Millions of people across the world are tracked, monitored, and surveilled by state actors. But few are familiar with one of the system’s key architects: Accenture.

Known as the world’s largest consultancy firm, Accenture makes a fortune developing the apparatus of state control. Accenture specialises in advanced biometric databases and predictive policing that has been adopted by governments from India to Israel, the United States, to the United Kingdom.

Together, Accenture’s global operations put everyone’s freedom at risk.

This week, the Progressive International, Expose Accenture and the Movement Research Unit released the Accenture Files, revealing the central role of the world’s largest consultancy in the global right-ward turn towards surveillance, exclusion, and strong-men: The Reactionary International.

Based on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and a comprehensive review of internal documents, our investigation demonstrates how Accenture has quietly embedded itself deep into the apparatus of security states worldwide, deploying its vast network of resources, wealth and technology to surveil entire populations, fuel the military-industrial complex and channel immense public wealth to private hands.

Our research — spanning over 40 contract case studies across North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia — reveals that Accenture has joined forces with some of the world’s most notorious tech surveillance giants to advance an agenda of extraction, exploitation and oppression. We discovered, for example, that the firm has joined forces with Peter Thiel’s Palantir to ensure their influence stretches right to the centre of government. In Britain, this partnership has already seen the companies secure a contract worth almost £500 million with the National Health Service, accelerating the institution’s privatisation by some of the world’s largest multinational outfits.

Such contracts, however, are just one example of how Accenture is empowered to shape the world around us. From biometric databases which catalogue billions of people to predictive policing algorithms that target individuals before they’ve committed any crime, our research identifies Accenture as central to the operation of the world’s reactionary forces.

However, our investigation uncovered gaping cracks in Accenture’s operation, long concealed by a thin veneer of corporate legitimacy. Connecting the dots in the firm’s global activity, we found a catalogue of scandal and failure. Our research studies the myriad of lucrative contracts which Accenture has won from governments around the world to reveal a consistent pattern of bid-rigging, corruption and neglect. Never before have these ties to the world’s states been collated in such a manner.

Operating in the shadows, Accenture has escaped accountability and evaded public scrutiny for far too long. This week, we initiate the process of bringing their nefarious activities and nebulous relationships to light.

The Accenture Files offer an invitation to whistleblowers, journalists and policymakers to pull back the curtain on one of the least scrutinised components of the Reactionary International.

Explore the files and get ready to take action here.