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Paul Burke and the case of the distracted museum visitor
A trip to Rome gave the Guru Experience co-founder a reason to reconsider the phone in a visitor’s hand. His answer combined museum stories, mobile software and the unglamorous work of keeping both useful.
Put curiosity in charge.
Guru Experience builds digital guides for museums and cultural places. Its most useful insight is about the work that happens after the app launches.
The Most Valuable Thing in Chicago PR Is a Memory
The Silverman Group built a 27-year business around an unfashionable advantage: remembering who matters, what happened before, and which story belongs in which room.
BLOSS makes the complicated city readable
A museum has six entrances. A transit agency has a growing cast of communicators. BLOSS builds the graphics, stories and systems that help people find their way in.
Ticketure
Ticketure is a cloud-based, mobile-first ticketing, point-of-sale, and membership platform built specifically for museums, zoos, aquariums, gardens, and high-volume visitor attractions. It unifies advance and on-site ticket sales, timed entry, memberships, donations, and visitor data into one connected system, helping cultural institutions grow revenue and understand their audiences. Spun out of TixTrack as a standalone company in July 2025 with backing from Dahlia Equity Partners, Ticketure processes over 200 million visits and $1.5B+ in tickets annually for more than 100 institutions worldwide.