Faculty

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Faculty is a UK-founded applied-AI company that helps governments and enterprises safely deploy human-led, explainable AI. Its work combines AI strategy, safety, bespoke system design and implementation with a product-led decision-intelligence offering. Faculty was acquired by Accenture on 2026-03-16; more than 400 Faculty professionals joined Accenture, and Marc Warner became Accenture’s Chief Technology Officer.

Primary product

Frontier: an enterprise decision-intelligence platform that connects organizational data and AI models, supports simulation and optimization, and helps users observe, understand, decide and act across operational workflows.

Founded

2014

Headquarters

London, England, United Kingdom

Team size

400+; approximately 400–500

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

Applied artificial intelligence, decision intelligence, AI consultancy and enterprise software

Offices

160 Old Street, London EC1V 9BW, United Kingdom

54 Welbeck Street, London W1G 9XS, United Kingdom

Business model

Enterprise AI consultancy and professional services

AI strategy, design and implementation

Enterprise decision-intelligence software licensing

AI safety and evaluation services

Talent and training through the Faculty Fellowship

Funding

Stage

Acquired by Accenture; previously growth-stage/private

Latest round

Growth funding / Series A (reported by LinkedIn data as Series A) · May 2021

Latest amount

$42.5M

Non-equity assistance

Sep 2022 · Future Fifty

Growth funding / Series A

May 2021 · Apax Digital Fund

$42.5M

Venture round

Jan 2018

Seed

Jan 2015 · Mercuri / LocalGlobe reported among early investors

People & investors

Leadership

Dr Marc Warner

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Dr Angie Ma

Co-Founder; formerly Chief Operating Officer and Chief People Officer

Andrew Brookes

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

John Gibson

Chief Commercial Officer

Vicki Marchington

Chief People Officer

Dr Patrick Imbach

Chief Financial Officer

Investors

Work & culture

Faculty emphasizes intellectual curiosity, diversity of thought, measurable real-world impact, human-led and explainable AI, safety, ethics, privacy and work on high-stakes public and commercial problems. Hiring materials indicate hybrid working, with some customer-facing defence roles requiring UK security clearance and on-site client work.

Work style

Hybrid

Compensation

Public job materials reviewed did not provide reliable salary bands or equity details. Compensation signals are therefore unavailable; benefits are described above.

Benefits

Unlimited annual leave

Private healthcare and dental

Enhanced parental leave

Family-friendly flexibility

Flexible and hybrid working

Sanctus coaching

Part-time or differentiated-hours options

Product & market

Pricing

Custom enterprise pricing; a UK Government Digital Marketplace listing gives an indicative Frontier range of £1,000–£250,000 per unit per month, with no free trial listed.

Differentiators

—Deep applied-AI and PhD-heavy technical team
—Strong public-sector, defence, healthcare and other high-stakes deployment record
—Frontier combines data, models, simulation, optimization and workflow execution
—Emphasis on safe, human-led, explainable and governed AI
—Combination of consulting, implementation and proprietary decision-intelligence software
—Partnerships and safety work with leading AI labs including OpenAI and Mistral AI

Technology

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

NumPy

Flask

Django

React

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS Lambda

Microsoft Azure

GitHub

GitLab

OpenAI models

MLOps

Customers

OpenAI

NHS England / NHS

National Crime Agency

Red Bull

Virgin Media

Moonpig

Novartis

TeleTracking Technologies

NESO

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)

BBC

Rolls-Royce

Samsung

easyJet

British Airways

Competitors

Palantir

Databricks

Altair

Anaplan

C3 AI

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

GBP10m–GBP20m annually; a LinkedIn-derived company profile reports approximately GBP13.6m

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Jan 2026

Accenture announced an agreement to acquire Faculty; transaction terms were not disclosed.

Source

Acquisition

Mar 2026

Accenture completed the acquisition. More than 400 Faculty employees joined Accenture; Marc Warner became Accenture CTO. Faculty is no longer an independent standalone company in the prior sense.

Source

Latest news

Accenture Completes Acquisition of Faculty

Accenture Newsroom · Mar 2026

The acquisition closed; more than 400 Faculty professionals joined Accenture and Marc Warner became Accenture CTO.

Accenture to Acquire Faculty to Scale AI Capabilities

Accenture Newsroom · Jan 2026

Accenture announced the planned acquisition, citing Faculty’s applied-AI capabilities and Frontier decision-intelligence product; terms were undisclosed.

Faculty expands to Australia in next phase of global growth

Faculty · Jan 2026

Faculty announced expansion into Australia and a regional Fellowship initiative.

Faculty joins OpenAI Services Partner Program

Faculty / LinkedIn · Aug 2025

Faculty announced it had joined OpenAI’s Services Partner Program to design, build and deploy enterprise solutions using OpenAI models.

Faculty announces collaboration with Mistral AI

Faculty · Nov 2024

Faculty announced a collaboration with Mistral AI, extending its work on applied and safe enterprise AI.

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