01st October 2026, London, United Kingdom - QualityAI has been named a Leader in the Everest Group Quality Engineering Services for AI Applications and Systems PEAK Matrix® Assessment2026, marking the company’s first Leader recognition specifically in the AI applications and systems category and building on its repeat Leader positioning with Everest Group.
QualityAI has been positioned in the Leader category alongside some of the world’s largest technology and consulting organizations, including Cognizant, Infosys, Accenture, Wipro, Capgemini, TCS, and HCLTech. For a specialist quality engineering business, the recognition provides important independent validation of the capabilities QualityAI has built around AI quality engineering and assurance.
“It’s an incredibly proud moment for QualityAI to be recognized as a leader in quality engineering services for AI applications and systems. Over our almost 30-year history, we have built up the expertise and partnerships to help organizations launch new technologies with confidence.
Now that AI is at the forefront of enterprise transformation, we are leaning on that heritage to simplify the complicated path to AI adoption, and engineer systems that are resilient and trustworthy.”
– Andrew Duncan, CEO, QualityAI
As enterprises move AI from experimentation into production, the questions around quality are becoming more demanding. Organizations need confidence not only that AI systems work, but that they are reliable, governed, secure, compliant, and capable of delivering expected outcomes in real-world environments.
QualityAI brings a specialist focus to this challenge, combining deep quality engineering expertise with capabilities across AI assurance, AI testing, responsible AI, and quality engineering for increasingly complex AI applications and systems. The company helps enterprises address quality and reliability across the AI lifecycle and move toward governed, production-ready deployment.
“As enterprises move AI from experimentation to scaled production, quality engineering is evolving beyond traditional testing to address the probabilistic, dynamic, and increasingly autonomous nature of AI systems. This is driving demand for assurance approaches that combine reliability, responsible AI, security, resilience, and continuous monitoring across the AI lifecycle. QualityAI emerges as a Leader in Everest Group’s Quality Engineering (QE) Services for AI Applications and Systems PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026, supported by its specialized AI assurance capabilities spanning predictive, perceptive, generative AI, and agentic systems. Its COCO intelligent testing platform provides a differentiated foundation for orchestrating AI assurance and agentic QE across the testing lifecycle, while its experience across multimodal and physical AI further broadens the ability to address emerging enterprise AI assurance requirements.”
– Ankit Gupta, Vice President at Everest Group
The recognition comes at an important stage in the evolution of enterprise AI, as organizations increasingly look beyond what AI can do to whether it can be trusted to operate reliably at scale. For QualityAI, the recognition reinforces its focus on helping enterprises make AI reliable enough to deploy, govern, and scale with confidence.
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