EPAM Systems has announced a strategic partnership with Cursor to help enterprise engineering teams adopt AI-native software development at scale. The collaboration is aimed at moving organisations beyond isolated or experimental uses of AI coding tools by deeply embedding AI-driven workflows, governance rules, and agent-style behaviour directly into developers’ day-to-day working environments. By integrating AI into the primary development workspace, the partners aim to deliver measurable improvements in productivity, code quality, and consistency across large and distributed engineering organisations.
While many enterprises have already experimented with AI-assisted coding, sustained and disciplined adoption has remained a challenge. AI tools are often used sporadically or outside core development workflows, limiting their long-term impact. Addressing this gap, the partnership positions Cursor’s AI-native integrated development environment as a foundation for more structured and repeatable AI usage across teams. “While most large enterprises have made some investment in AI coding tools, many teams struggle with full adoption and daily use,” said Dmitry Tovpeko, VP, AI-Native Engineering at EPAM. “In response, Cursor’s AI-Native integrated development environment promotes disciplined use by incorporating rules, workflows and agentic behavior directly in the developer’s primary workspace.”
The collaboration brings together Cursor’s AI-first development platform with EPAM’s deep enterprise engineering expertise. EPAM plans to leverage its global base of more than 50,000 engineers to drive adoption, supported by its internal training programs and productivity measurement frameworks. This combination is intended to help enterprises not only deploy AI tools, but also re-engineer how development teams operate, collaborate, and measure outcomes in an AI-augmented environment.
Cursor sees the partnership as an opportunity to help organisations rethink software development practices rather than simply adding new tools on top of existing processes. Michael Scherr, head of business development at Cursor, emphasized this shift, stating that the collaboration reflects a shared belief that “the teams that achieve exceptional results are those that rethink how they work, not just the tools they use.”
By aligning AI capabilities with structured workflows and enterprise-grade governance, EPAM and Cursor aim to make AI-native engineering practical and scalable. The partnership highlights a growing industry focus on operationalizing AI across the full software development lifecycle, signaling a move away from ad hoc experimentation toward AI-first development as a standard enterprise practice.
