Move strengthens AI engineering, safety, and large-scale deployment as enterprises accelerate AI-led reinvention
Accenture has announced plans to acquire Faculty, a UK-based artificial intelligence company known for its applied AI expertise and decision intelligence products, in a move aimed at scaling responsible, secure, and outcome-driven AI adoption for clients worldwide.
The acquisition significantly enhances Accenture’s ability to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions at enterprise scale, combining Faculty’s deep technical capabilities in applied AI with Accenture’s industry knowledge, data strengths, and global delivery footprint. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2014, Faculty has built a strong reputation for delivering AI solutions in mission-critical environments across the public and private sectors. Its services span AI strategy, AI safety, and the development and deployment of high-performance AI systems, enabling organizations to adopt AI responsibly while managing risks related to bias, privacy, and transparency.
“With Faculty, we will further accelerate our strategy to bring trusted, advanced AI to the heart of our clients’ businesses,” said Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO, Accenture.
A core differentiator for Faculty is its long-standing focus on AI safety by design. The company embeds safety controls across the entire AI lifecycle from development and validation to monitoring and prediction. Faculty also works closely with leading AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as institutions like the UK AI Security Institute, to support baseline safety assessments for general-purpose AI models.
Following the close of the transaction, Faculty’s team of more than 400 AI-native professionals, including data scientists and AI engineers, will join Accenture. Faculty CEO Marc Warner will become Accenture’s Chief Technology Officer and join its Global Management Committee, shaping the company’s technology vision and AI strategy. Warner brings a strong academic and policy background, having previously served as a Research Fellow in Quantum Physics at Harvard and as a member of the UK’s AI Council.
As part of the integration, Faculty Frontier™, Faculty’s enterprise decision intelligence platform, will be added to Accenture’s portfolio of AI-driven products. The platform connects data, AI models, and business processes to enable faster, smarter decision-making, and is already being used jointly by Accenture and Faculty to support global life sciences clients.
The acquisition underscores Accenture’s broader ambition to help clients reinvent core business processes using AI that is not only powerful, but also transparent, resilient, and safe at a time when enterprises are moving from AI experimentation to large-scale transformation.