BENTONVILLE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 11, 2026--
Crisp, the leading AI platform built to run retail, announced today it has been ranked as the No. 115 fastest-growing private company in America on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list. The list is a prestigious ranking of the nation’s most successful independent and entrepreneurial businesses, recognizing companies that have achieved remarkable growth while driving innovation and shaping the future of their industries.
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Crisp has also been recognized as the No. 1 fastest-growing company in Arkansas for the second year in a row, and the No. 11 company in Artificial Intelligence and Data. In 2026, the company launched Crisp AI Agents, an AI platform purpose-built for the retail industry. Crisp’s vertical AI platform for retail combines a robust data foundation and deep retail expertise with agentic AI to help CPG brands and retailers leverage real-time intelligence across thousands of stores and SKUs to reduce waste and improve sales and profitability.
“As the retail industry faces growing competition and constant change, Crisp is enabling a new level of supply chain collaboration between retailers, manufacturers and distributors,” said Are Traasdahl, CEO and founder of Crisp. “This recognition of our company’s growth by Inc. reflects our efforts to enable CPG brands and retailers with AI they can trust to make better decisions quickly and optimize product availability while reducing waste. Leveraging Crisp’s AI platform, enterprise brands are analyzing performance and identifying gaps and profitable opportunities at scale.”
Category leaders including The Clorox Company have praised Crisp’s AI Agent platform for bringing real-time, conversational retail intelligence into their day-to-day decisions. “It’s clear that Crisp AI Agents understand retail,” shared Steve Bruton, Business Account Manager for The Clorox Company, at Crossmark. “And the platform surfaces insights that we can trace right back to our own data,” he said.
This year’s Inc. 5000 recognizes a new class of companies redefining what growth looks like. From AI and advanced manufacturing to healthcare, consumer products, and professional services, these businesses are expanding their impact, creating jobs and proving that entrepreneurial ambition continues to fuel the U.S. economy. Among the 5,000 companies on the list, the median three-year revenue growth rate was 130%, and those companies have collectively added more than 627,208 jobs to the U.S. economy over the past three years.
For the full Inc. 5000 list, honoree company profiles, and a searchable database by industry and location, please visit: www.inc.com/inc5000.
“Every company on the Inc. 5000 has a story of perseverance, smart decision making, and a refusal to sit still,” says Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. “Their growth reflects more than strong financial performance–it reflects creativity, resilience, and the customer focus required to build companies that make a lasting impact. We congratulate all honorees on this significant achievement.”
Inc. will celebrate the honorees at the 2026 Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala, taking place October 14–16 in Dallas, Texas and the top 500 will be listed in the Fall issue of Inc. Magazine. Tickets are on sale now.
Inc. 5000 List Methodology
Companies on the 2026 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2022 to 2025. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2022. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2025. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2022 is $100,000; the minimum for 2025 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons.
About Crisp
Crisp is the leading vertical AI company built to strengthen trusted partnerships across the retail ecosystem, sharpening alignment and execution with retail-specific semantics and skills that drive sales, profit, and competitive advantage. Purpose-built for retail, Crisp's platform runs on an accurate, fully traceable data foundation, so every AI recommendation is grounded in retail-grade data, not guesswork.
Today, more than 7,000 consumer brands, retailers, and distributors, including 90 of the top 100 CPGs, rely on Crisp to reduce disputes, accelerate alignment, and improve execution across the retail ecosystem.
Learn more at gocrisp.com.
About Inc.
Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
Crisp ranks #11 Fastest-Growing Company in AI and Data
