# The AI compensation software map URL: https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/ Updated: 2026-11-07 License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: Newsprint, "The AI compensation software map", https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/, updated 2026-11-07 > 52 companies sell AI to HR, total rewards, finance and sales operations teams that set pay, quotas and commissions. This map shows what each one sells across the five stages of compensation, and 89 dated events since May 2025: 55 product launches, 10 of them agents that do multi-step work or run on their own. Each event links to its source. ## What we're seeing Five things the data shows, from 52 companies and 55 AI launches between May 2025 and early November 2026. Every claim links to its source. ### Pay transparency laws set the product agenda We logged 13 pay transparency laws and deadlines in the window, more than any kind of event but launches. EU member states had until 7 June 2026 to adopt the [Pay Transparency Directive](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2023/970/oj). Malta [implemented the directive's remaining provisions](https://legalbriefs.deloitte.com/post/102n8ec/eu-pay-transparency-directive-latest-country-updates-as-at-6-july-2026) on 5 June. Italy's [pay transparency decree](https://knowledge.dlapiper.com/dlapiperknowledge/globalemploymentlatestdevelopments/2026/italy-implements-pay-transparency-rules-key-obligations-deadlines-and-risks-for-employers-copy) applies to all employers from 7 June, and Lithuania's [Labour Code changes](https://www.sorainen.com/?p=127186) took effect the same day. Greece [published its law](https://www.lewissilkin.com/insights/2026/07/13/greece-transposes-the-eu-pay-transparency-directive-what-employers-need-to-know) on 6 July, and most of it applies from 1 November 2026. In the US, the Massachusetts [salary range transparency law](https://www.gtlaw.com/en/insights/2025/10/massachusetts-pay-transparency-law-takes-effect-on-oct-29-2025) took effect in October 2025, and the Virginia [pay transparency law](https://knowledge.dlapiper.com/dlapiperknowledge/globalemploymentlatestdevelopments/2026/virginia-pay-transparency-law-goes-into-effect-july-1-2026) in July 2026. Since July 2026, Maine requires employers with 10 or more employees to [state a pay range](https://www.pierceatwood.com/alerts/new-wage-disclosure-obligations-maine) in job postings. Two large HR suites shipped tools for the EU rules. Workday launched its [Pay Transparency Analyzer](https://en-gb.newsroom.workday.com/2025-10-02-Workday-Launches-Pay-Transparency-Solution-To-Help-Organisations-Meet-New-EU-Rules-And-Achieve-Pay-Equity), which finds pay gaps and their root causes, with early adopters in October 2025. In June 2026, Workday said the tool [is available](https://en-gb.newsroom.workday.com/2026-06-11-Workday-Customers-Move-From-Compliance-to-Competitive-Edge-With-AI-as-EU-Pay-Transparency-Directive-Deadline-for-Transposition-Passes) across its 135 countries of operation. SAP's April 2026 SuccessFactors release [added pay transparency insights](https://news.sap.com/2026/04/sap-successfactors-1h-2026-release/) to analyze potential pay gaps. Syndio, a pay equity specialist, announced a [partnership](https://synd.io/press-release/kognitiv-and-syndio-partner-to-support-eu-pay-transparency-directive-compliance-across-global-enterprises/) in March 2026 to help global enterprises prepare for the directive. Section 05 lists every law we tracked. ### Sales compensation vendors ship most of the agents Of the 55 AI launches, 10 (18%) are agents. That is a smaller share than on our AI hiring software map. 7 companies have shipped at least one, and 4 of them sell sales compensation and commissions. Those 4 shipped 6 of the 10 agent launches. Everstage launched [Agent Core](https://www.everstage.com/press/everstage-launches-agent-core-the-agentic-intelligence-layer) in August 2025 with four incentive compensation agents, such as one that assigns new hires to plans. Xactly and ServiceNow launched an agent that [manages commission disputes](https://www.xactlycorp.com/company/press-room/xactly-and-servicenow-launch-agent-agent-ai-integration-revenue-operations) in April 2026. Xactly then launched a [fleet of agents](https://www.xactlycorp.com/company/press-room/Xactly-releases-fleet-of-agents) in May. CaptivateIQ's [Revenue Planning Agent](https://www.captivateiq.com/blog/whats-new-at-ciq-july-2026), in open beta, can now change the plan model. Before it acts, the agent [shows what it will change](https://www.captivateiq.com/blog/whats-new-at-ciq-july-2026) and the downstream impact. Performio's [implementation agents](https://www.performio.co/news/performio-cuts-icm-implementation-timelines-from-months-to-weeks-with-ai-agents) structure a customer's requirements, build the configuration and test it. In one project, a configuration phase [scoped at eight weeks](https://www.performio.co/news/performio-cuts-icm-implementation-timelines-from-months-to-weeks-with-ai-agents) finished in under one week. Consultants [oversee and verify](https://www.performio.co/news/performio-cuts-icm-implementation-timelines-from-months-to-weeks-with-ai-agents) the configuration. Commission tools are also tying into ServiceNow's CRM. ServiceNow will [bundle Xactly](https://www.xactlycorp.com/company/press-room/xactly-partners-with-servicenow) alongside ServiceNow CRM. Varicent [partnered with