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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Deputy: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/deputy/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/deputy/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/deputy.md",
  "title": "Deputy: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Deputy is on the AI workforce planning software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Nov. 5, 2025.",
  "period": "June 24 to Nov. 5, 2025",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "deputy",
    "name": "Deputy",
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    "site": "https://www.deputy.com/",
    "summary": "\"Make shift work simpler, faster, and more profitable.\" Deputy sells scheduling, timesheets, labor compliance and payroll to shift-based and hourly businesses. Deputy AI is a conversational agent that drafts schedules from past patterns, covers sick shifts, checks timesheets against the schedule and spots coverage gaps. Deputy AI cannot publish a schedule or approve a timesheet without explicit confirmation. Demand forecasting and auto scheduling sit alongside it.",
    "founded": 2008,
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    "status": "active",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "category_names": [
      "Workforce management and scheduling"
    ]
  },
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  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Make shift work simpler, faster, and more profitable.\" Deputy sells scheduling, timesheets, labor compliance and payroll to shift-based and hourly businesses. Deputy AI is a conversational agent that drafts schedules from past patterns, covers sick shifts, checks timesheets against the schedule and spots coverage gaps. Deputy AI cannot publish a schedule or approve a timesheet without explicit confirmation. Demand forecasting and auto scheduling sit alongside it.",
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    },
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      "name": "Deputy",
      "site": "https://www.deputy.com/",
      "category": "Workforce management and scheduling",
      "what": "\"Make shift work simpler, faster, and more profitable.\" Deputy sells scheduling, timesheets, labor compliance and payroll to shift-based and hourly businesses. Deputy AI is a conversational agent that drafts schedules from past patterns, covers sick shifts, checks timesheets against the schedule and spots coverage gaps. Deputy AI cannot publish a schedule or approve a timesheet without explicit confirmation. Demand forecasting and auto scheduling sit alongside it.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "deputy.com",
        "url": "https://www.deputy.com/"
      },
      "price": "published; plans start at $5 per user per month (USD) on the pricing page",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agent",
          "Assistant",
          "Labor demand forecasting",
          "Shift scheduling"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Vendor claims '390,000+' workplaces on its AI page; March 2026 release says more than 1 billion shifts scheduled and 1.5 million shift workers)",
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          "name": "deputy.com",
          "url": "https://www.deputy.com/ai"
        },
        {
          "name": "deputy.com",
          "url": "https://www.deputy.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "name": "news.deputy.com",
          "url": "https://news.deputy.com/deputy-ai-is-the-intelligent-trusted-teammate-for-managing-shift-based-businesses"
        },
        {
          "name": "news.deputy.com",
          "url": "https://news.deputy.com/deputy-launches-new-ai-platform-on-aws-to-transform-how-businesses-manage-shift-work-ef9g8q"
        },
        {
          "name": "news.deputy.com",
          "url": "https://news.deputy.com/deputy-announces-exclusive-global-partnership-with-predelo-to-bring-ai-to-shift-based-businesses-s3v2hv"
        }
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/deputy/#event-1",
      "on": "2025-11-05",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Deputy AI opens in global beta",
      "summary": "Deputy unveiled Deputy AI, an AI teammate for shift-based operations that connects scheduling, labor forecasting and real-time performance insights, and answers manager questions with recommended schedule changes. Managers could request early access. The CEO described it as a shift from smart scheduling to agentic workforce orchestration.",
      "kind": "Launch",
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        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-deputy"
      },
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        "url": "https://news.deputy.com/deputy-ai-is-the-intelligent-trusted-teammate-for-managing-shift-based-businesses"
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    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/deputy/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-06-24",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Deputy signs exclusive AI partnership with Predelo",
      "summary": "Deputy and Predelo, an AI decision-agent service, agreed an exclusive partnership. Predelo's AI labor forecasting and auto-scheduling agents run in the background and adjust schedules down to store and department level. Deputy is piloting it with customers in its home market and the US; global availability is a later rollout.",
      "kind": "Partnership",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-deputy"
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        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://news.deputy.com/deputy-announces-exclusive-global-partnership-with-predelo-to-bring-ai-to-shift-based-businesses-s3v2hv"
      }
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