# Deputy: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/deputy/
Covers: June 24 to Nov. 5, 2025
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Deputy: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/deputy/, updated 2026-11-11

> 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.

"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. Source: [deputy.com](https://www.deputy.com/).

## Facts

- Site: [deputy.com](https://www.deputy.com/)
- Founded: [2008](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-deputy)
- Category: Workforce management and scheduling
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI workforce planning software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-deputy)

"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. Source: [deputy.com](https://www.deputy.com/).

- Category: Workforce management and scheduling
- Price: published; plans start at $5 per user per month (USD) on the pricing page
- AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting and Shift scheduling
- 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)
- Founded: 2008

Sources: [deputy.com](https://www.deputy.com/), [deputy.com](https://www.deputy.com/ai), [deputy.com](https://www.deputy.com/pricing), [news.deputy.com](https://news.deputy.com/deputy-ai-is-the-intelligent-trusted-teammate-for-managing-shift-based-businesses), [news.deputy.com](https://news.deputy.com/deputy-launches-new-ai-platform-on-aws-to-transform-how-businesses-manage-shift-work-ef9g8q), [news.deputy.com](https://news.deputy.com/deputy-announces-exclusive-global-partnership-with-predelo-to-bring-ai-to-shift-based-businesses-s3v2hv) and [1 more on the map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-deputy).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Deputy AI opens in global beta

Launch, Nov. 5, 2025. 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.

Source: [Vendor release](https://news.deputy.com/deputy-ai-is-the-intelligent-trusted-teammate-for-managing-shift-based-businesses). From [the AI workforce planning software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-deputy).

### Deputy signs exclusive AI partnership with Predelo

Partnership, June 24, 2025. 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.

Source: [Vendor release](https://news.deputy.com/deputy-announces-exclusive-global-partnership-with-predelo-to-bring-ai-to-shift-based-businesses-s3v2hv). From [the AI workforce planning software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-deputy).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology