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HG Insights Launches Contextual Intelligence Platform, Bringing Precision to AI-Driven GTM Revenue

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Updated platform gives GTM teams and AI agents a unified, connected picture of markets, accounts, and buyers to compete, win, and grow with precision

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HG Insights today launched the Contextual Intelligence Platform, closing the context gap that leaves autonomous AI agents confidently acting on fragmented, isolated data. By giving GTM teams and agents one unified, connected picture of markets, accounts, and buyers, grounded in decision-ready intelligence, it lets them compete, win, and grow pipeline and revenue faster. The launch also marks a new chapter for HG Insights’ brand with its integrated platform debuting alongside a refreshed identity that reflects where the company and the market are headed.

“Every GTM team is adding the same agents, the same tools, the same playbooks. When the infrastructure is equal, whoever knows the account best wins,” said Rohini Kasturi, CEO of HG Insights. “Most vendors still sell disconnected data and call it intelligence. We’ve built the intelligence layer for autonomous, agentic GTM. Our platform connects the data, gives it context, and derives decision-ready signals that power teams and AI agents to execute with precision.”

AI agents are now table stakes in enterprise GTM. The differentiator is the completeness, depth, and context of the intelligence behind them.

Most AI agents working in GTM draw on isolated, fragmented internal and commodity datasets that lack the entity resolution and context required for accurate interpretation. The same company is able to show up as multiple accounts, and a subsidiary’s spend would therefore be missed or double-counted under the wrong parent. An intent signal from an account that already owns the product could be flagged as new business instead of an expansion, and one from a competitive account can be chased as winnable. Marketing and sales are able to rely on job titles rather than evidence of who owns the product. Without that context, an agent returns a fast, confident answer that is fundamentally wrong. As more GTM work gets automated, those errors scale.

HG’s Contextual Intelligence solves this problem by connecting technology installations and usage, spending, buyer intent, buying centers, and contacts to an account and its corporate hierarchy. It tracks changes over time and computes new signals that no individual data source can provide. This gives teams and AI agents the context, combined with a customer’s first-party data, to distinguish opportunities, prioritize accounts and leads, and guide GTM execution with precision.

“Account data still lives across a dozen separate systems inside most organizations, and that fragmentation matters even more as agentic autonomy increases and agents become embedded within GTM workflows. Accurate account and contact resolution, combined with comprehensive buyer context, determines whether an agent can reason effectively and take actions that drive pipeline growth. Contextual intelligence will drive GTM outcomes and deliver compounding value as the agents and applications on top of it evolve,” said Michael Levy, analyst at GZ Consulting.

What’s new in the Contextual Intelligence platform:

Fabric, the data and intelligence foundation of the platform, has expanded its company, technology, and spend coverage and now includes funding and M&A intelligence, automatic hierarchy updates, and contacts matched to the buying centers that own a given technology. A new Momentum signal has been added that shows whether a vendor, a portfolio, or a product is gaining or losing ground. Each of these additions helps GTM teams and agents make more precise GTM decisions. A declining footprint, spend, and intent can flag a competitive displacement opportunity, while growth across all three shows a competitor gaining ground. Fabric can be licensed on its own and delivered by API or Direct Feed into a customer’s data warehouse, CRM, applications, or models.

HG Copilots, including Market Analyzer, Data Studio, and Sales Copilot, help GTM teams assess markets, optimize coverage, target accounts, build audiences, and engage buyers. Sales Copilot now tailors its guidance around each customer’s own products, buyers, and sales motions. A rep opens a ranked account list with research, engagement history and intent signals, suggested sales play, product pitch, and buyer committee contacts, all with clear reasoning. That same transparency now extends to predictive AI scoring across HG Copilots. Unlike black-box scoring, Fit, Need, and Intent models update dynamically to sharpen lead and account prioritization while staying deterministic, explainable, and adjustable.

