Grid Dynamics Earns MACH Alliance's 2026 Agent Ready Award for Production-Scale Agentic AI

Key Takeaways: Grid Dynamics is named to MACH Alliance's inaugural 2026 Agent Ready cohort. Grid Dynamics won the award for its agentic AI capabilities and for programs delivered at a global food and beverage company and a global payments company. Grid Dynamics delivered the qualifying work through its Grid Dynamics AI Native (GAIN) platforms and Forward Deployed Engineer delivery model.

Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GDYN) (“Grid Dynamics”), a premier AI transformation partner for the Fortune 1000, today announced it has earned MACH Alliance's 2026 Agent Ready Award, becoming one of 35 companies named in the program's inaugural cohort.

Agent Ready is an advanced certification that builds upon MACH Certification, the MACH Alliance's baseline standard for open, composable, and connected technology. The honor recognizes certified members that have moved agentic AI from pilots and demos into production, at scale, with the guardrails enterprise deployment requires. Every award is independently reviewed by MACH Alliance, the vendor-neutral authority on scaling production-ready enterprise AI without vendor lock-in.

For companies like Grid Dynamics, Agent Ready criteria evaluate organizational readiness at scale: named leadership, market presence, published thought leadership and production delivery. Grid Dynamics met that bar with agentic AI programs built and delivered for enterprise clients, including a multi-agent commerce program for a global food and beverage company and a multi-agent transformation for a global payments company. Both programs run in production today, built on Grid Dynamics AI Native (GAIN) platforms and delivered through its Forward Deployed Engineer model, which embeds Grid Dynamics engineers directly inside client teams.

"Grid Dynamics met a high bar for systems integrators: named leadership, market presence, and production delivery of agentic AI at enterprise scale," said Holly Hall, Managing Director of MACH Alliance. "That's exactly the organizational readiness Agent Ready was built to recognize."

"Being named Agent Ready 2026 confirms what we're already seeing with clients: the market has moved past agentic pilots and is demanding agents that run in production, at scale, with real guardrails," said Achilles Chalkiotis, VP, Global Head of Digital Engagement at Grid Dynamics. "This recognition is independent validation of work we're already doing with clients."

More information about the Agent Ready Award is available at machalliance.org. To learn more, visit Grid Dynamics' MACH Alliance partnership page.

About Grid Dynamics

Grid Dynamics (Nasdaq: GDYN) is a premier AI transformation partner for the Fortune 1000. We combine deep AI expertise with proven enterprise-scale delivery to help clients identify where to invest in AI, build systems that work at scale, and capture real business value from AI deployments. A key differentiator for Grid Dynamics is our two decades of technology leadership and pioneering enterprise AI expertise. Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the Americas, Europe, and India. To learn more about Grid Dynamics, please visit https://www.griddynamics.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.

About MACH Alliance

The MACH Alliance is the global, vendor-neutral industry body setting the standards for open, composable, and connected enterprise technology. It's a movement equipping technology leaders with certifications, research, and peer guidance to build architectures they own and can evolve. Founded in 2020, the Alliance has established the trusted framework for enterprise technology transformation and is now leading the development of one of the world's first Agent Ecosystems, an open, interoperable environment where specialized AI agents from different vendors work together through vendor-neutral standards. It counts a growing community of 100+ member companies and 80+ enterprise ambassadors, including technology vendors, system integrators, hyperscalers, and leading global brands. Learn more at machalliance.org.

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