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.
Cortez Consulting built a business by noticing who was missing from Austin's public conversations. A decade later, it is taking the same habit inside the organizations that run them.

After two decades shaping stories for software and scale-ups, Tanya van Soest is applying the same discipline to e-methanol, fractional leadership, and the difficult work of making complex businesses clear.

From software engineering to Grocery Gateway, Giant Tiger and fractional leadership, Cindy-Lynn Steele has spent more than 25 years treating marketing as an operating system - one that must connect the customer, the store and the numbers.
Chameleon Collective sells senior operators without the usual pyramid of junior consultants. Its cleverest promise is also its exit plan: lead the change, do the work, recruit the team - then leave.
Fortisphere is a Sydney-based AI transformation, operations and advisory firm founded in 2024 by former Commvault support leader Eugene Trautwein. It helps businesses turn AI ambition into practical results through advisory, benchmarking, workflow redesign, automation and fractional operating leadership, and runs an innovation lab that incubates its own SaaS products - starting with ResumeUplift.com, a tool that helps jobseekers beat AI resume filters.