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ADT Q3 2026 results; guidance withdrawn pending the Thrive transaction.

Target company press release announcing the definitive agreement.

Acquirer statement on the ADT agreement; source of the ">75 businesses" figure.

Report on Beacon Holdings' acquisition of Ganaz, citing the founder's post.

Italian business daily report on the redundancy procedure.

Trade-press report of the Paramount Properties acquisition and $170M funding.

Announces an October 10 London event with Anthropic, ElevenLabs, General Catalyst, and EQT as partners; challenges focus on messy operating cases and escalation.

Reports over 1,000 August maintenance tasks, with human work reduced from roughly three hours to 15–20 minutes. More than 80% of payments are recognized automatically.

Profiles RRBB practitioners including Rob Quick, Dave Roth, and Susan DiPaolo. Recounts a prior software initiative that failed because document-scanning work was not adopted.

Announced September 1, 2026, from Salem, Utah. Current announced that Preferred CFO joined the platform. Based in the greater Salt Lake City metro area, Preferred CFO provides fractional CFO, controller, outsourced accounting, strategic finance, and capital-raising support to businesses nationwide, and has operated for more than a decade, with the firm dating its founding to 2013. Its work covers forecasting and financial modeling, cash flow management, budgets and operating plans, capital preparation and raises, and strengthening controller functions. Current framed the addition as advancing its strategy to build one of the country's leading advisory organizations and as a milestone in its national expansion, positioning the combination of experienced professionals, modern technology, specialized expertise, and strategic advisory as the direction of the profession. Preferred CFO said clients should expect near-term continuity with the same professionals, while joining Current gives the firm access to broader technology, AI systems, national resources, and collaboration across the network. Existing client relationships, local leadership, and culture are retained.

Announced August 25, 2026, from San Francisco. Crescendo launched the Crescendo Customer Experience Platform (CXP), consolidating software categories historically sold separately — CCaaS, ticketing, workforce management, quality assurance, voice of the customer, and knowledge — into a single system run end to end by specialized AI agents. The named agents are Concierge, which handles customers across phone, chat, email, and messaging and hands off to a person with the full thread intact; Agent Assist, which supports human specialists during live conversations and delivers escalations as decision packets rather than raw transcripts; Applied Insights, which analyzes conversations and outcomes; Quality, which scores 100 percent of conversations for accuracy, empathy, compliance, and completion; and Workforce, which forecasts volume and optimizes staffing at five-minute granularity. Beneath them sits what Crescendo calls the Agentic Foundation, an orchestration and optimization layer the company says automates 95 percent of deployment work. Crescendo cited backend integration from a natural-language prompt in under 30 minutes and full production in as little as 30 days, 600 percent growth in AI-handled volume, a 200 percent increase in AI customers year over year, and one customer reporting a 60 percent reduction in CX stack costs. Andy Lee, co-founder, was chief executive at launch, having been appointed in July 2026.

Announced August 25, 2026, from Palo Alto. Eudia announced a partnership with Google to launch industry-specific AI capabilities on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Legal, as a launch partner. Eudia's agent is built on Google's Agent Development Kit and connected via MCP, combining specialized agents with digital twins of domain-scoped institutional knowledge, orchestrated with legal-specific reasoning and access to legal databases. The stated use cases cover legal, compliance, procurement, and revenue teams: drafting and reviewing contracts, analyzing marketing assets for compliance, assessing risk across thousands of executed contracts, and managing obligations across a company's contract portfolio. The release frames the value as giving large enterprises a faster path to governed legal AI inside a platform they already run, with an illustrative example of an employee querying Gemini Enterprise about the compliance implications of a proposed product feature. Eudia is described here as the augmented intelligence platform for enterprise legal, contracting, and compliance.

Reports over $2 billion in new capital at a $12 billion valuation, over $3 billion raised since inception, and more than 70 businesses. Announces expansion into built-environment services.

Announces a $35 million Series B led by The General Partnership and Allen Shim joining as president/CFO. Describes a permanent holdco with embedded technologists.

Clarifies that the $170 million financing comprises $95 million equity and a $75 million debt facility. Funds support platform development and agency acquisitions.

Links earlier venture-buyout and growth-buyout terminology to current roll-up activity and presents AGI as a newer example.

Reports nearly $70 million committed equity, a first closed acquisition, and work with ten agencies before acquisition. Describes a specialty brokerage growth platform.

Names cofounder Andy Lee CEO, with founding CEO Matt Price moving to strategic adviser to the board.

Announced July 9, 2026, from Somerset, New Jersey. RRBB announced its fifth tuck-in acquisition since joining Current in August 2023, growing from roughly $20 million in revenue at the time it joined to a $44 million platform. RRBB was Current's first partner firm. Two months after joining, it added Mendonca & Partners Certified Public Accountants LLC, an international tax firm in Union, New Jersey with import/export expertise and approximately $8 million in revenue. The release frames RRBB as a pioneer within the network, presenting its sequence of tuck-ins as a repeatable model combining integration, technology enablement, access to capital, and global service delivery to drive both inorganic and organic growth. RRBB offers accounting, advisory, and consulting services from offices in New Jersey and New York. Current, founded by Jake Sloane and Frank Zhang and backed by Thrive Holdings, is described as a national partnership of more than 30 accounting and advisory firms built on local leadership and entrepreneurial autonomy, and was named to Accounting Today's list of best firms for technology.

Episode page highlights trust, permanent capital, the acquisition machine, and the operating platform. Includes useful chapter timestamps.

Announced June 25, 2026, from Palo Alto. Eudia announced a collaboration with Microsoft covering product integrations across Microsoft 365 via add-ins and APIs, technical deployment on Microsoft Azure infrastructure, and joint go-to-market with Microsoft's enterprise sales organization. The stated purpose is to bring Eudia's Expert Digital Twins and specialized agents to in-house legal departments and adjacent business teams inside the applications they already use. Enterprises named as already running Eudia within Microsoft 365 — including Word, Outlook, SharePoint, and OneDrive — are ServiceNow, Cargill, Toshiba, Ecolab, and Bayer. The release describes Eudia's platform as built around the Enterprise Brain, which captures and codifies the judgment of an organization's top experts across contracts, policies, precedents, and prior decisions, and embeds it into the systems where legal work happens. Eudia positions the combination of domain-specific AI with enterprise governance and self-serve access as a way to accelerate deal cycles, strengthen compliance, and reduce reliance on outside counsel.

Describes a strategic partnership, joint development, and Alorica’s ability to resell and deploy Crescendo’s platform.

Announced June 18, 2026, from Washington, DC. Consilio and Eudia announced a strategic partnership pairing Eudia's Expert Digital Twins and AI agents with Consilio's operational and technology capability across eDiscovery, document review, risk and compliance, and legal transformation for large corporations and law firms. The two companies will co-develop AI tools powered by Eudia's digital twin technology, with stated aims of faster contract and matter cycles, more defensible review, stronger compliance posture, and reduced reliance on outside counsel. As an additional element, both sides will explore future integrations between Eudia and Aurora Legal AI, Consilio's legal intelligence platform. The release cited Consilio's 2026 Global Survey, in which 54 percent of legal professionals named technology selection and deployment as their top challenge, ahead of work volume for the first time. Emron Pratt is Consilio's chief strategy officer. Eudia was founded by Omar Haroun with chief technology officer Ashish Agrawal and chief operating officer David Van Reyk, and its named clients include ServiceNow, Cargill, Toshiba, Ecolab, Bayer, and the US Air Force.