Vera Wins Tech North Atlanta Award for Trailblazing Digital Transformation

AI-powered, human-led workforce intelligence company recognized for digital innovation, rapid growth and meaningful business impact.

ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, September 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Vera, a human-led, AI-powered workforce intelligence company, today announced it has won the Trailblazing Digital Transformation Team Award at the inaugural Tech North Atlanta Awards.

The award recognizes a startup team using digital innovation to scale quickly and deliver meaningful results. Vera was honored for its approach to workforce intelligence, combining artificial intelligence, behavioral science and data science to help organizations better understand the human dynamics affecting performance, productivity and transformation.

“This recognition validates what we set out to prove with Vera: technology alone doesn’t transform an organization—people do,” said Julie Cropp Gareleck, Co-Founder of Vera. “We’ve built Vera to connect AI-powered intelligence with the human behaviors that ultimately determine whether strategy succeeds. I’m incredibly proud of our team for turning that vision into something organizations can put to work today.”

Founded by Gareleck and behavioral scientist Dr. Ghazaleh Samandari, Ph.D., Vera provides organizations with an intelligence layer designed to identify workforce patterns, surface emerging risks and opportunities, and turn complex organizational data into actionable insights.

Vera’s machine-learning framework integrates behavioral and data science with AI to help leaders better understand what is happening across their workforce—and why. The company’s human-led model pairs technology with expert insight to help organizations translate intelligence into decisions and measurable action.

“As organizations move rapidly to adopt AI, we have an opportunity to rethink the relationship between people and technology,” said Dr. Ghazaleh Samandari, Co-Founder and Behavioral Scientist at Vera. “We designed Vera around a scientific understanding of human behavior so technology can help leaders see patterns they couldn’t see before, make better decisions and create environments where both people and organizations can perform at their best. We’ve even developed proprietary algorithms to measure ROI with AI adoption.”

Vera works with enterprise, public-sector and investment organizations to uncover operational friction, understand workforce dynamics and strengthen organizational performance without requiring clients to replace their existing technology infrastructure.

The Tech North Atlanta Awards recognize the leaders, companies and teams advancing innovation, transformation and economic growth across North Atlanta’s technology ecosystem. Winners of the inaugural awards were honored Sept. 16 at Topgolf Alpharetta.

“This is a team award, and that makes it especially meaningful,” Gareleck added. “Our team has brought tremendous curiosity, discipline and conviction to building a new category of workforce intelligence. We’re proud of this recognition and even more excited about what comes next.”

About Vera
Vera is a human-led, AI-powered workforce intelligence company that combines artificial intelligence, behavioral science and data science to help organizations understand and improve the human dynamics driving business performance. Vera’s technology and expert solutions provide leaders with actionable intelligence to strengthen decision-making, improve execution and drive measurable organizational outcomes.

AI Powered + Human Led = Real Workforce Intelligence.

For more information, visit verathecompany.com.

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