HG Agents automate time-consuming GTM tasks such as expansion sizing, territory coverage, account research, signal monitoring, brief and outreach drafting, and enrichment that used to take hours of manual data gathering, mapping, and analysis. HG Agents are reachable from Slack, Microsoft Teams, the HG interface, or embedded directly into a customer’s own application using standard Model Context Protocol (MCP). A new HGSuperagent interprets user requests, selects the right specialist agents, and assembles the result with every claim cite-sourced, so a user never has to know which agent to call. An account research brief can return over 30 data points within 90 seconds. A team that once had time for only its priority accounts can now cover an entire territory.

HG MCP Server gives customers’ AI agents and applications direct access to HG’s contextual intelligence without requiring them to first build a separate data infrastructure. Through one secure, governed connection, they can query market, account, and buyer intelligence alongside TrustRadius product reviews, SEC filings, federal contract data, and other live web research. They can also draw on a growing library of curated workflows, trigger and monitor HG Agents, and query the Fabric for custom analysis, market sizing, ICP segmentation, ABM, and campaign design. Every result traces back to its source data, so users and agents can verify what’s behind their GTM decisions.

Customer Voice, powered by TrustRadius, further extends the platform. As previously announced, it feeds the Fabric with downstream buyer-intent signals from a community of over 12M technology buyers actively researching products. It also accelerates the collection of customer-verified, in-depth reviews and ratings for social proof, SEO, and AI citeability, plus GEO monitoring to track how vendors show up across AI search.

Expanding the AI Ecosystem

HG Insights extends Contextual Intelligence across the enterprise AI ecosystem, so customers do not have to move their data, rebuild workflows, or standardize on one AI platform to use it. Fabric, HG Copilots, and HG MCP Server are available through AWS Marketplace, which simplifies procurement and lets eligible customers apply existing cloud commitments toward HG Insights. HG MCP Server brings the same intelligence into Amazon Quick, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft.

Enterprises run multiple models, agents, and AI platforms, and the interface varies by team. The GTM intelligence behind those experiences does not have to vary. HG separates the intelligence layer from the interface, so an analyst in Microsoft, a GTM engineering team building with OpenAI, and a rep in an HG Copilot all work from the same picture of markets, accounts, and buyers.

Pricing and Availability

The Contextual Intelligence Platform, including Fabric, HG Copilots, HG Agents, and the HG MCP Server, is available starting October 6, 2026. The platform is priced on a consumption-based model built around Intelligence Credits, giving customers flexibility, scalability, and control as they adopt Contextual Intelligence wherever they are in their agentic GTM journey. HG Copilot modules start at $22,000, with additional packages sized for enterprise needs. For full pricing details, contact HG Insights or visit hginsights.com.

About HG Insights

HG Insights delivers Contextual Intelligence for Agentic GTM Revenue, giving teams and AI agents a complete, connected, trusted view of markets, accounts, and buyers. The platform unifies technology, spend, intent, account hierarchies, buying centers, competitors, contacts, and change over time into decision-ready, agent-activated intelligence. It helps companies prioritize, engage, win, and expand the right accounts to accelerate pipeline and revenue at scale. HG Insights grounds the GTM decisions that drive over $1.5 trillion in revenue across Fortune 500 Technology companies.

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Killam Apartment REIT Announces 2026 GRESB Score

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HALIFAX, NS, Oct. 6, 2026 /CNW/ — Killam Apartment REIT (TSX: KMP.UN) (“Killam”) today announced its 2026 GRESB score, based on the 2025 reporting year. Killam achieved a score of 83.9 out of a maximum possible 100 for its standing investments, representing a 2.2-point year-over-year improvement in its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance.

“Sustainability has long been embedded in how we operate, invest capital, and plan for the future,” said Philip Fraser, President and CEO. “We approach ESG the same way we approach all our business decisions, with a focus on long-term performance, accountability, and doing the right thing.”

Killam’s key initiatives contributing to this achievement include:

Energy and Emissions Reductions: Achieved year-over-year reductions in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions across the portfolio.Renewable Energy Installations: Installed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at 13 additional buildings during the year, increasing on-site renewable energy generation capacity.Waste Management Improvements: Improved recycling practices through participation in a voluntary recycling program in New Brunswick.

