{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0001104659-26-111917","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"AYI","cik":"0001144215","company_name":"ACUITY INC. (DE)","filed_at":"2026-09-29T20:01:54+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-09-29T20:03:00.166667+00:00","generated_at":"2026-10-12T13:52:40.628053+00:00","sec_items":["5.02","9.01"],"event_type":"leadership","sentiment":"neutral","materiality_score":0.25,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.25,"confidence":"high","headline":"Acuity adds ServiceNow Vice Chairman Nick Tzitzon to board; directors expand to ten","bullets":["Board size increased from nine to ten; Nick Tzitzon, 46, elected independent director effective September 24, 2026, with term expiring at the next annual meeting.","Tzitzon has been Vice Chairman of ServiceNow since January 2020 and leads its AI Institute; earlier he was EVP at SAP SE from October 2012 to January 2020.","Appointed to the Audit and Governance Committees; will participate pro rata in standard non-employee director compensation per the fiscal 2025 proxy.","Company entered its standard Form of Indemnification Agreement with Tzitzon, covering expenses, judgments, fines and settlement amounts.","CEO Neil Ashe said Tzitzon's work helping organizations use software, data and AI \"aligns with how we are creating value for customers and shareholders.\""],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-111917","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-111917.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-111917.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-111917.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144215/000110465926111917/0001104659-26-111917-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144215/000110465926111917/tm2626454d1_8k.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-10-12T13:52:40.628053+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}