TFG built a Washington business around a deceptively practical idea: towns should shape projects for federal money long before a deadline turns strategy into paperwork.
A California public affairs firm turns water worries, housing proposals and election arithmetic into campaigns. Its newest tool watches the paperwork; its oldest advantage is knowing the people.
A civil engineer built a communications agency around a stubborn problem: a technically sound project still has to make sense to the people who live with it.
A flooded street, an aging pier, a launch facility: Cannon builds its business around the engineering details that make places usable. After 50 years, the interesting story is still in the work.