Ascendion is a U.S.-based AI-first software engineering and digital consulting firm, founded in 2022 by Karthik Krishnamurthy and headquartered in New Jersey. With a global footprint spanning over 40 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia, and a workforce of approximately 11,000 employees, the firm helps Fortune 2000 enterprises build, deploy, and scale AI-powered software solutions. Their services include applied AI, platform and product engineering, data and quality engineering, and experience design—underpinned by proprietary tools like the AVA+ platform and "AI Arbitrage" models. In 2025, Ascendion partnered with Axos Bank to modernize high-net-worth banking services through its generative AI-powered Zenith platform. The company has also been recognized as a “Market Leader for Generative Enterprise Services (2025)” and “Enterprise Innovator for Digital Engineering” (2023) by HFS Horizons.