[ About Acorn ]
About Us
Senior engineers, sent in first.
A small senior team arrives first. They learn your systems, your data and the people who will run what we build, then stand the system up in your environment so your own people can run it.
The consulting team and the platform are one company.
Talk to us[ The platform ]
Four letters, and what each one does.
Each letter of Acorn names one thing the platform does, and every feature sits under exactly one of them. The bottom row is what the system knows. The top row is what runs on it.
Connect sits bottom-left and is filled in, because the other three run on the company's data.
Automate
Agents and workflows that act inside your stack.
Observe
Evals, monitoring and guardrails, run on every change.
Connect
Ingest, sync, match and govern the data the other three use.
Reason
Models, enrichment, prediction and decisions.
[ How we work ]
A senior team arrives first.
- 01
Learn the account.
A small senior team arrives first and learns your systems, your data and the people who will run what we build.
- 02
Stand the system up.
We connect the data, get an agent working, and put evals on it, inside your environment.
- 03
Hand it to your team.
Your people and your other platforms run on that system. We leave the code, the runbooks and the evals.
[ The name ]
The Navy unit the name comes from.
In the Pacific during the Second World War, the U.S. Navy needed airfields faster than islands could be taken. Its answer was a packaged unit of people and equipment, designated ACORN, that could be dropped onto newly won ground and have an airstrip running before the next wave arrived.
“An organization of men and equipment designated to construct rapidly and operate an air base or to repair and operate a captured enemy airfield.”
The units that followed carried no tools of their own. They used the Acorn's kit. We take that job: a team and a platform, in your environment, that stays until your people are running the system.
[ Acorn to oak ]
A small unit went in first. Your team runs what it leaves.
The Navy's naming was a growth metaphor from the start. Major airfields were Oaks; minor, single-runway ones were Acorns. An Acorn was the unit that went in first. An Oak was the airfield it became.
After we leave, your people run the system and ship the next change on it.