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Atbash Launches on Chromia to Enable Verifiable, User-Controlled AI Systems

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Atbash Launches on Chromia to Enable Verifiable, User-Controlled AI Systems

New plugin integrates with OpenClaw to introduce a transparent control layer for AI applications, supporting enterprise compliance and risk management

Chromia by Chromaway AB announces Atbash, an Agentic State & Policy Management (SPM) plugin designed for OpenClaw. Built on Chromia, Atbash introduces a verifiable control layer for AI-driven applications, enabling developers to define, enforce, and audit how agents interact with tools, data, and external systems in real time.

Designed to work directly with OpenClaw, Atbash enables developers to build AI systems that are not only powerful, but also governed, auditable, and aligned with enterprise requirements. As AI adoption accelerates, increasingly autonomous systems are executing actions, making decisions, and coordinating workflows with limited visibility into how outcomes are determined, creating growing challenges around control, traceability, and accountability.

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Atbash addresses these challenges by introducing a verifiable control layer where decisions, validations, and policy enforcement can be transparently managed and independently verified. Integrated with OpenClaw and coordinated through Clawchain, it enables developers to define how AI-driven actions are governed, validated, and recorded, supporting more controlled and auditable AI deployments.

Each interaction within Atbash, including decision points, rule enforcement, and outcomes, can be recorded as an immutable on-chain event. This creates a verifiable audit trail that supports transparency, accountability, and independent verification, aligning with enterprise expectations around explainability and compliance.

“AI capability is no longer the bottleneck — control, accountability, and trust are,” said Perelman, CEO at Chromaway. “By utilizing Atbash Agentic SPM, developers can build AI applications where decisions are governed by transparent and verifiable frameworks.”

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This approach supports emerging enterprise and regulatory expectations for AI governance, including the need for traceability, auditability, and structured oversight. By introducing a verifiable control layer within the development workflow, Atbash enables AI systems to operate within controlled environments rather than opaque processes.

In addition to governance, Atbash contributes to network activity on Chromia. By recording user interactions and decision flows on-chain, application usage is transformed into measurable, verifiable transactional activity, reinforcing Chromia’s role as infrastructure for real-world AI applications.

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Calendar Marketing: The High-Impact Channel Marketing Pros Will Need in 2026

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Calendar Marketing: The High-Impact Channel Marketing Pros Will Need in 2026

Best practices for reaching a brand’s core audience are changing. Until recently, marketers had been competing in a race to the top of results pages, relying on authoritative content with strategic links to boost organic reach and climb search rankings. The rules of the competition have since changed, however, thanks to the emergence of answer-engine optimization (AEO).

Today, businesses are optimizing their content strategies to cater to LLMs and AI-powered search engines, prioritizing structured, direct language, and increasing content volume to improve their chances of being featured in AI-generated results. While increasing content output may land a brand higher on a search engine page or lump it into an AI summary, it also means consumers are being flooded with more content and information than ever. Furthermore, inclusion in AI-generated search summaries might get some additional eyes on brand content, but ultimately yields less engagement, clicks, and conversions than traditional search.

However you crunch the numbers, brands are competing for consumer attention in an atmosphere jammed with unprecedented amounts of clutter and noise. Rather than working harder to churn out content that will simply flood the consumer marketplace and get lost amid all the other brands with the same idea, marketers should work smarter, opting for strategies that don’t just cut through the clutter but avoid it altogether.

Why Calendar Marketing is Making a Comeback

The search engine race is a zero-sum game that favors established brands and organizations with deep pockets willing to throw reams of content at the algorithm. Even companies that have had success catering to SEO and AEO can sometimes find their visibility marginalized by subtle shifts in search engine standards. As an alternative – or, more accurately, as a complement to existing strategies – brands should consider the more reliable, richer experience of direct marketing.

By creating a direct connection with consumers, brands don’t have to rely solely on cumbersome and expensive content campaigns to win the search engine race. Rather than taking a scattershot approach based on volume, most organizations will get better results – and more bang for their marketing buck – by appealing to their customer base and core target audience with a more straightforward, personalized approach. Specifically, there is one direct-marketing channel that should hold special appeal to every marketing professional: digital calendars

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Digital Calendars: Always On, Never Intrusive

If you were creating a marketing channel out of thin air to maximize exposure and engagement with a target audience at a minimal expense, it would be difficult to top the digital calendar. And what makes it uniquely valuable in this moment is its utility and effectiveness outside of the search engine chase.

With the right approach, brand marketing calendars have the potential to:

  • Extend campaign visibility beyond the inbox and feed
  • Deliver timely nudges, updates, and upsell opportunities when attention is highest
  • Reinforce brand presence without competing for clicks
  • Turn one-off events into ongoing engagement

Calendars are a fully opt-in, direct channel that consumers already check each day. Positioning your brand alongside a customer’s other high-priority reminders delivers ongoing and high-value exposure without the risk of invasiveness. When customers subscribe to your calendar feed, they are not only indicating their interest in what your brand has to share but also granting permission for that brand to have a reasonable amount of their attention and personal real estate.

That permission should be respected with meticulously curated content – no filler or empty blasts. There is exceptional value in a direct, always-on, and timely marketing communication channel that solves multiple industry challenges. Calendars as a marketing channel can help brands circumvent oversaturated SMS and email channels, avoid an overreliance on winning the AEO and GEO search race, and capture the attention of their target audience at the right time.

Using Calendar Marketing to Overcome Shortening Attention Spans

That last characteristic is an important one. Research suggests that attention spans are shrinking, and the irony is that marketers are fighting a problem partially of their own making. Information overload has conditioned audiences to spend less time with any given piece of content and make snap decisions about whether to investigate further or to move on.

Calendars help overcome that growing barrier. Because calendar subscribers have opted into a brand’s content, they are intuitively deeming any content that follows from that brand as being worthy of their time. By self-selecting up front, a subscriber has infused greater value in a brand’s content from the moment it lands on their calendar.

Digital calendar marketing is an underutilized direct-to-consumer channel that marketers will come to depend on as AI-generated and automated content increasingly crowd out traditional marketing channels. Marketers should continue to use legacy channels such as email, social media, and SMS, but an evolving audience requires new tactics. Digital calendars are becoming an essential component of marketing tech stacks in helping brands achieve higher-quality, longer, and more timely audience engagement.

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Unit21 Appoints Tyler Allen as Chief Executive Officer as Company Accelerates AI Risk Infrastructure Vision

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Trisha Kothari, Co-Founder, Continues as Chairman of the Board; Tyler Allen’s Deep AI and Technical Leadership Drives Unit21’s Next Phase of Growth

Unit21, the leading AI Risk Infrastructure platform for fraud prevention and AML monitoring, announced the appointment of Tyler Allen, founding software engineer and former Head of AI, as Chief Executive Officer. Trisha Kothari, who co-founded Unit21, will continue as Chairman of the Board, where she will own the company’s long-term strategic vision and key strategic relationships.

“The institutions that win in the next decade will be those that pair the best people with the best AI infrastructure. That’s what Unit21 is building, and we’re just getting started.”

