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Insider One Introduces Agent One™, the Self-Optimizing Intelligence System for Autonomous Customer Engagement

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Agent One™ combines Agent One Teams and Agent One Audiences into a natively connected two-sided intelligence system where every interaction strengthens the next decision.

NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Insider One, the leading agentic customer engagement platform, today announced the launch of Agent One™, the self-optimizing intelligence system for autonomous customer engagement.

Agent One introduces a new operating model for customer engagement where intelligence compounds through every interaction. The self-optimizing intelligence system continuously understands customer context, determines what should happen next, takes action, learns from outcomes, and improves future decisions.

“There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen. This is the moment we have been building toward for years. This is where the next decade of customer engagement begins,” said Hande Cilingir, Co-Founder and CEO at Insider One. “The industry spent the last decade teaching systems to remember customers. The next decade will belong to systems that know when to change their mind. For years, companies have invested in collecting more signals, building richer profiles, and creating faster access to data. But data alone does not create understanding. Customers change. Context expires. The winning systems will not be the ones that remember everything. They will be the ones that understand what matters now. Agent One brings together more than a decade of AI and customer engagement leadership into a self-optimizing intelligence system. For the first time, brands can continuously adapt to changing customer intent at scale, closing the gap between what customers want and what businesses deliver in every interaction. As the system understands, decides, acts, and learns, it continuously improves the quality of every decision, allowing engagement and business outcomes to compound over time.”

At the core of Agent One is a natively connected two-sided intelligence system built around both sides of customer engagement: the business and the customer.

Agent One Teams runs customer engagement for teams, planning, deciding, creating, orchestrating, and optimizing toward the outcomes brands define. Instead of teams manually managing individual engagement decisions, Agent One Teams enables marketers to define objectives and guardrails while autonomous intelligence determines the next best action.

Agent One Teams brings together purpose-built agents designed for specific customer engagement roles. Based on the objective, the system calls upon the right agent for the task, whether planning a strategy, creating content, orchestrating experiences, or optimizing performance, combining decisioning and action in one continuous workflow.

As Agent One Teams operates, it learns from every interaction and outcome. As performance changes, the system continuously adapts, optimizing journeys, content, offers, segments, and engagement decisions to improve what happens next, autonomously.

Agent One Audiences listens directly to customers, understanding their intent in their own words and turning every interaction into intelligence that improves what happens next.

Through Agent One Audiences, brands can deploy customer-facing agents that move beyond static interactions. Shopping Agent helps customers discover and decide with personalized guidance, while Support Agent helps resolve customer needs through contextual conversations that continuously improve future engagement.

Together, Agent One Teams and Agent One Audiences create a continuous intelligence loop. Both systems read and write from the same living context, allowing what customers reveal in conversations to improve what brands do next, and what brands learn from all their interactions to improve every future customer conversation. What either side learns, the other inherits, creating a continuously improving intelligence system.

Agent One is designed to operate within the technology ecosystems brands already use. Through native integrations, APIs, and MCP-based connectivity, Agent One can connect intelligence across existing data environments, channels, and enterprise systems.

“The differentiation behind Agent One is the architecture that enables intelligence to continuously self-improve. Agent One was built natively as one intelligence system, connecting data, context, decisioning, orchestration, and execution into a continuous learning loop,” said Muharrem Derinkök, Chief Product Officer at Insider One. “Vertical integration gives Agent One the depth required for self-optimization, while warehouse-native access and open, composable architecture allow it to operate across any data environment, interface, or execution layer. This enables autonomous decisioning and action while every interaction strengthens the intelligence behind the next decision.”

Agent One is designed to deliver autonomy on the brand’s terms. Marketing teams define the outcomes they want to achieve, establish the objectives and guardrails, and determine where and how much autonomy the system should apply, ensuring clear and enterprise-grade governance.

Agent One elevates the role of marketing and customer engagement teams from operators of individual channels, campaigns, and decisions to owners of an intelligent customer engagement system, setting strategy, defining objectives, managing guardrails, and continuously optimizing how the system operates.

As Agent One continuously understands, decides, acts, and learns, teams can spend less time executing individual actions and more time collaborating across the business, aligning customer engagement with broader business outcomes, and shaping the strategies that guide autonomous decision-making. By enabling an intelligence system capable of making and acting upon millions of decisions simultaneously, Agent One allows customer engagement to deliver greater business value while moving marketing teams up the value chain toward strategy, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration.

