Territory intel: Colorado Springs.

Abstrakt Solutions is a Salesforce Consulting Partner for defense contractors, cybersecurity firms, health providers and builders in Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region. Colorado Springs is one of our focus markets.

What buyers here usually run into

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   Security and access control

   Defense and cybersecurity companies expect tight permissions, careful integrations and clear audit trails, so a security-focused review usually comes before any expansion.

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   Long, multi-party pursuits

   Government-facing firms track capture efforts, teaming partners and contract vehicles that standard opportunity stages do not model well out of the box.

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   Field and project work

   Contractors and service firms often schedule crews in calendars and spreadsheets. Moving that into Field Service pays off when estimates and actual costs line up.

Budget, team and partner questions

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, GDP by county (CAGDP2), 2024, summed to the metro area; private sectors only, excluding real estate and government. “At least” marks sectors where BEA suppresses some county figures.

Regional target sectors named by local economic development groups: Aerospace and Defense, Cybersecurity and Software Development, Advanced Manufacturing, Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing, Hardware and Springs Manufacturing, Finance and Insurance.

In the order we lead with them here, from the industries above.

Agentforce in Colorado Springs defense and health services

At 10.7% of Colorado Springs metro GDP in 2024, professional, scientific and technical services are the largest private sector, and the region targets aerospace, defense and cybersecurity. Contractors in those fields can use an agent to extract requirements and deadlines from solicitations and to summarize program correspondence, but only inside a Salesforce environment approved for the data involved. Health care, 7.3%, benefits from reply drafting on patient-access questions with staff review. Retailers, 7.1%, can deflect routine questions with knowledge-grounded answers. The prerequisites are the same everywhere; the stakes are higher here. Classify data, restrict access by role, and document what the agent is allowed to see.

• Extracting requirements from solicitations
• Patient-access reply drafts with review
• Knowledge-grounded retail answers

In Colorado Springs, a Salesforce implementation is shaped by security expectations from the first workshop. Defense contractors and cybersecurity firms need tight permission models and a clear decision about which data may enter a commercial cloud org at all, while health care providers need privacy controls on patient information. We settle those boundaries in design, then build the data model, configure in a sandbox, load clean data and go live in phases.

By industry in Colorado Springs

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   Professional, scientific, and technical services

   Engineering, research and technical services firms produce roughly 10.7% of Pikes Peak–area GDP, the largest private share by a wide margin, and many of them serve space, defense and government customers. Implementation for these firms centers on capture management: opportunity stages that mirror pursuit gates, records for contract vehicles and teaming agreements, and dashboards separating commercial work from government pipeline. We define those structures with capture leads in the first workshops, since they shape reporting for years.

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   Cybersecurity and Software Development

   Cybersecurity and software development is a Chamber & EDC target sector, and companies in it face buyers who scrutinize the vendor's own controls. Implementation for them combines Sales Cloud for federal and commercial pursuits with Service Cloud for customer support, and it treats Salesforce security as a product feature: multi-factor authentication, minimal sharing defaults, monitored integrations and documented admin procedures ready for customer security reviews. Nothing is opened more widely than a role requires.

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   Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing

   Medical equipment and supplies manufacturers, another Chamber & EDC target, need an implementation that joins sales, service and quality. Each installed device becomes an asset record linked to its serial number and the facility using it, complaints arrive as cases the quality team can trend, and service visits are scheduled through Field Service. Before building, we decide with your quality staff which system holds regulated records, so Salesforce supports compliance rather than complicating it.

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In Colorado Springs, a health check usually leads with security. Defense contractors and cybersecurity firms need to show customers and auditors how their CRM is protected, and health organizations must demonstrate privacy controls. The review covers authentication, sharing, connected apps, integration users and event monitoring, then custom code, automation, data quality and license use, from read-only access. Findings are ranked by risk and tied to specific settings, and the review doubles as preparation for Agentforce, since agents inherit existing access and data.

By industry in Colorado Springs

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   Cybersecurity and Software Development

   Security vendors and software houses, grouped by the Chamber & EDC as a single target sector, are judged on the controls around their own tools. For them, the review examines multi-factor authentication and session policies, connected apps and OAuth scopes, API-only users, event monitoring and data export controls, as well as test coverage on custom code. Findings are mapped to the controls your team already reports on, so remediation feeds directly into customer questionnaires and certification work.

