For faith-based organizations, technology succeeds when it deepens connection rather than replacing it. Jamshed Patel makes the case for building capacity around the communities these tools are meant to serve.

With over a decade of experience bringing together computer science and marketing technology, Zach Batastini, the Georgia founder of Derail Logic, knew firsthand about the challenges of navigating multiple marketing systems to manage websites, campaigns, and analytics. “Most small mom and pop businesses don’t have the tools or budget for larger marketing campaigns. I built MartechAI to support the growth of businesses that might not have large marketing budgets,” said Batastini.

The best salespeople carry a read on a deal that no CRM can see, a gut sense of whether it is alive or already lost long before the pipeline stage updates. Rishi Patel kept walking out of calls knowing exactly which deals were dead, then opening his CRM to find them all marked 70 percent likely to close by the reps. That gap gnawed at him for years before he did anything about it. Today, it is the founding premise of RevSage.

Small businesses make up 99.9% of US companies and drive 43.5% of the national GDP. Yet modern analytics tools have largely passed them by. Today 68% of Google searches end without a click, and more than half surface AI overviews. For a small business, that means the traffic numbers owners see may look nothing like the customers they actually reach. Few can afford to guess wrong. Teclaz answers the question every owner asks: who is my traffic?

Kavya Mohankumar and Pranavi Gogineni’s startup journey started on an evening bus ride as college students. As they talked, a bigger question emerged: What do you see yourself doing in the future? Today, they are co-founders and CEOs of Kintic, which provides training data for humanoid robots. But Kintic wasn’t what they originally set out to build. Their first stop? Three pivots.

When Thailand's government wrote artificial intelligence into its national roadmap, TSRB researcher Ploypilin Pruekcharoen started reading the news differently. She has spent the past year collecting and analyzing more than 100 Thai news articles about AI in tourism. Her question is simple: when a country stakes part of its economic future on artificial intelligence, how does its press explain that technology to the public, and who gets left out of the story?

When Sylvia Janicki set out to record the noise of Atlanta's data centers, she expected to find it everywhere. News stories described nearby communities living with constant humming, roaring generators and sleepless nights. So she drove to roughly 10 hyperscale facilities around metro Atlanta, the massive campuses built to power artificial intelligence and hit record.

Tech Square is full of people you'd want to know and mostly haven't met yet. Maestro is a new ecosystem connection platform built to help you find and reach the right people across the community, whether that's a co-founder, a collaborator, or just the person who runs your trail every morning.

Anish Cheekati spent years on the pre-med track, gaining experience as a medical assistant and volunteering in clinics. His plans shifted after working with patients who often struggled to manage their various medications without guidance. This inspired him to create Voyage Health, a free AI-powered health guidance platform.

Earlier this year, Hypepotamus covered ATDC’s push to become a launchpad for Georgia-based AI companies. One of the companies building currently inside ATDC isn’t just building AI tools. They are a team ensuring organizations don’t get left behind in the AI Age. 

To help adults with mild cognitive impairment maintain independence, quality of life, and prepare meals, what may seem like an obvious solution of either removing kitchen cabinet doors or labeling may not be the best option. This gap and Ibrahim Bilau’s evidence-based and human-centered research highlight why it is so important to engage with community members living with mild cognitive impairment and their care partners.

Atlanta is described in many ways: a logistics hub, a corporate headquarters city, a university city, a film city, and increasingly, a technology city.

Now there is a new question to answer:

What role should Atlanta play in artificial intelligence infrastructure?

Daniel Beecham switched majors, failed out twice and watched his first startup fold. Now his company Propagent is betting that AI can take the chaos out of proposal work, and ATDC is betting on him.

Starting a company had been an ongoing goal of Woonsun Song’s, including when he was previously working at a cryptocurrency startup. And being part of the winning team of DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge in August 2025 gave Song the opportunity to pursue his goal of founding QED Audit, which is focused on making critical software more secure.

Georgia Tech researchers are working on an oral bird flu vaccine that could transform poultry vaccination. Using artificial intelligence, the team is developing an edible vaccine that could protect birds from bird flu and reduce its spread to livestock and humans.