The announcement arrives just weeks after Unit21 completed a comprehensive rebuild of its platform, rearchitected from the ground up around AI Agents. That rebuild, alongside a corresponding repositioning as the category-defining AI Risk Infrastructure company, reflects Unit21’s conviction that the financial crime industry is undergoing a fundamental shift. Elevating Tyler, the architect of Unit21’s AI Risk Infrastructure, to CEO is an extension of that momentum. The company is not simply adapting to the market shift; it is leading it.

As former Head of AI, Tyler is uniquely positioned to lead this next chapter. He joined Unit21 as its first employee and founding software engineer in 2019, writing the earliest lines of code that formed the foundation of the platform. Over the past seven years, he evolved from engineer to the company’s Head of AI and COO, where he built and owned Unit21’s complete AI strategy, taking the company’s AI Agents from concept into production, scaling them across many of the leading financial institutions, and proving that autonomous, regulator-ready AI can meaningfully transform how fraud and compliance teams operate. Under his AI leadership, Unit21’s customer usage of AI Agents grew 30x in a single quarter.

“Tyler has been at Unit21 since day one, not just as a witness to the company’s evolution, but as a core architect of its technical foundations,” said Trisha Kothari, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Unit21. “He wrote the first lines of code. He led the engineering culture that built the platform. Over the last year, he transformed our AI vision into a reality: production-grade agents running within the largest and most complex financial crime programs in the industry. Appointing Tyler as CEO is the natural next step, putting the person who built our AI-first platform in charge of realizing its full potential. I couldn’t be more excited about what’s to come next.”

The announcement comes during a period of significant momentum for Unit21. Last month, the company was named a Leader in the Chartis Financial Crime and Compliance 50 (FCC50) for 2026 and won Chartis’ Innovation Award for GenAI Summarization, recognizing Unit21’s work in deploying agentic AI that autonomously executes the full investigative workflow. The company was also recently named to the 2026 RegTech100 specifically for its leadership in Agentic AI Innovation.

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“The reason I joined this company seven years ago is the same reason I’m stepping into this role today: financial crime is one of the most consequential problems in the world, and we’re finally at a point where technology can make a real dent in it,” said Tyler Allen, Chief Executive Officer of Unit21. “The platform we’ve rebuilt isn’t just an upgrade, it’s a different kind of infrastructure, one where AI Agents handle the volume so that every analyst can focus on the decisions that actually require human judgment. Financial institutions can scale their risk and compliance programs without scaling their headcount, and the people doing this work can finally spend their time on the cases that matter. We’ve proven that this works. Now we’re going to take it further and faster.”

Unit21’s AI Risk Infrastructure automates more than 200,000+ reviews per month via Investigation Agents, Detection Agents, Case Agents, and SAR Filing Agents. The platform has caught over $14 billion in nefarious activity and files 5% of all SARs filed to FinCEN in the United States across a customer base that spans financial institutions, fintechs, crypto platforms, and BaaS providers. The company serves more than 200 customers across 90 countries, including Sallie Mae, Chime, GreenDot, Rippling, Intuit, and Crypto.com.

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The platform’s results speak to what AI Risk Infrastructure can deliver in practice. Customers have reported notable outcomes from deploying AI Agents, including a 93% reduction in false positives, 44% faster alert reviews, and a reduction in SAR preparation time from nearly a week to under 30 minutes. AI agent-driven rule deployment has also compressed from a two-week process to five minutes. But the more meaningful shift is what analysts can now do with that reclaimed capacity, focusing on the complex, high-judgment investigations that actually require human expertise, rather than spending the majority of their day triaging noise. These are not pilot results; they are production outcomes, audited and defensible at every step.

“We’re at a defining moment for this industry,” Tyler added. “Risk and compliance teams cannot hire their way out of the volumes they’re facing, and they shouldn’t have to. The analysts doing this work are some of the most knowledgeable professionals in financial services. The problem is that the industry has been asking them to spend most of their time on work that a machine can do. We want to give that time back so they can focus on the investigations that actually require their judgment, instincts, and expertise. AI-enabled fraud, real-time payments, stablecoin proliferation: the attack surface is growing faster than headcount ever could. The institutions that win in the next decade will be those that pair the best people with the best infrastructure. That’s what Unit21 is building, and we’re just getting started.”

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Bitly Introduces AI-Powered Features to Simplify and Accelerate Marketing Analytics

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Bitly Introduces AI-Powered Features to Simplify and Accelerate Marketing Analytics

Bitly Inc., a leading global platform for link and QR Code management, announced the launch of Bitly Assist and Weekly Insights, two new AI-powered features designed to help marketers move faster from data to action.

Marketing teams now have access to more data than ever before, but quickly surfacing insights that are easy to act on remains a challenge. Making sense of that data still requires manual analysis, and even when data is available, the next step isn’t always obvious. Bitly Assist and Weekly Insights close that gap by bringing speed and direction to the signals marketers rely on.

Bitly Assist is an AI-powered chat assistant built directly into the Bitly platform as a conversational layer, available wherever you work within Bitly. It enables customers to ask questions about link and QR Code performance, such as which links received the most clicks this week or which channels are driving engagement, and receive answers in seconds. It also allows users to create links and QR Codes conversationally, reducing the steps between idea and execution.

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“We know our customers don’t have time to spend digging for answers in their data. We built Bitly Assist and Weekly Insights to fit directly into the way customers already work, so there’s no friction between having data and acting on it,” Kelsey Stevenson, Chief Product Officer.

For teams juggling links and campaigns across channels, that friction adds up fast. Early adopters say Bitly Assist is changing that.

“Bitly Assist has streamlined how we analyze performance. What used to take 10 to 15 minutes of digging through dashboards now takes seconds,” notes Ania Cotton, SEO & Data Analytics Manager at Americas’ SAP Users’ Group and Bitly Assist early adopter. “Its follow-up prompts also surface insights we might not have uncovered on our own.”

Weekly Insights is a new experience within Bitly Analytics that automatically highlights meaningful changes in link and QR Code performance. Updated weekly, it identifies patterns across links, referrers, geographies, and devices—bringing the most important signals forward without requiring teams to build or run manual reports. By surfacing cross-channel engagement trends, Weekly Insights helps marketers quickly understand what’s working and where to focus next.

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“Marketers shouldn’t have to fight their own data to understand what’s working,” said Tara Robertson, Chief Marketing Officer at Bitly. “Bitly Assist and Weekly Insights bring the most important signals to the surface, helping teams connect performance across channels and act on it faster.”

These launches are part of Bitly’s ongoing investment in AI-powered workflows, designed to help users create, manage, and analyze the performance of their links and QR codes more efficiently, so teams can focus on what matters most and drive stronger outcomes. Over the last few months, Bitly has continued to expand how and where customers can access that value, including integrations with leading LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot, along with Bitly’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which brings Bitly functionality directly into the tools customers already use. Bitly Assist and Weekly Insights are available now to all customers on paid plans at bitly.com.

With more than 5.7 million monthly active users, more than 600,000 global paying customers, and presence in over 190 countries, Bitly reaches teams wherever connections are being created and measured—inside the platform and beyond.