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   Aerospace and Defense

   Defense contractors need assurance that the CRM holds nothing it should not. The review searches fields, notes and files for signs of controlled information, checks whether sharing isolates program pursuits properly and confirms that login, session and device policies match the expectations primes and government customers set. Results give your security officer documented evidence and a remediation list prioritized by exposure. Dormant logins and API-only accounts get examined as closely as active employees.

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   Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing

   Medical device makers keep complaint, service and customer records in Salesforce that may later be requested for regulatory review. The health check confirms that complaint cases cannot be deleted or altered without a trace, that field history covers the fields quality staff depend on and that integrations to the quality system report failures. It also reviews who can export device and customer data, a question auditors often raise during inspections.

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Integration projects in Colorado Springs carry a security requirement that deserves more attention than usual. Defense and cybersecurity firms expect every connection to use scoped credentials, logged transfers and a documented purpose. Beyond that, the work follows a familiar pattern: we identify which system owns each field, connect ERP and project accounting for pricing, contracts and invoices, link scheduling systems for construction and field service and build monitoring so errors are caught early rather than discovered by users.

By industry in Colorado Springs

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   Construction

   Builders and trade contractors account for about 6.1% of metro GDP, and many estimate in one tool, schedule in another and account for jobs in a third. Integrating those with Salesforce gives project managers and sales staff one view of bids, awarded jobs, change orders and billing status. Field Service can receive work orders from the project system, and job costs flow back so estimates can be compared with actuals after each project closes.

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   Aerospace and Defense

   Aerospace and defense contractors typically run project accounting, contract management and timekeeping systems built for government compliance. Integration with Salesforce shares awarded contract values, funding status and customer contacts so business development sees the full picture, while cost and labor details stay in the accounting system. Integration users receive only the objects and fields they need, and every connection is documented for review by program security staff. Controlled information never crosses the connection.

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   Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing

   Medical equipment makers need Salesforce connected to ERP for orders and serial numbers and to the quality management system for complaint handling. Integration creates asset records as devices ship, sends service and complaint cases to quality staff with the details they require and keeps the quality system as the official record for regulatory reporting. We test these flows carefully, since a missed complaint handoff creates compliance risk rather than a mere inconvenience.

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Colorado Springs orgs that need optimization have usually been stretched to cover work they were never designed for. Contractors added government work to commercial sales, health organizations added services and retailers added channels, each with fields and automation layered on top. Our work starts with usage evidence by team, then trims screens, folds scattered automation into documented flows, drops dead fields and rebuilds decision-making reports. Work ships in small releases, each aimed at a measurable change in adoption or effort.

By industry in Colorado Springs

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   Retail trade

   Shops, dealerships and other retailers contribute about 7.1% of Colorado Springs output, and many run both storefronts and online channels. Retailers using Salesforce often struggle with inconsistent case categories, customer records duplicated across stores and online channels, and loyalty data kept separately. Optimization merges duplicates, standardizes case reasons, adds knowledge articles for frequent questions and gives staff a unified customer view, which also prepares the org for a well-scoped Agentforce service agent.

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   Hardware and Springs Manufacturing

   Hardware and springs manufacturing appears on the Chamber & EDC's target list. These manufacturers sell standard and custom parts through distributors and directly to equipment makers, and their orgs often mix both motions with little distinction. Optimization separates distributor and direct processes, cleans product data so quotes pull correct part numbers and gives sales leaders reports on repeat orders and customer concentration rather than raw opportunity counts. Sellers also face fewer required fields.

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   Cybersecurity and Software Development

   Software and cybersecurity companies grow quickly, and their Salesforce orgs collect custom fields, validation rules and integrations from each growth phase. Optimization removes what no longer serves, aligns renewal and expansion processes with how customer success actually works and rebuilds pipeline reports so federal and commercial forecasts are reported separately and accurately. It also tightens permissions that were loosened during fast growth, which buyers' security teams will notice sooner or later.

