Accrete AI

What Accrete AI does

Accrete AI is a privately held, dual-use artificial intelligence company founded in 2017 by Prashant Bhuyan and headquartered in Lower Manhattan, with federal operations in Alexandria, Virginia, enterprise operations in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and an engineering presence in Mumbai, India. The company builds the Knowledge Engine Platform (KEP), a cognitive infrastructure layer that encodes tacit human domain expertise into Expert AI Agents with persistent memory, dynamic context graphs, and autonomous reasoning across multimodal, multilingual data. KEP sits on top of 900+ integrations and is delivered as two productized variants: Argus for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civilian federal agencies (modules for supply-chain FOCI risk detection and Cognitive Advantage information operations) and Nebula for Fortune 500 enterprises (modules for IT service intelligence, social media intelligence, and a consumer-facing talent scouting capability).

Accrete's revenue model combines multi-year Other Transaction-Production software licensing with the U.S. Department of Defense, SBIR awards from Army and Air Force, an AFWERX/SpaceWERX STRATFI award of up to $15M for Program Year 2025, GSA Multiple Award Schedule sales (contract 47QTCA23D00BA through 2028 with three 5-year options), and enterprise software licensing distributed through Snowflake Native App and Databricks marketplaces plus GTM partnerships with Publicis Groupe, Carahsoft, and Four Inc. The company has held multiple classified-environment deployments across DoD, Army, Air Force, SOCOM, DHS, Treasury, HHS, DOE, Commerce, and DCSA, and was named to the Forbes Best Startup Employers list for four consecutive years (No. 23 in 2026) and debuted on the 2025 Inc. 5000.

The capital structure reflects a venture-backed private company: approximately $6.75M raised in a 2020 SEC Form D exempt offering, followed by material subsequent rounds (Pendrell $19.5M in 2024; AFWERX/SpaceWERX ~$25M in 2025) and equity-style financing that, combined with disclosed headcount of 128 as of 2022 and ongoing hiring, supports a clear scaling posture. Leadership combines IBM Watson heritage (CTO and SVP R&D), former NSA/DIA/Army Special Forces operators in the federal subsidiary, and recently retired senior military officers (Lt. Gen. Karbler, Gen. Nakasone) advising the board.

Name

Accrete AI

Legal name

Accrete, Inc.

Website

https://accrete.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Accrete AI builds a proprietary Knowledge Engine Platform that deploys expert AI agents with persistent memory and dynamic context graphs for U.S. defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies (Argus) and Fortune 500 enterprises (Nebula), addressing supply-chain risk, information operations, IT service management, and social media intelligence.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Knowledge Engine / Decision Automation Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise AI Governance, Risk & Compliance Platforms (Model Risk, Audit, Policies) (HDAEANAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

Keywords

• Knowledge engine platform
• AI agent software
• Supply chain analytics
• IT service intelligence
• Social media intelligence

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Government AI Software Licensing: Multi-year Other Transaction-Production (OT-P) software licensing contracts with U.S. Department of Defense and federal agencies. Includes GSA MAS contract (SINs: 54151S, 511210, 54151, 54151ECOM) with base period through 2028.
2. Enterprise AI Agent Licensing: Licensing of Nebula knowledge engine products (Nebula ITSM, Nebula Social) to Fortune 500 companies. Snowflake Native App enables in-ecosystem deployment with joint GTM with Snowflake and Databricks.
3. SBIR Awards: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards from U.S. military branches (Army, Air Force) for technology development. Four SBIR awards received to enhance Argus platform capabilities.
4. AFWERX STRATFI Funding: Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) award of up to $15M from AFWERX/SpaceWERX to transition AI technology from prototype to operational use for defense applications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Accrete AI builds and licenses the Knowledge Engine Platform (KEP), a cognitive infrastructure that encodes tacit human domain expertise into Expert AI Agents with persistent memory and dynamic context graphs. The platform is sold in two variants: Argus for Government (supply chain FOCI risk, cognitive advantage / information operations) and Nebula for Enterprise (IT service intelligence, social media intelligence), with multi-year software licensing to U.S. federal defense/intel agencies and Fortune 500 enterprises.

Product overview

Accrete AI offers a dual-use enterprise AI platform consisting of the Knowledge Engine Platform as the foundational technology, with government-specific (Argus) and enterprise-specific (Nebula) variants. The portfolio includes Argus for Government/Knowledge Engine for Government with modules for Supply Chain FOCI risk detection and Cognitive Advantage for information operations; and Nebula for Enterprise with ITSM intelligence and Social media intelligence modules. All products are powered by the proprietary Knowledge Engine that encodes tacit human domain expertise into AI agents with persistent memory and global reasoning capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Argus: AI-powered expert agent platform for government and enterprise threat detection, supply chain risk analysis, and cognitive advantage capabilities.
• Nebula Social
• Nebula ITSM
• Nebula
• I.K.E

Products and services

• Knowledge Engine Platform (KEP) Foundational cognitive infrastructure platform sold to enterprise and government customers that semantically unifies siloed data into dynamic knowledge graphs, encodes expert tacit knowledge into AI agents, and enables expert agents to reason globally and make superhuman decisions. Built for cross-industry deployment with 900+ integrations.
• Argus (Government) / Knowledge Engine for Government Government-specific variant of the Knowledge Engine that powers expert AI agents for defense, intelligence, and federal agencies. Built to FedRAMP High standards with classified JWICS deployment capabilities, supplying supply chain FOCI compliance, OSINT analysis, information operations, and decision support to U.S. Army, Air Force, SOCOM, DCSA, DHS, Treasury, and other federal agencies.
• Nebula (Enterprise) / Knowledge Engine for Enterprise Enterprise variant of the Knowledge Engine delivering real-time, measurable ROI through adaptive, outcome-driven intelligence to Fortune 500 companies across consumer goods, media, finance, and IT operations. Powers autonomous decision-making in commercial environments.
• Argus Supply Chain Expert AI Agent that detects foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI) across defense and civilian supply chains by analyzing 150M+ open-source records. Maps ownership, control structures, and real estate transactions multiple tiers deep, including foreign-language corporate records, to surface hidden FOCI threats before onboarding vendors.
• Argus Cognitive Advantage Cognitive security platform for shaping information environments and countering influence operations. Detects emerging narratives, influence campaigns, and sentiment shifts across 243 languages and 8 social media platforms, enabling proactive counter-campaign operations and real-time influence attribution.
• Nebula ITSM IT Service Intelligence module powered by the Knowledge Engine that deploys autonomous agents to proactively identify IT risks, prevent outages, and automate change planning by understanding the root cause of P1 and P2 outages. Available as a Snowflake Native App with joint GTM with Snowflake and Databricks.
• Nebula Social Enterprise social media intelligence platform for marketing, PR, and crisis management. Expert agents track narrative shifts, decode underground signals, and protect brand equity across social media platforms, with capabilities including 11.2x faster actionable insights, 6.7x faster creator identification, and 94% reduction in social media scroll time.

Quantifiable outcome

• Analyst workloads reduced by up to 80% through AI automation of analytical work
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability10 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators15 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Market position

Competitive moat7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/accreteai
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Compliance4 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds10 records

Investors5 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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