We help organizations drive the future of digital trust.

Biometrics · Digital Identity · Deepfakes · Agentic AI

Acuity Market Intelligence works with technology innovators, enterprise leaders, forward-thinking policymakers, and savvy investors to help them anticipate and navigate market disruption at the speed of AI.

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25YEARS
of biometric and digital identity strategic market intelligence and advisory.
The defining challenge of the AI era

Preserving trust when every identity signal can be manipulated

What we do

Transforming innovators into market leaders, and market leaders into category legends.

Innovate, differentiate, and outmaneuver the competition.

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Market Intelligence

Data-driven and research-obsessed, we provide independent and unbiased analysis of where identity and trust markets are headed, not just where they’ve been.

Our approach: Rigorous Intuition. We build from bottom-up data and conservative models, then apply 25 years of market judgment to deliver analysis you can defend in any boardroom.

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Strategic Advisory

We advise on strategic market and business development, competitive positioning, technology adoption, and industry transformation — translating complex technological change into practical business strategy.

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Briefings & Talks

Private executive briefings for leadership teams, boards and investors, plus keynotes and expert panels on digital identity, deepfakes, AI-driven fraud and agentic AI.

Built for your audience. Every briefing and talk is tailored to the people in the room and the decisions in front of them.

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Trusted by industry leaders and innovators
MicrosoftMastercardCapital OneAccentureThalesIDEMIANorthrop GrummanFBIBooz Allen HamiltonNECUnisysBMOFujitsuADPHID GlobaliProovToshibaCIAGemaltoAtosSITACollins AerospaceBattelleNISTParavisionFIDO AlliancePing IdentityAdvent InternationalBioCatchInnovatricsIRIS IDPrinceton IdentityVision-BoxYVR Vancouver AirportIntegrated BiometricsPrecise BiometricsiiDENTIFiiBioConnectEntrustBoon Edam
For 25 years, Acuity has been at the forefront of complex identity technology markets, with a depth of insight that is simply unavailable elsewhere. As agentic AI industrializes fraud, that perspective is more critical than ever for any organization navigating today’s threat landscape.
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Frances Zelazny
General Manager, New Market Innovation, Prove
Market focus

Where trust, identity, and emerging technology collide.

The organizations that thrive in the AI economy will be the ones that can establish, preserve, and scale trust. That’s where we focus.

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Biometrics

From fingerprints to faces to palms, we’ve anticipated every major shift in biometrics for 25 years, with a global reputation for accurate data and forecasts.

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Digital Identity

The trust infrastructure of the AI economy: proving who, or what, is on the other side of every interaction, online and in person.

Deepfakes and Synthetic Identity

AI-driven impersonation, deepfakes, and synthetic identities are rewriting the rules of fraud, security, and trust. We track and anticipate the threats, and identify the defenses that work.

Financial Services

Banks, payments, and fintech are on the front line of AI-driven fraud. We help them navigate the identity and trust technologies that matter, and build long-term resilience.

AI Governance, Privacy and Compliance

Aligning technology, policy, governance, and risk to preserve trust as regulation races to keep up with AI.

Fraud Prevention and Cybersecurity

AI is industrializing fraud at a scale and speed legacy defenses were never built for. Fraud prevention, security, and trust infrastructure now have to work as one.

Agentic AI

When software acts on our behalf, who, or what, is it? Identity, authorization, and accountability for the age of AI agents.

The Acuity Family

One ecosystem for digital trust.

  • Acuity ADVISES.
  • The Prism Project RESEARCHES.
  • The Deepfake Summit CONNECTS.

Together they cover the full arc of digital trust — from research and insight to strategy to the room where problem solvers convene.

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Acuity Market Intelligence

Custom market intelligence and strategic advisory for technology innovators, enterprises, investors, and government agencies — built on deep biometric and digital identity expertise.

Data-driven intelligence
  • Organizational Assessments
  • Market Segmentation and Target Analysis
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Market Sizing and Forecasts
  • TAM, SAM, SOM
  • Strategic Market Development Plans
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The Deepfake Summit

Building the Future of Trust. The Summit brings together senior leaders from government, financial services, technology, cybersecurity, law enforcement, and public policy to confront AI-driven impersonation fraud.

Next SummitWashington, D.C.
September 2027
Past summitsHouston · March 2026Washington, D.C. · September 2026
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Free resources

25 years of research. Free to explore.

Browse the full content library from Acuity, The Prism Project and The Deepfake Summit. Market briefs, whitepapers, talks and videos are open to everyone. Free membership gives you one-click access to exclusive content, including Prism Project reports, Acuity research and datasets, and Deepfake Summit Event Intelligence Reports.

–Acuity Reports & Market Analyses
–Prism Project Reports & Crash Courses
–Deepfake Summit Event Intelligence Reports
–Presentations, Talks & Videos
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Acuity Pro

An AI research assistant built on 25 years of digital trust research and content. Ask questions and get cited insights, briefings, competitive analyses, market forecasts and more from Acuity’s proprietary research archive.

Analysis cited by
The Wall Street Journal Financial Times Bloomberg CNBC Forbes Yahoo Finance MarketWatch Business Insider Biometric Update PYMNTS Finextra ID Tech Statista The Paypers Smerconish Markets Insider Identity Week SecureIDNews FinTech News TechRepublic CSO Trend Micro Payment Industry Intelligence Credit Union Times Homeland Security Today Business Insider Intelligence Fintech Insight Mobile Payments Today International Airport Review ID & Secure Document News Security Sales & Integration Chargebacks911 Kiosk Marketplace CloudTech CXOtoday ITP.net IT News Africa Innovation News MICE times.asia

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Experience matters

Decades in the trenches of emerging technology.

We understand the complexity of technology, the pace of change, and how opportunities appear suddenly, then slip away just as fast.

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IndependentNo bias or agenda — just analysis you can actually trust.

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Data-Driven“Where’s the data?” should be the first question you ask any research firm.

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Ahead of the Curve25 years of anticipating market trends well in advance of mainstream analysts.

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Straight AnswersClear, candid guidance — not hedged consultant-speak.

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Results You Can MeasureTangible results: forecasts you can plan on, analysis you can act on and strategies that work.

By the numbers
40+years in emerging technology
25years of independent analysis at Acuity
80+analyses, whitepapers, market reports and Event Intelligence Reports
2Deepfake Summits — Houston and Washington, D.C.
Maxine Most
Meet the founder

Maxine Most

Strategic Disruptor · Market Visionary · Forecasting Guru · Thought Leader

Founding Principal of Acuity Market Intelligence, Founder & Lead Analyst of The Prism Project, and Founder & Chair of The Deepfake Summit. With 40+ years in emerging technology — and 25 years leading Acuity — Max translates complex technological change into practical business strategy, helping organizations understand not only where digital identity is today, but where digital trust is headed next.

Recognition
  • 202525 Women to Watch in Fraud PreventionMitek
  • 2023Women in Biometrics AwardSecurity Industry Association (SIA)
  • 2019Research Analyst Leader, Identity Industry LandscapeOne World Identity (now Liminal)
  • 2017Top 100 Identity LeaderKNOW Identity (now Liminal)
Creator of the Resilient Trust™ frameworkKeynote speaker and industry advisor
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