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For Colorado Springs clients, managed services combines routine administration with disciplined access management. Contractors move staff between programs, health care organizations add roles and services, and financial firms onboard new advisors; each change needs the right permissions and a record of who approved it. Your internal owner ranks one backlog with us, every Salesforce release is checked in a sandbox, integrations are watched, and developers or architects step in only when a request calls for them. Each month your owner receives a plain-language account of every configuration change and its requester.

By industry in Colorado Springs

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   Health care and social assistance

   Hospitals, clinics and social service agencies make up about 7.3% of the El Paso and Teller County economy, second among private sectors. Their orgs change constantly as clinics open, programs launch and staff rotate. Ongoing support handles those changes with a privacy check on each ticket, keeps service queues and outreach campaigns running, maintains knowledge articles and verifies after every Salesforce release that patient-facing processes still work as intended. Access for departing staff is removed promptly.

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   Aerospace and Defense

   Aerospace and Defense leads the Chamber & EDC's list of target sectors, and contractors in it need administration that respects need-to-know access. Managed services for these firms includes permission changes as people join and leave programs, periodic access reviews, updates to capture stages and teaming records and release testing on the dashboards leadership uses for pipeline reviews. Every change is logged with its requester and approver for program security staff to inspect.

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   Finance and Insurance

   Finance and Insurance is also a Chamber & EDC target, and banks, credit unions and insurers here rely on Financial Services Cloud or Service Cloud for member and client service. Managed services keeps those orgs current: onboarding advisors and agents, updating consent and marketing preferences as rules change, maintaining member portals and testing each release against compliance reports. Documented approvals give examiners a clear history of every change made to client data.

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Migrations in Colorado Springs often involve capture and customer data that grew up in spreadsheets, a legacy CRM and individual inboxes. Contractors track pursuits in trackers, builders keep bid lists and financial firms hold member data in older systems. Before anything moves, sources are screened for information that should not enter the new org; then records are deduplicated, standardized and mapped to the Salesforce model, with trial loads repeated until counts and key reports match. Afterward, the retired system remains open for lookups but closed to edits.

By industry in Colorado Springs

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   Finance and insurance

   Credit unions, banks and insurers generate about 5.1% of metro output, and finance and insurance also sits on the Chamber & EDC target list. Institutions moving to Financial Services Cloud must reconstruct member and household relationships, carry over consent and communication preferences and retain the interaction history examiners may review. We migrate relationship data before activities so links resolve correctly, and branch or agency managers sign off on their own records before cutover.

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   Aerospace and Defense

   Defense contractors often move capture data from spreadsheets and an older CRM into Salesforce. Before loading, we screen fields and attachments for controlled or sensitive information, exclude anything that must stay elsewhere and record the decision. Pursuits are converted into opportunities with consistent stages, teaming partners become related accounts and past contract history is preserved, so capture teams begin in Salesforce with a clean and trustworthy pipeline from the first day.

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   Construction

   Bid logs, client rosters and closed-job records at local builders usually sit in a mix of estimating tools and workbooks. Migration consolidates customers and general contractor relationships into accounts, converts open bids into opportunities and links completed jobs to the right customers, so repeat business is visible. We standardize addresses and project names first, since duplicate job sites are a frequent cleanup issue in construction data and would otherwise split a customer's history.

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Rescues in Colorado Springs sometimes begin with a security finding: a customer's review or an internal audit discovers overly broad access or sensitive data where it should not be, and the project halts. Others stall because a generic sales design could not handle government capture or field crews. Triage covers the org, the scope and the stakeholders; urgent exposure and blocking defects are fixed first, each component then gets a keep, repair or rebuild decision, and the relaunch starts with the team most likely to succeed.

By industry in Colorado Springs

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   Aerospace and Defense

   Defense contractor projects occasionally stop when someone realizes pursuit records were visible to the whole company or that files held information that should never have been uploaded. Recovery starts by locking down sharing, removing and documenting improper content and confirming with security staff that exposure is closed. Only then does the build resume, with capture processes redesigned and a relaunch limited to one business unit at first to prove the approach.

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   Construction

   Builders and trade contractors sometimes find that Field Service went live without accurate crews, skills or territories, so dispatchers kept using whiteboards and phone calls. Recovery corrects the scheduling data, simplifies the mobile app for crews and connects job details from the project system. A single crew or division relaunches first, and dispatchers help tune scheduling rules before the rollout expands to others. Office staff get simpler job boards as well.

