception risks should be addressed before they affect sales, pipeline or deal momentum

This capability, which attributes sentiment scores to individual tracked links and measures how that sentiment shifts over time, is unique to Brandi AI and unavailable through any competing platform or solution.

Source-level precision changes what marketing and PR teams can do with that intelligence. Teams can spot a pattern — for example, a publisher consistently pulling sentiment down or a competitor narrative gaining ground on a specific buying criterion — and act before it costs the company sales or deals.

What Makes Sentiment Hub Different: The First Customizable Market Definition Tracking

Unlike generic brand monitoring tools, Sentiment Hub is the first-ever monitoring tool that lets marketing and PR teams define exactly what they want to track — the specific market categories, buyer questions, competitive comparisons and brand attributes that matter to their business — and then measure AI sentiment against those definitions over time. Sentiment Hub breaks down AI answers into structured, evidence-based records so teams can see whether AI recommends their brand, merely mentions it, favors a competitor or repeats outdated narratives from third-party sources.

Sentiment Hub enables marketing and PR teams to:

  • Identify whether AI describes a brand as a category leader, credible option, inferior alternative or risky choice
  • Measure sentiment across buyer-relevant attributes, including price, reliability, service, safety, performance, trust and innovation
  • Benchmark sentiment against competitors across AI engines, buyer questions, personas, geographies, market segments and time periods
  • Trace the specific sources contributing to positive, negative or outdated brand narratives
  • Track sentiment movement over time using Brandi AI’s proprietary scoring algorithm, which attributes sentiment scores to specific tracked links and measures how that sentiment shifts
  • Connect AI brand sentiment trends to public relations (PR), content, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and broader brand strategy

For enterprise marketing teams, Sentiment Hub turns scattered AI-generated brand mentions into measurable intelligence that can inform positioning, content strategy, competitive messaging and reputation management across consumer and business-to-business (B2B) categories alike.

“Just as brands once had to learn to monitor their search rankings, they now need to monitor how AI answer engines describe them — and the stakes are just as high,” said Nurik. “A brand can appear in an AI answer and still lose the buyer if it is described as expensive, unreliable or weaker than a competitor. Sentiment Hub shows marketers where those narratives originate and gives them the tools to act before a perception problem becomes a revenue problem.”

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Pando Public Relations Launches QueryScope — an Intelligence Platform for Brand Insight and Visibility Gap Analysis in AI Search

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Pando Public Relations Launches QueryScope — an Intelligence Platform for Brand Insight and Visibility Gap Analysis in AI Search

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QueryScope developed by Pando Public Relations gives brands insight into how they appear in AI search, including competitor intelligence and gap analysis.

Launched by Pando Public Relations, QueryScope identifies how brands appear in AI-generated answers and provides the foundational intelligence Pando uses to develop and execute strategic plans to improve visibility. QueryScope was developed by Jennifer Harrison, founder and CEO of Pando Public Relations.

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Now we can combine QueryScope data and AI intelligence with the invaluable experience of veteran public relations professionals to improve a brand’s visibility.

“None of the out-of-the-box tools we reviewed produced the detail needed to see how a brand appeared in AI answers in ways that would make our tactical efforts more effective,” said Harrison. “The solution was to program our own software to run prompt queries at scale across multiple models. Now we can combine QueryScope data and AI intelligence with the invaluable experience of veteran public relations professionals to improve a brand’s visibility.”

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QueryScope analysis includes:

  • Source Mapping
  • Model Favorability
  • Competitor Intelligence
  • Language Patterns
  • Visibility Gap Analysis

Pando Public Relations adds the essential layer of human insight and experience to identify opportunities and execute strategic plans to improve brand performance.

“We also built QueryScope with the capacity to monitor shifts in AI-generated answers and source patterns so brand performance can be tracked over time. We call this QueryPulse,” added Harrison.

QueryScope is available as a stand-alone service to determine a brand’s performance in AI search. It generates a detailed report of model performance, visibility gaps, and recommended areas of focus. It is also available as the intelligence foundation for a comprehensive public relations plan developed and executed by Pando Public Relations.

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