
Across industrial systems, payroll technology and workforce verification, Maureen Lally has built a career on a wonderfully unfashionable advantage: arriving prepared. Her work shows how customer evidence becomes authority, and how authority becomes change.

A hiring mistake gave Ben Mones an unusually stubborn question: what if the useful signal was already public? Eleven years, an acquisition and a patent later, he is still working on where software should stop and human judgment should begin.