Global Economic Press

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses the inspiring story of resilience and community spirit in Little Italy, New York City, following the September 11 attacks. The episode highlights "The Forgotten Feast," a short documentary supported by Pitta and Baione LLP, which captures how the neighborhood came together to support first responders and each other. The documentary, produced by Keep Good Company and Red Sauce Studio, reveals the untold history of Little Italy's response during one of America's darkest days. For more information about Pitta and Baione LLP, visit their website at https://911benefits.com/.

The documentary, directed by Rosemarie "Ro" Sparacio and produced by Matthew Baione and Tina Baione, features firsthand accounts from restaurant families and residents who redirected food supplies to aid recovery workers and those in need. This act of community leadership, largely absent from public memory, is brought to light as the film is set to be released in 2026, marking 25 years since the September 11 attacks and 100 years since the first Feast of San Gennaro. Pitta and Baione LLP, founded in 2016, continues to represent responders and survivors of the attacks, focusing on those whose illnesses emerged years later. The documentary serves as a poignant reminder of the neighborhood's contributions and the ongoing impact of September 11 on its residents.

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses a significant trend in garden design among United Kingdom homeowners, highlighting insights from Fantastic Gardeners, a leading landscaping company in London. According to Fantastic Gardeners, there is a growing demand for functional gardens that prioritize usability over aesthetics. Homeowners are increasingly requesting gardens that are easier to maintain and use regularly, focusing on practical elements such as drainage, manageable planting, and layouts suited to everyday life. For more information about Fantastic Gardeners, visit their website at Fantastic Gardeners.

The podcast features a case study of a North West London landscaping project that exemplifies this shift. The homeowner sought a garden that was not only visually appealing but also practical and easy to maintain. Fantastic Gardeners transformed both the front and back gardens by incorporating raised beds, gravel surfacing, and improved drainage, while selecting low-maintenance plants like lavender and jasmine. This project underscores the company's approach to creating gardens that are not just for display but are integral to daily life, offering a space for relaxation and routine activities. The episode highlights how Fantastic Gardeners is adapting to changing client expectations, focusing on creating outdoor spaces that enhance personal living experiences rather than merely serving as property investments.

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses the innovative use of artificial intelligence in managed IT services, focusing on RDE Technologies' deployment of the Vight platform. RDE Technologies, a New York-based IT and cybersecurity provider, has integrated Vight to enhance service efficiency and client satisfaction. The platform automates the transformation of service calls into structured ticket notes, time entries, and coaching data, significantly reducing administrative friction. This integration allows technicians and leadership to gain a comprehensive view of client interactions, improving the overall service experience. For more information about RDE Technologies, visit their website at rdetech.com.

Since implementing Vight, RDE Technologies has processed over 67,000 calls, capturing service time that previously went unrecorded. The platform transcribes calls, matches them to the correct tickets, and provides detailed notes, sentiment scores, and coaching insights. This approach enhances documentation quality, strengthens key performance indicators, and enables earlier detection of client risks. By fitting seamlessly into existing workflows, Vight allows technicians to focus on client interactions while automating documentation and analysis tasks. This modern model for managed services emphasizes automation, human relationships, and continuous improvement, setting a new standard for the industry.

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses the remarkable achievement of Renewal by Andersen of Western Washington, a company that has set a new benchmark in customer satisfaction within the window replacement industry. Renewal by Andersen has surpassed 1,790 verified Google reviews with an impressive 4.8-star average, establishing itself as the highest-rated window replacement provider in Bellevue, Washington. This milestone reflects sustained customer satisfaction across the company's full Puget Sound service area, which includes Bellevue, Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett. For more information about the company, visit their website at Renewal by Andersen of Western Washington.

The company's Renton-based office coordinates design consultations, custom manufacturing, and installation for homeowners throughout King County, including various Bellevue neighborhoods. Feedback from homeowners highlights a consistent pattern of crews completing projects on schedule, protecting flooring and landscaping, and being frequently named individually in reviews, indicating low turnover on installation teams. Kat Marriott, Chief Executive Officer at Renewal by Andersen of Western Washington, emphasizes that the high volume of positive reviews confirms the quality of their work. The Western Washington location serves multiple areas, including Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Renton, Redmond, and Kirkland, as well as surrounding communities in King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties.

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses a groundbreaking study from Treyci, an artificial intelligence visibility intelligence platform. The study reveals significant discrepancies among major artificial intelligence engines regarding brand recommendations, which could have profound implications for businesses navigating the digital marketplace. For more information, visit the company's website at Treyci. The analysis shows that in one business-to-business software category, one artificial intelligence engine referenced tracked brands in 81 percent of its answers, while another referenced the same brands in only 43 percent, highlighting a nearly two-fold visibility gap between engines that buyers use interchangeably.

Treyci's methodology involves running approximately 100 buying-intent questions per category across various artificial intelligence engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok, repeating each prompt three times per engine monthly. The findings indicate that artificial intelligence answers are probabilistic, often returning different vendor lists for the same question in separate sessions. Additionally, artificial intelligence engines tend to cite third-party sources rather than vendors, reshaping where brand-visibility efforts are most effective. Keith Schilling, founder of Treyci, emphasizes the importance of measuring the distribution of answers across engines to truly understand a brand's visibility. As artificial intelligence assistants increasingly influence business-to-business purchasing decisions, the absence of a brand from an artificial intelligence answer means no impression or record of a buying conversation. Treyci's full methodology is available at treyci.io/methodology, and companies can request a free artificial intelligence visibility check at treyci.io.

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses a significant development in the short-term rental industry. Hostfully, a leading property management software company, has partnered with Furnished Finder to expand opportunities for short-term rental operators in the growing monthly rental market. This collaboration allows short-term rental managers to access mid-term rental demand directly from the system they already use. Hostfully is the first property management system to integrate with Furnished Finder, marking a pivotal step in addressing the increasing demand for monthly and mid-term rental capabilities. For more information, visit the company's website at Hostfully.

The partnership between Hostfully and Furnished Finder comes at a time when the market for furnished monthly rentals is expanding rapidly, outpacing the growth of short-term rentals. According to Furnished Finder's report, revenue from stays of 28 nights or longer in the United States reached $6.2 billion in 2025, a significant increase from 2019. This growth highlights the potential for professional short-term rental operators to capture this demand, especially as regulatory changes push operators toward longer stays. Hostfully's integration with Furnished Finder provides a seamless solution for operators to navigate these shifts, ensuring they have the tools to adapt and thrive in the evolving rental landscape.

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses a significant development in the cybersecurity landscape with the announcement of a strategic partnership between Senteon and SPECTRA. Senteon, a leader in automated endpoint hardening, has teamed up with SPECTRA, a cyber risk management platform, to enhance cyber resilience for Managed Service Providers and their clients. This collaboration aims to reshape the cybersecurity services industry by combining secure, verifiable endpoint configurations with independent certification of cybersecurity service quality. For more information, visit Senteon's website.

The partnership between Senteon and SPECTRA brings together critical components of cyber resilience, enabling Managed Service Providers to assess, harden, monitor, and maintain security configurations across various client environments. Senteon's platform manages over 3,000 security configurations, ensuring alignment with Center for Internet Security Benchmarks and regulatory frameworks. SPECTRA's certification evaluates a Managed Service Provider's people, processes, technology, and service delivery, offering a credential that differentiates their services. This partnership is particularly valuable for Managed Service Providers in regulated industries, helping them prove their value, strengthen client trust, and stand out in a competitive market. Learn more about SPECTRA at SPECTRA's website.

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses the latest innovation from InboxAlly, a leading email deliverability platform. InboxAlly has launched an expanded Email Deliverability Hub, which features 11 free tools designed to enhance email performance. Trusted by over 20,000 brands, InboxAlly's new suite of tools helps businesses investigate issues such as emails landing in spam, authentication and infrastructure problems, and inbox placement. These tools are compatible with any email service provider or sending platform and can be used without creating an account. To explore the complete toolkit, visit InboxAlly's website.

The free suite is organized into three areas: Testing and Analysis, Planning and List Quality, and Email Authentication. Testing and Analysis tools help evaluate message content and placement across major email providers. Planning and List Quality tools include a Warmup Planner and Email List Verification to improve list quality. Email Authentication tools assist in creating and validating Domain Name System records for authenticated email and brand identification. Darren Blumenfeld, founder and Chief Executive Officer of InboxAlly, emphasizes the importance of understanding email deliverability issues without relying on multiple services. The free tools complement InboxAlly's paid platform, which has helped clients like Seido Knives significantly improve their sender reputation and inbox placement.

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses an exciting initiative by match.asia, which is expanding its free "Prepare for Exit" workshops for small and medium-sized enterprises in Southeast Asia. These workshops are designed to bridge the knowledge gap in mergers and acquisitions, providing business owners with the necessary tools and insights to prepare for successful transactions. The program aims to address the common misalignment between buyers and sellers, which often hinders potential mergers and acquisitions from progressing. By offering practical guidance on how buyers assess businesses and the key drivers of valuation, match.asia is set to significantly impact the business landscape in the region.

Over the next year, match.asia plans to conduct at least 12 free workshops, reaching more than 350 business owners across Southeast Asia. These workshops will be conducted in collaboration with venture capital and private equity firms, business associations, accelerators, founder networks, and other ecosystem partners. The initiative is part of match.asia's broader efforts to make mergers and acquisitions more accessible to small and medium-sized enterprises in the region. Additional initiatives include the Exit Health Check and business valuation tools, which help business owners assess their readiness for a potential sale and understand what drives the value of their companies. Organizations interested in hosting a workshop can visit match.asia or contact them directly at [email protected].

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses the expanding commercial glazing services offered by City Glass, a family-owned company based in Anderson, South Carolina. As demand for these services grows in the Anderson and Greenville areas, City Glass is stepping up to meet the needs of local businesses by providing ten distinct categories of commercial glazing services. These services include fire-rated aluminum glazing and frames, curtain wall sections, storefront doors and glazing, bullet-resistant glazing and frames, and more. By offering a comprehensive range of services under one roof, City Glass allows contractors and business owners to work with a single provider from design through installation, eliminating the need to subcontract different parts of a project. For more information, visit the company's website at City Glass.

City Glass has been serving businesses in the Upstate region for 75 years, evolving from its original storefront and mirror work into a full-service commercial glazing operation. The company's approach emphasizes full-service capability, local licensed experience, and direct communication with decision-makers, which sets it apart from regional or national firms. City Glass has successfully applied this approach to various projects, including educational facilities, financial institutions, and commercial buildings throughout Anderson and Greenville. Businesses and general contractors in the area can request a quote for upcoming projects by visiting cityglasssc.com/quote or calling their Anderson office at 864-224-0491.