About Stratos Edge

We built the company we already were.

Micah Laughlin and Jeff Hardman formed Stratos Edge around work they had been doing together for years. Micah made technology decisions inside regulated companies. Jeff worked across the technology channel. Their clients needed both views at the same time.

Micah Laughlin

Micah Laughlin

Chief Strategy Officer

Jeff Hardman

Jeff Hardman

Chief Revenue Officer

How it began

The work took both of them.

Micah’s work began inside the business. As a CIO and fractional CIO, he made technology decisions for multi-site, regulated companies and carried those decisions through deployment. He learned to ask where a system would land and what the people using it would need. His work in technology and counseling psychology kept those people in view.

Jeff’s work began across the technology channel. Over three decades, he built relationships with the companies and people building and supporting technology. He learned which teams understood a problem and would remain accountable after the contract. Years spent coaching athletes shaped the patience he brings to long working relationships.

Clients kept needing both views. Micah and Jeff understood the business before choosing technology. They examined the field before making an introduction, then stayed involved while clients put the work into operation.

The work got names

FlightPlan and Radar came later.

Micah and Jeff worked this way by hand for years. FlightPlan™ and Radar™ gave each half of the work a system without pulling them apart.

01

Inside the business

FlightPlan™

Organizes how the business works today, the work worth changing, and the reasoning behind the recommended starting point.

02

Across the partner field

Radar™

Holds the research and hands-on evaluation Stratos Edge uses to decide which companies belong in the conversation and why.

Why now

AI increased the need for both views.

Micah and Jeff watched cloud technology reshape the market. AI companies now launch more tools on shorter cycles, giving leaders less time to evaluate each one. Mid-market companies face the same pressure as larger organizations with less room to absorb a poor decision. The tool comes after the work it serves. The people running the business determine what belongs, and a partner earns the introduction by showing that it can deliver.

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