Global Health Strategies does not make vaccines or run hospitals. It engineers the attention, alliances and political will that help health ideas travel - from village councils in Uttar Pradesh to a polio milestone watched around the world.
Washington may write the rules, but states and cities increasingly decide how they land. Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies built a bipartisan firm around that gap - and made geography part of the product.
Washington runs on access, but FTP built a business around the harder question: once the door opens, what should a client actually say - and who else needs to say it?
In Rhode Island, a policy fight can turn on a fact sheet, a coalition and the order in which the phone calls are made. Advocacy Solutions has spent two decades turning that choreography into a business.
The Fregeau brothers stopped selling automation as a toolkit and started doing one ugly insurance job end to end. The result is a useful lesson in vertical AI: depth beats a dazzling demo when the workflow is narrow, repetitive and expensive.
Qumis is a Chicago-based insurtech building attorney-trained AI for commercial insurance. Its coverage intelligence platform reads dense property and casualty policies the way a seasoned coverage attorney would - comparing quotes and endorsements, flagging gaps across policy towers, and backing every answer with source-linked citations and transparent reasoning. Founded by a former coverage attorney and a former Goldman Sachs engineering leader, Qumis already serves five of the 15 largest U.S. brokers, along with specialty carriers and insurance law firms, and has raised $6.75M to put a coverage specialist at every desk.