# Adept

> Adept builds visual AI agents that carry out multistep work in existing business software. Founded in 2022, it raised $415 million, introduced ACT-1 and later narrowed its focus to enterprise agent technology after a 2024 licensing and hiring agreement with Amazon.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** David Luan (Co-founder and founding CEO), Niki Parmar (Co-founder and founding CTO), Ashish Vaswani (Co-founder and founding chief scientist)
- **Products:** ACT-1, Adept Experiments / Workflows, Fuyu-8B, Adept Agents and Adept Workflow Language
- **Notable:** Raised $415 million across 2022 and 2023 funding announcements., Introduced ACT-1 action model in 2022., Released Fuyu-8B as an open multimodal model in 2023.

## Products & services

- **ACT-1** — Action Transformer research model demonstrated using a browser to click, type and scroll from natural language requests.
- **Adept Experiments / Workflows** — Early access web workflow builder using ACT-2, visual screen understanding and user supervision.
- **Fuyu-8B** — Openly released multimodal model for digital agents and screen understanding.
- **Adept Agents and Adept Workflow Language** — Enterprise agent system with a JavaScript subset for prescribing or delegating visual web actions.

## Achievements

- Raised $415 million across 2022 and 2023 funding announcements.
- Introduced ACT-1 action model in 2022.
- Released Fuyu-8B as an open multimodal model in 2023.
- Reported enterprise workflows spanning dozens of steps in production in 2024.
- Announced SOC 2 Type 1 compliance in 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2024-08** — Published Adept Agents and Adept Workflow Language, showing controlled and natural language web automations.
- **2024-06** — Shifted focus to agentic AI solutions; Amazon licensed technology and hired cofounders and some staff; Zach Brock became CEO.
- **2024-05** — Announced SOC 2 Type 1 compliance, effective March 2024.

## Links

- Website: https://www.adept.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adeptai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/AdeptAILabs

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