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Globo Transitions Primary Distribution to SRT over Managed IP Infrastructure with Synamedia

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Globo Transitions Primary Distribution to SRT over Managed IP Infrastructure with Synamedia

Leading video software provider Synamedia announced that Globo, the largest commercial media group in Latin America, has transitioned its primary content distribution to Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) over a fully IP-based managed backbone infrastructure using Synamedia Quortex PowerVu and virtualized Digital Content Manager (vDCM).

Globo’s distribution environment is entirely IP-based, and the transition focused specifically on adopting SRT as the transport protocol for primary contribution and distribution.

Working with Synamedia partner Convergint, the lead systems integrator responsible for the solution delivery and ongoing support, Globo’s linear pay-TV service now uses Quortex PowerVu for centralized management with proactive endpoint monitoring, automated alarms, remote configuration capabilities, and real-time operational dashboards to ensure the same high-quality experience viewers previously received.

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The new architecture leverages a distributed, managed Globo IP backbone infrastructure distributed across Brazil, enabling secure and reliable transport with high availability, latency control, and end-to-end resilience. The adoption of SRT enables advanced packet recovery and selective retransmission mechanisms, along with adaptive optimization to network conditions, ensuring signal integrity, stability, and consistent performance even in adverse scenarios.

Synamedia also deployed new software to increase Globo’s PowerVu D9800 receivers’ capacity to support more video feeds, strengthening operational performance and scalability. Synamedia’s flexible, software-based vDCM operates as an IP gateway with SRT, supporting a highly resilient distribution environment. Synamedia and Globo ensured a seamless transition while upholding Globo’s strict latency and quality standards.

Through many years of working together, Globo has experienced Synamedia’s technology expertise first-hand. This established trust, combined with Synamedia’s proven experience in large-scale IP transitions and commitment to cross-team collaboration, were contributing factors in Globo’s decision.

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“The scale of this project – with Quortex PowerVu at the core – proves that IP-based distribution has reached the maturity required for primary distribution, bringing operational flexibility while ensuring the reliability and image quality that audiences expect,” said Edward Allfrey, EVP, Video Network, Synamedia. “For decades, TV Globo has set the standard for broadcast innovation in Latin America. This deployment demonstrates its continued dedication to pushing boundaries and delivering the highest standards of quality and reliability. It has been a privilege to collaborate with Globo and Convergint on this landmark achievement.”

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GoDaddy and LegalZoom Partner to Support Open Agentic Web

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GoDaddy and LegalZoom Partner to Support Open Agentic Web

LegalZoom AI agent certified through ANS, giving it global credibility and identity

LegalZoom.com, Inc., America’s #1 online legal services company, and GoDaddy, global leader in domains and tech for small businesses, have entered into a partnership to protect the rapidly expanding agentic open web for small and medium-sized businesses.

AI agents now act as more than simple fact-finding companions. They communicate with one another and complete tasks independently—and occasionally go rogue. As enterprises roll out AI agents across different platforms, users lack a consistent way to verify where an agent came from, who published it, and most importantly, whether it can be trusted.

Agent Name Service (ANS) is an open standard built to help solve this high-stakes challenge. ANS employs the same core infrastructure that powers today’s internet: domain name system (DNS) and public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates. It requires each registered AI agent to be assigned a unique, human-readable name and a cryptographically verifiable identity. This lets agents be discovered, verified and governed across the open web.

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LegalZoom and GoDaddy support the ANS open standard

As a driving force behind enhancing the ANS open standard, GoDaddy turned the blueprint into reality with GoDaddy ANS, the first public implementation of the open standard where anyone can publish and verify agents in minutes.

In support of that blueprint, LegalZoom registered its first AI agent, leveraging GoDaddy ANS. The LegalZoom agent is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that integrates LegalZoom’s legal services directly into AI assistants such as Anthropic’s Claude and enables users to connect with real attorneys, scan and share legal documents, and manage legal consultations.

GoDaddy ANS provides cryptographic verification that confirms the agent is legitimately owned and operated by LegalZoom using DNS as the root of trust, so other AI systems can find and verify the LegalZoom MCP agent. By registering the agent on GoDaddy ANS, it can be discovered not just by humans, but other agents as well at internet scale.

“AI agents will transform how legal services are delivered, but their value depends on verifiable identity and human accountability,” said Aaron Stibel, chief customer & business officer at LegalZoom. “Partnering with GoDaddy to publish our MCP Agent on ANS lets LegalZoom deliver trusted legal experiences at scale across the open web. Customers and their AI assistants can confidently discover the real LegalZoom and our attorney-backed solutions that raise the bar on accountability and trust.”

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The ANS standard makes the open web safer

Here’s what ANS delivers in practice:

  • Publishes each AI agent as a DNS record, discoverable worldwide in seconds
  • Enables any person or system to confirm an agent’s origin with a simple DNS query
  • Provides cryptographic proof that the agent is bound to a verified domain, so other systems can confirm who operates it
  • Works with any ANS-compatible registry, including GoDaddy ANS

“Trust is the currency of online business,” said Travis Muhlestein, chief technology officer of product AI at GoDaddy. “LegalZoom’s partnership and publishing its AI agent through ANS shows how powerful open identity can be. Each organization that registers an agent strengthens the standard and makes the whole AI ecosystem a safer, more open place to do business.”

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HawkEye 360 Expands Board of Directors with Two New Appointments

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HawkEye 360 Expands Board of Directors with Two New Appointments

HawkEye 360, the global leader in signals intelligence data and analytics, announced the appointment of Jonathan Shames and Frank Finelli to its Board of Directors. Both leaders bring extensive experience across finance, defense, aerospace, and national security that will support HawkEye 360’s continued growth and mission impact.

Jonathan currently serves on the Board of Trustees and as Audit Committee Chairman for Blue Owl Capital Digital Infrastructure Trust and Blue Owl Capital Real Estate Net Lease Trust. He also serves as a senior advisor to Highspring’s Consulting division, where he works with organizations to address key finance, technology, and business objectives. Previously, Jonathan spent nearly four decades at Ernst & Young LLP, holding senior leadership roles guiding audit, accounting, and financial reporting practices. At EY, he led numerous global engagements and served as EY’s geopolitical leader. He is a licensed CPA and holds an Economics degree from Colgate University and an MBA in Finance from New York University.

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Frank joins the Board following a distinguished career at The Carlyle Group, where he retired as Partner and Managing Director after more than 25 years focused on defense and aerospace investments. Throughout his tenure, he led major acquisitions and advanced cross-portfolio value creation initiatives. His public service includes roles as Legislative Assistant to Senator Dan Coats on the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the first Quadrennial Defense Review, and Associate Professor of Economics at the U.S. Military Academy. Frank is a CFA charterholder and a distinguished graduate of West Point, with advanced degrees from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

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“Jonathan and Frank bring exceptional financial, operational, and national security expertise,” said John Serafini, CEO of HawkEye 360. “Their insight and leadership will play a pivotal role as HawkEye 360 continues delivering trusted signals intelligence that enables our customers to make faster, better decisions in the most demanding mission environments.”

