Visier’s Workforce Intelligence delivers the invaluable context layer for the most trusted, consistent and secure data the world’s most prominent and successful organizations rely on to navigate workforce transformation at scale

VANCOUVER, BC and PALM SPRINGS, Calif., April 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The real unlock for successful enterprises is when they can confidently and directly connect their talent to positive business outcomes. Whether the ideal financial outcome is driven by operational efficiency, deep customer retention and engagement, or market leadership, none of it is possible without the right talent. Now more than ever, AI is shifting how work gets done, and how workforces are shaped and challenged. Visier Workforce AI is the only solution purpose-built to help organizations thrive by navigating the new world of work. 

The Visier Workforce AI solution gives leaders, business executives, and managers, the trusted insights and contextual guidance to make confident workforce decisions and lead workforce transformation at scale. Its award-winning Workforce Intelligence platform unifies people data and operational data securely and consistently, and acts as the structured knowledge layer to give workforce data meaning and power confident business decisions. Today, at its annual Outsmart conference in Palm Springs, California, Visier announced a new wave of innovations that close the gap between workforce insight and decisive action. These latest capabilities bring trusted workforce intelligence directly into the systems, tools, and workflows where leaders and managers operate every day.

The Workforce Problem of Today and Tomorrow: Insight Without Action Is Just Noise

The gap between insights and action has never been wider in businesses. Organizations invest heavily in analytics, planning tools, and talent programs, yet struggle to coordinate them into action that makes a measurable difference for the business. Because of this disconnect, strategies continue to stall, investments fail to prove impact, and workforces are left unprepared for AI-driven transformation. With technology moving at record-breaking speed, enterprise teams need to get ahead of the curve and fast: those that close this gap will shape how work gets done in the AI era. Those that don’t will watch those decisions get made without them.

Today’s enterprise HR leaders face a paradox. They can access more data and more tools than ever, yet coordinated workforce strategy is the exception not the rule. Analytics teams surface insights that never reach decision-makers. Plans are built in isolation from the intelligence that should inform them. Visier Workforce AI was built to connect these siloed systems.

What’s New: Visier Workforce AI Innovations at Outsmart 2026

Intelligent Assistance: From Answers to Action

Visier’s expanded suite of AI-powered assistants now goes beyond surfacing the right data to guiding  what to do next. Built on the industry’s strongest Workforce Intelligence layer, with data from over 2 million users, Visier Workforce AI combines people data, benchmarks, and decision blueprints to deliver guidance that is precise, reliable, and contextually relevant to each leader.

New capabilities announced today include:

Workforce ProgramsGuided Workforce Planning

Flow-of-Work Integrations: Workforce Intelligence Where Decisions Are Made

Insight is most valuable when it’s surfaced at the right time. For maximum convenience, Visier bubbles up workforce insights directly within the tools leaders and managers are already using. Today, Visier is announcing a significant expansion of its flow-of-work integrations including a new Glean MCP Connection.

The Power of Visier Workforce Intelligence Platform in Action: Visier adds Glean and AWS Quick ecosystems via Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Drive Workforce Intelligence

One of the most requested integrations from Visier customers is now a reality. Visier is connecting its Workforce Intelligence platform to Glean, the enterprise AI search and assistant platform, through the MCP. Powered by workforce insights delivered from Visier, the integration delivers the secure, comprehensive, context layer that you can trust in conjunction with the tools you use. Employees, managers, and business leaders can access Visier workforce insights directly inside Glean’s unified AI assistant and agent experience, without switching contexts or navigating separate tools. A seamless experience for the most innovative, and transformation-ready enterprises.

“Our customers have Glean and Visier, but when it comes to workforce questions leaders were forced to  jump between solutions to get a complete view of their people,” said Dave Weisbeck, Chief Strategy Officer, Visier. “Our MCP integration revolutionizes that by making Visier’s highly governed people data available right inside Glean. Insights that used to require a context switch are now integrated into the  flow of how decisions get made. Which makes work faster and decisions smarter.”

