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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Kantata: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/kantata/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/kantata/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/kantata.md",
  "title": "Kantata: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Kantata is on the AI workforce planning software map. We record 4 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Sept. 30, 2026.",
  "period": "Sept. 24, 2025 to Sept. 30, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "kantata",
    "name": "Kantata",
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    "site": "https://www.kantata.com/",
    "summary": "Professional services automation with resource management, forecasting and capacity planning for agencies and services firms. Kantata calls its AI Expertise Engine \"the first AI platform purpose-built for professional services\". The Expertise Agent, its \"superagent\", staffs teams by skills and capacity and monitors project risk. A Resourcing Agent flags overallocation and can adjust assignments. Agent Studio lets firms build their own agents.",
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    "categories": [
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "category_names": [
      "Resource management and capacity"
    ]
  },
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  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
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  "summary": {
    "text": "Professional services automation with resource management, forecasting and capacity planning for agencies and services firms. Kantata calls its AI Expertise Engine \"the first AI platform purpose-built for professional services\". The Expertise Agent, its \"superagent\", staffs teams by skills and capacity and monitors project risk. A Resourcing Agent flags overallocation and can adjust assignments. Agent Studio lets firms build their own agents.",
    "source": {
      "name": "kantata.com",
      "url": "https://www.kantata.com/"
    },
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  },
  "maps": [
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      "map": "workforce-planning-software",
      "title": "The AI workforce planning software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-kantata",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Kantata",
      "site": "https://www.kantata.com/",
      "category": "Resource management and capacity",
      "what": "Professional services automation with resource management, forecasting and capacity planning for agencies and services firms. Kantata calls its AI Expertise Engine \"the first AI platform purpose-built for professional services\". The Expertise Agent, its \"superagent\", staffs teams by skills and capacity and monitors project risk. A Resourcing Agent flags overallocation and can adjust assignments. Agent Studio lets firms build their own agents.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "kantata.com",
        "url": "https://www.kantata.com/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agent",
          "Workforce analytics",
          "Capacity and utilization",
          "MCP or agent API",
          "Project staffing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Vendor release says over 1,500 professional services organizations in more than 100 countries (2025-09-24).)",
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          "name": "kantata.com",
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        {
          "name": "kantata.com",
          "url": "https://www.kantata.com/expertise-engine"
        },
        {
          "name": "kantata.com",
          "url": "https://www.kantata.com/blog/article/kantata-expands-agentic-ai-capabilities-with-new-resourcing-agent-supercharging-professional-services-delivery"
        },
        {
          "name": "kantata.com",
          "url": "https://www.kantata.com/blog/article/kantata-launches-expertise-agent-the-first-ai-superagent-built-for-professional-services"
        },
        {
          "name": "cpapracticeadvisor.com",
          "url": "https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/09/30/kantata-enables-firms-to-turn-their-expertise-into-custom-ai-agents/190841/"
        },
        {
          "name": "consultancy.uk",
          "url": "https://www.consultancy.uk/news/41834/kantata-launches-new-ai-platform-for-consulting-workflow"
        }
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/kantata/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-09-30",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Kantata adds Agent Studio",
      "summary": "Agent Studio lets firms describe a job in plain language and have the Expertise Agent build and test a custom agent that a person or workflow can trigger.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-kantata"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "CPA Practice Advisor",
        "url": "https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/09/30/kantata-enables-firms-to-turn-their-expertise-into-custom-ai-agents/190841/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/kantata/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-06-16",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Kantata launches the Expertise Agent",
      "summary": "The Expertise Agent takes natural-language goals, can create agents to coordinate project, resource and finance systems, and staffs teams by skills and capacity.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-kantata"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.kantata.com/blog/article/kantata-launches-expertise-agent-the-first-ai-superagent-built-for-professional-services"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/kantata/#event-3",
      "on": "2025-10-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Kantata rolls out the Expertise Engine",
      "summary": "Consultancy.uk reports Kantata 'has commenced the roll-out' of its Expertise Engine, an AI platform with a proprietary services language model and an industry performance dataset for benchmarking, built on a firm's past projects.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-kantata"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Consultancy.uk",
        "url": "https://www.consultancy.uk/news/41834/kantata-launches-new-ai-platform-for-consulting-workflow"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/kantata/#event-4",
      "on": "2025-09-24",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Kantata launches the Resourcing Agent",
      "summary": "The agent analyzes project and staffing data for overallocation, misaligned timelines and budget overruns, and can recommend or run fixes such as shifting hours. It is available to all Kantata OX customers.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-kantata"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.kantata.com/blog/article/kantata-expands-agentic-ai-capabilities-with-new-resourcing-agent-supercharging-professional-services-delivery"
      }
    }
  ]
}