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Rock.com: The office behind the city-sized bet
A mortgage business gave Dan Gilbert the means to buy buildings, back founders and own a basketball team. ROCK is the family office connecting those bets - with Detroit and Cleveland at the center.
Asurint and the two-second surprise.
A background check returned so quickly that it exposed a customer’s software bug. Inside Asurint’s effort to remove the waiting, retyping, and guesswork from screening.
Consolidated Solutions makes the handoffs work
A damaged shipment. A late insurance mailing. A sales team using yesterday’s brochure. This Cleveland company builds the machinery between a good idea and a useful delivery.
Quadax makes the claim before the money
A hospital can deliver the care and still wait on the paperwork. Quadax has spent five decades working on the troublesome distance between the two.
CT Logistics and the money hiding in your freight bill
A Cleveland company has spent a century checking what it costs to move things. Its more interesting trick is using yesterday’s invoice to change tomorrow’s shipment.
The Advertising Agency That Bought Back the Right to Say No
Marcus Thomas spent decades adding disciplines, offices and technology. Then it discovered the most valuable thing an independent agency can own is its own attention.
The $3,000 Firm That Learned to Play Offense
Dix & Eaton spent seven decades protecting corporate reputations. Then a longtime partner asked a dangerous question: what if the defenders learned to sell growth, too?
The Office Failed in Three Months. The Agency Lasted Forty Years.
Three months after Jim Sweeney signed four leases for his new agency, life made the office irrelevant. The workaround became a business philosophy: build around the problem, not the furniture - or the fashionable channel.
TRG Makes a Business of Keeping Your Business Moving
A scanner goes missing. A payment terminal quits. An airline waits for a repair. TRG has built its business around the expensive little interruptions that keep big companies from getting on with the job.
The 200-Year-Old Bank Betting on the Middle of the Market
A Cleveland bank with roots older than most of the states it serves is leaning into middle-market companies, digital lending, and a $2.8 billion vote of confidence from Scotiabank. Here is how KeyBank actually makes money - and who it makes money for.
Felux
Felux is a Cleveland-based software company building the operating system for the steel industry. Its AI-powered platform reads request-for-quote (RFQ) emails straight out of a sales team's inbox, structures them automatically, and turns fragmented steel sales workflows into a unified dashboard for demand analytics, pricing intelligence, and deal tracking. Paired with a B2B marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers, Felux helps steel service centers, mills, brokers, and manufacturers see the demand they have been missing and modernize a trade that still largely runs on phone calls and spreadsheets.