The Casino @ Dania Beach Welcomes QCI’s Customer-Led Approach to Platform Development

Following completion of its formally tracked feature backlog, QCI is inviting customers and partners to help shape what the company builds next.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quick Custom Intelligence (QCI), a leader in unified technology for casino resorts, today announced Build Our Backlog, a new initiative inviting customers and industry partners to help shape the company’s next phase of platform development. The Casino @ Dania Beach is among the QCI customers welcoming the opportunity to propose new features, workflows, and operational capabilities based on the needs of its teams.

The initiative follows QCI’s completion of the feature requests in its formally tracked development backlog. The milestone reflects the increased development capacity created by QCI’s agentic engineering environment, which combines AI Machines, orchestration, and human oversight to move complex work from request to deployment faster.

“Build Our Backlog gives customers a meaningful voice in how the platform continues to evolve,” said Josh Crowder, Marketing Director at The Casino @ Dania Beach. “The opportunity to bring forward operational needs and work with QCI to turn them into new capabilities, at no additional cost, is exciting because it keeps development focused on the work our teams do every day.”

“Our agentic development capabilities have allowed us to complete the feature backlog we were formally tracking,” said Andrew Cardno, CTO and Co-Founder of QCI. “Build Our Backlog gives our customers and partners a direct role in determining what comes next and ensures our development remains focused on the operational needs of casino resorts.”

Participation in Build Our Backlog is included in QCI customers’ existing offering at no additional cost, giving them a direct opportunity to propose capabilities based on their operational needs.

ABOUT THE CASINO @ DANIA BEACH

The Casino @ Dania Beach is one of South Florida’s premier gaming and entertainment destinations, offering an exciting mix of casino gaming, live poker, dining and entertainment. Conveniently located in Dania Beach, just minutes from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and South Florida’s beaches, the property features a dynamic selection of slot machines and electronic table games, a dedicated poker room, seasonal live Jai-Alai and a variety of dining experiences. The Casino @ Dania Beach is also home to Stage 954, an intimate entertainment venue showcasing nationally recognized musicians, comedians and live performances throughout the year.

Located at 301 E. Dania Beach Blvd., Dania Beach, FL 33004, The Casino @ Dania Beach is open seven days a week. For more information, visit CasinoDaniaBeach.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, amplifying their collaborative innovative capacities. Throughout his career, Andrew has contributed to more than 150 patent applications.

Across various industries—whether telecommunications with Telstra Australia, retail with companies such as Walmart and Best Buy, or the medical sector with institutions including City of Hope and UC San Diego—Andrew’s impact is deeply felt. He has enriched the literature with his insights, co-authoring 16 influential books with Dr. Thomas and contributing to more than 100 industry publications. An advocate for community and diversity, Andrew’s work has touched more than 100 Native American Tribal Resorts, underscoring his expansive and inclusive professional endeavors.