Accenture Invests in YearOne to Accelerate Digital Product Development

July 31, 2025 at 07:59 AM EDT

YearOne’s AI-powered orchestration platform helps organizations elevate the design and delivery lifecycle of digital products

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has announced a strategic investment in YearOne, a company that helps organizations accelerate software development through its data-driven software engineering intelligence platform. As part of the investment led by Accenture Ventures, Accenture will collaborate with YearOne to help businesses accelerate the lifecycle of digital product development with AI-powered visibility, coaching, and performance optimization.

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Accenture has announced a strategic investment in YearOne, a company that helps organizations accelerate software development through its data-driven software engineering intelligence platform.

YearOne’s platform surfaces real-time insights across workflows, individuals, and teams by bringing together insights from existing tools into a single system of intelligence that closes the loop between data, behavior, and execution. The platform identifies hidden patterns, delivery bottlenecks, and productivity gaps, offering tailored recommendations and intelligent interventions that enable high-performance software teams to operate with precision.

"AI-driven visibility is essential for modern engineering teams. It’s not just about making software development more efficient; it’s about empowering teams to learn and grow by providing clear insights,” said Tom Lounibos, global lead for Accenture Ventures. “YearOne’s platform can provide organizations with the clarity needed to develop innovative capabilities and strategic vision to move forward with confidence and purpose.”

YearOne can also help teams rebalance deep work, meeting time, and delivery focus. Signals around workload fragmentation, skill gaps, and progress clarity help leaders proactively coach teams, reduce rework, and scale delivery quality.

“AI is flooding the stack with shortcuts and surface-level output. The challenge businesses face today isn’t speed—it’s precision. It’s preserving engineering craft in a world that’s optimizing faster than it’s understanding,” said Stephen Ajayi, founder and CEO of YearOne. “We see engineering organizations that are rich in signal—but buried in noise. Through our platform, we aim to provide teams the clarity and control to turn that chaos into leverage.”

Accenture Song is using YearOne’s platform to establish a benchmark for engineering performance and output that can help teams identify areas for efficiency gains, including how teams are adopting and leveraging AI tools. These insights can also help identify where skills gaps exist and how additional training would be beneficial.

Dan Garrison, chief technology officer at Accenture Song said, “The platform can simultaneously improve digital product software development while also upskilling teams—helping people deliver faster and more accurately. This is the collaborative nature of humans and AI that we envision will benefit talent and innovation.”

YearOne will join Accenture Ventures’ Project Spotlight, a vertical accelerator for emerging technology companies in data and AI. Project Spotlight offers startups extensive access to Accenture’s domain expertise and enterprise client base—helping breakthrough technologies scale faster and deliver more impact.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at accenture.com.

About YearOne

YearOne is the real-time OS for engineering organizations. By orchestrating the modern software stack into a single intelligent system, YearOne enables AI-driven visibility, coaching, and performance optimization across every layer of the org. Rather than replacing existing tools, YearOne activates them—turning fragmented signal into coordinated action. Founded by brothers Stephen and Sam Ajayi and launched out of Techstars, YearOne is backed by Abstraction Capital and other leading investors. Learn more at www.joinyearone.io