IBA, as the premier business brokerage firm in the Pacific Northwest, is firmly established as a respected professional service firm in the legal, accounting, banking, mergers & acquisitions, real estate, and financial planning communities.  Periodically, we will post guest blogs from professionals with knowledge to share for the good of owners of privately held companies…

A study published in May articulated the findings of a Turing Test applied to three different artificial intelligence platforms ( https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/gpt-4-has-passed-the-turing-test-researchers-claim). For those not aware of what a Turing Test is, a Turing Test, named after British Mathematician and Computer Scientist, Alan Turing (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing), is a test where a human engages with another party and…

IBA was recognized in the August 9, 2024 issue of the Puget Sound Business Journal (https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/subscriber-only/2024/08/09/seattle-area-cre-brokerages.html) among its peers in the commercial real estate industry operating from Bellingham to Olympia for continuing to be one of the top 20 firms in the area in terms of licensed real estate professionals affiliation.  This year IBA ranked…