Frost & Sullivan recognizes Augmentir’s AI-powered platform as a top innovator for its use of AI agents and applied AI to help manufacturers address skilled labor shortages, accelerate workforce upskilling, and improve operational performance.
January 8, 2026 – Augmentir, the world’s only Agentic AI platform for connected work, has been recognized for the second year in a row by Frost & Sullivan as a leader and #1 in innovation in its Frost Radar™: Augmented Connected Worker, End-to-End Platforms, 2025 report.
The Frost Radar™ evaluates vendors across two core dimensions—Innovation and Growth—to identify companies best positioned to drive future market transformation. Augmentir achieved the top innovation ranking for its AI-first approach to connected worker solutions, delivering advanced capabilities across digital work instructions, skills management, real-time guidance, collaboration, and continuous improvement within a single, unified platform.
Why Augmentir is Positioned as a Market Leader
Frost & Sullivan highlights the growing importance of augmented connected worker platforms as manufacturers address skilled labor shortages, accelerate workforce upskilling, and improve operational performance.
Augmentir’s use of AI agents and applied AI to personalize work execution, predict skills gaps, and continuously optimize frontline operations was a key factor in its #1 innovation rating. Frost & Sullivan also identified several differentiators that set Augmentir apart from other ACW providers:
- Augmentir is an AI-first platform, with intelligence embedded across all capabilities to drive operational performance, workforce effectiveness, and continuous improvement—not added as a layer, but core to how the platform delivers value.
- Agent Studio and workforce intelligence leverage AI agents to automate data collection, analyze operations, and track true productivity, performance, and engagement to focus continuous improvement and workforce investments.
- Augie Industrial GenAI serves as a secure work and content assistant—supporting troubleshooting, recommending training, personalizing digital work instructions, and converting manuals, videos, and images into digital workflows.
- Broad use-case coverage across operations, safety, quality, workforce management, and maintenance, with MES, LMS, and ERP integrations delivering a single pane of glass for frontline execution.
- In-workflow workforce development provides personalized guidance, training, and assessment during task execution, while maintaining a real-time skills inventory for capacity planning and shift optimization.
- AR-enabled work guidance maps the shop floor with spatially anchored instructions to reduce training time, accelerate maintenance, and improve quality and compliance.
- Industrial collaboration tools enable remote expert support via live video to speed troubleshooting and reduce downtime.
Pushing the Boundaries of What AI Can Deliver for Frontline Workers
Augmentir addresses a multitude of use cases in its portfolio and has embraced AI as the groundwork upon which its platform is built.
Augmentir’s platform addresses a multitude of use cases that manufacturers require to enhance and expand their operations, with remarkable highlights and leaps in innovation with its AI capabilities, the inclusion of AR technology that is rare among vendors in this analysis, and a comprehensive workforce development approach. This, combined with a focus on practical metrics that have a real impact on operations and the development of a single pane of glass for workers to interact with their daily work make the company a leader on the Frost Radar™ Innovation index.
“This recognition reflects our commitment to pushing the boundaries of what AI can deliver for frontline workers,” said Russ Fadel, CEO and Co-Founder at Augmentir. “Being rated #1 for innovation by Frost & Sullivan validates our mission to transform how industrial work is executed and continuously improved.”
According to Frost & Sullivan:
“Augmentir stands out for its AI-first approach to the augmented connected worker market. Its ability to apply AI across work execution, skills development, collaboration, and continuous improvement, as well as its use of AI agents to optimize frontline operations, positions the platform at the forefront of innovation in this rapidly evolving space.”
The 2025 Frost Radar™: Augmented Connected Worker (End-to-End Platforms) report benchmarks providers on innovation, scalability, customer alignment, R&D effectiveness, and growth execution, spotlighting companies shaping the future of connected frontline work.
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If you’d like to learn more about Augmentir and see how our AI-powered connected worker platform enables Augmented Connected Worker initiatives to improve safety, quality, and productivity across your workforce, schedule a demo with one of our product experts.
