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Livefront and Zeal Merge to Form Premier Digital Consultancy


Livefront and Zeal Merge to Form Premier Digital Consultancy
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  • January 26, 2026

Livefront and Zeal IT Consultants have announced a strategic combination to form a premier digital consulting firm, combining their expertise to deliver greater speed, scale, and scope in digital strategy, experience design, AI-driven platforms, software engineering, and data services for enterprise clients.

Quick Intel

  • Livefront, a Minneapolis-based digital consultancy, and Zeal IT Consultants, a Dallas-based AI-enabled software consultancy, have merged to create an enhanced digital consulting powerhouse.
  • The combined entity features over 300 strategists, designers, engineers, and product managers with an expanding presence in the United States and Latin America.
  • Services span end-to-end digital capabilities including strategy, experience design, AI-driven automation, software engineering, and data analytics.
  • The partnership builds on a long-standing collaboration and is supported by a 2023 strategic investment from Rallyday Partners in Livefront.
  • Clients will benefit from expanded expertise across healthcare, consumer, media, technology, hospitality, transportation and logistics, and financial services sectors.
  • The combination aims to accelerate measurable business outcomes and support organizations navigating complex digital transformation.

Strategic Combination Announcement

Livefront, recognized for designing and building standout intelligent products and platforms, and Zeal IT Consultants, a specialist in serving Fortune 1000 companies with AI-enabled software solutions, have joined forces through a strategic combination. This move creates a leading digital consultancy with enhanced capabilities to drive superior client experiences and outcomes.

Expanded Capabilities and Reach

The unified firm offers comprehensive end-to-end services covering digital strategy, experience design, AI-driven platforms and automation, software engineering, and data solutions. With a combined workforce exceeding 300 professionals—including strategists, designers, engineers, and product managers—the organization is positioned for growth with an expanding footprint across the United States and Latin America.

The combined entity will serve a diverse and growing client base in key industries such as healthcare, consumer, media, technology, hospitality, transportation and logistics, and financial services. More details about the combination are available at LivefrontandZeal.com.

“This transaction builds on Livefront and Zeal’s long-standing partnership and is a strategic alignment of vision, culture, and capabilities to deliver measurable value and long-term benefits for all Livefront and Zeal stakeholders,” said Mike Bollinger, Founder and CEO of Livefront. “With Zeal, we will be able to offer clients expanded services and expertise, furthering our mission to be the premier partner for organizations navigating complex digital change. Our purpose at Livefront is to do the best work of our lives, together. This means together with each other, with our clients, and with our communities – and now it means together with the team and clients at Zeal.”

Backed by Rallyday Partners

The combination was supported by Rallyday Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm that made a strategic investment in Livefront in 2023.

Rallyday Managing Partner Nancy Phillips said, “It is a rare opportunity to find two companies that share such a strong commitment to quality and have a deeply shared operating philosophy. Together, Livefront and Zeal will be a powerhouse digital transformation partner that can support clients’ evolving needs for their digital products and infrastructure. We are excited to see this partnership accelerate outcomes for clients and wow the market in the next phase of growth.”

About Livefront

Livefront is a digital consultancy known for helping companies design and build standout intelligent products and platforms. Based in Minneapolis, their team of over 150 strategists, designers, engineers, and product managers help companies grow by creating digital experiences people love. Since 2001, the company has driven measurable and material business outcomes for some of the world’s largest brands by helping them invent, build, launch, grow, and evolve core digital products on phones, tablets, smart speakers, TVs, IoT devices, and wearables like watches and headsets. 

About Zeal IT Consultants

Zeal IT Consultants is an AI-enabled software consultancy purpose-built for Fortune 1000 companies. Based in Dallas, Texas, Zeal helps large enterprises navigate complex technology landscapes to drive meaningful business outcomes. Their mission is to create an environment where employees love their future and clients trust them to deliver on their promises. Founded in 2012, Zeal offers a range of services including software development, artificial intelligence, and data analytics. 

About Rallyday Partners

Rallyday Partners is a Denver-based private equity firm that was built by successful entrepreneurs to provide a better way of serving and partnering with emerging companies and their leaders. Rallyday’s purpose is to empower leaders to go even bigger, create the most value for the most amount of people, and share in the experience of a lifetime. Drawing upon its four sources of capital – creative, financial, experiential, and human capital – the firm’s ‘by founders for founders’ strategy provides an alternative to traditional private equity for those that want to go even further, elevate entire industries, and have an experience of a lifetime together.

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