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The Mexican Software Company That Made Nearshore a Strategy
Long before nearshoring became a boardroom buzzword, Softtek built an international IT business around proximity. Now the Mexican company is testing whether that human advantage can survive an agentic turn.
CEI Spent 34 Years Learning the Enterprise. Now It Wants to Put AI to Work Inside It.
The Pittsburgh systems integrator is betting that the hard part of enterprise AI is not the model. It is the unglamorous work of fitting intelligence into old systems, guarded data and everyday operations - then keeping it running.
The 22-Year-Old IT Firm Teaching Enterprise AI to Do the Boring Work
From a ground-floor room with dial-up internet in Bitola, IWConnect grew into a 300-plus-person operator for the systems most companies cannot afford to break. Its bet on AI is deliberately practical: connect it to the old stack, govern what it can do, and keep a human near the final call.
AMTI
AMTI rarely appears in the passenger journey, yet its engineers have spent decades inside the systems that guide aircraft and turn federal data into public facts. The company’s story is a lesson in the durable, unglamorous technology that government cannot simply switch off.
Milestone Technologies, Inc.
Milestone Technologies is a Fremont, California-based global IT services and digital solutions company founded in 1997. It helps large enterprises run and modernize their technology at scale - spanning digital workplace services, IT service desk and NOC operations, cloud and infrastructure, application and digital engineering, AI/automation, and platform work on ServiceNow and Salesforce. The company employs roughly 2,600-3,100 people, serves more than 200 clients across about 31 countries, and is majority-owned by The Halifax Group with a minority stake held by Two Sigma Impact.
Appeon
Appeon is a San Francisco software company that develops, sells, and supports PowerBuilder, the veteran rapid application development platform it took over from SAP in 2016. Through PowerBuilder, PowerServer, InfoMaker, and its CloudPro bundle, Appeon helps enterprises build data-driven business apps and modernize decades-old client/server systems into cloud-native and C#/.NET applications - protecting existing code investments rather than forcing full rewrites.
Rhino.ai
Rhino.ai is a Washington, D.C.-based enterprise AI platform that reconstructs the hidden business logic buried inside legacy code, ERP systems, SaaS tools, workflows, and integrations. Using agentic AI paired with human expertise, it discovers and maps business rules, organizes them into a governed, version-controlled logic graph built on its proprietary Universal Application Notation (UAN), and uses that single source of truth to accelerate modernization and application development. Founded in 2023 by Adam Branch, the company raised a $50M Series A in January 2025 led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with KPMG as a strategic minority investor.