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West Monroe Named “Overall AI Consulting Firm of the Year” in 2026 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Awards Program

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Recognition underscores West Monroe’s position as a market leader redefining consulting for the AI era through AI-native delivery and execution

CHICAGO, June 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — West Monroe, an AI-native global consulting firm, today announced it has been named “Overall AI Consulting Firm of the Year” in the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Awards program.

The designation is a culmination of West Monroe’s recent investments and innovations to become an AI-native firm, including the launch of WestMonroe.ai, its public platform of AI-powered strategy agents; Clonal™, its operational intelligence platform; and an internal AI Store where employees can access 450+ AI solutions. As AI reshapes work across every industry and expectations of professional services partners continue to evolve, West Monroe has transformed itself into an AI-native firm—embedding AI into how it works, delivers, and makes decisions—so it can help clients move faster, learn faster, and create value with greater confidence based on firsthand experience.

“We’re honored to be recognized by AI Breakthrough as Overall AI Consulting Firm of the Year, especially at a moment when AI is fundamentally reshaping both business and consulting,” said Bret Greenstein, Chief AI Officer at West Monroe. “This award reflects the intentional investments we’ve made in reimagining consulting through an AI-native lens, experience that directly translates to client advisory and delivery. The firms that create the most value in the AI era will be those that have transformed their own organizations and can bring that firsthand experience to clients. That’s why we’ve consistently raised the bar for ourselves, embedding AI across how we operate, and transforming how we work so we can advise from a position of real-world execution, not just theory.”

West Monroe has spent the last several years integrating AI into its strategy, delivery, workforce, and operations. These investments and achievements have already earned the firm significant recognition in 2026, including the only Gold Stevie® Award for AI-Driven Culture of Innovation across all companies, a Bronze Stevie® Award for Chief AI Officer of the Year awarded to Bret Greenstein, a Top Management Consulting Firm of the Year by Forbes in the highly sought after Artificial Intelligence category.

“West Monroe possesses everything you need under one roof and puts it into practice,” said Steve Johansson, Managing Director at AI Breakthrough. “AI capabilities are evolving weekly and delays quickly erode value. However, companies are realizing that AI transformation is more than deploying LLM tooling or giving employees access to the latest frontier models and a workflow tool. West Monroe is redefining what it means to be an AI services provider, integrating strategy, implementation, workforce enablement, and governance into a single delivery model to enable teams to move at speed and deliver real business impact. Clients benefit from solutions that are proven in practice, not just designed in theory.”

For nearly a decade, the AI Breakthrough Awards have recognized important advancements in artificial intelligence across categories including agentic AI, generative AI, computer vision, AIOps, robotics, natural language processing, and industry-specific AI applications. AI Breakthrough is a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global artificial intelligence market, and received more than 5,000 nominations from over 20 countries across its 2026 awards program. Winners in this year’s program included market leaders such as NVIDIA, Snowflake, Dell Technologies, HP, and Qualcomm.

To learn more about West Monroe’s AI capabilities, visit https://www.westmonroe.com/ai.

About West Monroe

West Monroe is an AI-native global consulting firm built for today’s pace of change. We combine deep industry expertise with modern technology and business transformation capabilities to help organizations move faster and deliver measurable impact with speed to value and certainty of results through execution excellence. We don’t just talk about what’s possible—we apply AI and technology where it matters most, pairing strategic insights with hands-on execution to help clients move from strategy to results, faster.

Clients tell us we show up differently. Our employee ownership model fuels an all-in approach grounded in practical execution, measurable impact, and lasting partnership. That commitment has earned recognition from Forbes and Business Insider and made West Monroe one of only 22 companies recognized worldwide for building high-quality careers.

See what’s possible at westmonroe.com.

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Aily Labs and AWS Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate AI Decision Intelligence Across the Fortune 500

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Aily’s AI Decision Intelligence agents are now available in AWS Marketplace, with one-click procurement against existing AWS commitmentsOrchestrated by Aily’s Super Agent and powered by multiple foundation models, the agents are also available on Amazon BedrockExisting customers deploy in as little as one day inside their own AWS environment with governance, security, and compliance built inAily and AWS will jointly deploy and adopt agents to accelerate impact across the Fortune 500, focus verticals: pharma, CPG, and luxury

NEW YORK, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Aily Labs, creator of the first AI-native Decision Intelligence platform for global enterprises, today announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enterprises deploy and scale Aily’s agents on AWS Marketplace, spanning five core functions across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, R&D, and commercial.

The partnership pairs AWS’s trusted cloud infrastructure with Aily’s AI Decision Intelligence platform, giving enterprises a direct path to measurable impact where decisions are made, executed, and measured across the business. Grounded in each enterprise’s own business context, Aily’s agents connect decisions across functions and act in real time, returning decision-grade recommendations while self-monitoring performance, simulating what-if scenarios, and surfacing risks and opportunities across critical functions. Through Amazon Bedrock, Aily draws on a choice of leading foundation models and orchestrates them dynamically, routing each decision to the model best suited to the task. This multi-model orchestration lets agents reason across complex business scenarios with greater accuracy and speed, all within the customer’s secure AWS environment.

With Aily’s agents now available as a managed subscription on AWS Marketplace, enterprises gain a simplified procurement path to the full Aily agent platform, with consolidated billing through their existing AWS account and usage that counts toward any committed-spend agreement. For current AWS customers, Aily deploys inside their own AWS environment in as little as one day, running on the customer’s existing data infrastructure and security stack, with no new environments or compliance reviews required.