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   Cybersecurity and Software Development

   Fast-growing software and cybersecurity firms sometimes outgrow a Salesforce build done quickly by an early employee, leaving renewals, federal pursuits and support tangled in one process. A rescue separates those motions, fixes contract and renewal data so forecasts are credible, retires custom code that standard features now cover and tightens permissions before the next customer security review. Sales leadership relaunches on the corrected pipeline first, and support follows once case data is sorted.

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Professional services in Colorado Springs lean technical: engineering, software, cybersecurity and mission support work, much of it sold to government and defense customers. Salesforce earns its keep here when it connects the pursuit to the people who will deliver it. We set up opportunity records that carry contract type, labor categories and required clearances, pass won work cleanly into the project or PSA system, and give leadership one view of backlog, renewals and bench capacity.

Engineering, technical and consulting work tops the Colorado Springs economy: professional, scientific and technical services supplied 10.7% of 2024 metro GDP in Bureau of Economic Analysis tables. The Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC lists aerospace and defense and cybersecurity and software development among its target sectors, and says the aerospace and defense sector alone includes more than 200 space, aerospace, cybersecurity and defense companies. Many of the area's consulting and engineering firms exist to support that cluster, so their sales motion runs through proposals, teaming agreements and contract options rather than transactional deals.

Use cases to open with

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   From award to staffed project

   The moment a contract is won, delivery leaders need to know which labor categories, locations and clearance levels the work requires. We carry those fields from the opportunity into a project record, then sync it with the PSA or project accounting system. Resource managers see demand forming while start dates are still flexible, and recruiting can open requisitions for hard-to-fill cleared roles early.

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   Option years and recompetes

   Government-facing firms live on base periods, option years and recompetes, and missing a decision date can cost a contract outright. Contract records in Sales Cloud with period dates, ceiling values and renewal milestones trigger tasks well ahead of each decision point. Leadership gets a backlog view that separates funded work from options not yet exercised, which is the number owners, lenders and potential acquirers ask about first.

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   Commercial cybersecurity services

   Firms that built their skills on defense programs increasingly sell assessments, managed security and software services to commercial clients. That business behaves differently: shorter cycles, marketing-sourced leads and recurring subscriptions billed monthly or annually. A separate sales process and Marketing Cloud nurture tracks let the commercial team grow without disturbing how federal pursuits are managed, while shared accounts reveal clients who buy both kinds of service.

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Health organizations in Colorado Springs range from hospitals and specialty clinics to companies that design and build medical equipment. Salesforce plays a different role for each. Providers use it for patient access, referral relationships and outreach alongside the EHR, never replacing it. Device and supply makers use it to sell to clinicians and purchasing groups, service installed products and log complaints in a form quality teams can act on. We scope which of these you need before recommending licenses.

Only professional and technical services outranks health care and social assistance among private sectors here; the Bureau of Economic Analysis credits health care with 7.3% of 2024 metro output. The Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC names medical equipment and supplies manufacturing as a target sector, next to advanced manufacturing and aerospace and defense. That pairing matters for CRM design. Life sciences activity here is weighted toward making and supporting devices, so the same metro holds organizations that treat patients and organizations that sell to the people who treat them, with very different data rules.

Use cases to open with

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   Patient access and scheduling

   A contact center that handles appointment requests, referrals and insurance questions benefits from Service Cloud with EHR data surfaced read-only. Agents see upcoming visits and prior calls, route clinical questions to nurses, and follow up on referrals that never became appointments. A guided intake flow for new patients reduces the number of calls it takes to establish care with a primary provider or specialist and captures consent at the start.

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   Physician referral development

   Specialty groups and outpatient centers grow through referring physicians, and those relationships drift without steady attention. Liaisons can log visits, track referral volumes pulled from scheduling data, and spot practices whose referrals have dropped since last quarter. Sales Cloud with territory rules gives each liaison a clean list, and leadership sees which relationships actually drive volume rather than relying on anecdotes from monthly meetings.

