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Marketing Maven signs on to work with AI-native application platform Cogzia. Cogzia’s platform will be employed to bring together Marketing Maven’s suite of AI tools, with the aim of transforming fragmented workflows into a unified, secure and automated system. While Marketing Maven has already integrated tools for SEO, content generation and data analytics into its proprietary Marketing Maven Method, Cogzia’s “Last Mile Infrastructure” will focus on connecting disparate AI agents and data sources to build custom applications that organize those tools automatically. In addition to facilitating a higher level of unified orchestration and increased data security and privacy, the collaboration offers what it calls the “Citizen Developer” advantage, which lets Marketing Maven’s strategists build their own "mini-apps" to automate repetitive tasks. "Marketing agencies today are drowning in tabs. We have excellent tools for copy, distinct tools for imagery, and separate tools for analytics, but no connective tissue," said Marketing Maven CEO Lindsey Carnett. "Cogzia changes the equation. It allows us to link these disparate assets together, so they speak the same language.”
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Curtiss Partners, a consultancy dedicated to elevating executive communications, strengthening leadership effectiveness, and translating complex strategies into clear, actionable narratives, launches in Victoria, MN, a suburb of Minneapolis. The firm’s founder and principal is Gregory J. Zimprich, who was most recently senior director of IT and finance communications at Medtronic. He has also held senior PR and communications posts at Honeywell and General Mills. Named in honor of Zimprich’s late father, broadcaster Dean Curtiss, the agency provides three core services: executive & leadership communications, coaching & advisory, and transformation storytelling. Its tagline — “Clarity with Purpose” — is meant to reflect its mission to help leaders simplify complexity, communicate with intention, and drive meaningful impact. “Growing up listening to my father communicate with such honesty and clarity shaped my entire career,” said Zimprich. “Curtiss Partners is about carrying forward those values and helping today’s leaders communicate with purpose in the moments that matter most.”
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Origin & Oak Creative, a marketing and communications agency specializing in culturally competent, community-centered messaging for B2B clients, opens its doors in West Jordan, UT. Launched by former Arrive Home CCO Tai Pherribo Christensen, the agency's services span strategic marketing consulting, content creation, campaign development, fractional C-suite support, and reputation strategy across such sectors as mortgage, financial services, nonprofit and corporate. "What makes Origin & Oak different is that cultural competence isn't retrofitted into our process, it's the foundation," said Christensen. "We start with listening and understanding lived experiences, then build strategies that connect authentically.”
CashmanKatz launches CK Health, a healthcare marketing specialty... Mission North introduces its Physical Industries practice, which will focus on physical AI applications across four verticals: commerce, manufacturing, mobility, and aerospace and defense... Muck Rack, an AI communications platform, announces a new feature designed to help communications leaders identify timely opportunities to shape relevant news conversations while they are still developing.
FINN Partners opens an office in Minneapolis, its fifth location in the Midwest and its 39th worldwide... AMP3 PR hosts its annual Gifting Suite and Media Lounge in conjunction with New York Fashion Week... Curious Plot, which works with clients in the agriculture, food and companion animal industries, is accepting applications for its 2026 Seed to Succeed pro bono program.
IPREX names Big Picture PR in San Francisco, Precision Strategies in Washington, D.C., and Tiny Mighty Communications in Nashville as its first Americas Partner Cohort... Highwire launches AcroAnswers, a proprietary AI visibility platform... Big Red Oak and Naer Communications, a Calgary-based firm, form a partnership providing integrated communications and marketing services to clean energy companies and organizations across Canada.
Matter launches its Review Visibility Management service to address a shift in how companies across verticals earn trust online... A Queens school is putting out the message about Sept. 12, 2001 when people came together to help, comfort, rebuild and unite... Directive expands its Directive Communications division, which will bring PR, organic social, influencer marketing and paid social together under one integrated organization.
Praytell expands its Influence Department—which unites media, creators and social under one team... LRJ PR & Communications and Canopy Brand Group form an alliance that the firms say will bridge the operational divide between high-end brand design and strategic public relations... Twin Minds Media, Hispanic market specialist, increases the scope of its services in an effort to help brands build deeper connections with audiences through culture, storytelling, media and experiences. 