For more information about Killam’s ESG initiatives, visit https://www.killamreit.com/esg-overview.

About Killam

Killam Apartment REIT, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is one of Canada’s largest residential real estate investment trusts, owning, operating, managing and developing a $5.6 billion portfolio of apartments and manufactured home communities. Killam’s long-term strategy to enhance value and profitability focuses on three priorities: 1) increasing earnings from existing operations, 2) expanding the portfolio and diversifying geographically through accretive acquisitions that target newer properties and through the disposition of non-core assets, and 3) developing high-quality properties in its core markets.

About GRESB

GRESB is an industry-driven organization that assesses ESG performance of real assets globally. Its annual benchmark provides standardized and validated data to investors and stakeholders, enabling transparency and accountability in sustainability practices.

Note: The Toronto Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved of the information contained herein. Certain statements in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements, including statements regarding embedding sustainability into Killam’s operations, investment and future planning; Killam’s focus on long-term performance, accountability and doing the right thing; and Killam’s priorities.

Readers should be aware that these statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or implied, or those suggested by any forward-looking statements, including: the effects and duration of local, international and global events, any government responses thereto and the effectiveness of measures intended to mitigate any impacts thereof; competition; government legislation and the interpretation and enforcement thereof; litigation to which Killam may be subject; global, national and regional economic conditions (including interest rates and inflation); the availability of capital to fund further investments in Killam’s business; and other factors identified under the “Risk Factors” section of Killam’s most recently filed annual information form, under the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of Killam’s most recently filed MD&A, and in other documents Killam files from time to time with securities regulatory authorities in Canada, each of which is available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. Killam does not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, circumstances, or otherwise, except as required by law. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.

For information, please contact:
Claire Hawksworth, CPA
Senior Manager, Investor Relations
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(902) 442-5322

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ChatIQ Leads S&P Global’s Latest Capital IQ Pro Update with Expanded AI-Powered Research Capabilities

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New platform capabilities bring AI deeper into research and modeling workflows while expanding analytics across valuation, credit and global markets.

NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) today announced the latest updates to S&P Capital IQ Pro, led by an expanded ChatIQ experience that brings conversational AI deeper into the platform. The enhanced ChatIQ helps financial professionals ask natural-language questions and quickly access S&P Global data and insights in one place.

ChatIQ brings multi-source analysis, screening and charting into a single conversational experience. Users can ask questions across company, market, credit and economic data, alongside financial documents, news and research, helping them spend less time moving between tools and more time analyzing reliable information.

“S&P Global continues to evolve around the ways clients research, analyze and collaborate,” said Whit McGraw, Head of Platforms at S&P Global Market Intelligence. “With the expanded ChatIQ experience, we are making AI a more natural part of the Capital IQ Pro workflow by combining conversational access with the depth, quality and transparency clients expect from S&P Global.”

Key Capital IQ Pro Updates

The latest Capital IQ Pro release brings AI-powered research, modeling and presentation tools together with expanded data and analytics across valuation, private markets, fixed income, credit and broader market use cases.

AI-powered workflows: ChatIQ Spreadsheets introduces an AI-powered Excel modeling assistant for model building, review and analysis with refreshable Capital IQ Pro formulas, while ChatIQ Presentations, now available in Labs, helps users create data-driven PowerPoint slides using Capital IQ Pro data.Valuation and financial analysis: New Discounted Cash Flow analysis, customizable Total Enterprise Value calculations, point-in-time trading comparables and improved export capabilities support more flexible company valuation workflows.Private markets: A new custom benchmarking tool from With Intelligence helps users create tailored private market benchmarks and compare fund performance using key metrics.Fixed income: Integration of Markit’s Global Sector Curves and a new Rate Profile page provide deeper visibility into global bond markets, pricing trends and tenor-level analysis.Credit analysis: Redesigned RatingsDirect corporate and sector profiles, expanded insurance analytics and Credit Memo Builder enhancements improve access to relevant credit information, source transparency and consistency across the credit review process.Data coverage: Additional enhancements across banking, energy, insurance, macroeconomic data, private companies, sustainability, news and alerts expand the platform’s content coverage and usability.Portfolio insights: AI-powered Portfolio Insights, now in beta, helps users identify drivers of portfolio return and connect performance with relevant market developments, news, events and earnings context.

