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The Agency With No Office - and a Taste for Hard Problems
Barbara Gorder built UNLO around a quietly radical premise: the right agency team does not have to share an office - it only has to share the problem.
The Engine Is Red lets the brief lose the argument
A client asked for a campaign. The answer was a cost-estimating app. Inside the independent creative agency that makes room for a better question.
The Pocket-Sized Radar Gun That Talked Its Way Into 30 Big-League Dugouts
Three Sonoma County engineers looked at a $1,000 radar gun the size of a hair dryer and asked why anyone measuring a fastball should need either. Fifteen years later their answer sits in 30 major-league dugouts.
KLH Consulting
KLH Consulting is a Santa Rosa, California IT firm that has served North Bay and Sonoma County businesses since 1980. It provides managed IT services, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and Microsoft Dynamics ERP implementation, and develops Vintegrate, a winery-specific ERP built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The company pairs a local help desk and engineering team with vendor certifications to deliver its 'one call, one team, one solution' model to small and mid-sized organizations, including wineries and healthcare providers.
NorCal Cannabis Company
NorCal Cannabis Company is a vertically integrated, seed-to-sale cannabis operator based in Northern California. Founded in 2014, it grew out of the region's long, pre-legalization cannabis culture into a licensed holding company spanning cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, a portfolio of consumer brands, and retail dispensaries. The company scaled revenue from roughly $2M to over $70M in a few years and raised more than $50M in capital, positioning itself as one of California's more compliant, operationally mature cannabis businesses.
LEVEL
LEVEL is a science-driven cannabis company that engineers precision cannabinoid tablets - Protab, Hashtab, Rosintab and Tablingual - designed to deliver effects-specific experiences without sugar, calories or guesswork. Founded in 2015 by organic chemist Chris Emerson, PhD, LEVEL manufactures in California and has become the state's leading cannabis tablet brand.
Sonic
Sonic is the largest independently owned internet service provider in California, founded in 1994 in Santa Rosa. It builds and runs its own fiber-optic network, selling fast, flat-priced gigabit and 10-gigabit home and business internet with no contracts, no data caps, and a privacy stance that has earned it a perfect score from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. After more than 30 years serving the San Francisco Bay Area, Sonic began its first out-of-region expansion in 2026, lighting up fiber in Los Angeles and Dallas.