Syndio, the Decision Intelligence for Pay company, announced the acquisition of Embrace.ai, an agentic AI company built to deploy AI-driven automation across business workflows. The full Embrace.ai team, led by founders and enterprise software veterans Derek Butts and Seth Halpern, will join Syndio’s product and go-to-market organization. The acquisition bolsters the Syndio team with deep experience across enterprise human capital management (HCM), large-scale software platforms, and AI-native product development.

The Embrace.ai team joins Syndio at a pivotal moment. Syndio's AI-powered Decision Intelligence for Pay platform is already helping global enterprises analyze, govern, and improve pay decisions at scale. This acquisition brings an AI-forward team with direct experience building enterprise-grade agentic systems to accelerate that work and meet customer demand for pay governance solutions.

"Pay decisions are among the most important decisions a company makes, and they require AI that understands the domain, data, and governance expectations of the enterprise," said Maria Colacurcio, CEO of Syndio. "The Embrace.ai team was built around exactly that principle. They bring a governance-first approach to enterprise AI and deep operating experience helping organizations configure, control, and deploy AI agents with appropriate guardrails. That expertise will help us move significantly faster as we build the next generation of pay intelligence."

"We are excited to combine what we learned at Embrace.ai, building and delivering an AI-native platform, with Syndio’s leadership in driving pay decisions for global enterprises," said Embrace.ai’s Derek Butts. "Every pay decision carries consequences for the employee and the employer, so AI has to be accurate, understand deep context, and support, not replace, human judgment. Syndio understands that deeply, and I'm excited to help accelerate the work to build a platform where AI guides pay decisions with rigor and accountability.”