ServiceNow](https://www.varicent.com/news/varicent-and-servicenow-collaboration) in July 2025 to bring its sales planning and incentive products into the ServiceNow ecosystem. ### The pay data companies added assistants to their surveys The firms that sell salary surveys now sell a way to ask them questions. In October 2025, Mercer launched [Aida](https://www.mercer.com/en-us/about/newsroom/mercer-embraces-ai-to-deliver-better-outcomes-for-clients-launches-ai-talent-capabilities-workforce-insights-and-aida/), an assistant that answers HR questions in plain language inside its data portal. WTW launched [Rewards AI](https://insurance-canada.ca/2026/03/05/wtw-launch-rewards-ai-compensation-intelligence/) in February 2026, and each of its recommendations traces back to its source data. Aon added an [AI compensation assistant and a job-matching agent](https://aon.mediaroom.com/2026-03-31-Aon-Launches-Radford-McLagan-Compensation-Database-Enhancements-as-AI-Redefines-Workforce-Skills-and-Compensation) to its Radford McLagan data in March 2026. Newer vendors are building AI on pay data too. Compa raised a [$35 million Series B](https://www.compa.ai/blog/compa-raises-35m-series-b-to-accelerate-ai-for-enterprise-compensation) in January 2026. In August 2026, Mercer formed an [alliance with Compa](https://www.mercer.com/en-us/about/newsroom/mercer-and-compa-join-forces-to-bring-compensation-insights-into-everyday-workflows/) that adds Mercer's compensation insights to Compa's Analyst Agent. Bettercomp raised a [$33 million Series A](https://builtin.com/articles/bettercomp-raises-33m-series-a-20250722) in July 2025 for AI market pricing and pay recommendations. Pave launched its [Comp Agent](https://hrdive.com/press-release/20260502-pave-launches-its-comp-agent-to-reinvent-compensation-management-with-agent) in beta for select enterprise clients in May 2026. Pave's later releases of the agent are live. In August 2026, Pave [expanded the Pave Agent](https://techintelpro.com/news/pave-expands-ai-compensation-agent-to-reason-across-full-compensation-system-of-record) to reason across a company's full compensation context. In October, the agent began to [build PowerPoint, Word and dashboard drafts](https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/pave-agent-can-build-the-deliverable) from a conversation. ### Commission and equity data is opening to outside AI assistants In the window, 13 companies shipped an MCP server or a connector for an outside AI assistant. Sales compensation and planning vendors moved first. Fullcast released an [MCP server](https://www.fullcast.ai/content/fullcast-announces-the-release-of-its-model-context-protocol-mcp-server/) in August 2025, and Performio launched [its own](https://www.performio.co/news/performio-launches-ai-icm) in October 2025. Xactly's April 2026 dispute agent [uses the Model Context Protocol](https://www.xactlycorp.com/company/press-room/xactly-and-servicenow-launch-agent-agent-ai-integration-revenue-operations) and works with ServiceNow's assistant. Equity management tools followed in 2026. Carta opened its [Plugins for Claude](https://techintelpro.com/news/ai/enterprise-ai/carta-rearchitects-private-capital-operations-with-plugins-for-claude) to all customers in July 2026, after an April launch. Vestd launched an [MCP server](https://www.vestd.com/blog/vestd-mcp-release) in August. Cake lets AI tools [query the live cap table](https://cakeequity.com/changelog) over MCP, and in September it joined [Claude's connector directory](https://cakeequity.com/changelog). Morgan Stanley gave a handful of clients' AI agents [early access](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/ai-agents-morgan-stanley-wealth-management-funnel.html) to Shareworks. It [plans to open it](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/ai-agents-morgan-stanley-wealth-management-funnel.html) to its 3,400 administration clients by next year. The servers differ in what an outside assistant may change. Fullcast's gives AI platforms [two-way access](https://www.fullcast.ai/content/fullcast-announces-the-release-of-its-model-context-protocol-mcp-server/) to territory, quota and commissions management. Performio's lets users [run calculations and import data](https://www.performio.co/news/performio-launches-ai-icm) from tools like Claude Desktop. Through MCP, an outside agent can [run the whole territory planning process](https://www.gradient.works/blog/end-to-end-territory-planning-with-the-new-carve) in Gradient Works's Carve. Others stop short of changing pay. Visdum's server [cannot adjust or reprocess payouts](https://www.visdum.com/blog/visdum-mcp). Qobra's server lets a partner's agents [read commission statements](https://www.qobra.co/blog/qobra-dust-partnership), but they cannot edit statements or payouts. Ledgy's [MCP link](https://help.ledgy.com/en/articles/726864-how-does-ledgy-mcp-work-beta), in beta, and Mantle's [MCP connector](https://www.withmantle.com/changelog) are read-only. ### HR suites and specialists bought their way in We logged 5 acquisitions in the window. ADP bought [Pequity](https://www.pequity.com/blog/pequity-joins-adp), a compensation planning tool, in October 2025. Syndio bought [Embrace.ai](https://www.01net.it/syndio-acquires-embrace-ai/), an agentic AI company, in June 2026, and its founders joined Syndio's product and go-to-market team. Fullcast, which sells territory and quota planning, made two deals within two months in 2025. It bought [Atrium](https://techintelpro.com/news/marketing/ai/fullcast-acquires-atrium-for-ai-driven-sales-performance-solution), a sales performance platform, in August and [Copy.ai](https://www.fullcast.ai/content/fullcast-announces-the-acquisition-of-copy-ai/), a generative AI platform for sales and marketing, in October. Fullcast says the second deal gives it an [end-to-end "Plan-to-Pay" model](https://www.fullcast.ai/content/fullcast-announces-the-acquisition-of-copy-ai/). ## The companies Core means the product is built on that stage of compensation. Partial means the stage is present, secondary or bolted on. An empty cell means we did not find it on the company's own site. Updates counts the dated events on record between 2025-05-01 and 2026-11-07. | Company | Category | What it does | Benchmark | Plan pay | Pay equity | Quotas | Commissions | Updates | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Aon Radford McLagan Compensation Database | Compensation planning and pay equity | Aon sells the Radford McLagan Compensation Database, a validated pay database that comp teams query for market pay, with HRIS and ATS connections through APIs. Aon says more than 8,500 organizations rely on it. In 2026 it added an AI Compensation Assistant for on-demand data access and a job-matching agent that sets up role matches from plain-language instructions. | Core | | | | | 1 | | Mercer Talent All Access Portal (TAAP) | Compensation planning and pay equity | Mercer's Talent All Access Portal is a subscription portal where HR and rewards teams run Mercer's compensation, benefits and workforce data and research themselves. Mercer calls it "Mercer's game-changing HR insights platform". Aida, a chat assistant inside the portal, answers questions on benchmarks and compensation trends, and Workforce Insights adds AI-built benchmarks. | Core | | | | | 1 | | WTW Rewards AI | Compensation planning and pay equity | WTW sells Rewards AI, a generative AI tool for HR and compensation teams. Users ask questions in plain language and get answers from WTW's own rewards data, and each recommendation can be traced to its source data. WTW's own product page was not readable, so this row rests on trade copies of its release. | Core | Partial | | | | 1 | | Pave | Compensation planning and pay equity | "The AI compensation platform." HR and total rewards teams use Market Data Lite (free to start) and Market Data Pro for benchmarks from 9,000+ integrated clients, Market Pricing to build pay ranges and equity targets, Compensation Planning for merit cycles with manager guidance, Team View dashboards that flag flight risks, and a Total Rewards portal. The Pave Agent runs merit-cycle simulations on the company's own data. Pay equity and pay transparency are not named products on the homepage. | Core | Core | | | | 4 | | Payscale | Compensation planning and pay equity | "Confident pay decisions. Real business impact." Compensation teams buy Benchmarking ("Defensible pay benchmarks powered by AI-guided data", 60M+ jobs priced in 2024), JobNav for job architecture and pay ranges, Paycycle for merit cycles and raises, and Ascent. The homepage also lists pay equity analysis with "auditable methodology" and auto-generated "compliant pay range language for every jurisdiction". | Core | Core | Partial | | | 3 | | Pequity | Compensation planning and pay equity | "Compensation made simple. Decisions made powerful." Compensation teams at mid-size, enterprise and multinational companies run comp cycles in a spreadsheet-style tool with Market Pulse benchmarks, Range Management, Approvals, Employee Portals, People Insights and a Salary Board for sharing ranges with candidates or in job posts. ADP bought Pequity in October 2025 and the homepage now reads "Pequity joins ADP". Pay equity appears as a benefit claim, not a named analysis module. | Partial | Core | Partial | | | 1 | | Salary.com | Compensation planning and pay equity | Salary.com sells a total compensation platform to HR and comp teams: CompAnalyst for job pricing, pay ranges and scenario modeling, CompXL for merit cycles, bonuses and equity grants, a Pay Equity Suite, and market data. Its AI layer, Max, runs agents that match jobs, price roles and build salary structures. In 2026 it added SalaryTalent, an AI talent platform built on compensation. | Core | Core | Partial | | | 4 | | Syndio | Compensation planning and pay equity | "The pay equity foundation." Essentials covers pay equity analysis, pay gap reporting, continuous pay gap reporting across jurisdictions, responses to employee pay information requests and documentation for the EU Pay Transparency Directive. Decisions governs offers, promotions, raises and transfers against policy, internal equity and market data ("Govern in real time"). Predict, which models the cost of a pay decision first, is listed as coming soon. Buyers are pay equity, compensation and legal teams. | | Partial | Core | | | 3 | | beqom PaySuite | Compensation planning and pay equity | beqom sells PaySuite, "Fair, Explainable Compensation at Scale", to HR and total rewards teams at large employers. It joins compensation planning, long-term incentives, performance, pay equity and pay transparency, and sits on top of the existing HR system. Its beqom AI layer adds agents for pay questions, pay gap analysis and raise allocation, with people making the final call. | Partial | Core | Core | | | 1 | | Bettercomp | Compensation planning and pay equity | Bettercomp sells market pricing software to comp