Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has made an investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Within, an AI platform company that helps organizations map, enhance, and automate their business processes and operations. As part of the investment, Accenture and Within are partnering to help clients gain deeper insight into how work gets done, identify opportunities to enhance performance, deploy AI agents, and unlock ongoing productivity and efficiency gains.

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Accenture has made an investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Within, an AI platform company that helps organizations map, enhance, and automate their business processes and operations.

Enterprise AI investment is accelerating, but many organizations are still struggling to generate value at scale. Accenture’s latest Pulse of Change survey of more than 3,000 C-suite leaders found that 82% are increasing investment in AI. Yet only 23% report that achieving widespread, sustained business value from the technology, down from 32% earlier this year. One reason is that the as-is processes, exceptions, and workarounds that shape day-to-day operations are rarely documented. As a result, AI often lacks the context it needs to understand the requirements.

Within’s platform captures how employees work across all applications and tracks undocumented offline interactions, including processes, handoffs, and exceptions. The platform automatically compiles that information into Within’s Work Brain, the continuously updated context layer of work that AI agents need to succeed. As information updates with the business, organizations can use it to build AI agents, identify automation opportunities, and improve workflows across finance, HR, sales, marketing, customer service, IT, supply chain, procurement, and commercial operations. By mapping real-time decisions, handoffs, and workarounds that evade official documentation (if any exists), Within enables AI agents to deliver real, measurable ROI.

“One of the most persistent challenges in AI transformation is that organizations often don’t have a clear picture of the starting point—the actual processes, the exceptions, how work actually flows through their teams,” said Jason Dess, Accenture’s Industry and Process Reinvention Lead. “Without that understanding, it’s difficult to scale AI beyond isolated use cases. What’s compelling about Within is that it helps create that operational picture in a fraction of the time, giving both people and AI a foundation to work from immediately. That can accelerate transformation programs, shorten delivery timelines and give leaders greater confidence that the changes they're making reflect how the business actually operates."

The partnership will bring together Accenture’s scale in AI delivery and its established ecosystem relationships and industry expertise with Within’s work-to-agent platform to help clients accelerate their path from process discovery to agent deployment and operating model reinvention, with speed and confidence.

"What Within surfaced was the real process, not the one on the diagram—the hidden workarounds, the manual steps, the informal patches our people had built to get the job done. You can't reinvent what you can't see. Accenture and Within gave us that visibility, and the plan to act on it," said David Benjamin, EVP and Chief Commercial Officer, Blackbaud.

Within is built on a private, sovereign architecture, designed to support data privacy and security requirements, making it suitable for regulated industries. In addition to AI transformation, it accelerates ERP and operating model transformation programs, which have traditionally required significant time and resources.

“AI transformation works best when there’s a system of record of work to provide visibility on what to automate and the ability to verify that agents are doing their work the right way,” says Andrew Antos, Within CEO and Co-Founder. “This partnership gives Accenture clients access to that system, so they can reap real business value, whether they’re building large-scale agentic workflows or highly customized agents. People and agents working in harmony is the future of work.”

Accenture Ventures invests in companies whose capabilities extend what Accenture clients can do with AI. The investment in Within reflects the importance of operational knowledge as prerequisite for effective AI deployment—and Accenture’s intent to help clients address that need at scale.

Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

About Accenture
Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 799,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com.

About Within
Fortune 500 companies and AI Leaders use Within to drive AI Transformation and produce agents that deliver real, measurable business outcomes across their operations at an incredible speed. Within maps how people work and structures it into a living Work Brain, enabling people and agents to work in harmony. Learn more at https://www.within.ai/.

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