An outsourcing research firm, built on primary evidence.

Akholi is a research-led advisory firm for agentic-era outsourcing, service engagements, and global capability centers, established 13 years ago. Its public authority rests on primary evidence rather than opinion, and on one dataset in particular: the 2026 study of 150 agentic AI outsourcing engagements at Tier 1 financial institutions, told by the 850 people who deliver them.

From that record the firm draws a single governing claim, stated at the strength the evidence supports and no further. In the engagements studied, outcomes track the conditions the buying institution builds rather than the deals it signs. Failure there is institutional in origin rather than technical, and the determinants sit within the institution’s own authority to change. That last clause is the whole posture: the levers are in the institution’s hands. The finding is agency, not fault.

Akholi exists to help boards and C-suites act on it: to diagnose the conditions that decide an engagement, to learn the operating discipline the agentic era demands, and to run the hardest engagements with a firm that has counted the failures. The Report is the evidence. The Academy and the Practice are how institutions put it to work.