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From consulting to agentic AI: What Accenture actually does
Accenture is a global consulting and technology firm with approximately 786,000 employees. To give you an idea of its size — in fiscal year 2025, it achieved revenues of $69.7 billion, making it one of the largest professional services providers in the world. In Europe, including the Czech Republic, it is a major employer in IT and consulting.
Agentic AI is the next evolutionary step beyond generative AI. While ChatGPT answers questions, agentic AI independently performs tasks — it plans, makes decisions, controls software, and executes multi-step processes without human intervention. In the corporate world, this means something like a "digital colleague" that takes over routine operations and allows people to focus on more complex problems.
Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture, said last year that AI is the biggest transformational opportunity for business since the advent of the internet. And the new May announcements confirm this strategy.
RIX Business Partners: Mitsubishi Chemical entrusts administration to AI
The first of the announced alliances is the joint venture RIX Business Partners between Accenture and Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. This joint venture will focus on streamlining domestic corporate operations and administrative services within the Mitsubishi Chemical Group.
In practice, this means that agentic AI will take over routine tasks such as invoice processing, HR process management, internal reporting, or logistics coordination across various divisions of the chemical giant. Mitsubishi Chemical thus gains access to Accenture's technological expertise, while Accenture builds a reference project that it can offer to other industrial clients.
For context: Japanese corporations have long faced the problem of an aging population and labor shortages. In this environment, agentic AI is not just a matter of efficiency but a strategic necessity.
Aera Technology: An agentic brain for supply chains
Accenture Ventures — the company's investment arm — entered into the startup Aera Technology. It develops a platform for so-called agentic decision intelligence, which analyzes enterprise data in real time and autonomously makes operational decisions.
Aera operates on the principle of "understand, recommend, act, learn." The platform continuously scans company systems (ERP, SCM, CRM), identifies risks and opportunities, and either suggests solutions to humans or autonomously executes them. A typical example: the system detects that a certain product's stock will run out in Germany due to a competitor's outage, and automatically redirects excess inventory from Santiago to São Paulo, saving $22.1 million in working capital.
For Accenture, this investment is a logical step — the firm already has deep relationships with clients in the consumer goods and pharmaceutical sectors. If Aera's solution can be scaled successfully, it will strengthen Accenture's position in large transformation programs and help address risks associated with slower customer decision-making cycles.
Amadeus: AI is transforming travel, advertising, and supply chains
Amadeus is one of the world's largest travel technology platforms — it manages flight bookings, hotel reservations, and other travel services for airlines, hotels, and travel agencies worldwide. The deepening of the collaboration with Accenture aims at integrating agentic AI across advertising, supply chains, and software development.
What does this mean in practice? Imagine a travel agency that needs to dynamically adjust its marketing campaign based on current flight occupancy, weather at destinations, and competitor pricing. Agentic AI led by Accenture and Amadeus would handle this automatically and in real time, without the need for a human planner. Similarly, AI agents could optimize airline catering logistics or predict disruptions in fuel supply chains.
Replit: Agentic software development as a service
Replit is a platform that democratizes software creation. Its AI agent can convert natural language into a functional application — a phenomenon known as vibe coding. The collaboration with Accenture suggests that the consulting giant wants to offer this technology to corporate clients as part of its agentic AI solutions.
For companies, this means the potential to dramatically shorten software development cycles. Instead of months-long development of an internal application, agentic AI on the Replit platform could generate prototypes within hours and production code within days. This is a crucial competitive advantage at a time when demand for software developers dramatically exceeds supply.
According to Accenture, this collaboration is part of a broader strategy to connect agentic AI with software development across the entire lifecycle — from design through coding to operations.
What this means for Czech companies
Accenture has a significant presence in the Czech Republic — it employs thousands of people here in IT services, consulting, and outsourcing. The new agentic alliances therefore have direct relevance for the Czech market.
First, technologies like Aera Technology or the Replit platform are highly likely to reach the Czech branches of global companies for which Accenture works. Second, Czech companies — especially those in manufacturing and logistics — may be among the first to use agentic AI in supply chains, as Accenture actively offers its AI services in the Central European region.
From a broader European perspective, it is significant that these alliances are emerging at a time when the EU is introducing the AI Act. Accenture, as a global player, will have to bring all agentic solutions into compliance with European regulation, which indirectly benefits European customers as well — they will receive technology that is designed from the outset with a stricter regulatory framework in mind.
According to analysts, Accenture has the potential to reach revenues of $85.6 billion by 2029, with agentic AI expected to be the main driver of this growth. Companies that want to keep pace should start exploring how to integrate agentic AI into their own processes — not in five years, but ideally this year.
What is the difference between generative AI and agentic AI?
Generative AI (such as ChatGPT or Claude) creates text, images, or code based on input — it is a "smart tool" that responds to commands. Agentic AI goes a step further: it independently plans, makes decisions, and performs multi-step tasks without the need for constant human guidance. A typical agentic AI system, for example, detects on its own that there is a risk of inventory shortage, finds an alternative supplier, and places an order — all without human intervention.
How does Accenture make money from agentic AI?
Accenture combines several business models. In joint ventures like RIX Business Partners, it shares revenues from AI solution operations. In investments like Aera Technology, it profits from the growth in the startup's value while also integrating these technologies into services for its clients. And in alliances like Amadeus and Replit, it charges consulting fees for the implementation, integration, and management of agentic AI systems.
Are agentic AI solutions available for smaller companies too, or only for corporations?
Large corporate projects currently dominate, but the trend is moving toward democratization. Platforms like Replit already enable smaller companies and individuals to create software using AI agents at relatively low costs. Moreover, Accenture is working on scalable solutions that could become available to mid-sized companies as well. Within a 2-3 year horizon, agentic AI can be expected to become a common part of business tools even outside the corporate world.