Jonathan and Frank join the Board as HawkEye 360 continues to expand its constellation, enhance analytic capabilities, and deepen support for U.S. and allied defense partners.

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Guidefitter Deepens Strategic Partnership with Rocky Brands, Inc., Expands Platform to Include Muck and XTRATUF

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Guidefitter Deepens Strategic Partnership with Rocky Brands, Inc., Expands Platform to Include Muck and XTRATUF

Expansion Builds on Longstanding Collaboration with Rocky Boots, Bringing Additional Rocky Brands Portfolio Leaders into Guidefitter’s Professional Network

Guidefitter, a leading outdoor recreation technology platform connecting brands with verified outdoor professionals, announced an expanded partnership with Rocky Brands, Inc. Building on a successful relationship established with Rocky Boots in 2021, two additional brands from the Rocky portfolio – The Original Muck Boot Company and XTRATUF – have now joined the Guidefitter platform.

This expansion marks a significant milestone in the ongoing collaboration between Guidefitter and Rocky Brands, reflecting the strength of the partnership and the proven impact of Guidefitter’s professional network in driving brand engagement and credibility within the outdoor industry.

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“Following the success we’ve seen with Rocky on the platform, expanding our partnership to include Muck and XTRATUF was a natural evolution,” said Jason Brooks, President/CEO at Rocky Brands. “Guidefitter provides direct access to a highly engaged community of professionals who rely on performance-driven gear every day. It’s a powerful way for our brands to build authentic connections and reinforce trust with core users.”

Since joining Guidefitter in 2021, Rocky Boots has leveraged the platform to connect with a verified audience of guides, outfitters, and outdoor professionals. The addition of Muck and XTRATUF underscores Rocky Brands’ confidence in the platform’s ability to deliver meaningful results across its portfolio.

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“Rocky Brands has been a valued partner since 2021, and what we’ve built together with the Rocky brand made this expansion inevitable,” said Brian Worthington, VP of Brand Partnerships for Guidefitter. “Muck and XTRATUF are two of the most trusted names in outdoor footwear. Our Insiders – guides, outfitters, military, law enforcement – these are professionals who destroy boots for a living. They know what holds up and what doesn’t, and their recommendations carry real weight with the consumers who follow their lead. Giving Muck and XTRATUF direct access to that audience is exactly what our platform is built to do.”

Through Guidefitter, The Original Muck Boot Company and XTRATUF will engage directly with a network of more than 194,000 verified outdoor professionals through pro programs, targeted storytelling, and product education. The platform currently supports more than 325 brand partners across hunting, fishing, shooting sports, and outdoor recreation.

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Lochbox Technologies, Inc. Is Now Callegra Technologies, Inc.

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Lochbox Technologies, Inc. Is Now Callegra Technologies, Inc.

The new name draws on Callegra’s rich legacy of customer trust. Lochbox Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of unified communications software, has rebranded as Callegra Technologies, Inc. The new name unifies all products under the trusted Callegra brand and supports expansion into key market segments, including healthcare, commercial, and government organizations. The company continues to deliver secure, scalable communication solutions while maintaining the same team, products, and customer support.

Lochbox Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Unified Communications software solutions, today announced its official name change to Callegra Technologies, Inc. This strategic rebrand aligns company priorities by positioning all current and future product offerings under the unified Callegra brand umbrella.

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Why the Name Change?

The transition to Callegra Technologies reflects a commitment to a brand synonymous with military-grade security, hardware-agnostic interoperability, and stability since 1994.

“The Callegra name is well known to our customers. It represents a family of products they have trusted for over thirty years,” said Justin C. Reber, Chairman & CEO. “By changing our name to Callegra, we want customers to know that this legacy of quality and security continues to be our company’s mission as we continue to grow”.

This shift better supports our mission to extend highly secure communication products to broader market segments while maintaining the same industry-leading reliability that has defined the company for decades. For example, we are launching targeted solutions built for the demands of critical sectors in healthcare, commercial and government organizations. Callegra Hospital Robocall Blocker and Callegra Robocall Blocker for Business protects vital hospital and business workflows from disruptive robocalls in real-time within existing phone systems, while Callegra Community delivers a secure, mission-ready messaging communications platform tailored to the rigorous needs of federal agencies.

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New Name, Same Mission

While you will notice new branding on invoices, communications, and at www.callegra.com, the core team and our dedication to protecting confidential communications remains unchanged. Customers can be assured that:

  • Contractual Continuity: All existing contracts, agreements, and service terms remain in full effect.
  • Direct Support: Your existing points of contact and support teams remain the same.
  • Product Integrity: Product features, functionality, and the commitment to security and privacy are unchanged.
  • Continued Innovation: The team remains energized to deliver cutting-edge communication tools and high-quality support.

This rebranding represents a renewed promise to provide best-in-class secure solutions that help organizations thrive in an increasingly connected world.

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Zapier Survey Finds Nearly 3 in 4 Enterprises Would Face Disruption If They Lost Their Primary AI Vendor

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Zapier Survey Finds Nearly 3 in 4 Enterprises Would Face Disruption If They Lost Their Primary AI Vendor

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New research on AI vendor lock-in reveals a wide gap between how fast companies think they can switch AI providers and what actually happens when they try

Zapier, the most connected AI orchestration platform, released findings from its latest enterprise survey on AI vendor lock-in. The results paint a clear picture: AI has become so deeply embedded in how companies operate that most can’t walk away from their primary vendor without serious consequences. Among 542 U.S. enterprise executives surveyed, nearly three-quarters (74%) say losing their AI vendor would disrupt day-to-day operations or leave them unable to function.

The survey also uncovered a significant confidence gap around migration. While 89% of leaders believe they could switch AI vendors within a month, the majority of those who have attempted it (58%) say the process either failed or required far more effort than expected.

“Companies adopted AI to move faster, and it worked. But that speed created a new kind of dependency that most teams didn’t plan for,” said Emily Mabie, Senior AI Automation Engineer at Zapier. “The organizations in the best position right now aren’t the ones avoiding vendor commitments. They’re the ones that built flexibility into their stack from the start, so switching a model or a provider doesn’t mean rebuilding everything around it.”

Key Findings:

  • Most enterprises can’t cleanly walk away from their AI vendor: Only 6% of leaders say they could stop using their primary AI vendor without any disruption. For 47%, at least one key business function would break. Another 27% say they rely on AI for most or all of their operations.
  • Migration confidence doesn’t match migration reality: 89% of executives believe they could switch AI vendors within four weeks. But among the 66% who have attempted a migration, 58% say it failed outright or took significantly more effort than anticipated.
  • Lock-in concerns are widespread: 81% of enterprise leaders express concern about dependency on specific AI vendors, with 29% saying they’re very concerned. Data migration challenges (46%) and overdependence on a single vendor (46%) rank as the top risks.
  • Enterprises are actively building safeguards: 47% now have dedicated internal teams to evaluate and manage AI vendors. 44% use multiple AI vendors simultaneously, 42% maintain contingency plans, and more than a third (35%) incorporate open-source alternatives to reduce dependency.