teams: it matches jobs to survey data, models pay ranges and reports on pay. Its headline is "Market pricing built on your compensation strategy." Ask Bettercomp answers plain-language comp questions from the customer's own data, and AI job recommendations suggest survey matches that can be applied in one click. WTW named it a preferred market pricing technology partner. | Core | Partial | | | | 3 | | Compa | Compensation planning and pay equity | Compa sells compensation intelligence to enterprise comp teams: live market data on offers, employees, stock, skills and frontline pay, plus AI agents on top. Its hero headline is "AI for Enterprise Compensation Teams". The Analyst Agent automates compensation analysis. The Partner Agent helps recruiters and HR partners use comp guidance on pay decisions. | Core | Partial | | | | 3 | | Complete | Compensation planning and pay equity | Complete sells compensation software for people teams: comp planning, job levels and bands, total rewards statements and interactive offers, with 100+ HRIS, ATS and equity integrations. Its headline is "AI Native Compensation Without the Complication". Compy, its AI agent layer, prepares merit cycles, builds bands, drafts offers and writes rewards statements for a person to review. | Partial | Core | Partial | | | 0 | | Bridgit Pay | Compensation planning and pay equity | "Know what to do about your pay gaps." Software for pay gap reporting and EU pay transparency: reporting by category of worker, handling of employee pay requests, and flagging unexplained gaps of 5% or more that could trigger a joint pay assessment. It lists an EU Pay Transparency Directive tracker under Resources. HR and reward teams buy it; organisations under 250 employees can buy a one-time report. | | | Core | | | 0 | | Comprehensive | Compensation planning and pay equity | "The AI-powered, fully-customizable compensation platform." Compensation and total rewards teams run comp cycles, a total rewards dashboard for employees and pay range management in one system, on benchmarking data that includes startup pay data from 550+ VC-backed companies, Mercer and Salary.com, plus a free tool for current pay ranges at 6,000+ U.S. tech companies. Pay equity analytics and auto-outlier detection surface pay gaps. It is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and integrates with HRIS, performance and cap table tools. | Core | Core | Partial | | | 0 | | Decusoft Compose | Compensation planning and pay equity | Decusoft sells Compose, a no-code compensation management platform for HR, finance and comp teams. It covers merit cycles and salary, bonus, short- and long-term incentives, equity and executive pay. Its headline is "The Industry's Most Flexible Compensation Management Platform". Compose Insights answers plain-language questions on comp data, and Predictive Compensation simulates pay scenarios. | | Core | | | | 2 | | EquiPay AI | Compensation planning and pay equity | "Pay equity compliance in minutes, not months." AI-powered pay equity audits for EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance, aimed at companies with 100 to 1,000 employees. The platform runs regression-based pay gap analysis, produces one-click Article 9 gender pay gap reports and Joint Pay Assessments, keeps a timestamped audit trail and connects to Personio, SAP SuccessFactors, DATEV and Sage or takes CSV and Excel files. | | | Core | | | 0 | | Levels.fyi | Compensation planning and pay equity | Levels.fyi sells employers compensation data by company, level and location, offer letters that show candidates the full package, talent branding and a talent pool. Its newest employer product is an API and MCP server: "Pay data for your agents and apps, through MCP or our API." Buyers are recruiting and comp teams, mostly in tech. | Core | Partial | | | | 0 | | Trusaic | Compensation planning and pay equity | Pay equity and EU pay transparency software. Compliance, HR and legal teams use PayParity, which uses "advanced statistical modeling to identify pay gaps" and supports remediation and progress monitoring. Trusaic describes itself as "the global leader in pay equity and EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance software" and says its pay equity suite is "augmented by Trusaic AI agents" that simplify pay equity and transparency reporting. | | | Core | | | 1 | | Oracle Incentive Compensation | Sales compensation and commissions | Oracle's incentive compensation module in its Fusion Cloud Sales offering, named "Oracle Incentive Compensation" in Oracle's documentation, for plan administrators and compensation analysts. Generative AI writes a plain-language summary of each performance measure and each plan component for administrators; it is switched on through Oracle's opt-in generative AI features for Sales. | | | | | Core | 0 | | Salesforce Spiff | Sales compensation and commissions | Salesforce's incentive compensation product, sold inside Sales Cloud or on its own as Salesforce Spiff. Sales leaders, finance and sellers get real-time commission views, a commission estimator, dispute handling and an audit trail on Salesforce data. The AI today is Spiff Assistant, which explains plan logic, errors and filters and helps with formulas in natural language, and Agentforce, named on the product page for plan changes and for manager views of trends and outliers. | | | | | Core | 0 | | SAP Incentive Management | Sales compensation and commissions | SAP's incentive compensation