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More Than Technology. Understanding. -- Founded in 1995, employee-owned QCI has become the largest tech consulting firm based in Iowa. Our mission is simple: we help our clients utilize technology to succeed. To accomplish our mission, QCI is committed to attracting, developing, and challenging the best talent to deliver for our exceptional clients.

At Valorem Reply, we believe the best outcomes happen when strategy and execution live in the same seat. Valorem Reply delivers solutions that are both visionary and actionable—without the layers and lag of traditional technology partners. Our dual-capability experts—strategic thinkers who also build—bridge the gap between business goals and technical execution. This “thinker + doer” approach enables us to move faster, deliver smarter, and drive measurable business outcomes from day one. As Microsoft-first experts with deep specialization across the Microsoft Cloud—and member of a distributed global technologist network—we help organizations across retail, professional services, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, nonprofit, media, telco and technology harness emerging capabilities like generative AI, intelligent automation and real-time analytics to stay ahead of economic changes and market disruption. 🔹 Azure Practice We deliver secure, scalable solutions across Data & AI, Infrastructure, Security, and App Innovation—ensuring every Microsoft investment drives real impact. 🔹 Modern Work Practice We modernize operations and elevate employee experiences with Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Microsoft Copilot—enabling AI-powered productivity and low-code agility. 🔹 UK Practice Serving the UK and Europe, we deliver Azure Infrastructure, Security, App Innovation, Business Applications and Modern Work solutions—plus specialized support for education and government clients. 🔹 Giant Tech Practice With a unique vantage point as a partner, vendor and customer to some of the world’s largest technology powerhouses, we help global tech brands scale faster with solutions to streamline partner and channel ecosystems, accelerate product innovation, and optimize go-to-market strategies. With global scale and local agility, Valorem Reply delivers boutique solutions that are as strategic as they are executable—because your business can’t afford to wait.

We ship AI. 8th Light provides product strategy, design, and engineering for the work that earns its way to production. Agentic products, deep platform expertise. Since 2006, 8th Light has helped ambitious organizations find the right thing to build, and then build it. Through this important work, we bring life to the best ideas. The hype is loud. The potential is great. The work is what matters. Most teams can build a working agent. Operating one is the harder problem. Demos that impress, deploys that stall, infrastructure that exposes fragility under real traffic. That second problem is where we live. How we partner with technology leaders: -> Validated Innovation. AI makes it cheap to build. It doesn't make it cheap to be wrong. Rapid discovery, real users, and only what earns the investment. -> AI-Ready Platforms. Agents need foundations that hold. We modernize stacks into modular, observable, API-first systems your business can trust. -> Governed Autonomy. Agents that act. Guardrails that let you sleep. Your production workflow ships in 8 weeks, governed and integrated with your real systems. -> Marketplace at Speed. Scale without breaking. Handle the volume, block the bad actors, convert customers better. Over twenty years working alongside engineering teams in financial services, education, retail, real estate, healthcare, and consumer. Custom software development. AI engineering. Chicago (HQ). London. Los Angeles. New York. Austin. If you're figuring out what to build next, or how to operate what you already shipped, let's talk.