Accenture expands AI refinery, launches new industry agent solutions

Accenture (ACN) has expanded its AI Refinery platform with the launch of an AI agent builder that allows business users to quickly build and customize agents, enabling unprecedented agility. Accenture is also growing its collection of pre-configured industry agent solutions to help clients quickly scale networks of AI agents across the enterprise. Part of the Accenture AI Refinery-which is built on NVIDIA (NVDA) AI Enterprise-the new agent builder democratizes the creation of AI agents. It enables business decision makers to create and customize agent teams based on changing business needs and market conditions-like policy changes, new products or promotional offers from competitors, unexpected customer feedback, or fluctuations in demand. The ability to rapidly modify agents, without coding or waiting for support from engineering or technical teams, enables new levels of agility. When used in conjunction with Accenture industry agent solutions, business users can make changes to agent teams with just a few clicks while benefiting from built-in governance and guardrails that come with the platform. It applies to agents created natively on AI Refinery, as well as external agents that are published into AI Refinery. “We are seizing the significant opportunity to help our clients prioritize bold, high-impact initiatives that tackle core business challenges by reinventing processes end-to-end with generative AI and agentic technology,” said Lan Guan, chief AI officer, Accenture. “Accenture continues to double-down on new innovations like agent builder on our AI Refinery platform to empower organizations and decision-makers with the flexibility to drive business value faster, with agents that can observe the environment, apply reason, continuously improve and take action.”