meetpete has been a cheerleader for CIC’s Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) since its inception nearly a decade ago. With the recent acceptance of the Contracts Report, content development is near completion. Initial doubts about industrywide adaption and implementation have been eased by quantum advances that enable once-incompatible operating systems to speak to one another. Kudos to the the APEX Technology Advisory Council, chaired by E.J. Siwek, for its dogged success in “herding cats” to create a compatible platform.