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Smart, efficient, anonymous People Counters & Analytics to the real world. Our solution allows for easy deployment, capture, analysis, and reporting of the number people who enter a physical place. Optionally, we can also capture and report occupancy in real time. We assist Retailers, Universities, Casinos, Places of Worship, Office Buildings, and other industries in analyzing and taking action on their people traffic trends. We offer a special package for retailers to measure performance on traffic, including conversion rate and service levels. Our direct integrations make it easy to combine POS data with staff data. The Retail Equation simulator lets users run simulations to improve sales. It can also be used as a learning tool to understand how traffic, staffing, conversion rates, and quality service relate.

With TrafficGuard, you can put an end to the worry of polluted traffic disrupting your campaign success. Our advanced ML/AI-powered technology identifies and blocks both simple and complex fraudulent traffic in real time, ensuring your ad spend targets genuine, high-quality clicks and conversions. This leads to better campaign outcomes and an enhanced return on ad spend (ROAS). This robust solution safeguards every dollar of your advertising budget, allowing you to concentrate on reaching your marketing objectives without stress. Let TrafficGuard handle ad fraud protection, so you can confidently manage your: Google Search (PPC) campaigns Mobile user acquisition campaigns Affiliate spending Social media advertising In addition to our technology, we provide expert campaign management and exceptional customer support, making us a reliable partner for all your ad fraud protection needs.

Admiral is the top adblock recovery platform for publishers, helping recover millions of dollars in advertising revenue lost to adblockers, privacy tools, DNS filtering, VPNs, network-level blocking, and other forms of monetization disruption. Trusted by thousands of publishers and backed by more than a decade of expertise, Admiral pioneered Full Spectrum Adblock Recovery—combining multiple recovery approaches to maximize total adblock revenue. As the creator of Visitor Relationship Management (VRM), Admiral extends beyond ad recovery to help publishers recover and grow revenue through subscriptions, registrations, consent management, first-party data, email acquisition, social audience growth, donations, and other visitor monetization strategies. By combining recovery and revenue-growth approaches in one platform, Admiral helps publishers reduce revenue leakage, increase visitor lifetime value, and maximize monetization across the audience lifecycle. Admiral VRM delivers: * Industry-leading Full Spectrum Adblock Recovery * Paid subscriptions, paywalls, and donation campaigns * Visitor Copilot conversational AI for engagement and revenue growth * Registration walls, user accounts, and first-party data * Email, social audience, and app growth * GDPR and CCPA consent management Admiral also provides analytics, journey shaping, visitor segmentation, targeting, testing, and optimization. Publishers can add Admiral's free tag in minutes for immediate visibility into adblock rates and revenue recovery potential.

Athena Security uses advanced concealed weapons detection systems to deliver a unified, AI-driven entryway solution for hospitals, K–12 schools, casinos, places of worship, government buildings, and commercial facilities across the U.S. The Apollo 500 enables seamless walk-through screening to detect weapons in real time, giving operators more actionable data points than traditional systems for faster, more confident decisions. Athena’s AI-powered X-ray leverages iPad technology to modernize screening and improve threat detection. Athena’s Hospital Visitor Management System integrates with EPIC to connect identity, access, and screening data. Innovations include the Ambulance Bay WDS for stretcher screening and secondary screening for bags and lower extremities to reduce human error. Designed with compliance in mind, Athena aligns with California AB 2975, which mandates weapons detection screening at key hospital entrances by 2027 to improve safety and reduce workplace violence. DHS-aligned workflows ensure testing, controls, and compliance, while telepresence and AR alert glasses provide real-time support. All systems connect in one platform for centralized monitoring and enterprise reporting.

Ecwid by Lightspeed makes it easy to add an online shop to any website or social media profile. Ecwid is used by hundreds of thousands merchants in 175 different countries. It has everything you need for reaching your customers wherever they may be: in-person or through your website, Instagram and Facebook, Amazon, Google Shopping, or Amazon. Ecwid's integrated point-of-sale and email marketing integrations and dedicated mobile app allow you to manage your marketing, sales, and merchandising from anywhere.

