Jeff Schumacher, architect behind the groundbreaking AI solution, to steer EY Growth Platforms
Ernst & Young LLP (EY) announced the launch of EY Growth Platforms (EYGP), a disruptive artificial intelligence (AI) solution powered by neurosymbolic AI. By combining machine learning with logical reasoning, EYGP empowers organizations to uncover transformative growth opportunities and revolutionize their commercial models for profitability. The neurosymbolic AI workflows that power EY Growth Platforms consistently uncover hundred-million-dollar+ growth opportunities for global enterprises, with the potential to enhance revenue.
This represents a rapid development in enterprise technology—where generative AI and neurosymbolic AI combine to redefine how businesses create value. This convergence empowers enterprises to reimagine growth at impactful scale, producing outcomes that are traceable, trustworthy, and statistically sound.
EYGP serves as a powerful accelerator for the innovative work at EY-Parthenon, helping clients with their most complex strategic opportunities to realize greater value and transform their business, by reimagining their business from the ground up—including building and scaling new corporate ventures, or executing high-stakes transactions.
“In today’s uncertain economic climate, leading companies aren’t just adapting—they’re taking control,” says Mitch Berlin, EY Americas Vice Chair, EY-Parthenon. “EY Growth Platforms gives our clients the predictive power and actionable foresight they need to confidently steer their revenue trajectory. EY Growth Platforms is a game changer, poised to become the backbone of enterprise growth.”
How EY Growth Platforms work
Neurosymbolic AI merges the statistical power of neural networks with the structured logic of symbolic reasoning, driving powerful pattern recognition to deliver predictions and decisions that are practical, actionable and grounded in real-world outcomes. EYGP harnesses this powerful technology to simulate real-time market scenarios and their potential impact, uncovering the most effective business strategies tailored to each client. It expands beyond the limits of generative AI, becoming a growth operating system for companies to tackle complex go-to-market challenges and unlock scalable revenue.
At the core of EYGP is a unified data and reasoning engine that ingests structured and unstructured data from internal systems, external signals, and deep EY experience and data sets. Developed over three years, this robust solution is already powering proprietary AI applications and intelligent workflows for EY-Parthenon clients across the consumer product goods, industrials and financial services sectors without the need for extensive data cleaning or digital transformation.
Use cases for EY Growth Platforms
With the ability to operate in complex high-stakes scenarios, EYGP is driving a measurable impact across industries such as:
- Financial services: In a tightly regulated industry, transparency and accountability are nonnegotiable. Neurosymbolic AI enhances underwriting, claims processing and compliance with transparency and rigor, validating that decisions are aligned with regulatory standards and optimized for customer outcomes.
- Consumer products: Whether powering real-time recommendations, adaptive interfaces or location-aware services, neurosymbolic AI drives hyperpersonalized experiences at a one-to-one level. By combining learned patterns with structured knowledge, it delivers precise, context-rich insights tailored to individual behavior, preferences and environments.
- Industrial products: Neurosymbolic AI helps industrial conglomerates optimize the entire value chain — from sourcing and production to distribution and service. By integrating structured domain knowledge with real-time operational data, it empowers leaders to make smarter decisions — from facility placement and supply routing to workforce allocation tailored to specific geographies and market-specific conditions.
The platform launch follows the appointment of Jeff Schumacher as the EYGP Leader for EY-Parthenon. Schumacher brings over 25 years of experience in business strategy, innovation and digital disruption, having helped establish over 100 early growth companies. He is the founder of neurosymbolic AI company, Growth Protocol, the technology that EY has exclusive licensing agreement with.
“Neurosymbolic AI is not another analytics tool, it’s a growth engine,” says Jeff Schumacher, EY Growth Platforms Leader, EY-Parthenon. “With EY Growth Platforms, we’re putting a dynamic, AI-powered operating system in the hands of leaders, giving them the ability to rewire how their companies make money. This isn’t incremental improvement; it’s a complete reset of the commercial model.”
EYGP is currently offered in North America, Europe, and Australia. For more information, visit ey.com/NeurosymbolicAI.
