Kin + Carta announced an intellectual property acquisition of Octain, a cloud-based, automated machine learning platform. This investment furthers Kin + Carta's data and AI service line capabilities to build predictive, explainable models for clients that will accelerate data-driven decision making and digital transformation outcomes. Octain enables users to build and iterate predictive, explainable models.

As a result of incorporating Octain into Kin + Carta's existing solution set, which includes the December 2020 acquisition of Portland-based data science company Cascade Data Labs, the consultancy gains the ability to quickly and accurately predict supply chain shortages, detect fraud, measure customer retention, and related capabilities for client projects, significantly improving overall time to value for clients.