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The Migration Confidence Gap

Leaders are overwhelmingly confident they could move to a new AI provider quickly. 41% estimate the switch would take just 2–5 business days, and 13% say they could do it in a single day. That optimism starts to crack once teams go through the process. Two-thirds of respondents have attempted a migration between AI platforms, and among that group, only 42% describe the transition as smooth.

The disconnect comes down to what migration involves. By the time a company considers switching vendors, AI has already been woven into internal processes, connected to other systems, and tuned to specific workflows. Swapping the vendor means untangling those dependencies, not just changing a billing plan.

What Enterprises Want from Their AI Vendors

When asked what would ease lock-in concerns, transparency came out on top. 30% of leaders say clearer pricing, features, and contract terms would make the biggest difference. Another 26% want easier data transfers between vendors, and 24% want more flexible pricing models. The theme across all these responses is the same: Enterprises want AI deeply embedded in their operations, but they also want the freedom to change direction when they need to.

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How Organizations Are Responding

Rather than waiting for lock-in to become a crisis, many enterprises are taking proactive steps. Beyond dedicating internal teams and diversifying vendors, 34% are designing around data portability and standard APIs, while 33% use third-party integration or orchestration tools to coordinate workflows across systems. Some are going further still, with 31% building proprietary AI tools and 29% negotiating shorter, more flexible contracts to maintain leverage.

“The best time to plan for flexibility is before you go all-in on a single vendor. The second-best time is now,” said Mabie. “The companies seeing the strongest results are the ones that separate their workflow logic from any one AI model. That way, when something changes, they can adapt without starting from scratch.”

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Box Unveils the Box Agent to Transform How Enterprises Work With Content

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Box Unveils the Box Agent to Transform How Enterprises Work With Content

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The new Box Agent is generally available and applies leading AI models to unstructured data to autonomously execute end-to-end tasks

New enhancements to Box AI Studio enable custom agent creation for complex multi-step work

Box, Inc. , the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, announced the general availability of the Box Agent, an AI-powered capability that takes natural language instructions to reason and complete complex tasks, reinventing how enterprises work with unstructured data. Acting as a unified AI engine across Box, the Box Agent leverages the latest advanced reasoning models to securely search company files, analyze and synthesize critical data, and generate new content – all while respecting Box’s enterprise-grade security, governance, and permissions controls. Box also announced enhancements to Box AI Studio, allowing admins to develop custom agents tailored to complex, business-specific use cases.

Box unveils the Box Agent to transform how enterprises work with content

“Enterprises everywhere are looking to harness AI to transform their businesses, but AI can only reach its full potential if it understands the unique context of an organization,” said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box. “That context lives within contracts, research materials, marketing assets, financial documents, and other forms of enterprise content. With the Box Agent, we’re reinventing how work gets done by bringing AI directly to the content that powers the enterprise. Organizations can start deploying AI agents today, with the controls and protections businesses depend on.”

“For companies managing countless contracts, placements, and customer documents across multiple systems, successful AI outcomes depend on the ability to tap into the knowledge contained within unstructured content,” said Matthew Campana, Vice President of Digital Transformation at The Judge Group. “The new Box Agent will transform how we automate business critical tasks by unlocking AI-powered insights across files. With a single query, the Box Agent can activate complex workflows and find essential data from files, while maintaining strict compliance and data protection standards.”

Introducing the Box Agent

Leveraging leading AI capabilities from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, the new Box Agent is reshaping how enterprises take action on their content. The Box Agent is able to autonomously understand a user’s intent based on their prompt, find the right content needed to execute that task, reflect on the work it needs to do, and iterate until it can successfully answer the user’s request. This all takes place within Box AI’s new conversational interface, which provides the ability to revisit previous sessions where users can iterate, refine, and return to work from where they left off.

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With the new Box Agent, enterprises will be able to:

  • Search across their entire content library and deliver clear, concise answers grounded in enterprise data, with source references for transparency and trust;
  • Create entirely new files in multiple formats, including Box Notes, Word docs, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint decks, enabling users to quickly produce reports, presentations, and other business documents;
  • Analyze specific, user-selected files – such as contracts or reports – to generate structured insights, comparisons, and summaries based only on the chosen content;
  • Interpret natural-language questions and expand searches to account for organizational terminology, relevance, and recency, improving the quality of results;
  • Complete multi-step tasks in a single flow by automatically locating relevant files, extracting key information, and generating cohesive reports;
  • Summarize complex documents and multi-file collections into clear, actionable insights that help users quickly understand key information and make informed decisions.

Designed with enterprise security at its core, the Box Agent only generates responses from files the user is authorized to access and never uses customer data to train third-party large language models – delivering a secure, permissions-aware AI experience enterprises can trust. By leveraging the autonomous capabilities of the Box Agent:

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  • Legal teams can review contracts faster and quickly identify deviations from standard terms. Acting as a first pass, the Box Agent can compare contracts against standard terms playbooks, focusing on the exceptions that matter most;
  • Procurement teams can process invoices and vendor documents at scale. By analyzing invoices, contracts, and purchase records, the Box Agent surfaces key fields and flags discrepancies, helping teams accelerate approvals, reduce errors, and make data-driven purchasing decisions faster;
  • HR teams can generate personalized onboarding schedules. The Box Agent can locate the relevant role-specific handbooks and roadmaps to synthesize role expectations into a schedule, helping new hires ramp up faster and reducing manual HR effort;
  • Sales teams can use the Box Agent to automate complex RFP responses. Sales Engineers can upload lengthy RFP documents and the Box Agent will autonomously find the latest compliance guides and whitepapers to create high-quality drafts in minutes, reducing manual effort and accelerating deal cycles;
  • Marketing teams can draft complex on-brand assets. By pointing the Box Agent to product requirement documents, messaging briefs, artifact templates and brand guidelines, marketers can generate content, such as data sheets and launch blogs, that align with the company’s voice and visual style.

Box also announced enhancements to Box AI Studio, enabling admins to create custom AI agents for repeatable, high-stakes workflows. Admins can now configure their own versions of the Box Agent, tailoring agents to specific business rules, knowledge, and data sets. By operationalizing expertise at scale, the updated Box AI Studio ensures that complex tasks are executed with consistency and precision across the organization.

“AI in the enterprise depends on its grasp of the unique organizational context that defines a business,” said Amy Machado, Senior Research Manager, Content and Knowledge Management Strategies, IDC. “The Box Agent leverages this ‘unique context’ to transform content into actionable intelligence while ensuring that enterprise-grade security and permissions remain intact. With enhancements to Box AI Studio, enterprises aren’t just using generic AI; they are building custom agents tailored to their specific business rules and terminology. This means organizations can operationalize their expertise at scale, across the entire content lifecycle.”

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BV Investment Partners Announces Sale of CallTower

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BV Investment Partners Announces Sale of CallTower

BV Investment Partners (“BV”), a middle-market private equity firm focused on tech-enabled business services and solutions, announced the majority sale of CallTower, a global leader in managed cloud communications, contact center and collaboration solutions, to Court Square Capital Partners. BV and CallTower management will retain a minority stake in the business.

