Workday introduces AI Agent Partner Network and Agent Gateway

Industry leaders including Accenture, Adobe, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Auditoria.AI, Compa, Deloitte, Glean, Google Cloud, IBM, Kainos, KPMG, Microsoft, Paradox, PwC, Salesforce, and WorkBoardAI are among the first to partner with Workday to help joint customers thrive in a future where AI agents are a central part of how work gets done.

Workday also announced Agent Gateway, which will enable customers to seamlessly connect and manage AI agents from Workday and its Agent Partner Network within the Workday Agent System of Record.

“For nearly two decades, Workday has helped organisations manage their people and their money on a unified, secure platform,” said Matthew Brandt, senior vice president, global partners, Workday. “Now, as AI agents increasingly collaborate with human workforces, customers are looking to Workday to manage everything – people, money, and agents – together on one platform they can trust. That’s why we’re partnering with leading technology organizations to ensure they can do so seamlessly while maintaining enterprise control.”

The Next Generation of Workforce Management

The workforce is undergoing a fundamental shift. It’s no longer made up of people alone, but a mix of humans and AI agents working together across every function. These AI agents – tasked with everything from more precise decision making and streamlining operations to enabling entirely new ways of working, and supporting decision-making – are quickly becoming an essential part of how work gets done. This new reality is reshaping roles, workflows, and the very definition of a team. As digital workers increasingly support workforces, organizations must rethink how they hire, manage, ensure compliance and measure their impact, just as they would for human employees.

Unlocking the Full Potential of AI Agents in the Enterprise

As AI agents become a core part of the workforce, the Workday ASOR will provide the tools to hire, onboard, assign work, and manage agent outcomes the same way businesses manage people. It will help businesses set clear roles for agents, define what data they can access, control what actions they take, and track their performance—so every human and agent contributor is aligned to business goals. Whether an agent is built by Workday, a partner, or a customer, the Workday ASOR will help ensure it operates securely, efficiently, and with accountability.

By connecting their AI agents to the Workday Agent System of Record, partners including Accenture, Adobe, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Auditoria.AI, Compa, Deloitte, Glean, Google Cloud, IBM, Kainos, KPMG, Microsoft, Paradox, PwC, Salesforce, and WorkBoardAI will help create a more seamless, intelligent, and collaborative experience across systems. This will drive greater efficiency, agility, and impact how work gets done. It’s a critical step toward managing the workforce of the future—one that includes both humans and AI agents.

For example, when a recruiter or hiring manager needs to quickly schedule an interview, they can use the Paradox Interview Scheduling agent within the Workday ASOR. Because Paradox integrates directly to Workday Recruiting, users have access to the Scheduling agent that helps them across the entire interview process, from coordinating scheduling, sending reminders, answering candidate questions, and more.

Agent Gateway: Bringing AI Agents Together Across Systems and Partners

Workday’s new Agent Gateway will make it easy for Workday partners to connect their AI agents with Workday’s Agent System of Record. Using shared protocols, including MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent Protocol), these agents can collaborate and exchange information seamlessly—whether they’re built by Workday or Workday partners. This means Illuminate agents can operate wherever people are working, across systems, to deliver real-time support and automation that saves time and reduces friction.

Introducing AI Agents on Workday Marketplace

Starting today, agents from Workday and its Agent Partner Network are now available on Workday Marketplace. Workday Marketplace makes it easy for customers to discover, procure, and deploy a wide range of apps and agent solutions that solve their business needs. Illuminate agents available today on Workday Marketplace include Business Process Optimise Agent, Financial Audit Agent, Payroll Agent, Recruiting Agent, and Talent Mobility Agent. Customers will be able to easily deploy and manage these agents through the Workday Agent System of Record.

Workday Illuminate: AI to Power the Future of Work

Workday Illuminate is the next generation of Workday AI. Built on the largest and cleanest HR and financial dataset – fueled by more than 1 trillion transactions a year – Illuminate understands the business context around the data to transform business operations by elevating humans, accelerating finance, and managing an organization’s entire fleet of AI agents. From skills, to performance, goals, cost and ROI metrics, organisational models, and individual identities, Illuminate has deep contextual understanding of how work gets done. This leads to measurable business impact, such as faster decision-making, better workforce planning, and improved productivity.