The most innovative business services companies for 2026

Bet you’ll never guess the main theme running through all 10 of this year’s Most Innovative Companies honorees in the business services category. Yep: artificial intelligence. AI is rewiring the world as we’ve known it—and these companies are helping businesses harness the power of AI to tame the kinds of chronic inefficiencies that inhibit growth.  A year after launching its AI Factory, Dell introduced Project Lightning to help clients manage proliferating data. ABM Industries is bringing smart-home technology to massive commercial sites, and Smartling’s enhanced platform is enabling companies to improve their own language translation systems on whatever tech stack they’re currently operating. Ironclad’s Jurist is streamlining some of the most laborious and tedious aspects of legal work, and QuickFi reduces the onerous process of financing expensive equipment from weeks to minutes for smaller businesses. Energy management giant Schneider Electric has deployed AI to