and commissions product (earlier SAP Commissions, also written SAP SuccessFactors Incentive Management), sold to large enterprises. Joule, SAP's AI copilot, is an optional add-on: payees ask questions about their compensation results in natural language and get payments, credits, transactions and adjustments in a chat on their incentive dashboard. | | | | | Core | 0 | | Kennect | Sales compensation and commissions | "Empowering enterprises to Compound growth with Agentic sales performance management": incentive compensation management, sales performance management and secondary sales automation for enterprise sales, distributor and field teams, strongest in pharma, insurance and lending in India. KennectAI includes KAI insights, KAI nudges with next-best action, and an "Ask Kai" chat for payout questions. | | | | Partial | Core | 0 | | Varicent | Sales compensation and commissions | "The Only AI-Native SPM Platform on the Market." Varicent sells sales planning, incentive compensation and seller insights to large enterprise sales, finance and revenue operations teams. Its assistants build data pipelines, design territories and quotas, build and test incentive plans, and answer seller and admin questions, including disputes. | | | | Core | Core | 2 | | Xactly | Sales compensation and commissions | Xactly sells an "Intelligent Revenue Platform" that joins territory and quota planning, incentive compensation and forecasting for enterprise sales, finance and revenue operations teams. Its AI builds and configures incentive plans from natural language, lets sellers ask about earnings and open disputes in conversation, and runs a fleet of agents that customers can extend in Intelligence Studio. | | | | Core | Core | 4 | | CaptivateIQ | Sales compensation and commissions | "Planning and incentives agents that simply work." CaptivateIQ sells incentive compensation and sales planning on one data set to sales operations, finance and HR teams. Its AI reads plan requirements and writes plan formulas, explains payouts to reps in plain language, flags payout anomalies, and builds revenue plans with territory and account assignments, with a person approving each change. | | | | Core | Core | 4 | | Dolfin | Sales compensation and commissions | "Loved by sales reps. Trusted by Finance. Easy for RevOps." Dolfin is an AI-native sales commission platform for mid-market B2B teams with roughly 50 to 500 quota-carrying reps. It automates commission calculation, tracking and payouts for RevOps, finance and HR, and shows reps their earnings. Its agent Flipper designs and adjusts plans, runs scenario simulations and helps resolve commission disputes. | | | | | Core | 1 | | Everstage | Sales compensation and commissions | "The Agentic Revenue Execution Platform for incentives, CPQ, and planning." Everstage sells commission calculation, sales planning and quoting to comp, RevOps and finance teams. Its Eva assistant drafts plans from plain language, catches payout errors, explains commissions to reps and builds dashboards, and it runs inside Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot through an MCP server. | | | | Partial | Core | 2 | | Forma.ai | Sales compensation and commissions | "AI-powered sales compensation software for true GTM agility." Forma.ai sells enterprise sales planning (territories and quotas) and incentive compensation on one data platform to sales ops, compensation, finance and HR teams. Its AI turns plain-language plan logic into reusable, validated plan components, and its machine learning models and data science team assess territory, quota and comp plan effects. | | | | Core | Core | 0 | | Performio | Sales compensation and commissions | "AI-first incentive compensation management (ICM) platform built for enterprise complexity." Performio sells commission calculation, a no-code plan builder and analytics to comp, finance and revenue operations teams. Its AI Admin Assistant traces payout problems, AI Implementation Agents build and test configuration, and an MCP Server lets admins run calculations from Claude or Copilot. | | | | | Core | 3 | | Qobra | Sales compensation and commissions | "The sales compensation platform for finance and RevOps teams": design plans, automate payouts, show reps their earnings and approve commissions before payroll. Three named AI agents sit on top: The Architect builds, edits and simulates plans, The Analyst catches commission errors before payout, and The Sales Coach answers reps' questions. An MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants work with Qobra data. | | | | Partial | Core | 2 | | QuotaPath | Sales compensation and commissions | "Commissions handled. Outcomes delivered." QuotaPath sells commission tracking and plan design to RevOps, finance and sales teams, mostly growth-stage and mid-market, with native CRM and payroll integrations. Its AI Plan Builder turns a document or a typed description into a plan, Atlas acts as an AI revenue strategist that checks plans against benchmarks and models scenarios, and an MCP lets users manage plans from their own LLM. | | | | Partial | Core | 1 | | Driven | Sales compensation and commissions | "The AI-native way to run commissions": a sales commission platform that calls itself the "#1 sales commission agent". An agent designs or updates compensation plans, a Performance Agent gives insights on which behaviors drive revenue, and AI answers rep questions with explanations and interactive flowcharts, reviews deal