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Optilogic Launches Pulsar, the Engine That Finds the Signal Behind Every Demand-Driven Supply Chain Decision

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Pulsar, the engine that powers Optilogic’s new Demand Modeling solution, gives executives the intelligence they need to optimize the supply chain considering shifts in customer behavior

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ – Optilogic, a leader in supply chain design and optimization, today announced the general availability of Pulsar, a new demand engine powering Optilogic’s Demand Modeling solution, which analyzes demand patterns, forecasts potential shifts, and powers what-if analyses to reveal the customer behaviors driving revenue growth.

“The supply chain is always in motion, but so is the future. Historically, supply chains have taken the approach that demand is simply something to forecast and deliver on. That unsophisticated approach leads to static, thoughtless decisions. Instead, supply chain leaders must understand how future demand is changing and why those changes are occurring,” notes Don Hicks, CEO of Optilogic.

Built to Find the Signal Other Tools Miss

A single point forecast can say demand is growing two percent company-wide while hiding 12 percent growth in one product line and a decline in another. Pulsar’s hierarchical intelligence finds that real signal across product and location hierarchies down to the individual SKU and location. Instead of a number that implies certainty the market can’t deliver, executives get a probabilistic range of outcomes, ready to plug directly into the inventory, production, and network decisions that depend on it.

Why Now

Supply chain executives must do two things at once: run the supply chain they have today better, and design the one they need for tomorrow. The Optilogic platform does both from a single foundation, combining Pulsar-powered demand modeling with network design, manufacturing, sourcing and procurement, and distribution and logistics, with simulation available across every one of them. Customers get one place to continuously optimize, test what-if scenarios, and redesign their supply chain end to end, starting from a demand signal they can trust.

Works With the Forecast You Already Trust

Pulsar doesn’t ask teams to start over. It works with an existing forecast as additional input, enriches it, and cleanses data automatically, so planners spend their time on decisions, not on rebuilding models every time the data changes.

“For years, companies have had to choose between powerful tools that are too complex for day-to-day operations, or simple tools that can’t handle the complexity of real demand,” said Ricardo Taborda dos Reis, Managing Partner at 7D Analytics, a supply chain consulting firm. ” Pulsar, Optilogic’s new Demand Modeling engine, is designed to give customers something genuinely different: powerful enough for decisions that matter, simple enough for any team member to use.”

Proof Across Industries

Optilogic customers in automotive, consumer packaged goods, craft beverages, and specialty manufacturing are already putting Pulsar to work: leveling production schedules instead of scrambling with overtime, diagnosing a recurring quarter-end service drop that has cost months of recovery time, sharpening replenishment across a dozen distribution centers, and deciding which products belong in a satellite versus a centralized distribution center.

Demand Modeling, powered by Pulsar, is available today in the Optilogic platform. It’s also available as an intuitive app, giving executives and stakeholders a fast, tailored way to put demand intelligence to work on a specific business problem. No modeling experience is required. Every Optilogic solution is backed by a customer success team with deep industry experience, including former roles at Nestle, Cargill, Crocs, and McKinsey.

For more information about Pulsar, visit optilogic.com/solutions/demand-modeling.

About Optilogic

Optilogic is the always-on decision intelligence platform for supply chains. It gives supply chain teams a single platform to optimize the supply chain they have and design the one they need next, replacing static, one-time studies with a model that stays current and decisions that are stress-tested before they’re made. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Optilogic works with teams across retail, CPG, manufacturing, and logistics. Learn more at https://optilogic.com.

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RealNex Releases Major Navigator Enhancements to Power the Next Generation of CRE Brokerage Performance

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New release expands RealNex Navigator with KRM, RealNex Insights, RealNex Vault, RealNex Bridge, MarketEdge enhancements, and CRE Marketing Hub AI tools.

STAFFORD, Texas, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — RealNex, a commercial real estate technology company, today announced a major release of updates and enhancements to RealNex Navigator, its integrated platform for commercial real estate professionals.