“Enterprises don’t need more pilots or reports, they need decisions,” said Bianca Anghelina, Founder and CEO of Aily Labs. “Bringing Aily’s agents to AWS Marketplace gives global enterprises an AI operating system they can run at scale, on infrastructure they already trust. That’s how we build the agentic enterprise, together.”

Aily and AWS will jointly deploy and adopt agents tailored to pharma, CPG, and luxury enterprises, accelerating impact across the Fortune 500. Organizations ready to put AI Decision Intelligence to work can access Aily’s agents today in AWS Marketplace at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-x5qobedt7bpze?.

About Aily Labs
Aily Labs is transforming how global enterprises make decisions by combining enterprise data with AI, machine learning, and large language models into a single Decision Intelligence platform. Its Super Agent orchestrates autonomous AI agents that both recommend and execute decisions, delivering measurable ROI from day one. The platform integrates into existing enterprise workflows, helping Fortune 500 companies break down data silos and accelerate decision-making across every major function.

Founded in 2020, Aily Labs operates globally with teams of AI data scientists, engineers, business and product experts. Last November, Aily Labs raised $80 million in funding, led by FPV Ventures with participation from existing investor Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan, and other strategic investors. To date, it has raised more than $101 million.

For more information, visit ailylabs.com.

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America Works Launches “250 Hires Initiative” to Celebrate America 250 and Expand Workforce Opportunity Nationwide

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NEW YORK, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — America Works, a national leader in workforce development with more than 40 years of proven results, today announced the launch of its 250 Hires Initiative, a national campaign to place 250 individuals into jobs in honor of the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence.

This initiative will stand as a high-visibility moment to demonstrate America Works’ broad reach, measurable outcomes, and results-driven approach to helping people secure long-term employment.

With more than 30 million clients served and decades of experience placing job seekers into work across the country, America Works is building on a long record of measurable results through the 250 Hires Initiative.

“For more than four decades, we’ve proven that employment is the most effective pathway to independence,” said Dr. Lee Bowes, Co-Founder and CEO of America Works. “This initiative reflects both our legacy and our forward-looking commitment to helping individuals succeed in today’s evolving workforce.”

America Works delivers performance-based employment outcomes for welfare, disability, reentry, veterans, and homelessness programs across multiple states under rigorous oversight and evaluation. Its model has been consistently validated by leading research institutions, government agencies, and independent evaluators, including early studies by Ernst & Young showing strong one-year employment retention, research from the Manhattan Institute on sustained employment outcomes for disability beneficiaries, and research by the Fraser Institute emphasizing long-term welfare exits and strong value for money.

“This milestone is deeply personal for our team and the communities we serve,” said Marsha Netus, Vice President and Regional Director of America Works of Maryland and Washington, D.C. “We have seen firsthand how access to employment can profoundly transform lives. The 250 Hires Initiative brings that impact to life in a way that is both meaningful and measurable.”

As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, the 250 Hires Initiative emphasizes America Works’ continued leadership in workforce development and its commitment to expanding economic opportunity nationwide.

About America Works

Founded in 1984, America Works is a national workforce development organization committed to delivering real jobs, real support, and real results. With more than 30 million clients served across 50+ states, America Works helps job seekers overcome employment barriers through rapid placement, individualized support, and employer partnerships. The organization places clients on average in about seven weeks and maintains a retention rate of more than 70%, reflecting its performance-based approach to workforce success. Learn more at americaworks.com/about.

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Allora Labs Launches Forge to Let AI Models Compete, Improve, and Earn on Real-World Predictions

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The world’s first arena for predictive intelligence, Forge is a live environment where machine learning models compete on real-world problems and improve together, built on the thesis that the future of prediction belongs to a network of models rather than any single one.

NEW YORK, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Allora Labs today launches Forge, the world’s first arena for predictive intelligence: a live environment where AI models compete on real-world problems, improve through that competition, and earn continuously for the predictions they produce.

A network of models, not a single one

Predicting what comes next is one of the oldest pursuits there is. Allora‘s thesis is that its future will not belong to a single dominant AI model but to a network of them, each competing and improving, together forming a collective intelligence that grows more capable as more models join.

Built for developers who want a real test

Forge is built for developers who want to test their models against the best in the world. Models improve fastest under real competition, and on Forge they face it on live problems with real outcomes. A developer brings a model and a predict() function, and Forge runs it live and handles the data, the infrastructure, and the rest, so the work stays on the model rather than the operations around it. Models remain owned by their developers, wherever they run.

Predictions that are already in demand

More than 140 partners across the Allora Network build on the predictions made on Forge, so a model’s work is consumed in production and rewards its developer continuously as the model improves and the network grows.

“We don’t believe the future will be predicted by one model that beats all the others,” said Nick Emmons, CEO of Allora. “It will be predicted by many models competing, each making the others better. Forge is where that happens, and where the engineers building the best prediction models in the world are rewarded for it.”

Availability

Developers can join and deploy their first model directly on Forge.

About Allora Labs

Allora Network is a decentralized AI inference network that harnesses a globally distributed community of machine learning models to produce highly accurate, context-aware predictions in real time.

Built on a modular, topic-based system, Allora orchestrates competing models on shared prediction tasks and continuously evaluates performance under live conditions, synthesizing outputs into a high-confidence aggregated signal.

By treating inference as an open, competitive, and economically aligned process, Allora enables ever-improving AI services that can be embedded directly into operational systems, powering use cases from EV charging optimization to autonomous IoT decisioning.

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