disputes and sends nudges. It integrates with HubSpot, Salesforce and Slack and offers a Start for free sign-up. | | | | | Core | 0 | | Optymyze | Sales compensation and commissions | "Optymyze provides a unified, no-code platform for enterprise sales performance management": compensation, quota, territory and objective management plus an app gallery. The AI is described as "AI-enhanced, not AI-dependent": plain-language help to build or adjust no-code flows, change roadmaps, and a read-only MCP server so a buyer's own agents can query Optymyze data. | | | | Core | Core | 0 | | Sales Cookie | Sales compensation and commissions | "Sales Commissions Solved": cloud commission software for small and mid-size sales teams, sold per user per month with a free trial. The "AI Everywhere" feature set has an AI wizard that builds incentive plans and checks them for problems, an AI assistant that answers payee questions around the clock, an AI assistant for admins that finds anomalies and builds reports, and AI commands that edit commission logic. | | | | | Core | 0 | | Visdum | Sales compensation and commissions | "Rated #1 Easiest To Use Sales Compensation Software": commission calculation and reporting for high-growth and mid-market sales teams, priced per payee (a per-payee license with support and hosting included). The "Visdum AI Suite" includes an AI Copilot that explains commissions and traces errors, an AI Nudge Generator, an AI Report Builder and an MCP server for Claude. | | | | | Core | 4 | | Fullcast | Sales planning, quotas and territories | "One Connected System, from Plan to Pay": territory and quota planning (Fullcast Plan), forecasting (Fullcast Revenue Intelligence) and commissions (Fullcast Pay) for revenue operations teams. Agents in Revenue Intelligence read live deal signals, and an MCP server lets Claude, OpenAI and Gemini query and change territory, quota and commission data. It bought Atrium and Copy.ai in 2025. | | | | Core | Core | 3 | | Gradient Works | Sales planning, quotas and territories | "The territory planning platform for commercial sales", working with Salesforce and HubSpot. Carve designs territory scenarios, collects leader feedback, deploys account ownership to the CRM and keeps plans current; Market Map scores accounts against the best customers; AI Researchers enrich accounts. Carve is run by an AI agent, and an MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor drive the whole process. | | | | Core | | 1 | | EasyTerritory | Sales planning, quotas and territories | "Territory Intelligence Made Easy.": territory design tools for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power BI users (Territory Designer, EasyMap, Rep Locator). Its MCP Server, in early access, brings territory capability to a buyer's AI agent: it geocodes data, builds and rebalances territories, routes, schedules and analyzes coverage, and "asks before it guesses". | | | | Partial | | 0 | | Shareworks | Equity management | Shareworks, from Morgan Stanley at Work, administers equity plans for private and public companies. Finance, legal and HR teams buy it. CNBC reported in June 2026 that Morgan Stanley at Work is opening Shareworks and Equity Edge to outside AI agents over the Model Context Protocol, with early access for 'a handful of clients'. | | Core | | | | 1 | | Cake Equity | Equity management | "The equity platform for growing startups." Cake Equity runs cap tables, option and RSU grants, SAFEs and convertible notes, 409A valuations and an employee app, and sells to founders, finance and HR teams at startups. The AI is Cake MCP, which answers cap table questions in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor, Cake Intelligence, which watches deadlines and drafts reminders, and an AI document scanner for equity contracts. | Partial | Core | | | | 2 | | Carta | Equity management | Carta runs cap tables, equity and 409A records for private companies and publishes salary and equity benchmarks in its Total Compensation product. The AI is Carta Plugins for Claude: the Cap Table Plugin pulls live cap table summaries and 409A records, drafts board presentations, generates 18 report types for Excel and flags expiring valuations, low option pools and maturing SAFEs. | Partial | Core | | | | 3 | | EquityList | Equity management | "Your Equity Agent at work." EquityList is an AI-native cap table and compliance system for private and listed companies, covering ownership ledgers, grants, exercises, buybacks and filings. Finance, legal and HR teams buy it. Its AI reads the ESOP scheme, shareholders' agreement and board resolutions, answers from them and carries out workflows within the scheme's rules. | | Core | | | | 1 | | Ledgy | Equity management | "Equity and executive compensation management, unified." Ledgy runs cap tables, share plans, vesting, employee equity dashboards, financial reporting and deferred compensation for private and public companies. Finance, legal and HR teams buy it. The AI is Ledgy Agent, which completes equity admin tasks in one request after a person approves each action, and Ledgy MCP, a read-only link from Claude, Cursor, Codex and ChatGPT. | | Core | | | | 1 | | Vestd | Equity management | "Equity at scale. Make ownership feel real." Vestd is a UK equity management platform for cap tables, EMI and other share schemes, HMRC filings, valuations and fundraising workflows, sold to founders, finance and HR teams. The AI is the Vestd MCP, which lets Claude and ChatGPT