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StormWind Studios bets on the teacher, not just the video
A Scottsdale training company put studio production behind live IT classes. Now its AI tools tackle the same old problem: getting useful knowledge out of a screen and into somebody’s working day.
The James Agency Lost 62% in an Hour. Then It Kept Everyone.
A Scottsdale marketing firm built its reputation on hospitality, then watched that market vanish in a morning. Its response - open books, zero layoffs, and a ruthless 10% cost hunt - explains how the agency works today.
HVH Media & Marketing Put the Feed at the Center
HVH began with a simple wager: social media should not sit at the edge of a marketing plan. It should connect the story, the reputation, the advertising and the sale.
The Agency That Sold Its Own Best Argument
For more than a quarter-century, Santy told brands to embrace useful change. Then the Scottsdale agency made the advice personal - and engineered an exit that turned a small firm's limits into a larger firm's bench.
The Decade Andrea Aker Spent Learning to Let Go
Aker Ink began as one writer's bid for independence. Its more revealing story is how she stopped treating independence as the business model.
The Agency That Put a Dashboard Where the Pitch Deck Used to Be
FabCom’s real product is not an ad. It is a tightly wired system in which research, creative, code, media and measurement are forced to share the same room.
The $6 Billion RIA Built to Make Complicated Money Feel Boring
Ashton Thomas sells a scarce luxury: one coordinated view of a wealthy family’s messy financial life. Its post-2023 expansion shows how a regional adviser can add offices, specialists and assets without sanding away the local teams clients hired in the first place.
SimonCRE Is Betting $500 Million That Retail's Ugly Spreadsheet Can Still Be Beaten
New shopping centers are expensive, slow and unfashionable. SimonCRE's answer is a short ownership clock, municipal dealmaking and the stubborn belief that a good Target can still rearrange a town.
The Software That Weaponizes a HIPAA Loophole Against the Records Department
Every personal injury case stalls in the same place: waiting on a records clerk who has no reason to hurry. Arctrieval turned a line of HIPAA regulation into a stopwatch that providers can't ignore.
The Company That Sells You Peace of Mind, One Thermostat at a Time
Honeywell spun it off in 2018 as an afterthought. Six years and three acquisitions later, Resideo is a $6.76 billion home-safety business splitting itself in two - and betting the boring stuff on your wall is worth more apart than together.
Trainual
An all-in-one employee training platform that connects knowledge, systems, roles, and processes to deliver instant answers, job-ready training, and confident execution for every employee.
Pure Chat
The easiest & fastest way to add live chat to your website. FREE for the first 30 days!
Nextiva
A phone company that decided phone calls were only the beginning. How Nextiva turned a VoIP line for small businesses into an AI platform that runs a billion customer conversations a year.
Axio Education
Axio Education is an AI-native learning platform, spun out of Arizona State University's Luminosity Lab in 2023, that helps colleges and universities design, deliver, and improve courses. It combines LMS, CRM, and SIS capabilities with agentic AI to compress course development from months to minutes, deliver personalized learning pathways, and give faculty real-time insight into how students are doing - while keeping instructors in creative control.