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NEW YORK, NY, August 25, 2025 — Accrete, the dual-use enterprise AI company whose Knowledge Engine platform autonomously transforms organizational expertise, fragmented software systems, and siloed data into superintelligent AI agents that can be trusted to make complex decisions, today announced that retired four-star U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone has joined the company as a strategic advisor to its Board of Directors.
General Nakasone is widely recognized as a leading authority on information operations and cybersecurity. Nakasone is the longest-serving commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and concurrently led the NSA, where he directed signals intelligence operations and cybersecurity initiatives. His operational experience spans assignments in the United States, the Republic of Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan. General Nakasone currently serves on the boards of OpenAI, Neuberger Berman Mutual Funds, WitnessAI and leads Vanderbilt University's Institute of National Security.
“Today’s adversaries have been weaponizing information and targeting viral narratives to influence the will, perception, and behavior of U.S. citizens as effectively as they have been weaponizing malware. The United States has been reactive in its response to these influence campaigns due to the complexity of information and the limitations of reasoning and outdated software tools until now. Accrete’s Knowledge Engines enable AI Agents to detect, deter, and counter hostile influence campaigns at superhuman speed and scale, and give the United States a decision advantage in gray zone cognitive warfare. I’m excited to help accelerate these critical capabilities and out-pace malign actors in this new era of information warfare,” said General Nakasone.
In his new role, General Nakasone will advise Accrete on product development, go-to- market strategy, and information security with an emphasis on trust, safety, and ethics.
“Information complexity represents one of the greatest threats to national security. Soon, humans will not be able to discern truth and reality and that is going to make it impossible for people to understand the world and make effective decisions. This problem scales in organizations because they are stifled by siloed information, fragmented software systems, bureaucratic processes, and knowledge loss caused by employee turnover. LLMs are powerful as an interface, but incomplete because they can’t autonomously discover relationships in siloed data.
To create reliable retrieval-augmented search systems, humans must continuously define entity relationships, and perform the impossible task of constantly updating, normalizing, integrating, and validating siloed information. In order to prevail in information warfare, we need to transcend search and move into the realm of decision advantage.
AI agents must be able to autonomously discover and reason across relationships in dynamically-changing siloed data using experiential or tacit human expertise as the grounding to create new knowledge and insight that can be trusted. This type of knowledge generation can’t be searched for because it’s not explicit in the training text.
Bad actors are working hard to exploit reasoning vulnerabilities by leveraging AI to spread viral disinformation and weaken institutions. Accrete’s Knowledge Engines ground LLMs in the first principles of an organization's experience, standards, values, and ethics to capture and scale reasoning capacity and that is the key to overcoming information complexity and winning in gray zone cognitive warfare.
General Nakasone understands better than anyone the uniqueness of the challenges faced by the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community. Under General Nakasone’s guidance, we will fortify national security and emerge victorious.” said Prashant Bhuyan, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Accrete, Inc.
Accrete’s Knowledge Engines are already enabling customers including the U.S. Department of Defense, and Fortune 100 corporations to proactively combat information and economic warfare. Accrete’s AI agents have been employed to detect, deter, and counter influence campaigns waged by foreign adversaries; identify foreign influence risk within the supply chain; and prevent the exploitation of IT vulnerabilities.
Underlying these specific use cases is Accrete’s AI Knowledge Engine platform, Accrete’s core product offering. Accrete’s platform consolidates software, services, expertise, and operating procedures into a “single pane of glass” or “one tool to rule them all.” This single pane of glass represents an organization’s digital mind, a continuously-learning Knowledge Engine with persistent memory that enables organizations to generate artifacts as simple as reports or presentations, and as complex as agents that can make complex decisions and carry out actions. Accrete’s platform enables organizations to become more competitive by solving the universal growing problem of ‘tool fatigue’ and ‘knowledge loss’ caused by employee turnover.
Key members of Accrete's team, which is comprised of Intelligence and Military veterans, said of the Nakasone appointment:
“General Nakasone’s addition to the Accrete team greatly deepens our ability to engage with senior leaders in the intelligence and national security space to bring cutting-edge, AI-powered agentic solutions to the analytic workforce and the senior decision-makers they support. In particular, General Nakasone’s vote of confidence in Accrete’s solutions and team, expressed by his joining the board as a senior strategic advisor, will invigorate how we compete in the information operations and influence space to bring much needed capability to a growing problem associated with cognitive warfare. His expertise in understanding the needs and requirements of customers in the national security space will be a great complement to our quickly-expanding capabilities to empower and underwrite national security activities,” said Bill Wall, CEO of Accrete AI Government LLC (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Accrete, Inc.) and former Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel.
"The unprecedented influence of General Paul M. Nakasone (Ret.) on the enhancements to traditional intelligence fusion methods with agentic AI cannot be understated. His keen awareness of the untapped potential of the U.S. Intelligence Community's use of agentic AI is extremely valuable to Accrete,” stated Jim Swart, Accrete’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), former NSA cyber warfare officer and retired Marine.
"As a Vanderbilt alum, I am especially excited about the opportunity for alignment and thought partnership between Accrete and Vanderbilt’s Institute of National Security. General Nakasone’s role with both organizations reflects our shared belief that the nation’s most urgent security challenges must be met with speed, creativity, and resilience," said Mariah Smith, Accrete Director of Operations, and Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel.
About General Paul M. Nakasone, U.S. Army (Retired)
General Paul M. Nakasone, a retired U.S. Army four-star general, serves as the Founding Director of Vanderbilt University's Institute of National Security. From 2018 to 2024, General Nakasone led U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, overseeing national cyber defense and global signals intelligence operations. A career military leader with more than three decades of experience, he has commanded at all levels, with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and has held key intelligence and joint staff roles. A recognized authority on cyber operations and national security, General Nakasone continues to advance dialogue and research on emerging global security challenges, inspiring innovation and leadership in this critical field.
About Accrete
Accrete is a dual-use AI company founded in 2017 to create agents for decision automation to power autonomous enterprises with zero knowledge loss. Deployed across the Department of Defense, U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, CFIUS and Fortune 500 enterprises, Accrete’s agents give customers the decision edge in mission critical environments. Accrete, Inc. is headquartered in Lower Manhattan with offices in Alexandria, Virginia and Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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