Caliber spent sixteen years refusing to become a generalist. In finance, where a misplaced word can be expensive and an unexplained product can be invisible, that stubbornness became the product.
RLM Public Relations was early to the internet, podcasts and conversational AI. Its durable advantage is less glamorous: knowing when a company’s first story is the wrong one.
For 23 years, Dukas Linden built a specialist business around a deceptively simple idea: the people who understand money still need help explaining it. Then a $10 million year opened the door to a much bigger map.
The agency replaced PR's soft promises with a hard clock: top-tier media opportunities within 30 days, or your money back. Behind the dare is a surprisingly practical system of narrative, distribution and measurement.
Born in Netscape's afterglow, Sparkpr has spent 27 years translating complicated technology into stories people can repeat. Its latest experiment is to encode some of that instinct in an AI system called The Brain.