# Accorded

> Accorded is a San Francisco-based healthcare actuarial intelligence company that pairs actuarial expertise with software to simplify and scale value-based contracting. Its platform helps payers, providers, and digital-health companies forecast, contract around, and validate the financial value of care across the value-based contracting lifecycle. Founded in 2019 (originally as Cerebrae) by health actuary Frank Cheung and engineer Thomas Bedington, the company's flagship product, Acumen, turns raw claims, eligibility, and engagement data into standardized, actuarially rigorous, ready-to-use data assets so analytics teams can spend less time wrangling data and more time on strategy.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Frank Cheung (Co-Founder & CEO), Thomas Bedington (Co-Founder, CTO & Head of Product)
- **Team size:** Approximately 24-25 employees (LinkedIn lists the 11-50 band)
- **Products:** Accorded Acumen, Value-Based Contracting Platform, Actuarial Advisory Services
- **Notable:** Rebranded from Cerebrae to Accorded in October 2022, with a new identity symbolizing stakeholders finding 'accord'., Launched the Accorded Acumen actuarial data transformation platform in 2024., Raised roughly $16.5M, including a Series A led by StepStone Group.

## Products & services

- **Accorded Acumen** — The flagship actuarial data transformation platform (launched 2024) that turns claims, eligibility, and engagement data into standardized, actuarially rigorous, ready-to-use value-based care data assets - letting analytics teams run scalable actuarial and medical-economics analysis in-house instead of relying on outside consultants.
- **Value-Based Contracting Platform** — Software plus bundled actuarial services spanning the contracting lifecycle: opportunity development (sizing cost savings and clinical impact against 1B+ reference claims), contract design (modeling covered services, attribution, benchmarks, and payment terms), and performance evaluation (a shared data repository to monitor contracts against benchmarks).
- **Actuarial Advisory Services** — In-house actuarial and solution-consultant expertise bundled with the software subscription, helping digital-health providers, payers, and employers move into and operate risk-based arrangements.

## Achievements

- Rebranded from Cerebrae to Accorded in October 2022, with a new identity symbolizing stakeholders finding 'accord'.
- Launched the Accorded Acumen actuarial data transformation platform in 2024.
- Raised roughly $16.5M, including a Series A led by StepStone Group.
- Built a value-based contracting engine on a reference base of over 1 billion claims.

## Latest updates

- **2022-10** — Cerebrae rebrands to Accorded, reflecting its focus on helping healthcare stakeholders reach accord on value-based contracts.
- **2024-06** — Launch of Accorded Acumen, an actuarial data transformation platform for value-based care analytics.
- **2024-05** — Frank Cheung appears on The Healthcare Grind podcast discussing health plan medical economics.
- **2024-09** — Frank Cheung featured on the Rosenman Institute's Health Technology Podcast.
- **2025-04** — Frank Cheung featured in 'Actuarial Science Meets Healthcare Innovation' interview.

## Links

- Website: https://www.accorded.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/accorded
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/AccordedInc

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