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The Company That Turns Opinions Into Headlines
We are Talker found a useful gap between the survey firm and the newsroom: ask better questions, turn the answers into human stories, then make those stories easy to publish. Now it is applying the same machinery to the strange new reader in the room - AI.
GoPeak Is Selling the Web’s Oldest Currency: A Good Word
The Yerevan agency’s product is not really a backlink. It is patient, manual persuasion - sold five approvals at a time, measured over years, and newly aimed at the machines that answer before we click.
The Tiny Agency Behind Trillions in Other People’s Money
Fifteen people in Santa Monica help investment firms explain what billions of dollars cannot say for themselves. MBC Strategic’s wager is simple: before an allocator studies performance, somebody has to understand the story.
Why Capwell Communications Keeps Just Seven Seats at the Table
The Newport Beach PR firm built its reputation on a curious constraint: no more than seven client partnerships at once. In life sciences, where the story can take years to mature, small may be the operating system rather than the limitation.
The Pollack Group knows when to throw a demolition party
A hated mansion, a cart full of filtered water, and a new race to appear in AI answers. Inside the communications agency that keeps looking for a better reason to pay attention.
Dharne & Associates puts a price on “What should we fix first?”
The Irvine technology firm sells a $1,995 answer, then offers three ways to act on it. Its real subject is the gap between buying digital tools and getting useful work out of them.
WebFX Nearly Drowned in Web Design. Then It Built a Machine to Prove Marketing Pays.
A $3 bank balance taught founder William Craig that beautiful websites do not make a durable business. Three decades later, WebFX sells the operating system he wished he had - people, process, and software tied to revenue.
Ahrefs
Ahrefs built one of the web’s busiest crawlers to answer a marketer’s oldest question: why does that page outrank mine? Now the bootstrapped company is teaching the same data engine to map a stranger terrain - what brands appear when people ask AI for an answer.
Evertune AI
Evertune AI is a New York-based analytics and generative engine optimization (GEO) platform that measures and improves how brands appear inside AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. Founded in 2024 by veterans of The Trade Desk, it runs hundreds of thousands to over a million prompts per customer to score brand visibility, benchmark against competitors, and generate AI-optimized content. The company raised a $15M Series A in August 2025, led by Felicis Ventures.
Peec AI
Peec AI is a Berlin-based software company that helps marketing teams measure and improve how their brand shows up in AI-generated answers. Its platform tracks a brand's visibility, ranking, sentiment and cited sources across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and other generative engines, then recommends prompts and strategies to close gaps. Founded in early 2025 by Marius Meiners, Tobias Siwonia and Daniel Drabo, the company reached roughly $10M ARR within its first year and raised a $21M Series A led by Singular in November 2025.
Experience.com
Experience.com is a San Ramon, California SaaS company that runs the Experience Management Platform (XMP), a single system for collecting customer and employee feedback, managing online reviews and reputation, and improving local and AI search visibility. Founded in 2015 as SocialSurvey and rebranded in 2021, it is widely used in mortgage, real estate, insurance and banking to turn feedback into reviews, referrals and higher search rankings, including a proprietary 850-point Search Rank Score.
ProductWind
ProductWind is a Seattle-based retail influencer marketing platform that helps enterprise brands ramp new product launches in days instead of months. Founded in 2020 by former Amazon product lead Jason Kowalski and ex-Uber engineer Tom Hirschfeld, the company mobilizes thousands of retail-native creators to drive social content, reviews, SEO and sales velocity on marketplaces like Amazon and Walmart. Its core idea - 'marketing to the algorithm' - treats retailer AI systems as a second customer alongside human shoppers, coordinating waves of creator activity to push products from page five to page one.