
Before Exiger became a supply-chain software business, Michael Beber helped build it around a promise of ownership. His route there ran through forensic accounting, corporate dealmaking and a rather literal leap into the trees.

She joined Exiger to build marketing from zero. A decade later, the English literature graduate is arguing that in an AI-mediated market, a company's clearest story may be part of its technical infrastructure.

Before AI became a boardroom reflex, Rupert Hopkins was worrying about a quieter problem: the specifications, parts records and requirements that machines still could not understand. His answer became XSB, a 26-year experiment in making industrial knowledge usable.