Workforce Planning: Built to Move as Fast as Change Demands

Most enterprises have workforce plans in place, but what they don’t have is a single connected intelligence layer that keeps those plans current as the business changes. Roles shift, skills gaps emerge, org design decisions get made in isolation, all to the detriment of the business. By the time that workforce plan catches up, the moment has passed and the internal and macroeconomic status has potentially shifted, massively. Visier wants to solve this, and is doing so by bringing demand planning, skills planning, action planning, and organizational design into a connected experience built on the trusted workforce intelligence context layer, so large enterprises can stop planning from yesterday’s data and start making decisions that actually reflect the current reality and account for future changes.

Availability

The Glean MCP Connection and updated Workforce AI capabilities are available to Visier enterprise customers beginning May 2026. For more information on our other capabilities like Workforce Planning and Workforce Programs, visit visier.com or speak with a Visier representative at Outsmart 2026.

About Visier

Visier Workforce AI gives leaders, business executives, and managers, the trusted insights and contextual guidance to make confident workforce decisions and lead workforce transformation at scale. The company’s award-winning technology expands beyond analytics, connecting insights to action during the workforce decision moments that matter most to an organization.

Our mission is to help businesses lead with insight at scale while continuously transforming in a rapidly changing workforce landscape.

Founded in 2010 by the pioneers of business intelligence, we have over 85,000 customers in 75 countries—including enterprises like Dick’s Sporting Goods, Domino’s Pizza, Experian, Amgen, eBay, and Ford Motor Company.

Discover more at visier.com.

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With Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, and executives from Stripe and OpenAI also participating, the SEC-registered platform uses AI to deliver personalized investment guidance to the millions of Americans who can’t access traditional financial advice.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Astor, an AI-native investment advisory platform registered with the SEC, today announced a $5 million seed round led by Monashees, with participation from Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, Gilgamesh Ventures, 468 Capital, Valutia, Sunshine Lake and executives from Stripe and OpenAI. Since launch, the platform has attracted thousands of users and more than $200 million in connected accounts. The funding will be used to grow Astor’s product, engineering, and growth teams, and expand its service lines.

Investing Has Become a Spectator Sport

More Americans are investing than ever before. But for many, investing has started to look a lot like gambling. Meme stocks, crypto speculation, and prediction markets have turned financial markets into a form of entertainment. According to FINRA, 61% of investors under 35 now rely on social media for investment decisions.

Meanwhile, the people and institutions designed to help — financial advisors — remain out of reach for most. Traditional advisors typically require $500,000 or more in assets just to take you on as a client. Only about 35% of Americans work with one, and among adults under 30, that figure drops below 5%.

A Problem the Founders Lived

Co-founders Bruno Koba and Daniel Tulha grew up in Brazil, where it’s standard practice to be paired with a financial advisor the moment you open a brokerage account, regardless of how much money you have. When they moved to the United States, they found the opposite: most people are investing entirely on their own.

“We looked around and everyone we knew was investing on their own, with many treating their brokerage accounts like a casino,” said Koba, co-founder and CEO of Astor. “Back home, even the most basic advisor gives you the sense that someone is paying attention to your money. Here, unless you’re wealthy, nobody is.”

Koba previously worked as a fintech investor at Monashees and as a data scientist at Nubank, where he built machine learning models to scale credit to millions of Brazilians. Tulha was a software engineer at Stripe and Robinhood, building financial infrastructure at global scale.

The pair joined Y Combinator’s Summer 2025 batch to build Astor: an AI advisor designed for the millions of American households that the traditional advisory industry has left behind.

An Advisor That Knows Your Portfolio

Astor connects to users’ existing brokerage accounts, evaluates their holdings across performance, risk, and diversification, and delivers tailored recommendations based on what the user owns. The platform is SEC-registered and operates under a fiduciary duty to act in clients’ best interest, setting it apart from social media advice and generic AI chatbots.

“Most people don’t need more investment products, they need someone in their corner. Astor gives people the knowledge and guidance to actually take control of their financial future”, said Fabiola Quinzaños, Partner at Monashees. “Bruno brings the investor perspective from his years at Monashees and the personal conviction of having lived this problem, while Daniel brings technical depth from building financial products at Stripe, and Bruno going from Monashees investor to Monashees-backed founder is the kind of full-circle story we love to be part of.” 

