SAN DIEGO, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quick Custom Intelligence (QCI), a leader in unified technology for casino resorts, today announced that Angel of the Winds Casino Resort has partnered with QCI Resorts™, the Unified Platform for Resorts.

Located north of Seattle in Arlington, Washington, Angel of the Winds Casino Resort has continued to evolve beyond gaming into a full-service resort destination featuring a luxury hotel, diverse dining and entertainment experiences, Strikerz bowling, 210 Brewing CO, and an upscale RV resort. As the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians continues to invest in the property’s future, creating a more connected technology environment will support the resort’s next stage of growth while helping teams deliver a more seamless guest experience.

“As Angel of the Winds continues to evolve, having our resort operations unified within one platform will be incredibly valuable,” said Fran Moore, Director of IT at Angel of the Winds Casino Resort. “A connected foundation will allow our teams to work more effectively while helping us responsibly put AI to work across the property. We are excited about our partnership with QCI and what we will be able to accomplish together.”

The partnership will provide Angel of the Winds Casino Resort with a unified operating environment designed to connect teams, data, and workflows across the resort. By moving beyond disconnected systems and information, the property will establish a stronger foundation for real-time operations, natural language interaction, and agentic AI.

“Partnering with QCI Resorts is an important step in our growth to strengthen operational visibility and deliver better experiences for our guests and team members. From the beginning, Fran Moore, our IT Director, recognized the QCI Resorts technology potential to bring disconnected systems together into one unified solution on-premise. This partnership gives us a clearer path to modernize today while creating the foundation for the future of the Stillaguamish Tribe,” said Travis O’Neil, CEO at Angel of the Winds Casino Resort.

QCI Resorts brings hospitality, food and beverage, marketing, loyalty, guest engagement, operations, and enterprise capabilities together within a single real-time system, while gaming systems remain integrated where required.

“The Angel of the Winds team recognizes that unification is more than a technology project, it is the operational foundation for the agentic era,” said Andrew Cardno, CTO and Co-Founder of QCI. “By bringing the resort together within one platform, they are creating an environment where their people, data, and AI can work together in real time. We are proud to welcome Angel of the Winds to QCI Resorts and support the property’s continued evolution.”

ABOUT ANGEL OF THE WINDS CASINO RESORT

Located in Arlington, WA, Angel of the Winds Casino Resort is Washington’s premier gaming and entertainment destination. Owned by the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians, the resort features luxury hotel accommodations, award-winning dining, Washington’s first tribal-owned brewery at 210 Brewing CO, professional bowling lanes at Strikerz, RV Resort, exciting gaming, and year-round entertainment. For more information, visit www.angelofthewinds.com.

ABOUT QCI

Quick Custom Intelligence, Inc. is an agentically run technology business where agentic technology has managed nearly every aspect of its business. Applying this agentic platform, QCI delivers and supports its AGI Platform and QCI Resorts™, the Unified Business Platform for Resorts. Deployed across more than 325 casino resorts throughout North America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Latin America, and Europe, QCI’s technology supports more than $42 billion in annual gross gaming revenue.

QCI is leading the industry’s transition beyond fragmented software stacks, integrations, and data warehouses toward a single real-time system for all resort operations. Built specifically for gaming and hospitality, QCI Resorts is a unified hospitality, food and beverage, marketing, loyalty, guest engagement, operations, and enterprise platform supporting a common AI layer, while gaming systems remain integrated. The result is a foundation for real-time operational intelligence, natural language operations, and agentic AI across the casino resort enterprise.

QCI was co-founded by Dr. Ralph Thomas and Andrew Cardno and is headquartered in San Diego, California, with offices across North America, including St. Louis, Denver, Seattle, and Phoenix.

Main phone number: (858) 299.5715.

Learn more at www.qci.ai.

ABOUT ANDREW CARDNO

Andrew Cardno is a distinguished figure in the realm of artificial intelligence and data plumbing. With over two decades spearheading private Ph.D.- and master’s-level research teams, his expertise has made significant waves in data tooling. Andrew’s innate ability to innovate has led him to devise numerous pioneering visualization methods. Of these, the most notable is the deep zoom image format, a groundbreaking innovation that has since become a cornerstone in many of today’s mapping tools.

His leadership acumen has earned him two coveted Smithsonian Laureates, and teams under his mentorship have earned 40 industry awards, including three pivotal gaming industry transformation awards. Together with Dr. Ralph Thomas, Andrew co-founded Quick Custom Intelligence. Their collaborative efforts have culminated in more than 100 patent assets, including 68 pending applications and 47 granted patents. Andrew has co-authored 16 books and contributed to more than 100 industry publications.