The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT), an ROI-led, expert-driven, platform-enabled enterprise transformation firm, announced XT™ Version 2 – the next generation of its AI-powered platform that integrates Hackett process and performance benchmark intelligence with client-specific context to accelerate enterprise transformation. XT™ enables The Hackett Group^® experts to more rapidly assess a client’s current-state performance, operating model, business processes, technology landscape, and capabilities and maturity to create a future-state vision and develop an actionable, ROI-driven transformation roadmap, bringing unprecedented speed and rigor to client engagements.

At the core of XT™ is the Hackett Solution Language Model (SLM), which uses the Hackett Intelligence layer to augment large language model capabilities with proprietary domain expertise, globally recognized benchmarks, and decades of transformation and software implementation intelligence. The SLM transforms this intelligence into client-specific recommendations and solutions designed to deliver measurable business outcomes and ROI.

XT™ embeds Digital World Class^® and AI World Class™ benchmarks, best-practice process flows, and proven transformation frameworks to create high-impact initiatives. By combining this proprietary intelligence with client-specific context, the expert-led platform provides more credible performance assessments and financially grounded recommendations.

XT™ advances The Hackett Group’s strategy to scale its intellectual property through AI-enabled delivery platforms, strengthening solution differentiation, delivery productivity and operating leverage. XT™ is a client’s strategic entry point to the company’s integrated platform suite, which also includes Hackett AI XPLR^®, AIXelerator™, XDA™ and ZBrain^® in supporting enterprise transformation, software implementation, agentic automation, and data assurance solutions.

“We believe the next phase of enterprise AI adoption will be driven by organizations moving beyond experimentation to comprehensive, ROI-focused transformation initiatives,” said The Hackett Group^® Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ted Fernandez. “Clients are increasingly looking for partners who can help them translate AI transformation opportunities into executable programs with clear business outcomes. XT™ strengthens our ability to capture this growing market opportunity while advancing our transition to a more scalable, platform-enabled business model.”

XT™ uses the Hackett Intelligence layer to execute the engagement across four integrated modules that carry engagement data, analysis and decisions forward through the transformation engagement.

Built for enterprise trust, control and collaboration

XT™ combines AI-enabled delivery with enterprise-grade transparency, human oversight and data protection. AI-generated content is traceable to its source, while finance projections include underlying calculations and assumptions. Consultant review and approval preserve expert judgment and accountability, with version history and audit trails providing additional oversight.

XT™ operates within The Hackett Group’s enterprise-managed AWS environment and connects to private language models. Client data is isolated within engagement environments and not used to train public AI models.

XT™ is available to clients as part of The Hackett Group’s suite of AI platforms.