The release includes the evolution of RealNex CRM into KRM — Knowledge and Relationship Management, embedded RealNex Insights Power BI dashboards, the launch of RealNex Vault, the upgraded RealNex Bridge transaction workflow, enhanced MarketEdge analysis and presentation tools, and CRE-trained AI tools powered through CRE Marketing Hub.

Together, the enhancements make RealNex Navigator a more connected platform for managing knowledge, sharpening strategy, and activating execution across the full CRE deal cycle. The result is what RealNex calls The CRE Intelligence Advantage: a more effective way to make brokerage knowledge measurable, visible, and actionable.

“Commercial real estate has always been a knowledge business — and the broker who knows their market deepest wins. Every AI tool in the world cannot change that. What we have built changes something more fundamental: it makes that knowledge measurable, visible, and actionable at a scale no individual broker could achieve alone.”

— Mark Kingston, Executive Chairman, RealNex

KRM reflects the reality that CRE professionals manage more than contacts. They manage properties, markets, companies, owners, tenants, activity, assignments, and transaction history. RealNex Insights turns live KRM data into Power BI dashboards covering pipeline health, market inventory, financial performance, production activity, and business development performance.

RealNex Vault is a purpose-built virtual deal room for commercial real estate, with staged bidder progression, tiered access, NDA e-signature, dynamic watermarking, two-factor authentication, audit trails, and bidder engagement analytics. Vault is included at no additional charge for MarketEdge and Navigator subscribers.

RealNex Bridge, formerly Transaction Manager, now includes a redesigned interface, nationwide commercial property database, direct MarketPlace and KRM integration, enhanced proposal comparison, and one-click branded PDF tour books.

MarketEdge enhancements include a refreshed UI, widget-based design editor, auto-sizing text, expanded demographics, and enhanced sale-leaseback and lease vs. buy reports.

CRE Marketing Hub AI tools are available to support property and market analysis, business development strategy, targeted marketing plans, content creation, underwriting and investment analysis, social media messaging, and video scripting.

All updates are live for RealNex subscribers as of September 9, 2026.

About RealNex

RealNex is a commercial real estate technology company providing an integrated platform including KRM — Knowledge and Relationship Management — MarketEdge, RealNex Bridge, RealNex Vault, and RealNex Insights, with AI tools powered through a partnership with CRE Marketing Hub. RealNex serves brokerage firms, leasing professionals, tenant representatives, investment sales teams, and property owners across the United States and internationally.

Media Contact: Sara Perez • 281.299.3161 • 416191@email4pr.comrealnex.com 

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97% of America’s Red-Eye Flights Take Off in the West, and Overnight Flying Is at a Record High, 26 Years of Federal Data Show

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Champion Traveler analysis of every US domestic flight since 2000 finds red-eyes concentrated in the Pacific and Mountain time zones, growing, and more reliable than daytime flights

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — About one in sixty US domestic flights is a red-eye, and 97 percent of them take off in the western United States, according to a new Champion Traveler analysis of 26 years of Bureau of Transportation Statistics flight records.

The study counted every scheduled domestic flight reported to the federal government from 2000 through 2025 and classified as a red-eye any flight scheduled to depart between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. and land between 3 a.m. and 10 a.m. local time. In 2025, 115,580 of 6.9 million flights met that definition.

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Red-eyes are a western phenomenon. 97 percent of 2025’s overnight flights departed from the Pacific and Mountain states plus Alaska and Hawaii, a share that has never fallen below 95 percent since 2000.The red-eye is at a record high. Overnight flights grew 54 percent, from 75,158 in 2000 to 115,580 in 2025, after a low in 2009 and a collapse in 2020.Anchorage is the red-eye capital by share: 26 percent of its departures are overnight flights. Los Angeles leads by count with 19,064. Las Vegas flew the most red-eyes in America in 2000, lost more than half by 2010, and has since recovered.The middle-of-the-night departure is disappearing. Flights leaving after midnight were 31 percent of red-eyes in 2000 and 14 percent in 2025.The legacy airlines lost the overnight market. American, Delta and United flew 97 percent of red-eyes in 2000 and 64 percent in 2025. Alaska Airlines is now the most red-eye-heavy carrier, and Southwest, which flew none for 25 years, took 5.6 percent of the market in its first year.Red-eyes are more reliable. In 2025, 82.4 percent arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, against 77.6 percent of other flights, and they were cancelled less often.

