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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, \"Legion: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/legion/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/legion/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/legion.md",
  "title": "Legion: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Legion is on 2 Newsprint research maps: the AI workforce planning software map and the AI internal communications software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated July 14, 2026.",
  "period": "Aug. 6, 2025 to July 14, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "legion",
    "name": "Legion",
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    "site": "https://www.legion.co/",
    "summary": "\"Workforce management built for complex frontline organizations.\" Legion sells demand forecasting, labor planning, automated scheduling and time and attendance to retail, restaurant, grocery, healthcare and facilities operators with hourly teams. Its AI Assistants explain forecasts and schedules. Legion Agentic AI adds agents that draft, publish and update schedules and handle employee requests, with managers approving key steps.",
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    "categories": [
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    ],
    "status": "active",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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      "Workforce management and scheduling"
    ]
  },
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  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
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  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Workforce management built for complex frontline organizations.\" Legion sells demand forecasting, labor planning, automated scheduling and time and attendance to retail, restaurant, grocery, healthcare and facilities operators with hourly teams. Its AI Assistants explain forecasts and schedules. Legion Agentic AI adds agents that draft, publish and update schedules and handle employee requests, with managers approving key steps.",
    "source": {
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      "url": "https://www.legion.co/"
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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-legion",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Legion",
      "site": "https://www.legion.co/",
      "category": "Workforce management and scheduling",
      "what": "\"Workforce management built for complex frontline organizations.\" Legion sells demand forecasting, labor planning, automated scheduling and time and attendance to retail, restaurant, grocery, healthcare and facilities operators with hourly teams. Its AI Assistants explain forecasts and schedules. Legion Agentic AI adds agents that draft, publish and update schedules and handle employee requests, with managers approving key steps.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "legion.co",
        "url": "https://www.legion.co/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agent",
          "Workforce analytics",
          "Assistant",
          "Labor demand forecasting",
          "Scenario modeling",
          "Shift scheduling"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Vendor says 'over 2 million Legion-powered employees' and live in 35 countries (Jan 2026 release); named venture investors, no round size published)",
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        {
          "name": "legion.co",
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        {
          "name": "legion.co",
          "url": "https://legion.co/agentic-ai/"
        },
        {
          "name": "legion.co",
          "url": "https://legion.co/agentic-ai/agent-managed-scheduling/"
        },
        {
          "name": "legion.co",
          "url": "https://legion.co/company/press-releases/2026/01/12/legion-ai-workforce-management-innovations/"
        },
        {
          "name": "legion.co",
          "url": "https://legion.co/company/press-releases/2026/07/14/spring-2026-workforce-management-release/"
        },
        {
          "name": "legion.co",
          "url": "https://legion.co/company/press-releases/2026/01/20/legion-rebus-ai-warehouse-labor-management-partner/"
        }
      ],
      "more_sources": 0,
      "cross_listed": false
    },
    {
      "map": "internal-communications-software",
      "title": "The AI internal communications software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-legion",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Legion",
      "site": "https://www.legion.co/",
      "category": "Workforce management and scheduling",
      "what": "Legion Frontline Communications puts secure chat, newsfeed updates, announcements, polls and surveys in the same mobile app that hourly staff use for scheduling. Two named AI assistants help managers write newsfeed posts and announcements, and let employees read any message in their preferred language.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "legion.co",
        "url": "https://legion.co/products/frontline-communications/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
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      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Translation",
          "AI writing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Vendor says 'over 2 million Legion-powered employees' and live in 35 countries (Jan 2026 release); named venture investors, no round size published)",
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      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "legion.co",
          "url": "https://legion.co/products/frontline-communications/"
        },
        {
          "name": "legion.co",
          "url": "https://legion.co/legion-ai/"
        },
        {
          "name": "legion.co",
          "url": "https://legion.co/company/press-releases/2025/08/06/2025-summer-release-75-new-wfm-features-ai-assistants/"
        },
        {
          "name": "legion.co",
          "url": "https://legion.co/company/press-releases/2026/01/12/legion-ai-workforce-management-innovations/"
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/legion/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-07-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Legion adds Upper Field Schedule Assistant in Spring 2026 release",
      "summary": "The Spring 2026 Production Release added the Legion AI Upper Field Schedule Assistant for district and area leaders. It summarizes performance across locations, flags stores that need attention and surfaces patterns such as manager edits that point to forecasting or training issues. It joins six Legion AI Assistants already in production.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-legion"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://legion.co/company/press-releases/2026/07/14/spring-2026-workforce-management-release/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/legion/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-01-12",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Legion ships 90+ features and next-generation AI Assistants",
      "summary": "Legion announced more than 90 new product features, including next-generation Legion AI Assistants that explain schedule changes and trade-offs across cost, coverage and compliance, plus Labor Planning what-if scenarios and configurable SmartCards. The release says it moves 'beyond insights and recommendations to deliver autonomous workforce decision automation'.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-legion"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://legion.co/company/press-releases/2026/01/12/legion-ai-workforce-management-innovations/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/legion/#event-3",
      "on": "2025-08-06",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Legion adds AI assistants for team communications",
      "summary": "Legion deployed an AI Authoring Assistant that helps write and improve newsfeed posts, and an AI Translation Assistant that lets employees read content in their preferred language.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI internal communications software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-legion"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Legion release",
        "url": "https://legion.co/company/press-releases/2025/08/06/2025-summer-release-75-new-wfm-features-ai-assistants/"
      }
    }
  ]
}