CallTower is a leader in an emerging class of managed service providers that enable best-of-breed cloud communications solutions in complex, multi-vendor and multi-location environments, specializing in Unified Communications as a Service, Collaboration, and Contact Center as a Service, with end-to-end professional and managed services. Partnering with leading technologies like Microsoft® Teams, Webex by Cisco®, Zoom Solutions, and AI-powered contact center solutions, CallTower delivers seamless and reliable connectivity tailored to the unique needs of enterprises worldwide. Headquartered in South Jordan, Utah, CallTower serves over 80 countries from offices in Rochester, NY, London, Montreal and the Philippines.

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Since BV’s investment in CallTower in 2023, CallTower strengthened its communications partnerships with key vendors, broadened routes to market, and expanded its solution set through the acquisition of Inoria, to meet the diverse needs of its customers with tailored services.

Bret England, Chief Executive Officer of CallTower, said, “CallTower’s proprietary management platform delivers our full suite of rich integrated solutions, allowing people to seamlessly connect globally and communicate to help their businesses grow with the benefit of deep customer analytics and AI insights. Our experience with BV has been exceptional and we appreciate the guidance and investment they provided to us and look forward to continuing our organic and inorganic growth strategy with our new partner in Court Square.”

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Justin Garrison, Partner at BV Investment Partners, stated, “For over two decades, CallTower has built a reputation for excellence across the cloud communications and collaboration market. We are proud to have worked with Bret and the CallTower team over the past few years to execute its compelling growth strategy and achieve our goals. During this time, we were able to capitalize on growth within existing platforms, accelerate bookings, expand its geographic footprint, and add new solutions. There are many new and existing global opportunities to continue this exciting momentum.”

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In the Age of AI, the Human Becomes the Strategy — Vera Advances a Human-Centric Approach to Enterprise Performance

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In the Age of AI, the Human Becomes the Strategy — Vera Advances a Human-Centric Approach to Enterprise Performance

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As artificial intelligence continues to scale across the enterprise space, a new reality is emerging: the more advanced machines become, the more essential human capability is to organizational success.

Across industries, organizations are racing to adopt AI at scale. Yet alongside that acceleration is a growing recognition that technology alone does not create advantage. According to a recent global report from Deloitte on human capital trends, companies are being forced to rethink how work gets done, not just through automation, but through the evolving relationship between humans and intelligent systems.

At the frontier of AI development, this shift is even more pronounced. Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei has emphasized that as AI advances, “the things that make us human will become much more important instead of much less important.” In practice, that means prioritizing qualities such as curiosity, compassion, and emotional intelligence—traits that cannot be replicated by machines, but are essential to how organizations adapt, collaborate, and lead.

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The implication is not philosophical. It is operational. And it must be centered around people.
Despite widespread adoption of AI tools, many enterprises are still structured around models that treat human capability as secondary to technology. Under pressure, organizations continue to cut leadership development, reduce investment in culture, and deprioritize the very conditions that enable people to perform. The result is a growing disconnect: increasingly intelligent systems operating inside environments that are not designed for human effectiveness.

Vera was built to address that disconnect.

Vera, an AI-powered, human-led company, works with enterprises to integrate AI in a way that strengthens, rather than sidelines, human capability. Its approach centers on a simple but often overlooked principle: AI should not replace the human layer of an organization, it should elevate it.

According to Dr. Ghazaleh Samandari, behavioral scientist and co-founder of Vera, “The organizations that succeed will be the ones that understand how people actually work—how they make decisions, how they collaborate, how they respond under pressure—and design their systems to support that, not override it.”

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Rather than viewing human qualities like empathy, judgment, and leadership as soft or secondary, Vera treats them as central to how outcomes are achieved. This means helping organizations rethink how teams are structured, how decisions are made, and how technology is introduced into real workflows.

“We’re seeing a shift from AI as a tool to AI as an environment,” said Julie Cropp Gareleck, co-founder of Vera. “And in that environment, the question becomes: are you building systems that people can actually operate within? Human-centric AI is not a philosophy—it’s a responsibility. If you don’t design for the human experience, the system will fail, no matter how advanced the technology is.”

As enterprises move into the next phase of AI maturity, the conversation is evolving. It is no longer enough to ask what AI can do. Leaders must ask what kind of organization they are building around it—and whether that organization enables people to perform, adapt, and lead in a rapidly changing environment.

In the age of AI, the companies that win will not be those that automate the most. They will be the ones that understand the enduring value of human capability—and build their systems accordingly.

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Ecer.com Redefines Global Trade with Mobile-First Ecosystem

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Ecer.com Redefines Global Trade with Mobile-First Ecosystem

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The landscape of international trade is undergoing a seismic shift as global procurement migrates from desktop offices to mobile devices. Ecer.com, a leading global mobile B2B marketplace, is at the forefront of this transformation, accelerating the construction of a new “mobile ecosystem” that bridges the gap between international buyers and suppliers in real-time.

Breaking the Efficiency Barrier
Traditionally, foreign trade was synonymous with grueling email chains, time-zone delays, and high-cost offline factory visits. ECER is rewriting this narrative by prioritizing “instant connectivity.”
Through the Ecer.com mobile framework, buyers can browse products and initiate inquiries anytime, anywhere. Complementing this is an integrated AI Inquiry System that handles cross-language communication and real-time interactions. This ensures that language barriers and time differences no longer stall business, making “24/7 online” the new standard for global trade.

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Rebuilding Trust via “Panoramic Factory Inspections”
Trust is the ultimate currency in B2B transactions, yet physical factory audits are often slow and expensive. To solve this, ECER has enhanced its visual capabilities with “Mobile Panoramic Factory Inspection.”
A recent success story involved Shenzhen Calinmeter Co,.LTD and a buyer from the Middle East. Instead of a multi-day international trip, the buyer used their smartphone to conduct a real-time virtual tour of the production lines, equipment, and assembly processes. What previously took days of coordination was settled in minutes, allowing the partnership to proceed immediately.

A Closed-Loop Ecosystem for the Future
For ECER, mobile integration is more than just a responsive website; it is about closing the loop from lead generation to final deal. By integrating AI, VR, live streaming, and real-time interaction into a single mobile scene, the platform covers every critical stage:
 Inquiry & Communication
 Product Display & Factory Inspection
 Follow-up & Decision Making
This closed-loop system allows enterprises to respond to market shifts with unprecedented agility, reducing multinational collaboration costs while boosting conversion rates.

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The New Era of “Mobile First”
As global trade enters a new digital phase, the competitive edge has shifted from “who has more information” to “who can connect and build trust faster.” Ecer.com is not merely providing a platform; it is pioneering a more flexible, efficient way of digital collaboration.
In a world where global business is conducted from the palm of one’s hand, ECER is ensuring that those who embrace the mobile revolution are the ones who will lead the future of trade.

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MRI-Simmons and TransUnion Expand Access to Premium Audience Segments in the TruAudience® Data Marketplace

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MRI-Simmons and TransUnion Expand Access to Premium Audience Segments in the TruAudience® Data Marketplace

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Relationship expands marketers’ ability to plan and activate high‑quality, research‑driven audiences across the streaming and omnichannel ecosystem

MRI‑Simmons announced an expansion of its relationship with TransUnion  to provide advertisers, agencies, and publishers access to a broader taxonomy of premium, research‑driven audience segments through the TruAudience® Data Marketplace.

