Workday adds seven new AI agents to its cloud platform – News

Workday Inc. today introduced a set of new artificial intelligence agents designed to automate repetitive tasks for users.

Nasdaq-listed Workday counts more than 60% of the Fortune 500 as customers. It provides a cloud platform that human resources professionals use for payroll management, recruiting and related tasks. Workday also offers two other feature collections geared toward accounting and legal teams, respectively.

The AI agents that debuted today enhance all three of the company’s department-specific feature sets.

The first three agents are geared towards legal teams. Two of them, Contract Intelligence Agent and Supplier Contracts Agent, are designed to help attorneys find key details in lengthy agreements. The latter offering is optimized to analyze procurement agreements with suppliers. 

The two tools are joined by a new Contract Negotiation Agent. According to Workday, it suggests contractual changes that can make a transaction more favorable for a company. To spare legal teams the hassle of implementing those changes from scratch, the tool automatically drafts new contract language.

The fourth addition to Workday’s AI feature set, the Document Driven Accounting Agent, is likewise designed to help users work with documents more efficiently. The difference is that it’s geared towards finance teams rather than legal professionals. According to Workday, the tool can automatically extract key details from documents such as invoices to reduce manual data entry.

For HR teams, the company is rolling out the new Frontline Agent and Contingent Sourcing Agent. The former tool can be used to report employee absence and find replacements. Contingent Sourcing Agent, in turn, promises to streamline the process of hiring workers for temporary roles.

Rounding out Workday’s new AI agent collection is the Self-Service Agent. The company says that it can automatically answer employee inquiries to save time for HR teams. Additionally, the underlying AI models are capable of performing some tasks automatically on workers’ behalf.

The agents run on an AI engine called Workday Illuminate that Workday debuted last September. According to the company, the engine is powered by the world’s largest and cleanest dataset of HR and financial records. Those records come from Workday’s cloud platform, which processes more than 70 billion business events per month along with the associated data. 

“Our agents leverage the world’s most powerful HR and finance dataset to turn insights into impact – boosting productivity, enhancing compliance, and accelerating decision-making at every level,” said Shane Luke, vice president of Workday Illuminate.

Contract Intelligence Agent and Contract Negotiation Agent are generally available today, while Self-Service Agent is set to launch by year’s end. The four other additions to Workday’s AI feature lineup are expected to roll out in early 2026. They join an existing collection of AI agents in the company’s platform that automate tasks such as expense tracking, payroll management and recruiting.

Photo: Workday