Tribute Technology connects funeral-home software, sympathy gifts, and local broadcasts around a page people visit when someone dies. Its business reveals how much work sits behind a few words of remembrance.
A memorial app found a second act on local television. Chptr now sells funeral homes a route from family memories to the evening news - with radio joining the conversation.
A register book is only the beginning. Messenger has spent a century building a business around the small, urgent tasks that follow a death - and the people who must get them right.
A cemetery map is also an inventory, a family history and a promise. PlotBox connects it to the paperwork - and has built a software business around keeping those promises straight.