With the expanded relationship, marketers can tap into thousands of syndicated audience segments modeled using insights derived from MRI‑Simmons’ industry‑leading consumer research. This includes psychographic profiles, lifestyle and leisure behaviors, brand preferences, and media consumption habits. Drawn from one of the most comprehensive and representative studies of American consumers, these segments support audience planning and analysis across the full omnichannel ecosystem, helping marketers better understand high‑value consumer groups.

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Beyond the extensive library of syndicated segments available in the TruAudience® Data Marketplace, brands can also work with MRI‑Simmons to design custom audience definitions informed by specific objectives and research‑driven insights. These audience definitions can then be brought to life through TransUnion’s TruAudience® platform, enabling flexible activation across channels.

“The TruAudience® Data Marketplace continues to grow as a trusted hub for premium audiences, and showcasing MRI‑Simmons’ research‑derived, modeled segments is a natural extension of that vision,” said Anna Haase, SVP of Business Development and Data Partnerships at TransUnion. “This expansion gives marketers access to high‑quality consumer insights within a marketplace built for scale, flexibility, and omnichannel activation.”

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“We’re excited to expand our relationship with TransUnion and make even more premium audience segments available through the TruAudience® Data Marketplace,” said Joshua Pisano, General Manager of Global Media, NIQ and MRI‑Simmons. “By enabling MRI‑Simmons’ consumer intelligence to be applied within the TruAudience® Data Marketplace, we’re helping marketers leverage powerful insights with improved precision and broader strategic impact.”

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CGI Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement With AWS to Accelerate AI and Streamline Digital Transformation Across U.S. public sector

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CGI Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement With AWS to Accelerate AI and Streamline Digital Transformation Across U.S. public sector

Joint go-to-market strategies to deliver solutions for cybersecurity, fraud prevention and citizen services

CGI, one of the world’s largest independent technology and professional services firms, announced a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate trusted artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, advance secure cloud adoption and streamline digital transformation across the U.S. public sector.

Through this multi-year agreement, CGI will deliver scalable, mission-critical solutions that address the most complex challenges facing the public sector.

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AWS and CGI each bring expertise, experience, innovation and a deep understanding of their customers’ missions and operating environments to help U.S. public sector organizations:

  • Accelerate trusted AI adoption across public sector missions, including analytics, fraud prevention and operational decision support;
  • Strengthen Zero Trust cybersecurity architectures to improve protection of sensitive government systems and data against evolving threats;
  • Unlock value from government data by improving interoperability, accessibility and advanced analytics across agencies;
  • Improve citizen-focused digital services through innovative solutions that increase access, responsiveness and service delivery and
  • Continue to modernize legacy government systems and data environments through secure, cloud-based platforms.

“This agreement enhances our proven ability to better serve government, education, nonprofit and healthcare organizations in the U.S.,” said Tim Hurlebaus, President and Chief Operating Officer, CGI. “As a Premier Tier Services AWS partner, this new agreement complements CGI’s deep understanding of public sector missions and enables us to co-deliver innovative and transformative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our clients.”

The collaboration focuses on deploying advanced cloud-based solutions that leverage AI and other emerging technologies. It also includes dedicated investments in cloud and AI training and certification programs to deepen the expertise of CGI professionals who are driving public sector outcomes.

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“Government agencies need AI that works at mission speed,” said David Levy, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, AWS. “This collaboration puts advanced cloud and AI capabilities directly into the hands of agencies tackling their toughest challenges, from stopping fraud to securing critical systems to delivering better citizen services.”

“The new collaboration between CGI and AWS represents a further advancement,” said Massimiliano Claps, Research Director at IDC, a global technology market intelligence firm. “By uniting CGI’s mission-focused expertise with AWS, IDC expects that the collaboration will accelerate the delivery of secure, scalable solutions to help public sector organizations drive innovation, improve operational agility and address their mission challenges.”

CGI’s collaboration with more than 150 technology firms through its Global Alliances network further strengthens its cloud, data and AI capabilities to help clients modernize operations. CGI’s Premier Tier Services status with thousands of AWS-accredited professionals worldwide combines CGI’s local expertise with global delivery to provide innovative, industry-leading AI-integrated cloud services that drive client success. CGI is well positioned to support clients throughout their AI journey, guiding strategy development, prioritizing business use cases, building machine-learning models and mobilizing a roadmap to maximize AI investments, including services such as its “12 Weeks to AI” program.

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Trimble to Acquire Document Crunch to Add AI-Powered Risk Management and Document Compliance to Trimble Construction One Project Delivery Ecosystem

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Trimble to Acquire Document Crunch to Add AI-Powered Risk Management and Document Compliance to Trimble Construction One Project Delivery Ecosystem

Acquisition to help customers identify and neutralize project risks such as payment disputes and notification failures

Trimble announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Document Crunch, a leader in construction-specific AI document analysis and risk management across the project lifecycle. The acquisition will allow Trimble to incorporate document intelligence and compliance automation across the Trimble® Construction ecosystem, enhancing existing workflows in project management and construction ERP systems. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Document Crunch’s purpose-built AI for construction addresses critical pain points that can directly impact profitability for contractors, such as critical risk provisions, payment disputes, specification non-compliance and notification failures. The addition of Document Crunch further complements Trimble’s focus on solving discrete, high-value business problems for customers within the industries it serves.

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“Success in construction relies on the ability of every stakeholder to understand and mitigate risk in real-time,” said Mark Schwartz, senior vice president of AECO software at Trimble. “Document Crunch will provide a ‘contractual rule set’ to serve as the intelligent DNA for the entire Trimble Construction One (TC1) suite, automatically pushing critical obligations, compliance requirements and payment terms into Trimble’s robust project delivery ecosystem.”

Solving high-value pain points
Document Crunch serves general contractors and subcontractors, along with a growing base of designers, owners and insurance carriers, and other users with an interest in reducing risk in construction. The acquisition brings proven market validation (having been deployed on 10,000+ projects), industry leadership, and a seasoned AI engineering team directly into Trimble to drive immediate ROI for customers by:

  • Preventing Costly Errors: Catching invoice payment term mismatches as well as broader contract, compliance and scope risks before they escalate into disputes.
  • Reducing Administrative Burden: Streamlining the review and generation of critical documentation, such as risk reviews, project playbooks and delay notifications.
  • Infusing Intelligence: Providing a contractual rule set that can push obligations and compliance requirements directly into project management and ERP workflows.

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“The construction industry is at a tipping point for AI adoption and our focus on risk reduction and automated compliance has positioned us to lead this next phase for the industry,” said Josh Levy, co-founder and CEO of Document Crunch. “We’re excited to build upon the strategic foundation of Trimble to help customers unlock new dimensions of value from data that resides across the construction lifecycle. Joining Trimble allows us to scale our vision and evolve to a core component of a widely comprehensive construction platform.”

Document Crunch will be reported as part of Trimble’s AECO segment. The transaction is not expected to have a material impact on 2026 financial guidance. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026.