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   Device service and complaints

   Medical equipment makers support products installed in clinics and hospitals for years after the sale. Service Cloud cases linked to asset and serial records capture every service event, while a structured complaint intake flags potentially reportable issues for the quality team. Field Service can schedule preventive maintenance visits, and Experience Cloud gives customers a portal to request service, check case status and download documentation.

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Contractors in Colorado Springs tend to run three businesses under one roof: winning bids, delivering projects and handling service or warranty work afterward. Salesforce ties those together. Sales Cloud tracks bid invitations, general contractor relationships and award decisions; Revenue Cloud or CPQ standardizes estimates; Field Service schedules crews and captures time and materials from the job site. With accounting and project management systems integrated, owners can compare what was quoted against what the job actually cost.

Builders and trade contractors generate 6.1% of output across El Paso and Teller counties by the BEA's 2024 measure, a larger slice than finance and insurance. Construction is absent from the Chamber & EDC target list, yet that list decides much of what contractors pour and frame, because it favors space and defense companies, software and cyber firms, and medical equipment plants. The Chamber & EDC says aerospace and defense accounts for 40+% of the local economy, so many builders here work around secure facilities, government-facing owners and technical tenants.

Use cases to open with

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   Bid pipeline and GC relationships

   Subcontractors field invitations to bid from many general contractors at once and rarely know their true hit rate. Sales Cloud logs every invitation, due date, scope and outcome, so estimators can decline poor fits early and leaders can see which general contractors award them work. Win-loss reporting by project type, owner and estimator shows where bidding effort actually pays off in the Pikes Peak market.

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   Crew scheduling and job capture

   Field Service puts crews, equipment and subcontracted trades on one dispatch board with skills and certifications attached, so a supervisor never sends someone without the right clearance or license. Foremen log hours, materials, photos and change requests from the mobile app, even with weak signal, and that data flows to accounting instead of being retyped from paper timesheets on Friday afternoon.

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   Comparing estimates with actual costs

   Job-cost surprises usually appear at closeout, far too late to change anything on that project. When estimates live in CPQ and actual labor and materials come back from the field and the accounting system, Salesforce can show variance by phase while the work is still underway. Project managers catch overruns sooner, and estimators feed real production rates back into the next bid instead of guessing.

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Insurance organizations in Colorado Springs often serve two very different books from one office: personal lines for households and commercial coverage for technology, manufacturing and defense-related firms. Salesforce keeps both manageable. Financial Services Cloud groups households and business accounts with their policies; Service Cloud handles requests and certificates; Experience Cloud gives commercial clients a place to request documents. Producers see renewals, submissions and cross-sell openings together, while the policy system remains the record for coverage and billing.

Finance and insurance sits on the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC's list of six recruitment targets, an explicit signal that the region wants more carriers, agencies and financial operations. In Bureau of Economic Analysis county data the finance and insurance sector is 5.1% of the metro's 2024 GDP, fifth among private industries. The commercial customer base is unusual: the Chamber & EDC counts more than 200 space, aerospace, cybersecurity and defense companies, and cites a cybersecurity center and a space-sector information-sharing group among its innovation drivers.

Use cases to open with

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   Commercial account servicing

   Technology and defense-sector clients request certificates of insurance, contract reviews and endorsements whenever they sign a new agreement or subcontract. Service Cloud captures each request with its deadline, routes it to the account manager, and stores the finished document on the client record. Commercial clients can submit requests through an Experience Cloud site, which cuts email back-and-forth and gives the agency a clear audit of turnaround.

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   Producer pipeline for specialty lines

   Cyber liability, professional liability and similar specialty coverage involve long submissions, underwriting questions and several markets. Sales Cloud or Financial Services Cloud can track each submission by carrier, stage and expected premium, so producers know where quotes stand, what the underwriter still needs and when to chase, while managers forecast new business from real data. Loss reasons explain why certain accounts were declined or went to another agency.

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   Household service and life events

   Personal-lines customers call about moves, new drivers, home purchases and billing changes. Financial Services Cloud tracks the household, its policies and life events, so a representative handling an address change can also flag an umbrella or renters policy the family may need. Marketing Cloud sends consented reminders at renewal and after life events, keeping outreach relevant rather than generic, and military families relocating in or out of the area get a checklist for moving coverage.

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