Deputy: what it sells, price and AI features
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.
Updated . Launches and events from June 24 to 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.
- Site
- deputy.com
- Founded
- 2008
- Category
- Workforce management and scheduling
- Status
- Active
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The AI workforce planning software map
"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.
- 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
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Launches and dated events, newest first
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Deputy AI opens in global beta
Launch, . 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. From the AI workforce planning software map.
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Deputy signs exclusive AI partnership with Predelo
Partnership, . 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. From the AI workforce planning software map.
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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