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Haystack connects every employee of your organization with the people, resources, and information they need to thrive and succeed. Haystack provides employees with a fun, intuitive and informative way to start the day. Custom branding with no-code and a modular layout make it easy to highlight key resources, organizational culture, and knowledge. Haystack's automated multi-channel delivery, combined with actionable analytics, makes it easy for you to reach your employees at the right time and place. Spend less time looking for information and more on achieving your goals. Haystack’s knowledge-sharing features make it easy for employees to get the materials they need, no matter where in the world they are. It can be difficult to stay connected with everyone as teams grow and change. Haystack’s rich employee profiles and company directory make colleagues around the world feel as if they are right across the room.

Knak is the enterprise-grade, no-code solution that transforms how marketing teams build emails and landing pages — without relying on developers or agencies. With a robust modular design system, real-time collaboration, and native integrations with platforms like Marketo, SFMC, and Eloqua, Knak eliminates production bottlenecks while preserving brand governance. Empower your team to deliver high-performance assets quickly, securely, and at scale — no code required. Trusted by global brands to streamline campaign execution and accelerate time-to-market.

Haast is an AI-powered compliance engine that helps enterprises eliminate manual marketing reviews and move faster with confidence. It uses AI agents to automatically detect and resolve regulatory and brand risks across content, websites, and social channels. By learning each company’s risk tolerance, Haast ensures consistent, policy-aligned decisions without slowing teams down. Marketers can check and fix content before it goes live, while legal teams gain faster, more reliable oversight without being overwhelmed by approvals. Haast works across text, images, PDFs, video, and web content, supporting both pre-launch checks and continuous monitoring of live assets. Embedded directly into existing workflows, it transforms compliance from a bottleneck into a scalable, automated system.

Vehicle Acquisition Network (VAN) is private-party vehicle acquisition software for franchise and independent auto dealerships. It helps dealers buy used cars directly from consumers in their local market, alongside trade-ins and instead of paying up at auction. VAN pulls for-sale-by-owner listings from 25+ online marketplaces into one dashboard, filters out dealer and scam listings and Do-Not-Call numbers, and adds VIN decoding and market valuation to each vehicle. Buyers call, text, and email sellers from inside VAN, and every conversation stays attached to the car it is about. On VAN Accelerate™, outreach and follow-up run automatically, KBB ICO leads get a text back within minutes, and AccuTrade leads get an automatic response. For dealers without a buyer on staff, VAN Managed Buyer™ supplies a full-time buyer who is hired, trained, and managed by VAN. The dealership still makes the final buy decision and signs the check. Every plan includes an Acquisition Coach™, and VAN works with vAuto, VINCUE, CARFAX, AutoCheck, and most dealer CRMs. VAN was founded in 2013 and serves dealers in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Plans start at $1,695 per month. To see VAN on your market, call 855-952-4949.

Portal Wholesale is an all-in-one wholesale CRM and B2B marketplace platform created to help fashion brands, showrooms, and wholesale sales teams manage their entire sales process in a single system. The platform combines CRM functionality, order management, Gmail integration, meeting scheduling, asset sharing, and inbound buyer discovery tools specifically designed for wholesale sales workflows. Portal Wholesale enables sales reps to manage accounts, contacts, orders, deals, and outreach directly from Gmail while automatically syncing communication, tasks, and buyer engagement into the CRM. The system supports seasonal wholesale operations with built-in linesheets, product catalogs, shipment tracking, order visibility, and integrations for Joor and NuOrder. Brands can organize sales pipelines by season, rep, region, or market while managers gain real-time reporting and forecasting visibility without relying on spreadsheets. Portal Wholesale also includes a marketplace where over 150,000 retail buyers actively discover and source wholesale brands, generating inbound leads that automatically flow into the CRM pipeline. The platform offers tools for scheduling market appointments, sharing tracked linesheets and lookbooks, monitoring buyer engagement, and managing wholesale relationships from prospecting through order fulfillment. Designed specifically for fashion wholesale rather than generalized sales teams, Portal Wholesale supports the unique operational structure of wholesale businesses including markets, trade shows, showroom appointments, sizing, SKUs, seasonal product launches, and buyer relationship management. The platform positions itself as a modern alternative to spreadsheets, disconnected tools, and generic CRMs.

