Mark Tullis

LoanPro (Farmington, UT) launched payments processing, a virtual Mastercard for loan disbursement and an AI servicing suite at its Salt Flats Summit, arguing that compliance guardrails, not model power, will decide who wins in regulated lending AI.

Scribbi (Alpine, UT) is challenging gamified ed-tech with a screen-free, e-ink tablet for kids. By prioritizing handwriting over typing, founders Keller and Katarina Seamons offer a calm alternative rooted in cognitive research and distraction-free learning.

The Nucleus Institute (Salt Lake City, UT) is launching Converge AI at Weber State University (Ogden, UT) on October 22, 2026, uniting Utah’s artificial intelligence companies and higher education researchers to drive innovation, partnerships, and tech commercialization.

Biohive’s free October 1 summit will help Utah professionals reenter the workforce with practical guidance on returnships, AI-powered job searches, resumes, networking, and career opportunities.

Searchable, the UK-founded AI visibility startup that opened a Salt Lake City office in August, has acquired New York's Meridian Tech in a seven-figure deal, adding Meridian's managed AEO service and client base.

Vector (Bluffdale, UT) has been selected for orders of up to 5,000 drones through the U.S. Drone Dominance Program, following a year of fundraising, manufacturing expansion and increasingly significant military contracts.

BYU Law's new DHRC corpus adds nearly 7 million ratification-era words to its Law and Corpus Linguistics platform. Assistant Dean David Armond details how student researchers and carefully limited AI review built a transparent, reproducible historical archive.

DigiCert (Lehi, UT) is applying decades of internet security experience to a new problem: how to establish identity, accountability and authority for AI agents as they move across applications, companies and organizational boundaries.