Cognizant to Deploy 1,000 Context Engineers for AI Advancement

August 29, 2025
Cognizant has announced a strategic initiative to deploy 1,000 context engineers, powered by Workfabric AI's ContextFabric platform, to enhance agentic AI solutions across industries.

Cognizant has announced a strategic initiative to deploy 1,000 context engineers over the next year, announced in a press release. This effort aims to industrialize agentic AI across enterprises by leveraging the ContextFabric platform from Workfabric AI.

The ContextFabric platform transforms organizational knowledge into actionable context for AI agents, enabling them to reason, act, and adapt in alignment with enterprise goals. This initiative marks a significant investment in the emerging discipline of context engineering, which is crucial for AI systems to operate effectively and securely at scale.

Cognizant's context engineers will focus on capturing enterprise knowledge, managing the context lifecycle, and building integration pipelines. They will also design context blueprints and templates for industry-specific use cases, aiming to deliver trusted, enterprise-grade outcomes. This approach is expected to enhance solution quality and accelerate time-to-value across various industries.

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