AnswerRocket improves its agentic AI platform, Max-AI; by acquiring data science company Cognitive Spark.

The purchase of Cognitive Spark, a management consulting company that specializes in creating sophisticated data science and machine learning algorithms for businesses, was announced today by AnswerRocket, a leader in enterprise AI solutions since 2013.

According to Jim Johnson, managing partner for AI services and consulting at AnswerRocket, their acquisition of Cognitive Spark takes care of the last-mile problem in data science, where critical insights often never get to key decision-makers. By merging data science with agentic AI, they will democratize advanced analytics in an organization, instilling users with the confidence to make significant decisions throughout the day.

According to Andrew Sweet, the current CEO of Cognitive Spark and VP of enterprise AI solutions, joining AnswerRocket offers an unmatched chance to leverage the effect of advanced data science. Combining AnswerRocket's consulting skills with truly advanced agentic AI services is difficult because of the significant gap between its sophisticated analytical aspect and the much-needed commercial side will bring the power of real complex analytics to the user and create significant business impacts.

However, with Cognitive Spark capability linked with the consulting practice of AnswerRocket and the agentic Max AI platform, the client can connect technical capability with strategic business initiative; transform data science as an enterprise-wide competence, rather than a specific activity.

Further, it will be able to solve complex business problems using precise data foundations and custom machine learning algorithms; deploy AI agents that perform advanced statistical analysis on their own; reduce the amount of time it takes for company decision-makers to obtain insight from weeks to minutes; and preserve enterprise-level security and control for AI-powered analytics.