Insightful is a Work Intelligence platform that helps organizations understand how work actually happens across people, processes, and AI, so they can improve performance, optimize workflows, and reduce operational waste. When work is spread across people, locations, and tools, small gaps add up fast. Time goes missing. Work slows down. Problems surface late. Insightful brings this together in one platform, built to help organizations optimize People, Process, and Technology through three core capabilities: 1. Workforce Analytics: Measure workforce productivity, utilization, and performance with real-time visibility into how work gets done. 2. Workflow Optimization: Identify bottlenecks, eliminate inefficiencies, and optimize workflows across teams and processes. 3. Work Intelligence: Measure AI adoption, usage, and business impact to maximize the ROI of your AI investments. With Insightful, you can: • Understand how work happens across teams, processes, and AI • Spot drops in utilization and output early • Track AI adoption, usage, and business impact • Arrange a custom layout with widgets to surface the KPIs and insights most relevant to your role • See where work slows, stalls, or creates rework across workflows • Compare performance across teams, roles, or locations • Use real activity data to review work and resolve disputes • Automate time tracking and reporting This is not just another monitoring tool. It’s a precision Work Intelligence for actionable bottom line impact. You get clear data you can use in weekly reviews, planning, and day-to-day decisions. Teams choose Insightful because it delivers strong visibility and control without the cost or complexity of heavier tools.

We focus on creating, distributing and repurposing content at scale. This allows companies to reach a wider audience without requiring extensive internal resources or expertise. This allows small and medium-sized companies to compete and scale without relying too heavily on paid channels. Get more targeted buyer traffic through the best and largest traffic source in the World. Brand presence is improved online and conversions are increased across all traffic sources.

Vibe Retail is a cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) and retail operations system designed exclusively for businesses that sell physical products through one or multiple locations. Unlike most POS platforms that attempt to serve restaurants, hospitality, or service-based businesses, Vibe Retail focuses only on retail, allowing the platform to be engineered around real retail workflows rather than generalized use cases. The system centralizes inventory, sales, employee, customer, and supplier data into a single, mobile-friendly interface. Retailers can track inventory across stores and warehouses in real time, manage product variations such as size, color, and material, and maintain serialized inventory for traceability. Additional capabilities include barcode generation and scanning, purchase order creation, supplier receiving, delivery reconciliation, and real-time stock transfers between locations. On the transaction side, Vibe Retail supports multiple retail payment types, including credit and debit cards, cash, checks, gift cards, and EBT. Retail-specific workflows such as layaway, delivery fulfillment, loyalty programs, and branded receipts are built into the system. Mobile receipt printing and role-based staff permissions allow retailers to operate efficiently both at fixed checkout counters and on the sales floor. Vibe Retail integrates with ecommerce platforms such as Shopify and WooCommerce, synchronizing inventory, orders, and customer data across online and physical channels. Built-in analytics provide more than 40 real-time reports covering sales performance, inventory movement, employee activity, and operational metrics, helping retailers maintain visibility and control as they scale.

Control D is a customizable DNS filtering and traffic redirection platform that leverages Secure DNS protocols like DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-QUIC, with support for Legacy DNS. With Control D you can: block malicious threats, block unwanted types of content network wide (ads & trackers, IoT telemetry, adult content, socials, and more), redirect traffic using transparent proxies and gain visibility on network events and usage patterns, with client level granularity. Think of it as your personal Authoritative DNS resolver for the entire Internet that gives you granular control over what domains get resolved, redirected or blocked.

PayKings is a payment processing provider specializing in merchant account solutions for high-risk industries that often face challenges obtaining traditional payment services. The company offers a streamlined approval process powered by automated underwriting, allowing many businesses to gain access to payment processing capabilities within a short timeframe. Businesses can leverage merchant accounts, payment gateways, ACH processing, credit card processing, recurring billing, and virtual terminal solutions through a single provider. PayKings serves a broad range of industries, including adult entertainment, CBD, online gaming, firearms, debt settlement, travel, nutraceuticals, cryptocurrency, and other specialized markets. Fraud prevention tools and chargeback management services help businesses reduce risk while maintaining smooth transaction processing. The platform supports integration with leading gateways, eCommerce platforms, content management systems, and custom APIs. Dedicated account managers provide guidance throughout onboarding and ongoing operations, ensuring merchants receive industry-specific support. Transparent interchange-plus pricing models help businesses understand processing costs without hidden fees or long-term contractual commitments. PayKings enables high-risk businesses to access reliable payment infrastructure while supporting growth and operational stability.