“Marketers were promised agents. What they got were operators. They complete part of the work, then hand control back to the team. The result is that marketers are still managing decisions at a scale no human team can sustain,” said Serhat Soyuerel, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Insider One. “Agent One changes that operating model. Brands define the outcomes and guardrails, while Agent One autonomously makes and acts upon millions of decisions, learns from every interaction, and improves what happens next. This changes what customer engagement teams can achieve, creating a lasting competitive advantage where every interaction strengthens the next decision and outcomes compound over time.”

Agent One Teams and Agent One Audiences are available as part of the Insider One platform, bringing autonomous intelligence into the complete customer engagement ecosystem. To learn more, visit: https://insiderone.com/agent-one

About Insider One

Insider One is the leading Agentic Customer Engagement Platform, enabling brands to deliver autonomous, end-to-end customer engagement and AI-driven growth.

Insider One is the only platform that brings together a native Customer Data Platform (CDP), journey orchestration across the broadest set of channels, purpose-built agents, advanced personalization, and AI, trusted by over 2,000 customers, including Samsung, L’Oréal, Unilever, Allianz, ING Group, Toyota, Singapore Airlines, and GAP.

Insider One has built a new operating model for marketing and customer engagement, where intelligent systems and agents do not just inform decisions; they execute them. Beyond AI decisioning, our Agent One solution plans, creates, executes, and optimizes the end-to-end customer journey autonomously. Marketing and customer engagement teams define the outcomes they want to achieve, and AI determines the optimal path to reach them, continuously ingesting and interpreting live signals to identify the next best action in real time, and orchestrating engagement across every channel, moment, and interaction.

At its core, Insider One operates on a closed-loop architecture where data, decisioning, and execution exist within one system, with every outcome feeding directly back into the intelligence layer, enabling real-time learning with no gap between insight and action, removing the need for campaigns completely. 

Loved by customers and recognized by analysts, Insider One is consistently ranked as a leader by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and G2 in key categories, including: AI, Personalization, Cross-Channel Marketing, Customer Data, and more. Accolades include:

Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Marketing Platforms for Enterprise Companies Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Omnichannel Marketing Platforms for B2C Enterprises Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Personalization EnginesInsider recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management (Independent Platforms)Leader in the Forrester Wave for Experience Optimization Platforms2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Multichannel Marketing Hubs with a Score of 100/100 for Willingness to Recommend2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Personalization Engines™The #1 G2 Leader in 11 categories, including CDP, Personalization Engines, Mobile Marketing, Customer Journey Analytics, SMS Marketing, WhatsApp Marketing, eCommerce Search, and eCommerce Personalization, with a perfect 100/100 user satisfaction score

Today, Insider One is powered by more than 1,500 team members representing 50+ nationalities across 30+ offices. The company is woman-founded and predominantly women-owned, with 70% of senior executive roles held by women.

Through initiatives such as SheCodes, SheLeads, Young Engineers Club, and 100 Cities, 100 Projects, Insider One continues to expand its global impact, creating opportunities and advancing inclusion, education, and equity for future generations.

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Brawl Stars’ and Duolingo’s Iconic Mascots Face Off in New Collaboration

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Starting September 19, fans can compete in new events across both mobile apps, giving them a chance to see the iconic mascots — Duo and Spike — in new settingsBrawl Stars introduces a new 20v1 Boss Fight, giving players the chance to take on increasingly powerful versions of DuoDuolingo launches a streak-based Quest, allowing learners to unlock exclusive rewards, including Spike

HELSINKI, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today, hit mobile game Brawl Stars and the world’s leading mobile learning platform Duolingo debuted a global in-app face-off that brings the beloved green mascots — the Duo Owl and Spike — into each other’s worlds. From September 19 through September 30, Duo takes over Starr Park while Spike turns up inside Duolingo’s lessons, with new events and exclusive rewards.

The announcement follows weeks of the two trading jabs in the comments, a feud that spilled into the streets and the skies. It comes down to two green mascots fighting for the same thing: players’ time. Now the rivalry moves into both apps, putting the fight between Duo and Spike in fans’ hands.

Duo Takes Over Starr Park
Duo arrives in Starr Park as the game’s latest boss, inviting players into class to teach them a lesson… whether they asked for one or not.

Boss Fight: For the first time, players can team up in a 20v1 Boss Fight game mode set inside Duo’s classroom. Players will have to work together to take down increasingly powerful versions of Duo while completing quizzes: those who answer correctly are rewarded, and those who answer incorrectly take damage or are eliminated.Daily Assignments: Alongside the Boss Fight, players can take part in a community-wide event to earn exclusive collaboration rewards. Step into Duo’s classroom to complete a lesson each day, then pass the final exam on the last day to unlock a reward. Misbehave, and detention awaits.