AuthorityTech is the world’s first AI-native Machine Relations agency and platform, engineered to position ambitious brands inside the Tier-1 publications that AI search engines inherently trust, retrieve, and cite. While conventional PR convinces humans through retainer-based effort, AuthorityTech optimizes for the new primary reader—the machine—through a 100% outcome-based, pay-per-placement model. This ensures leading answer engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, can seamlessly index the brand, map it to its rightful category, and cite it when buyers ask high-intent questions. Coined in 2024 by Founder and CEO Jaxon Parrott, Machine Relations is the discipline of making a brand discoverable and citable by AI systems. Parrott built AuthorityTech to execute the five-layer Machine Relations stack: Earned Authority, Entity Clarity, Citation Architecture, Distribution, and Measurement. This unifies GEO, AEO, AI SEO, and digital PR into a single ecosystem for building machine trust. Cofounder and Chief Growth Officer Christian Lehman operationalizes this strategy, deploying the methodology at scale. Leveraging a direct network of over 1,600 Tier-1 publications, AuthorityTech has secured thousands of AI-cited articles for 200+ clients, including 27 unicorn startups, to guarantee sustainable AI visibility and measurable share of citation. The agency executes this via a three-part framework: Map: Analyzing target categories and competitor LLM prompts. Match: Aligning brand narratives with authoritative outlets. Place: Securing guaranteed placements through relationship-led outreach.

Extole is the enterprise offer management platform powering personalized incentive programs at scale for B2C brands. Highly configurable and AI-accessible, Extole fits how your team already works. Marketers build offer programs that motivate customers across the customer lifecycle, product teams can orchestrate digital and real-world experiences that drive engagement and growth, and developers pull Extole's journey management, rules, real-time rewards, and AI into their own systems as ready-to-use services. Behind every offer, Extole combines real-time audience and event data with enterprise-grade infrastructure so your offers are reliable, secure, and easy to support and audit. Leading brands across retail, financial services, telecommunications, and home services trust Extole to power referral, loyalty, promotional, lifecycle, and engagement programs. Build your next offer program with Extole.

Your data warehouse is your source for truth about customer data. Hightouch syncs these data to the tools your business relies on. Your sales, marketing, customer success and customer service teams will have a 360@ view on the customer through the tools they trust. Eliminate tedious data requests. Hightouch operationalizes data warehouses to make analytics real. Better data can drive growth. Personalized campaigns can be run across all channels, including email, push, ads, and social media. You don't need engineering favors to iterate. Improved data can increase revenue. Target leads with custom PQL or MQL models. Sync one view of the customer with your CRM. Better data will prevent churn. Your CS CRMs should have a 360-degree view of your customers. You can use customer data to identify customers at risk. Your data warehouse contains all of your data. Analytics is just the beginning. Hightouch makes your data warehouse operational by empowering you with SQL to sync data to any SaaS platform.

ActiveCampaign is an autonomous marketing platform that revolutionizes the workflows of marketers, agencies, and entrepreneurs. The platform powers forms, landing pages, email, SMS, WhatsApp, automation, and a CRM, as well as the ability to integrate with over 1000 applications. With Active Intelligence, it's easy to create personalized, engaging, data-driven marketing campaigns. Other platforms focus on reporting past failures; ActiveCampaign’s Active Intelligence swiftly flags potential problems and creates opportunities proactively. Predictive insights and goal-driven AI agents replace dashboards and guesswork. Within a single tool, you get real-time reporting and proactive optimizations in addition to market-leading deliverability. That means you can act on insights faster, easily streamline processes, and drive growth for your business. By combining a user-friendly interface with a comprehensive suite of features, the platform is powerful, accessible, and designed to scale with your business. It's easy to get started: While traditional tools force teams through long setup cycles and training, ActiveCampaign delivers measurable lifts in engagement and conversions in days. 89% of surveyed customers say the platform meets their business needs better than the competition, and 88% say ActiveCampaign delivers value faster than competitors.

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