Common Trust is a platform for employee ownership buyouts that allows small business owners to access liquidity by selling to their employees. Common Trust works directly with selling owners, management teams, and investors to develop, finance, and execute an employee ownership buyout.

Developer of an application programming interface program designed to access payroll and human resources systems. The company's platform verifies income and employment using the data from a user's payroll account, switches direct deposit payments to new checking accounts, expedites the application process, and confirms a prospective employee's previous employment as part of the background check process, enabling businesses to access a previously closed system and smoothen out the payroll process.

While taking a break at the 51 Mile Marker at the Lake of the Ozarks, Nick Smith was inspired as ever by the coexistence of AI and sales, but was searching for a way to put the controls in the hands of sales executives. “Sales has a lot of ‘enablement’ solutions, but not many tools that sales people actually like using” “Imagine if every sales executive had their own robot that performed virtual prospecting tasks.” Drawing on his sales and management experience at companies like CBS Corporation, iHeart Media and others, he began to imagine sales executives building their own cloud-based robots to reduce repetitive, manual tasks and increase revenue opportunities. Now, he just needed a name that combined sales and AI.