After four decades in advertising, The Shipyard's founder is building his second large agency around a stubbornly human idea: data can locate an audience, but only emotion can make it care.

Before he sold enterprise AI, Gaurav Verma built software, advised Oracle clients and learned harmonium. The same instinct connects it all: understand the machinery, then make it legible.
The Columbus agency behind In-N-Out's growth run wants to build brands people love - and prove it with numbers. Its bet: creativity and data belong on the same team.