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Craft &
Commerce

Clients of Strat & Co.

Issue 01, Autumn 2026

Published by Strat & Company

From the founder

Every business I work with is building something: a watch assembled by hand, an edition pulled from stone, a machine that keeps a production line moving, a book that changes how we understand the mind.

This issue is a portfolio of those clients, the organizations Strat & Company has been fortunate to work alongside. Each feature is about them and what makes their work remarkable. My contribution is noted briefly at the end of each story.

Syl DeLeonFounder, Strat & Company

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In this issue

  1. 4Built in ColoradoVortic Watch Co.Fort Collins, Colorado
  2. 6Fifty years on stoneMilestone Graphics Fine PrintsNew Haven, Connecticut
  3. 8Motion, engineeredIntegrion AutomationWauseon, Ohio
  4. 10The mind at workChloe Drulis PsychotherapySanta Monica, California
  5. 12About Strat & Company
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Built in Colorado

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Vortic Watch Co.Fort Collins, Colorado

The Fort Collins watchmakers behind Vortic set out to build a modern American watch, so they started a new company to do it.

Vortic made its name as one of the only wristwatch manufacturers in the United States, restoring antique American pocket watches and rebuilding them by hand into one-of-a-kind wristwatches. Then the team took on a new challenge: a modern watch inspired by their home state.

Colorado Watch Company paired automatic movements assembled in the USA with cases built in Vortic's Fort Collins workshop. Their pitch was not just "Made in USA" but "Built in Colorado." The line launched through a successful crowdfunding campaign and a signature factory tour that opened the workshop doors to the public. Today, Vortic continues its core craft, and its annual Veterans Day Military Edition remains its most sought-after release.

A Colorado Watch Company field watch with a white dial and steel case, on the wrist
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Inside the studio at Milestone Graphics, New Haven

Fifty years on stone

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Milestone Graphics Fine PrintsNew Haven, Connecticut

Connecticut's oldest working print shop is still pulling editions by hand.

For fifty years, Milestone Graphics has been a home for artists who want to work in traditional print media. Founded in 1976, the studio now makes its home in New Haven, where it's the oldest professional print shop still operating in Connecticut. Master printer Irene Michnicki collaborates closely with each artist on limited editions in stone and plate lithography, intaglio, relief, and monotype.

The studio also teaches, opening its presses to newcomers through workshops. It now sells prints directly, which brings those editions to collectors well beyond New Haven.

Master printer Irene Michnicki at work in the Milestone Graphics studio
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40+ years of experience
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1,000+ systems installed

Motion, engineered

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Integrion AutomationWauseon, Ohio

A team with four decades of know-how builds the machines that build everything else.

Integrion Automation designs and integrates robotic systems for manufacturers in industries ranging from food and beverage to life sciences to EVs. Through its Wauseon TubeTech™ line, it's also a leader in precision tube forming, supplying bending, end-forming, and finishing equipment to aerospace, automotive, and HVAC manufacturers.

The company has more than 40 years of experience and over 1,000 systems installed. A field service team keeps those systems running long after they leave the shop floor.

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The mind at work

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Chloe Drulis PsychotherapySanta Monica, California

A Santa Monica therapist co-authors a new model of how we think, focus, and decide.

Chloe Drulis, MA, AMFT, integrates trauma-informed psychotherapy with modern neuroscience. She specializes in complex trauma, chronic anxiety, and executive functioning, and offers online therapy to California residents.

She is also a co-author, with Louis Cozolino and Carly Trissler, of Executive Functioning and Psychotherapy: The New Neuroscience of Adaptive Intelligence, part of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. The book proposes a model of the brain's three core executive systems, showing how thinking, emotion, and relationships shape one another. It offers practical strategies for therapy, parenting, and coaching.

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"This excellent book ushers in a Renaissance in mental health care."John Arden, PhD, author of Mind-Brain-Gene
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