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Insights into Excellence

Adaptive: Building the System of Action for Construction Finance

System of Action — Part 4: The Case for the Application Layer

Getting to the Software Factory: Moving Up the EPD Hierarchy in the Agentic Age

The Race to Own the Agentic Future

Rob Giglio on Platforms & Ecosystems at Canva

Vertical SaaS–Using Better Analytics to Improve Your Odds of Success

Pricing & Packaging as a Growth System

Building the Industry Ledger in Construction with Chase Gilbert, CEO, Built

Selling to Private Equity is Now a GTM Motion

Building GTM Flywheels with Kevin Hamilton

How CCC Built a Billion-Dollar Supplier Network, One Workflow at a Time

Selling AI to the Enterprise: Fear, Friction, and the Long Road to Yes

The Next Systems of Action: Agentic Workflows and the End of Toil with John Foreman, CPO, Clio

Don Spear on AI & Learning Platforms at OpenSesame

Drew Sechrist on Trust & Relationships at Connect The Dots

What Census Data Tells Us About Growth, Fragmentation, and the Next Great SaaS Markets (Maybe)

The Evolution of Vertical SaaS: What We Heard at Collective Live 2025

Antonio Bravo, BBVA

2025 Vertical & SMB SaaS Benchmark Report

System of Action — Part 3: How Control Points Win

Xero: Platform Strategy

The Room Podcast: The Business of Launching a Fund

AppFolio: Consumer Extensions

Accounting Leaders Podcast: Why I invested in Karbon

Dutchie: A Case Study of Vertical SaaS in Emerging Industries

Caught Being Good

Robert Chatwani, Tidemark Fellow

Long View on Ecommerce: Compounding Adoption

Consumer Extensions

Introducing our new podcast series, The Platform Journey, hosted by Avanish Sahai

Toast: Built to Serve

Excellence In Action

In the Trenches with Ron Hirson: Bill Wetherell, DocuSign

Excellence In Action

In the Trenches with Ron Hirson: Brian Echols, Confluent

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