Accenture has acquired UK-based AI native services and products business Faculty to help its clients reinvent core and critical business processes with AI.
Founded in 2014, Faculty works with public and private sector clients to deploy AI solutions in the UK and other key markets. Its services include AI strategy, AI safety and the design, build and implementation of high performance AI systems. The business also supports the scaled and safe adoption of AI by its clients.
Faculty works with clients to build AI systems that are safe and ethical by design, addressing risks such as bias, privacy and unexplainable outcomes by ensuring that AI safety is embedded within every stage of the development lifecycle.
Faculty’s 400-strong team will integrate with Accenture’s and in addition to his role as CEO of Faculty, Marc Warner will become chief technology officer of Accenture and join the company’s global management committee.
“Our vision has always been a world in which safe AI delivers widespread benefits to humanity,” says Warner. “We have spent the last ten years supporting our clients to bring this world about, step by step.
“As AI advances rapidly, the ambition of our clients is now, rightly, no less than the reinvention of their business. I am delighted that by teaming up with Accenture, we have everything in place to support AI transformation from start to finish.”
As part of the acquisition integration, Faculty Frontier, Faculty’s enterprise decision intelligence product, will join Accenture’s suite of products. Accenture and Faculty have collaborated since December 2023, when Accenture was confirmed as a preferred implementation partner for Faculty Frontier.
