BOSTON, Sept. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AceUp, an AI-powered leadership coaching platform built to drive enterprise performance, today unveiled Ally 3.0 to introduce AI-powered connected coaching to the workplace. Ally is the only AI coaching agent with contextual knowledge on individual users, their immediate teams, and their organizations, empowering employees to reach their full potential at work. From giving feedback and leading change to coaching teammates and improving performance, Ally helps employees at every level build the skills and behaviors that support team goals and measurable business outcomes, directly in the flow of work (Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Slack and beyond).
AI has become transformative for society, now integrated into nearly every facet of everyday life, including work. According to McKinsey, 92% of companies plan to invest more in AI, while a recent Gallup survey reports that 47% of U.S. employees say their organization has integrated AI tools. While AI adoption continues to be a corporate priority, these roadmaps face challenges at the managerial level – research from Writer reports that 79% of organizations face adoption challenges and only 35% of employees would call their manager an AI champion, demonstrating a gap between leadership expectations of AI and its actual impact on the employee experience. Moreover, managers lack the coaching to upskill their teams and support them in integrating AI into their day-to-day tasks, which is critical to driving adoption at scale.
AceUp created Ally with the goal of delivering world-class coaching at organizational scale, a professional coaching tool traditionally exclusive to C-suite executives and senior leaders. By integrating AI into the employee-coach relationship, Ally reduces adoption challenges and provides organizations with always-on, evergreen professional development for every employee, strengthening leadership potential and collaboration so entire workforces move in alignment toward the same business goals.
“We believe that human skill development will determine more than the success of organizations in the AI era. To make it a competitive edge, democratizing executive-level coaching to employees at every level is critical, and ongoing AI advancements are making it possible to turn this into a reality as we reimagine what the modern workplace looks like,” said Will Guillaume Foussier, CEO and Co-Founder of AceUp. “Ally is already bringing this to life today, introducing a new standard for company culture where humans and AI work in tandem, and every employee’s potential is maximized in a way that’s meaningful for them, their teammates, and their organization.”
Elevating a Connected Coaching Culture with Ally 3.0
AceUp spent years working with enterprise leaders, credentialed coaches, industrial-organizational psychologists, behavioral scientists, and coachees to create a coaching solution that’s accessible at every professional level, integrated throughout the entire workflow, and ensures coaching conversations make a lasting impact beyond an individual session or standalone event.
Enter Ally: a unified coaching experience that combines human coaching, AI, and a proprietary memory system to ensure professional growth travels from the user to their teams, and throughout the organizations they work for – an approach AceUp calls the ITO (Individual, Team, and Organizational) Framework. Unlike most coaching tools that treat queries as separate events, Ally’s memory retains individuals’ journeys so coaching remains relevant and ongoing, acting as a true end-to-end career advisor that delivers coaching, always-on support, practice exercises, reflection, and follow-through.
Ally 3.0 amplifies these capabilities, incorporating new features that deepen the platform’s understanding of an individual’s trajectory within their company and ability to act on it in the moment:
- One Home for Coaching: The end-to-end coaching experience combines insights from human coaching programs, AI coaching, roleplay, awareness, and team goal-setting into a single interface, mitigating the need for separate products with siloed histories and ensuring continued guidance at any time, anywhere in the workflow.
- A Coaching Memory That Helps People Grow: AceUp’s proprietary memory system retains the context that matters most for development and productivity, from personal goals an individual is working toward to the patterns that keep appearing and must be urgently addressed.
- Personal to the Person and the Work Around Them: Unlike typical coaching providers that claim to ingest a company’s leadership language, company priorities, and expectations of its people Ally takes this a step further, adding an additional focus on team goals and business outcomes so coaching feels native to the organization rather than generic, branded advice. The result: a multi-tier, connected personalization funnel for each individual that allows users to put learning into practice anywhere in their workflow using various modes such as roleplaying for difficult conversations, testing new approaches, practicing responses, reflection on events, and support on deciding the appropriate action the moment a team disagreement, challenging feedback, or derailment takes place.
- Trust Woven Into Design: Ally is built for enterprise requirements around security, privacy, access, and governance. An orchestration layer that routes between coaching conversations and direct guidance with continuous safety oversight and a built-in path for human intervention helps protect the privacy of individual coaching sessions while giving organizations the information they need to understand participation, common themes, and program-level progress without unrestricted access to private conversations.
Major organizations and enterprises have already deployed Ally to better align their teams toward business outcomes, improve data-driven decision making for company culture, and unveil hidden leadership potential for talent pipelines. Customers include Wiley Publishing, IBM, Fidelity Investments, John Deere, BNP Paribas, and more.
“Coaching is an incredibly valuable asset for any organization, but learning insights start to dim after every session as people get pulled back into the vortex of their daily demands,” said Dave Smolski, Director of Leadership Development at Wiley. “We deployed Ally to ensure learning is ongoing and real, tangible progress is long-term. Whether Ally is being used by a manager to roleplay difficult conversations, a direct report practicing talking points before meeting with their boss, or leaders are challenged in their way of thinking, it’s had a purposeful impact on our culture, fostering a new sense of curiosity, learning, and action at every level.”
To learn more about Ally, visit https://aceup.com/.
About AceUp
AceUp is the Leadership Transformation Engine, global provider of AI-powered leadership coaching solutions designed to drive Enterprise performance. Grounded in scientific research, AceUp helps organizations scale personalized leadership development solutions tailored to the context and goals of individuals and teams at every level of the organization. We combine 1-on-1 Leadership Coaching, Team Coaching, and AI-Coaching with Ally 3.0, our proprietary behavioral intelligence engine, to enable leadership upskilling connected to critical business outcomes in the flow of work (Slack, Microsoft Teams/365, Google Workspace). Our clients include L'Oreal, IBM, Teradyne, Veolia, John Deere, Airbnb, and OpenAI. AceUp was named one of the fastest-growing private companies by Inc. Magazine and featured on the Inc. 5000 list from 2022 to 2026.
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