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The Boston Agency That Spent 27 Years Building Trust - Then Bought Five Companies in Two Years
For 27 years Verndale sold one thing: the platform build nobody else wanted to own. Then a Dallas buyout firm handed it a checkbook - and a Boston services shop turned into a roll-up.
Scrunch Spent Two Years Teaching Robots to Read Your Website - Then Sold for $225 Million
Chris Andrew bet that AI chatbots, not Google, would become the front door to every brand. Twenty-six months and $26 million in venture money later, Sitecore agreed - and bought the company for a reported $225 million.
Just After Midnight
Just After Midnight (JAM) is a London-founded, globally distributed managed services company that keeps mission-critical, customer-facing digital platforms running around the clock. It provides 24/7/365 application, website and cloud support, managed cloud services across AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud, and DevOps consultancy - acting as the after-hours and full-stack support partner behind major brands and digital agencies. Founded in 2016 to solve the problem of out-of-hours support that agencies struggle to staff, JAM now operates across four continents and is part of the Ultima group.
YesPress vs Scrunch AI: Two Different Approaches to AI Visibility
A strategic breakdown of two philosophies for surviving the age of answer engines. Scrunch AI measures how brands appear inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, then flags the gaps. YesPress argues that measurement is downstream of a deeper problem: whether a company has published enough structured, first-party knowledge to be legible to AI at all. One monitors the mirror. The other builds the record. This is not a feature comparison - it is a look at two different bets on where durable advantage will live.
Corrine Sahli
Corrine (Corrie) Sahli is Area Vice President, Content Supply Chain - Enterprise Accounts at Adobe, based in Chicago. With 20+ years in SaaS sales and 15+ years in MarTech, she leads enterprise relationships around Adobe's content supply chain platform - helping major brands in CPG, retail, financial services, healthcare, and automotive scale personalized content production. A former VP at Sitecore and Kontent.ai, she is a recognized industry voice on content operations, composable DXP, and AI-driven marketing workflows.
Lars Birkholm Petersen
Lars Birkholm Petersen is the CEO and co-founder of Uniform, the composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP) he built to solve the age-old tension between marketers and developers. Born in Denmark, Lars spent two decades in the digital experience trenches - running a digital agency for 8 years (later acquired by Visma), then nearly a decade at Sitecore where he created the Sitecore Business Optimization Strategies (SBOS) team - before co-founding Uniform in 2019. The company raised a $28M Series A led by Insight Partners in December 2021, was named a Gartner Visionary in 2025, and counts Procter & Gamble, Triumph Motorcycles, and Cirque du Soleil among its clients. Lars is also co-author of the Wiley business book 'Connect: How to Use Data and Experience Marketing to Create Lifetime Customers' (2014).
Freddie Heygate
Freddie Heygate is CEO, North America at Just After Midnight, a London-founded managed cloud services and 24/7 digital support company now part of the Ultima group. After spending five years building JAM's Asia-Pacific operations from Singapore, he relocated to Austin, Texas in January 2024 to lead the company's US expansion. With a background spanning digital consultancy, marketing, and business development at agencies including Reading Room and The Drum, Freddie brings over a decade of cross-continental experience helping global brands like Ford, Abbott, and Vodafone keep their digital infrastructure running around the clock.