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The Company That Explains the Orange Cones
For three decades, Quest has worked in the awkward space between an infrastructure plan and the people who must live through it. Its product is not publicity so much as translation - of engineering into plain English, disruption into notice, and public suspicion into a conversation.
The Publisher Who Turned a Rolodex Into a Consulting Firm
After 250-plus publications and a decade of community events, Scott Costello made an intriguing wager: the real product was never the magazine. It was the ability to turn relationships, strategy and follow-through into institutional momentum.
The Agency That Turned Florida Bureaucracy Into Three Verbs
Kidd Group began in Jerry Kidd's garage and grew into a three-part communications shop. Its most revealing work took a statewide rules change and made it sound like a useful instruction: Gather. Go. Get.
BoardroomPR Learned to Outrun the News Cycle
A former journalist built a Florida PR firm around knowing what reporters need. Thirty-seven years later, its more revealing skill is knowing when the old playbook has stopped working.
The Firm You Call Before the Headline Writes Itself
Tucker/Hall built a Florida communications firm around a peculiar product: judgment under pressure. Its most useful work often begins before the cameras arrive - when a company still has time to decide what it actually means.
Summit Ventures Is Building a Portfolio You Can Walk Into
A waterfront complex, immersive art, a boat club and a working ranch look like unrelated bets. Summit Ventures treats them as one operating system - capital, property and experiences designed to reinforce one another.
The Three-Minute Wash That Turned Miami’s Rain Into Recurring Revenue
El Car Wash took a mundane errand, wrapped it in Miami color and sold it like a streaming plan. Now the Warburg Pincus-backed chain has more than 100 locations - and half a million members paying to keep the shine on.