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The Seattle company built a durable business moving regulated documents. Its more interesting bet is what happens next: turning billions of stubborn pages into usable healthcare data before a human has to touch them.
A dot-com office-supply seller discovered its most valuable product was the software behind the store. Twenty-seven years and 57 acquisitions later, ECI runs the digital back rooms of 25,000 small and midsize businesses.