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The coach who fired the cookie dough
Snap! Mobile turned a coach’s dislike of product sales into a digital fundraising business. Now it wants the rest of the athletic department’s to-do list, too.
The Tiny Company Behind NASA's Very Large Voice
PCI Productions was five years old when it became one of NASA's communications nerve centers. The trick was starting new without starting over.
The Studio That Learned to Run the Mission
Media Fusion began by making an invisible spacecraft visible. Thirty years later, its more revealing trick is making the invisible work around America’s technical missions run smoothly.
The Small Firm Translating Big Government
Kaptivate built a business around an unglamorous but valuable trick: making sprawling public programs legible enough to act on. Its best work begins where the memo, the dataset and the community meeting stop agreeing.
The Small Firm That Makes Bureaucracy Legible
Cities do not merely need money. They need someone who can find it, win it, account for it, and explain to residents what happens next. Global Urban Strategies built one small firm around that entire chain.
Before the concrete: VSCE’s other construction work
A bus depot needs somewhere to park the buses. It also needs a closed street, a public hearing, and people who can keep the paperwork moving. Oakland’s VSCE has made a business of connecting those jobs.
Capitol Impact and the business of getting people unstuck
A hospital needs builders. A student needs work boots. Capitol Impact makes a business of connecting the institutions that can help them both.
Core States Group Built a Quiet Machine for Making 1,000 Construction Projects Feel Like One
The West Chester firm turned the least glamorous part of construction - coordinating dozens of disciplines across hundreds of sites - into a growth engine for Fortune 500 clients. Its next test is whether $210 million of patient capital can scale that playbook without sanding off the local expertise that makes it work.
The Firm That Remodels America 3,000 Stores at a Time
McDonald's, Starbucks and Walgreens don't remodel one store at a time - they hire a Downers Grove firm run by a former Green Beret to do thousands at once, on schedule, on brand.
AMTI
AMTI rarely appears in the passenger journey, yet its engineers have spent decades inside the systems that guide aircraft and turn federal data into public facts. The company’s story is a lesson in the durable, unglamorous technology that government cannot simply switch off.
Trilyon, Inc.
Trilyon, Inc. is a Cupertino-based, women-owned global workforce and consulting firm that has spent more than 15 years matching skilled technology talent to Fortune 500 and enterprise clients. Built on an 'outcome over output' philosophy, Trilyon delivers SOW-based consulting, contingent and direct-hire staffing, RPO, and managed services across AI/ML, cloud, Salesforce, healthcare IT, life sciences, and technical writing, with delivery teams spanning the US, Canada, LATAM, India, and Europe.