At the Workday Rising conference, Workday announced a suite of AI Autopilot Agents designed to manage routine tasks across human resources, finance and IT. Unlike AI copilots, the agents can start and complete work in the background without a direct user prompt.
The agents can identify qualified job candidates, detect payroll data errors, prepare accounting entries from contracts and recommend platform features. The Talent Acquisition Agent is available to early adopters now, with general availability planned for early 2027. Early-adopter access for the Payroll, Accounting and Deployment agents is planned for early 2027.
Workday’s AI engine, Sana, orchestrates the system within each company’s existing security and policy frameworks. Actions are logged and auditable. Customers can choose which tasks are automated and which require human review and approval.