answer questions about a company's cap table, shares, options and filings from live data, plus an AI help assistant on its site. | | Core | | | | 2 | | Mantle Equity | Equity management | "Everything your company needs to manage equity, all in one place." Mantle Equity runs cap tables, SAFEs, option and RSU grants, board resolutions and 409A valuations for startups. The AI is Mantle Clerk, an assistant inside the cap table that answers questions, reads documents and drafts grants and board actions, plus AI Assist, a document-reading extractor and a read-only MCP connector. | | Core | | | | 5 | | Anaplan | Business planning platforms | Anaplan's sales planning: go-to-market capacity planning, territory planning, quota planning and management ("Set targets, allocate quotas, and manage goals to motivate GTM teams"), with incentive compensation linked in the revenue performance suite. Anaplan Sales Analyst is the AI agent for revenue performance management; Gartner named Anaplan a Leader in its 2026 sales performance management Magic Quadrant. | | | | Core | Partial | 1 | | Pigment | Business planning platforms | "Smarter Territory & Quota Planning": Pigment's sales planning use case sets quotas from market potential, historical data and sales trends, rebalances territories and tests incentive scenarios. Its Modeler Agent builds or updates a territory and quota model from a plain-language description, its Analyst Agent tracks results against the plan, and its MCP Server lets ChatGPT and other tools query the plan. | | | | Core | | 0 | | ADP | HR suites and HRIS | ADP sells pay data more than comp planning. "Real Income powered by ADP" benchmarks pay against "39+ million ADP U.S. payroll records" across 9,000+ job titles and can "quantify pay gaps down to dollars and cents and estimate the cost to close them". Enhanced Insights powered by ADP DataCloud adds compensation benchmarks, natural-language questions through ADP Assist and a predictive turnover model. ADP's pay transparency page points to DataCloud for pay gap analysis. Buyers are HR teams on ADP payroll. | Partial | | Partial | | | 0 | | Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM | HR suites and HRIS | Oracle Compensation, part of Oracle Talent Management in Fusion Cloud HCM, runs worksheets, plans and total compensation statements for large employers. Oracle pitches "AI-powered compensation reviews" for year-round pay equity, with AI agents for managers and employees: Compensation Advisor (My Team) answers questions on team pay, bonuses, stock and market composites; a peer-group benchmark compares a report's salary to similar grades; a Workforce Compensation Analyst answers plan status questions; a Total Compensation Statement agent explains statements. | Partial | Core | Partial | | | 1 | | SAP SuccessFactors | HR suites and HRIS | SAP SuccessFactors Compensation sits in the HCM suite. In 2026 SAP added EU Pay Transparency Insights to People Intelligence in SAP Business Data Cloud, which it calls "an intelligent, AI-powered application" that lets organizations analyze compensation, find outliers and address pay gaps, and supports EU pay transparency reporting. | | Partial | Core | | | 2 | | Workday | HR suites and HRIS | "Workday's AI platform transforms compensation into a strategic financial lever." Workday Compensation runs merit cycles, bonuses and equity grants inside its HCM suite, with a Pay Equity Discovery Board for gaps by gender, ethnicity and age, personalized total rewards statements, and a Compensation Benchmark feature that matches survey data to the job catalog by machine learning. Pay Transparency Analyzer, built with Kainos, uses AI to find root causes of pay gaps for EU rules. Compa adds offers-based market data. | Partial | Core | Core | | | 2 | | HiBob | HR suites and HRIS | "Make compensation fair, confident, and data-driven." Bob Planning & Compensation sets pay bands by role, level and site, runs comp cycles with budget simulation, and gives managers "smart, explainable pay suggestions" grounded in performance, market benchmarks and budget. An AI-powered equity analyzer finds pay gaps by role, level, gender and location. Bob's AI job catalog builds a job catalog from existing role data. Sold to mid-sized and global companies as part of Bob. | Partial | Core | Core | | | 0 | ## Agentic and always-on launches | Date | Company | Launch | Kind | Human role | Source | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-09-28 | Salary.com | Salary.com launches SalaryTalent, an AI-native talent platform: Salary.com launched SalaryTalent, "an AI-native, compensation-first talent management platform". HR Agent Orchestration gives "human-in-the-loop control over AI agents" with "configurable approval gates, permission scopes, and audit logs". | Agent | People set direction and approve actions at the approval gates | | | 2026-09-16 | Gradient Works | Gradient Works relaunches Carve for end-to-end territory planning: The new Carve runs design, feedback, deployment and adjustment in one place. An AI agent acts as a "sales territory expert" that builds and adjusts plans and deploys them to Salesforce, and through MCP an outside agent in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini can run the whole process. | Agent | supplies data and requirements, gives feedback, shares scenarios for review | | | 2026-07-29 | CaptivateIQ | CaptivateIQ Revenue Planning Agent can now change the plan model, in open beta: The July 2026 