To connect with the Astor team, reach out at founders@astor.app.

About Astor

Astor is an AI-native, SEC-registered investment advisory platform that connects to users’ existing brokerage accounts and delivers personalized investment recommendations through conversational AI. Founded by Bruno Koba and Daniel Tulha, Astor’s mission is to make quality financial guidance accessible to every investor. Learn more at astor.app

About Monashees

Monashees is a Latin American venture capital firm, founded in 2005, and one of the pioneer investors in Latin America’s tech ecosystem. Today, the Monashees community spans more than 150 companies and 300+ founders. Monashees has offices in Sao Paulo, Mexico City and Silicon Valley.  Learn more at monashees.com

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This rebrand reflects Synteq’s transition to a global infrastructure platform, with its first European presence, more than 10x year-over-year compute capacity growth, new Blackwell-generation GPUs in operation, refreshed VDS product line, and significant expansion roadmap ahead

WILMINGTON, Del., April 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Crunchbits, the high-performance computing provider known for GPU compute, bare metal, and virtualized infrastructure, today announced it has rebranded as Synteq HPC, effective immediately. Alongside the new identity, the company is launching two new datacenter locations in Dallas, Texas and Sofia, Bulgaria, announcing a more than 10x year-over-year expansion in compute and storage capacity and backend hardware. The company is also deploying NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell-generation GPUs (the RTX PRO 6000 and RTX 5090) at scale, and rolling out a major refresh of its virtual dedicated server (VDS) family with VDS Performance and VDS Balanced.

The Sofia facility marks the company’s first European presence, extending service to customers across the EU with low-latency access and in-region data residency. The Dallas expansion significantly deepens its North American footprint and supports growing demand for GPU compute, virtualized infrastructure, and dedicated bare metal.

“Crunchbits built a loyal avid customer base by being faster, higher value, and more technically serious for the workloads that actually matter to them,” said Taras Kulyk, CEO of Synteq Digital. “Synteq HPC is that same team with the capital, the rapidly expanding footprint, and a roadmap to serve customers at a completely different scale. We will never abandon our roots as we work to grow our expanding enterprise focused offering”

Eric Yingling, VP of HPC, and Founder of Crunchbits added: “Over the past year we’ve overhauled our backend across every site,  swapping out our legacy hardware, and replacing it with newer, more efficient equipment that delivers more in less space. Our networking and connectivity has been rebuilt with full redundancy at every level; from the rack, right to our upstream carriers. Dallas and Sofia are the newest additions, and every existing site has been brought up to the same standard.”

What’s launching today:

New identity: Crunchbits is now Synteq HPC. Same team, same customer relationships, same support.Dallas T3 datacenter: New HPC capacity, online and accepting deployments.Sofia, Bulgaria T3 datacenter: The company’s first European facility, expanding service coverage across the EU.10x+ capacity and backend hardware expansion vs. April 2025, across GPU, storage, compute, and networking.Full inventory coming online across existing product lines, including Metal GPU and On-Demand GPU tiers.VDS Performance: A completely new architecture built on AMD EPYC 9355P (Zen 5 “Turin”), replacing the previous Intel Xeon Scalable Gold first generation. Dramatically higher core counts, DDR5 memory, and PCIe 5.0; a true generational leap for virtualized workloads.VDS Balanced: Upgraded to Intel Xeon Gold 6254 for cost-optimized, general-purpose virtualized workloads.

Roadmap Ahead

Synteq HPC is also confirming that additional datacenter capacity is planned for Q3 – Q4 2026, including a new facility that will more than double the company’s total global footprint when it comes online. Further product launches and regional expansions are expected throughout the year.

About Synteq HPC

Synteq HPC (formerly Crunchbits) delivers GPU compute, bare metal, and virtualized infrastructure to developers, researchers, and enterprises worldwide. More at synteqhpc.com.

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