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Durable Launches Discoverability: A Built-In Visibility Tool That Helps Small Businesses Get Found on Google and AI Search

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New Discoverability feature brings generative engine optimization (GEO) to millions of small business owners as AI-powered search reshapes how customers find local services

Durable, the AI business builder, announced the launch of Discoverability — a new feature that helps small businesses get found where customers search, which is increasingly on AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity.

“Getting found online has never been harder,” James Clift, Durable founder, says. “Customers are now increasingly searching on AI tools like ChatGPT. And most businesses have no idea how they’re showing up across all of the biggest LLM models. We built Discoverability to bring it all into one place, so owners have a clear picture of their visibility and can actually do something about it.”

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Small businesses have always competed on visibility. A decade ago, the challenge was getting on Google. Today, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) represents the biggest challenge in local business visibility. More than 50% of consumers are now searching AI models for recommendations for everything from local restaurants to local plumbers, and being able to optimize your brand to show up in these models has thus far been reserved for large enterprise marketing teams. Discoverability gives every new entrepreneur a powerful GEO tool that is built right into Durable — an AI native platform that controls everything in your business from your website to your invoices.

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This new feature provides one single dashboard showing you exactly how your business is showing up across all five major AI platforms — ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity. AI search is the headline,  but Discoverability addresses the full spectrum of how customers find businesses today:

  • Visibility Score — A single measure of how findable a business is across all online channels, with guided suggestions to improve it over time.
  • Directory Listings — Identifies the 10+ highest-impact directories for a business’s category and location (think Yelp, Yellowpages, and other online niches), and flags inconsistencies in business name, address, and phone number across platforms.
  • AI Visibility Rankings — Shows whether a business is appearing when customers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, or Grok for recommendations in their category–and how you rank against your closest competitors in AI visibility.
  • Reviews & Competitor Tracking — Enables review requests via email, monitors customer feedback, and tracks competitor ratings and visibility.

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Walker Sands Launches B2B AI Search Visibility Benchmark to Measure Enterprise Brand Presence in AI-Generated Search Results

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Analysis highlights the growing gap between search rankings and AI-driven visibility, highest performers and leading and lagging industry sectors

Generative AI is rapidly reshaping how enterprise buyers discover and evaluate vendors. Yet according to the B2B AI Search Visibility Benchmark, released today by Walker Sands, an integrated B2B growth services agency, most enterprise brands rarely appear in the AI Overviews buyers increasingly rely on for research.

The analysis found that AI Overviews appear in nearly 50% of search results pages for keywords where enterprise B2B companies rank, yet the typical enterprise B2B brand is cited in just 3% of AI-generated answers that they are relevant for. This suggests a growing disconnect between traditional search visibility and influence within AI-powered discovery experiences.

Walker Sands developed the B2B AI Search Visibility Benchmark to establish a market-wide benchmark for how enterprise B2B brands perform in this emerging AI search environment. The firm analyzed nearly 45 million relevant search keywords across 828 enterprise B2B companies spanning 14 technology industries, evaluating how often brands rank for relevant keywords, how frequently those keywords trigger AI Overviews and how often a brand’s owned content is cited within those responses.

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“AI-generated answers are quickly becoming a primary gateway to information for enterprise buyers, but most brands are unaware if they or their competitors are shaping those AI responses,” said John Fairley, senior vice president of marketing operations and SEO at Walker Sands. “As adoption accelerates, these systems will increasingly determine which brands and perspectives buyers encounter during research. Traditional SEO strategy has focused on expanding keyword coverage and ranking for more keywords. The B2B AI Search Visibility Benchmark shows that ranking breadth alone doesn’t predict citation inclusion.”

Additional key trends that emerged from the research:

  • Keyword coverage alone doesn’t guarantee AI search visibility — The median enterprise B2B company ranks for 9,700 keywords, yet many brands that rank broadly still rarely appear within AI-generated answers. Companies that consistently influence AI responses tend to demonstrate deep topic authority, structured content and clear explanations that directly address buyer questions.
  • Some brands are completely absent from AI answers — 4.6% of enterprise B2B companies are not cited in AI-generated search responses for the keywords they are relevant for, meaning potential buyers may never encounter those brands during early research stages.
  • The cybersecurity industry leads with the highest share of brand citations in AI-generated results, while professional services ranks lowest — showing that brands in some industries are successfully shaping AI narratives, while others are losing visibility to publishers and third-party sources.

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“Companies that already demonstrate strong topic authority and structured content in organic search are better positioned to influence those answers,” Fairley said. “To improve visibility, brands should prioritize specificity, clarity and consistent coverage across related content areas to build topical relevance and authority. Search AI systems surface relevant, authoritative content that is optimized for consumption and analysis by search and generative AI systems.”

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Solita Launches AI Agent Orchestrator for Enterprise Software Development: Solita RoadCrewAO™

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The AI and data transformation company Solita announced the launch of Solita RoadCrew Agentic Orchestrator (Solita RoadCrewAO™), a multi-agent tool designed for autonomous, enterprise-grade software development. It marks a significant step forward in how software is designed, built and operated in complex organisational environments.

The AI and data transformation company Solita announced the launch of Solita RoadCrew Agentic Orchestrator (Solita RoadCrewAO™), a multi-agent tool designed for autonomous, enterprise-grade software development.

Solita RoadCrewAO™ enables a more intelligent, faster and adaptive approach to software development by orchestrating specialised AI agents that collaborate across the development lifecycle. These agents learn from organisational context and adapt over time while operating under human supervision.

Built for engineering teams, Solita RoadCrewAO™ coordinates specialised AI agents to plan, build, test, review and document code within a secure, governed environment. Unlike single-agent coding tools, Solita RoadCrewAO™ combines multi-agent collaboration with human oversight.

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“Solita RoadCrewAO™ is not a niche enhancement – it’s a decisive step toward a new industry model. Agentic development is transforming how software is designed, built and operated, powered by high-quality, well-governed data and organisational context,” said Ossi Lindroos, CEO of Solita.

A coordinated crew of AI software agents

Solita’s RoadCrewAO™ includes specialised agents that plan, build, test and review code. The AI-powered tool provides a controlled environment, enabling users to fulfill requirements related to data protection, cybersecurity and appropriate human oversight at all stages of development.

Solita RoadCrewAO™ avoids AI vendor lock-in by enabling the use of any large language model (LLM), including OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), DeepSeek, and Ollama, as well as offline use with open-source models.

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Learning together with machines: From single AI agents to coordinated AI crews

Solita has made significant investments in AI transformation, developing a portfolio of AI accelerators including Agile Data Engine, Solita FunctionAI®, Solita CollabAI™ and Solita RoadCrewAO™. With 700 software developers and 850 data and AI specialists across Europe, the company combines deep technical expertise with enterprise-scale delivery capabilities.

“Agentic development marks a shift: machines, like humans, can now learn from their own mistakes. However, creativity, leadership and accountability remain firmly in human hands. The future is not AI replacing developers, but intelligent systems amplifying expert teams,” said Lasse Girs, Head of AI Transformation at Solita.

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