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The Marketing Agency That Learned the Language of the Fine Print
Ocozzio sells a curious advantage in B2B healthcare marketing: it already knows what the alphabet soup means. That fluency turns an Augusta agency into the outsourced department behind insurers, benefits administrators and healthcare technology companies across the country.
Annie Smith Makes a Business of Making the Complicated Clear
At Ocozzio, Annie Smith has built a career translating an intricate corner of business into language people can use - first as a strategist, then as president, and now as CEO.
TaxSlayer Built a Tax-Software Business by Charging for Help, Not Complexity
The Augusta company turned an in-house tool into a two-sided tax platform used for millions of returns. Its most copyable idea is simple: keep the forms broad, then let customers pay for the amount of human help they want.
Ajikumar Parayil
He spent years teaching bacteria to build molecules that used to take entire fields of plants. Then he bet a company on getting those microbes out of the lab and into million-liter tanks.