Spike Invades Duo’s Classroom
Spike doesn’t have Duo’s way with words, but he has other ways of encouraging learners to keep their streaks. As Duo wreaks havoc in Starr Park, Spike crosses over into Duolingo, where learners can complete lessons as part of a special limited-time Quest and unlock exclusive rewards along the way.

Streak-Based Quest: Complete daily Duolingo lessons to progress through a special limited-time Quest, giving learners another reason to keep their streaks going while unlocking exclusive crossover rewards.Crossover Rewards: Duo may be taking over Starr Park, but Spike is making himself at home in Duolingo. Learners who finish the challenge unlock Spike in Brawl Stars.

Players can download Brawl Stars on the App Store and Google Play, and Duolingo on the App Store and Google Play to take part in the in-app events.

About Brawl Stars:
Brawl Stars is a fast-paced, team-based mobile game from Supercell where players battle across a variety of maps and game modes, each designed for quick, action-packed play. Featuring a colorful cast of Brawlers with unique abilities, the game has surpassed one billion lifetime downloads since its global launch in 2018, building a passionate worldwide community. Constantly evolving with new characters, features, and ways to play, Brawl Stars continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in mobile gaming.

About Duolingo:
Duolingo is the leading mobile learning platform globally. Its flagship app has organically become the world’s most popular way to learn languages and the top-grossing app in the Education category on both Google Play and the Apple App Store. With technology at the core of everything it does, Duolingo has consistently invested to provide learners a fun, engaging, and effective learning experience while remaining committed to its mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

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BofA’s CashPro App facilitates more than €100 billion in payments approved European companies

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European clients increasingly rely on mobile treasury tools, with payment volumes rising 25% in the first seven months of 2026

Mobile treasury usage has reached mainstream adoption across Europe.Clients increasingly view security and convenience as complementary, not competing, priorities.Direct client feedback continues to guide enhancements to the CashPro® App.

LONDON and BARCELONA, Spain, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — European companies are increasingly turning to Bank of America’s CashPro App to manage time-sensitive treasury tasks. In the first seven months of 2026, clients in the region used the app to approve more than €100 billion in payments, as transaction volume rose 25% and payment value increased 21%[1].

The shift reflects how mobile access is becoming embedded in corporate treasury workflows, particularly for secure authentication and payment approvals. Bank of America has continued to expand the app’s functionality and simplify its design so treasury teams can complete more tasks securely from a mobile device.

Mobile becomes the preferred way to access CashPro
CashPro mobile token, Bank of America’s mobile authentication solution, replaces the need for a physical token. Together with biometrics, QR Sign-In and push authentication, it enables corporate treasury users to access CashPro and approve transactions securely from their mobile devices.

Across Europe, 74% of CashPro users now choose a CashPro mobile token as their preferred way to authenticate and access the platform, underscoring the growing role of the app in day-to-day treasury management.

“Mobile is an integral part of the daily treasury workflow, giving clients the flexibility to manage critical tasks securely wherever they are,” said Matthew Davies, head of Global Payments Solutions EMEA at Bank of America. “The fact that 74% of CashPro users in Europe now choose the app as their preferred security token demonstrates how firmly mobile has become embedded in day-to-day treasury and cash management.”

Client feedback shapes the payment approval experience
As clients conduct more business through the app, Bank of America recently enhanced the payment approval experience to provide greater visibility into payment details and make approvals more efficient.

The updates were informed by direct input from clients, including those who participate in the bank’s CashPro Boards.

“Moving from a physical token to the CashPro App was a natural step for us,” said Kunwarjit Singh Suri, EMEA Controller at F5 Limited and a member of the bank’s UK CashPro Board. “It gives us the security we need while making it easier to review and approve transactions wherever we are. The new payment approval process is another nice touch making it easier for us to review and approve payments.”

Extending secure mobile access
Bank of America is developing new digital identity verification capabilities for corporate administrators, building on the app’s cybersecurity protections and patented integrated mobile token.

“Clients around the globe have embraced mobile and continue to ask us to expand what they can accomplish through the app,” said Heath Bergman, CashPro App Product Executive at Bank of America. “Their feedback is helping shape our investment as we extend secure mobile access to more treasury workflows.”

Frequently asked questions
Question: What is CashPro?
Answer: CashPro is Bank of America’s flagship digital platform used by more than 35,000 companies around the globe to manage and monitor their payments, deposits, loans and trade transactions. Through a single, unified experience, CashPro connects companies and institutions to one of the world’s largest banking networks – helping them move faster, operate with greater control, and make smarter cash and liquidity decisions globally.