The geography has a simple cause. An overnight flight from the West Coast crosses three time zones and lands on the East Coast at breakfast; the same trip westbound would land in the middle of the night, so airlines schedule almost no overnight flights in that direction. Among the 300 busiest red-eye routes in the study, 82 percent land in the Central or Eastern time zones.

The full study, with a sortable table of every US airport’s red-eye departures in 2000, 2010, 2019 and 2025, airline shares back to 2000, departure hours, seasonality and reliability, is at https://championtraveler.com/news/red-eye-flights-share-of-us-flights/. Journalists can request data for any airport, airline or route.

About Champion Traveler: Champion Traveler publishes data-driven travel research, including the Best Time to Travel tool covering more than 35,000 destinations, the Air Quality Travel Index and the Flyover States study. Champion Traveler is operated by Terra Lake Data, an enterprise data company.

Media contact: Edwin Ivanauskas, (385) 462-2956, 422341@email4pr.com 

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Rentvine Names Nat Kunes as CEO as Its AI Platform Enters Its Next Chapter

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The fastest-growing property management software in the single-family rentals industry strengthens its leadership team as it enters its next phase of growth.

ESTERO, Fla., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Rentvine, the fastest-growing property management software in the single-family rentals industry, today announced Nat Kunes as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 9. Kunes will lead company strategy and assume day-to-day leadership, building on the AI and open foundation Rentvine has already established with its recent launch of MCP and Pro Skills. Rentvine founder, Dave Borden will continue as a hands-on member of the leadership team and board of directors, closely involved in Rentvine’s vision, and industry relationships.

“We’re building the experience property managers deserve. The company’s focus on actively listening to property managers and executing based on their needs is rare, and it’s the foundation I get to build on as we push further into what AI can do for this industry.”

Nat Kunes brings a rare combination of experience: more than 20 years of product leadership, including at one of the largest property management software providers in the industry, paired with a track record of leading AI software organizations through their accelerated growth stages. That blend is precisely what Rentvine has been building in its next chapter, with that vision already taking shape inside the platform.

“What drew me to Rentvine was that our product, support, and culture already set the standard,” said Kunes. “We’re not running a predefined playbook. We’re building the experience property managers deserve. The company’s focus on actively listening to property managers and executing based on their needs is rare, and it’s the foundation I get to build on as we push further into what AI can do for this industry.”

“As founder, this company has always been my passion, and that’s not changing,” said Dave Borden. “Nat’s experience within property management will undoubtedly extend Rentvine’s industry leadership in AI. I will focus on the industry relationships, strategy, and culture, all near and dear to me, as we build our next chapter.”

“Adding Nat to our leadership team alongside Dave and me is exactly the kind of move that helps our customers win,” said Jonathan Ewen, Co-Founder and President of Rentvine. “He shares our commitment to the Herd, and having all three of us driving the business forward means we can move faster without losing what makes Rentvine, Rentvine.”

Rentvine’s product, team, and commitments to property managers remain unchanged. While Borden remains active in the business, Kunes will work alongside Borden and Ewen to make sure employees, customers, and partners continue to receive the same experience they’ve always received from Rentvine.

About Rentvine

Rentvine is the fastest-growing property management software in the single-family rentals industry. Built for property managers who want to scale with confidence and clarity, we deliver the best trust accounting in property management, giving operators unmatched accuracy, visibility, and control over their financials. From leasing, maintenance, and CRM tools to owner reporting and performance analytics, everything lives in one modern, AI-connected platform with an open API.

To learn more, visit www.rentvine.com.

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