rate-benchmarking
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Emerge wants freight to stop buying blind
A yearly bid cannot keep up with a moving market. Emerge puts carriers, competing rates and buying decisions on the same screen - then asks shippers to look more often.
SMC³ and the curious case of the freight discount
A bigger discount can buy you a worse freight deal. SMC³ built a business around making the numbers comparable, then followed the shipment all the way to the invoice.
PERSUIT
PERSUIT is an enterprise SaaS platform that helps corporate legal departments scope, price, select and manage their outside law firms. Founded in 2016 by former DLA Piper partner Jim Delkousis, it runs competitive RFPs, structures alternative fee arrangements, benchmarks rates and - after its 2025 acquisition of Apperio - tracks legal spend from intake through invoice payment. The company built on a simple premise: clients value outcomes, not billable hours.
Cutting Edge Information
Cutting Edge Information (CEI) is a Research Triangle Park-based market research and data analytics firm that builds the world's largest specialty-specific database of Fair Market Value (FMV) rates for engaging healthcare professionals. Pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies use CEI's FMV data, HCP Fee Calculator, and Compliance Insights to set rates that are both competitive enough to attract top clinical talent and defensible enough to satisfy regulators. With 230,000+ rate observations across 126 countries and 280+ specialties, CEI serves more than 300 clients, including over 70% of the top 25 pharmaceutical companies and 8 of the top 10.