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Teneo and Thoughtworks have formed a new joint venture to help companies bridge the gap between AI ambition and measurable business outcomes. Combining Teneo's CEO advisory expertise with Thoughtworks' engineering and AI capabilities, the venture delivers integrated strategy, design, and execution to accelerate transformation across growth, productivity, modernization, risk, talent, and reputation.
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Teneo, the global CEO advisory firm, and Thoughtworks, a technology consultancy specializing in strategy, design, engineering, and AI, have announced a strategic joint venture to guide companies through AI-driven business transformation. The initiative addresses a common challenge: while organizations invest heavily in AI infrastructure, many struggle to convert strategic vision into tangible results at pace.
The joint venture redefines senior-level advisory as AI-native, enabling CEOs and executive teams to align strategy, operating models, and technology execution in real time. It combines Teneo's trusted counsel and extensive client relationships with Thoughtworks' engineering depth and proven ability to deliver modern, scalable AI solutions.
"As CEOs navigate unprecedented macroeconomic, geopolitical and technological disruption, they must also become the primary architects of their companies' AI futures," said Paul Keary, CEO of Teneo. "Teneo has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into world-class talent and capabilities to develop the leading global CEO advisory firm. Now in partnership with Thoughtworks, we will bring to bear Teneo's services with Thoughtworks' AI leadership and deep engineering capability to help our clients navigate business transformation in the AI and agentic age."
"AI transformation only works when strategy, culture and execution move together," said Mike Sutcliff, CEO of Thoughtworks. "This venture unites CEO-level advisory with hands-on engineering and AI delivery. In three days, we can help clients align on new product concepts. In three weeks, we can build a working prototype. In three months, we can put new systems into production. That is the pace today's market demands."
The venture will offer multidisciplinary teams—comprising executive advisers, product leaders, engineers, designers, and AI specialists—to deliver integrated services tailored to CEO priorities. Key offerings include:
"As companies navigate rapid shifts in technology and capital markets, AI represents both opportunity and disruption," said Alex Pigliucci, Teneo's Global Head of Enterprise Clients, who will lead the joint venture. "This partnership equips our advisory teams, and our clients, with the ability to combine strategy and execution in real time, particularly in critical moments such as acquisitions, restructurings and large-scale transformations."
Headquartered in New York with global reach across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, the venture begins operations immediately. It will leverage Thoughtworks' established technology partnerships—including AWS, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Databricks, and Mechanical Orchard—to accelerate service delivery.
About Teneo
Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future. Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations. Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance and ESG. The firm has more than 1,800 employees located in 45+ offices around the world. For more information about Teneo, please visit teneo.com.
About Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation and large-scale business transformation. For more than 30 years, we have partnered with organizations around the world to solve complex business problems through modern technology, disciplined engineering and a deep focus on culture and capability. With more than 10,000 Thoughtworkers across 47 offices in 18 countries, we help enterprises modernize core systems, build and design digital products, harness data and scale AI responsibly. Our expertise spans product engineering, data and AI, cloud and platform modernization, customer experience and enterprise transformation. We are known for our leadership in software engineering excellence, agile ways of working and responsible technology practices. Thoughtworks serves many of the world's leading enterprises across financial services, retail, healthcare, automotive, energy and the public sector. We work alongside executive teams to turn strategy into working systems that deliver measurable business value.
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