Accrete, Inc. (Accrete AI)

Accrete, Inc., commonly known as Accrete AI, is a dual-use artificial intelligence company headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York, with additional offices in Virginia, Massachusetts, and Mumbai, India. Founded in 2017 by Prashant Bhuyan, the company's core mission is to eliminate organizational knowledge loss by transforming tacit human expertise into AI-powered Knowledge Engines. These engines enable Expert AI Agents to make advanced predictions and decisions, aiming to achieve ethical, reliable, and trustworthy artificial general intelligence.

Accrete AI's primary offering is its Knowledge Engine platform, which encodes human expertise into AI Agents with persistent memory to automate complex analytical tasks and generate predictive insights. Key products include Argus, a dual-use open-source threat detection AI software solution with specialized applications like Argus Supply Chain and Argus Social, and Nebula, a continually learning AI platform. The company serves both government and commercial sectors, with clients including the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, CFIUS, and Fortune 500 corporations across industries such as consumer goods, finance, media, IT services, cybersecurity, and insurance.

Under the leadership of Founder, CEO, and Chairman Prashant Bhuyan, Accrete AI has secured significant funding, including a $15 million Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) from AFWERX and SpaceWERX for Program Year 2025, contributing to a total of $89 million raised over 15 funding rounds. The company was recognized on Forbes' 2026 America's Best Startup Employers List for the fourth consecutive year, ranking No. 23 nationally. In recent developments, Accrete AI expanded its New York City headquarters in February 2025 and successfully deployed its Argus platform into the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS) in February 2026 to support classified data environments.