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Womply and the Price of Five Minutes
A company that taught neighborhood shops to read their receipts became a gateway to pandemic relief. The same talent for scale that made Womply useful also made its promises consequential.
The Publicist Who Put PR on the Menu
Ace Branding sells publicity with an unusual promise: choose the outcome, approve the story, and know what happens next. The interesting product is not fame. It is certainty.
The Humans Behind the Comment Section
In an industry racing to automate every reply, a small North Devon agency has made a business of reading the room. Its wager is simple: the messier the conversation, the more a human matters.
SmartCustomer
SmartCustomer (formerly Sitejabber) is a San Francisco reviews platform that helps buyers spot trustworthy online businesses and helps businesses collect, manage, and surface authentic customer reviews. Born in 2007 out of a National Science Foundation grant to fight online fraud, it has grown into a two-sided marketplace of trust - said to have helped 200M+ buyers and gathered more than 25M reviews across 140K+ businesses - and now positions verified reviews as fuel for AEO/GEO visibility in AI answer engines like ChatGPT.
Loti AI
Loti AI is a Seattle-based startup that scans the public internet to find, verify, and remove unauthorized uses of a person's face and voice - including deepfakes, AI impersonations, scams, and leaked content. Founded in 2022 by Luke Arrigoni, Rebekah Arrigoni, and Hirak Chhatbar, the company began protecting A-list celebrities through talent agencies like WME and CAA, then opened a free consumer tier so anyone can claim control of their own likeness. Its automated takedown engine removes flagged content with roughly a 95% success rate, typically within about 17 hours.