Question: How does CashPro compare against peer offerings?
Answer: For four consecutive years, the CashPro App has been the No. 1 ranked mobile application according to Coalition Greenwich. The broader CashPro platform has also been ranked:

No. 1 (tied) – Overall Leadership in Digital Channels, fourth consecutive yearNo. 1 – Online Portal OverallNo. 1 – Host-to-Host (tied)No. 2 – TMS and ERP integrations

Question: Does CashPro use AI technology?
Answer: Yes. CashPro uses AI technology in the following ways:

CashPro Chat is a virtual assistant built with Bank of America’s AI-driven Erica technology. Clients use the tool to access account information, for transaction tracking and service resolution.CashPro Capital Markets Insights uses an AI-driven algorithm leveraging market variables that produces a TED score – an objective way to quantify the macro backdrop that clients, the debt issuers, are faced with prior to deciding the viability of an investment-grade issuance on a given day.CashPro Forecasting is an AI-driven data intelligence tool that automatically integrates account data and applies machine learning to analyze global cash positions, generate accurate forecasts, and deliver actionable insights—all within minutes.

Question: What is the CashPro Board?
Answer: CashPro Boards are client advisory groups made up of CashPro users from different client segments and geographic regions. Their purpose is to provide feedback that helps shape the future of CashPro development, investment priorities, and user experience.

Question: What is coming to the CashPro App?
Answer: A new digital identity verification experience for corporate administrators is in development. The update will build on the app’s inherent cybersecurity protections and patented integrated mobile token.

Bank of America
Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 69 million clients with approximately 3,500 retail financial centers, approximately 15,000 ATMs (automated teller machines) and award-winning digital banking with approximately 60 million verified digital users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. As the #1 small business lender in the United States (FDIC), Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 4 million small business households through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and more than 35 countries and/or jurisdictions. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Alternative data budget confidence hits 3-year high while AI returns remain efficiency-led – Neudata’s 2026 industry report

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LONDON, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Confidence in alternative data budgets has reached its highest level in 3 years, with 97% of data buyers expecting their spend to increase or hold steady over the next 12 months, according to Neudata’s new industry report, The Future of Alternative and Market Data 2026. Now in its third year, the survey tracks how investment firms are budgeting for alternative and market data, adopting AI tools and navigating a fast-changing vendor landscape.

The report is based on 191 responses from data providers and buyers globally – Neudata’s largest sample to date, with responses from quant, multi-strategy, discretionary and macro funds, as well as AI research labs. 60% of buyer respondents manage over $1bn in assets.

Key findings from the report include:

Budget optimism reaches a 3-year high – 97% of data buyers expect their alternative data spend to increase or hold steady in the year ahead, up from 89% last year, the strongest confidence Neudata has recorded in 3years of the survey.AI returns are showing up in efficiency more than performance – 56% of buyers said their firm has measured a tangible return from AI deployment over the past 12 months. Efficiency gains were the most commonly cited form, at 41%, against 17% who credited AI with improving investment performance.MCP access is widely offered but pricing has yet to stabilise – 44% of data providers said they offer access via Model Context Protocol (MCP), and over half of those charge no additional fee.Views on AI’s effect on data quality are divided – 33% of buyers reported a deterioration in the quality of their data sources over the past 1-2 years, and opinion is split on whether AI-generated content is to blame.Signal strength remains the deciding factor – 39% of buyers said the main reason a trial does not lead to a purchase is that the dataset showed no discernible signal, ahead of price at 25%.

Rado Lipuš, CEO and founder of Neudata, commented: “3 years of running this survey show a market with continued confidence in the value of alternative and market data. What’s changing is AI’s role in reshaping that market. Efficiency gains are already well established. What comes next, and what we’re only seeing early signs of, is how AI affects data quality, pricing and whether it can improve investment performance.”

The 2026 edition of The Future of Alternative and Market Data provides essential intelligence for hedge funds, asset managers, data providers and financial institutions navigating spending decisions, AI adoption and vendor strategy over the year ahead.

Download the full report here > 

Suggested citation: Neudata’s The Future of Alternative and Market Data report (2026) n=191.

About Neudata

Neudata is an independent alternative and market data intelligence platform that helps institutional investors discover, evaluate and source datasets from third-party providers. For over 10 years, Neudata has provided unbiased research to hedge funds and asset managers, connecting them with data providers through its Scout and Ranger platforms, as well as its global events and 1-to-1 networking programme (AltDating). Neudata also supports corporates with consulting services to help assess, monetise and position their data effectively in the market. For more information, visit www.neudata.co

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