The updates are part of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s broader strategy for Capital IQ Pro, which brings together reliable data, AI-powered tools and connected experiences to support financial professionals across research, analysis and decision-making and help them uncover value across global markets.

For more information on S&P Capital IQ Pro, please see here.

To learn more about Artificial Intelligence at S&P Global, please visit here.

Media Contacts:

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S&P Global
+1 857-407-8559
orla.obrien@spglobal.com   

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S&P Global Market Intelligence
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About S&P Global
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) enables businesses, governments, and individuals with trusted data, expertise and technology to make decisions with conviction. We are Advancing Essential Intelligence through world-leading benchmarks, data, and insights that customers need in order to plan confidently, act decisively and thrive in a rapidly changing global landscape.

From helping our customers assess new investments across the capital and commodities markets to navigating the energy expansion, acceleration of artificial intelligence, and evolution of public and private markets, we enable the world’s leading organizations to unlock opportunities, solve challenges and plan for tomorrow – today. Learn more at www.spglobal.com.

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Strategic Buyer Acquires Florida MSP as Demand Rises for Managed IT Services

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Deal Facilitated by Viking Mergers & Acquisitions

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A managed IT and cybersecurity services provider serving small and mid-sized businesses in Florida has been acquired by a strategic buyer, bringing together complementary IT industry expertise and further building upon a platform for continued growth.

“Delivering outcomes like this for business owners is what drives our Florida team,” said Larry Lawson II, President, Viking Florida Division. “Tripp, Jacob, and Dylan guided every step of this process and brought together a seller and buyer well-positioned for long-term success.”

For over 15 years, the company has grown from a traditional Managed Services Provider (MSP) into a full Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP). Built as a business known for responsiveness, personalized service, and security solutions tailored to each client, much of the company’s growth came through referrals and long-term client relationships, supported by an experienced team that manages day-to-day service delivery. The company’s clients include non-profit organizations, law firms, and family-owned medical practices that rely on responsive, security-focused IT support.

The buyer is an established managed IT services provider with a multi-state footprint, already serving nonprofit, financial, and healthcare clients. Together, the shared focus on IT services and preserving the legacy of the companies they acquire created a strong strategic fit, positioning the business for continued growth in Florida and nationwide.

The transaction was facilitated by the Viking Mergers & Acquisitions team: Larry “Tripp” Lawson III, Partner, Jacob Middleton, Associate Partner, and Dylan Bradley, Associate Advisor, who represented the seller throughout the sale process. From engagement to close, the transaction took approximately six months, reflecting growing buyer demand for IT solutions companies in the lower-middle market.

“We ran a disciplined process, kept the right buyers at the table, and gave our client real choices. That’s what made the difference here,” said Tripp Lawson. “We’re proud to have delivered a smooth transition for the seller, their team, and the company’s clients.”

About Viking Mergers and Acquisitions Florida Division
Viking Mergers & Acquisitions, with offices strategically located throughout Florida, supports business owners with annual revenues ranging from $2M to $250M. Viking offers complimentary business valuation services, ongoing valuation updates, and comprehensive exit planning and strategy for small and middle-market business owners.

As one of the largest and most successful mergers and acquisitions firms in the United States, Viking is headquartered in Tampa, FL, and Charlotte, NC. The firm has offices strategically positioned across the U.S., providing exceptional brokerage services as well as mergers & acquisitions advisory work. Over the past three decades, Viking has successfully sold over 950 businesses, achieving a closing ratio of nearly four times the industry average. Viking consistently maintains an impressive 85% closing rate, securing sellers an average of 96% of their asking price.

Visit https://www.vikingmerger.com to request a confidential, complimentary business valuation or to access more information regarding selling or buying a business. 

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