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The Company That Builds the Office Nobody Walks Into
Local Wisdom spent 25 years learning that an intranet is not a website. It is the place where a company quietly proves whether it understands the people who work there.
Dayshape wants to put your staffing plan on the money
The Edinburgh software company connects who does the work with what the work earns. Its customers reveal why the hard part of AI scheduling is often getting people to change their habits.
CMap and the high cost of spreadsheet hell
A growing professional services firm can win the work and still lose the margin. CMap connects the quote, the people and the invoice - and is betting its next chapter on AI that knows the business.
The 55-Year-Old Tampa Software Company Teaching Project Managers to See Trouble Coming
BST Global spent five decades helping architects and engineers record what happened. Its newer bet is harder and more useful: predict the project that is about to miss its margin while there is still time to fix it.
Stop Managing Tasks When People Are the Bottleneck
Agencies rarely miss deadlines because nobody made a task list. Resource Guru, Float, and Teamwork offer three distinct ways to see who is free, who is overloaded, and whether the next client promise can actually be kept.
Float or Resource Guru? Decide What a Promise Looks Like
Float helps teams model how much work fits across a project timeline. Resource Guru turns availability into calendar commitments - and its newer flexible bookings make the choice more nuanced than the usual forecast-versus-booking shorthand.
Float, Resource Guru or Smartsheet? Pick Your Planning Layer
The right resource planner depends less on the feature list than on where you want work to live. Float forecasts capacity beside your task system, Resource Guru runs the booking desk, and Smartsheet can become the work system itself.
Procore Technologies
A carpenter who got tired of paper blueprints built the software the construction industry now runs on - and priced it so nobody has to pay per seat.
Kantata
Kantata is a cloud software company that builds a purpose-built Professional Services Automation (PSA) platform for services organizations. Formed in 2021 through the merger of Mavenlink and Kimble Applications and backed by Accel-KKR, Kantata unifies project management, resource planning, time and expense tracking, billing, business intelligence and increasingly agentic AI so that consulting firms, agencies and other services businesses can scope, staff, forecast and deliver client work profitably. The company serves more than 2,000 organizations across 100+ countries, including Deloitte, Sage, Hitachi and NTT Data.
Wrike
Wrike is an enterprise work management platform that helps teams plan, coordinate, and execute complex projects in one place. Founded in 2006, it combines Gantt charts, Kanban boards, custom workflows, automation, and AI agents to give large organizations visibility and accountability across thousands of users. After passing through several owners - Vista, Citrix, and now Symphony Technology Group - Wrike serves more than two million users across over 18,000 organizations.
Rocketlane
Rocketlane is an agentic Professional Services Automation (PSA) platform built to run the entire client-facing project lifecycle - onboarding, implementation, resource management, and financial oversight - in one collaborative workspace. Founded in 2020 in Bengaluru with a U.S. presence in San Francisco, it now serves more than 750 customers including Forbes Cloud 100 companies, and in March 2026 raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners to build out Nitro, its AI agent layer for services delivery.
COR
COR is an AI-powered management platform built for creative and professional services firms — advertising agencies, consulting companies, law firms, and IT shops — that need to understand where their time actually goes and whether their projects are making money. By automating time tracking and layering on predictive analytics, COR gives agency leaders real-time visibility into project profitability, team capacity, and billing gaps before they become losses. Founded in 2017 in Silicon Valley by former agency operator Santi Bibiloni and co-founders Jose Gettas and Gabriel Marin, COR serves clients including Havas, Publicis, Ogilvy, Dentsu, and DDB across 35+ countries, with a reported $6.6M ARR and backing from investors including the founders of DoubleClick, Anaplan, MercadoLibre, and Krux.
Santi Bibiloni
Santi Bibiloni is the Co-Founder and CEO of COR, an AI-powered project profitability platform built for creative agencies, consulting firms, and professional services. Born in Buenos Aires and now based in San Francisco, he bootstrapped his first agency Balloon Group to 400 clients across 12 countries before pivoting to solve the profitability problem he lived firsthand. COR has raised ~$7.9M, grown 9% month-over-month, and counts Ogilvy, BBDO, and McCann among clients in 38 countries — backed by unicorn founders and the board member who built DoubleClick.