ACI.dev

ACI.dev is an applied AI lab that builds custom automation systems for professional and financial services firms, delivered as fixed-scope engagements rather than a self-serve product. The team scopes a specific high-value workflow, builds a narrow automation system over roughly 8-12 weeks, and then hands it off either as a self-hosted perpetual license or as an ongoing managed service. Example workflows referenced on its site include extracting and analyzing financial statements for private credit underwriting, structuring competitor filings and press releases into ongoing competitive intelligence, and automating audit workpaper preparation with tie-outs and document references. These point to a focus on document-heavy, compliance-adjacent tasks in finance and professional services rather than general-purpose AI assistance. ACI.dev also maintains an open-source component: its documentation and GitHub repository describe an embedded tool-calling and unified MCP (Model Context Protocol) server platform that connects AI agents to business applications such as Slack, Gmail, and Zendesk with built-in authentication and natural-language permission controls. It is unclear from the current site how this open-source tooling relates to the paid engagement business, since the homepage and documentation describe what read as two distinct offerings under the same domain.