# Cognition — Building in London

- Company: Cognition (cognition.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-22
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://cognition.com/blog/building-in-london
- Record: https://forck.live/items/26371-building-in-london
- Subject: Devin / SWE
- Models affected: Devin, SWE-2

Cognition has opened a new London office at The Gilbert in Finsbury Square and is hiring across customer engagement, engineering, R&D, partnerships and go-to-market, after its UK team grew by more than 200% in six months. The company says UK demand has grown faster than it planned for, with banks, financial institutions and software companies across the region moving AI software engineering into production. The Access Group has deployed Devin to more than 2,000 engineers across 250 products, which Cognition says contributed to a fivefold increase in merged pull requests and sped up certain legacy migration tasks by up to 480 times. Cognition is adding three senior leaders: Narry Singh as Senior Managing Director, Aman Thind as Field CTO, and Katrin Lehmann, former global CIO of Mercedes-Benz. Singh will work with CEOs, CFOs and boards on AI adoption decisions, Thind will focus on financial services, and Lehmann will work with enterprise technology leaders across Europe. The London office is part of a broader year of growth that included raising more than $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation in September and announcing SWE-2, which Cognition calls its most advanced coding model to date.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://cognition.com/blog/building-in-london:

> The Access Group has deployed Devin to more than 2,000 engineers across 250 products, contributing to a fivefold increase in merged pull requests and speeding up certain legacy migration tasks by up to 480 times.

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