Which organization is the modern-day corporation in the Assassin's Creed series?

Abstergo Industries is the modern-day corporation in the Assassin's Creed series.

Abstergo presents itself as a powerful multinational company, but it is secretly controlled by the modern Templar Order. Its research into genetic memory leads to the development of the Animus, a machine that lets a user experience ancestral memories encoded in DNA. This technology supplies the series with its modern-day framing narrative.

In the first game, Desmond Miles is held at an Abstergo facility and connected to the Animus by researcher Lucy Stillman and supervisor Warren Vidic. Later games expand Abstergo's activities into entertainment, pharmaceuticals, media, and consumer technology, showing how the organization operates beyond a single laboratory.

The Assassin Brotherhood is Abstergo's ideological enemy, not the corporation itself. The Templar Order is the secret organization behind Abstergo, while Erudito is a hacking collective seen in the wider franchise. These related names are often confused because all are involved in the modern-day conflict.