product update says the Revenue Planning Agent "moves from reading your model to changing it." Before it acts, the agent shows what it will change and the downstream impact, and it can compare scenarios in one conversation. The post lists native MCP support for the Knowledge Base as coming soon. | Agent (beta) | confirms each change before it applies | | | 2026-06-18 | Performio | Performio AI Implementation Agents cut an ICM build from months to weeks at customers: Performio reported customer results from its AI Implementation Agents: a Discovery Agent that structures requirements, a Configuration Agent that builds the configuration, and a UAT Agent that generates and validates test scenarios. In one implementation a configuration phase scoped at eight weeks finished in under one week. The release says the AI Admin Assistant can call the same agents for plan changes in live environments. | Agent | consultants oversee and verify the configuration | | | 2026-05-15 | CaptivateIQ | CaptivateIQ launches CaptivateIQ Agents and an MCP Server in limited beta: Three agents: a Compensation Builder Agent that creates plans, formulas and columns and explains errors; a Compensation Operations Agent that checks payouts and data before they go out, answers rep and manager questions and manages approvals; and a Revenue Planning Agent that builds a plan from a leader's goals including territory and account assignments. An MCP Server connects live compensation and planning data to outside AI tools. The release says the agents are in limited beta for select customers, with general availability planned for later in 2026. | Agent (beta) | a person reviews and approves plans, fixes and payouts | | | 2026-05-14 | Xactly | Xactly launches a Fleet of Agents and Intelligence Studio: The Fleet of Agents covers builder, workflow and optimization agents, with an Incent Plan Configuration Agent and a Dispute Management Agent as early examples. Intelligence Studio lets Xactly, customers and partners create and configure agents on their own business rules. The release ties the Fleet to Intelligence Connect, released in 2025, and Xactly's MCP server. | Agent | Release names no review step; customers configure agents to their own rules | | | 2026-05-04 | Pave | Pave launches the Pave Comp Agent: Pave launched the Pave Comp Agent, which "sits directly inside PaveOS with full access to each organization's structured compensation data" and runs multi-step work such as building cases for employees flagged as underpaid, monitoring for retention risks and running merit-cycle simulations. It went to select enterprise clients with a waitlist. | Agent (beta) | Comp team sets the rules, permissions and skills; the release names no per-step approval | | | 2026-04-21 | Xactly | Xactly and ServiceNow launch a Dispute Management AI Agent: The Dispute Management AI Agent uses the Model Context Protocol and works with ServiceNow Now Assist to automate compensation inquiries and dispute workflows. The release says it manages the investigation and resolution of commission disputes in one AI-guided interaction and is available via the ServiceNow Marketplace. | Agent | Release names no review step | | | 2026-03-31 | Salary.com | Salary.com launches Max, an AI model with autonomous agents: Salary.com launched Max, "a purpose-built AI that brings autonomous agents and real-time market intelligence into compensation workflows". The agents "execute complex tasks" and automate pre- and post-planning analysis and flag pay-compression risks before a cycle begins. | Agent | People set direction and approve the decisions that matter (Salary.com agents page) | | | 2025-08-07 | Everstage | Everstage launches Agent Core, an agentic layer for incentive compensation: Agent Core is a layer that holds an account's rules, workflows and business logic so agents answer in context. It launches with four incentive compensation agents, including a Databook Assistant that readies Salesforce data for commission processing, an Onboarding Assistant that assigns new hires to plans, and an Admin Assistant that routes support queries. Everstage says agents for territory, quota and capacity planning are coming. | Agent | RevOps and finance leaders set direction and decide | | ## What the companies have in common How many companies sell each AI capability today, of 52. | Capability | Companies | What it means | |---|---|---| | Assistant | 35 | A general AI assistant or chat over the product's data. | | Pay analytics | 32 | AI analytics or natural-language questions on pay and incentive data. | | Named agent | 20 | A named agent that completes multi-step work on its own. | | MCP or agent API | 19 | An MCP server, agent API, or apps inside ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot. | | Commission calculation | 15 | Calculate commissions and incentives from CRM and billing data. | | Plan design | 14 | Build and model incentive plans, or read plan documents with AI. | | Market pay data | 13 | Benchmarks from surveys, payroll or job-post data, matched to roles with AI. | | Pay equity analysis | 12 | Statistical pay gap analysis and remediation. | | Rep earnings view | 12 | Show sellers their earnings, forecasts and what-ifs, or answer their questions. | | Comp cycles | 11 | Merit cycle, bonus and equity planning with AI recommendations or guidance for managers. | | Pay ranges and offers | 9 | AI-recommended pay ranges or offer amounts. | | Pay transparency | 9 | Pay transparency reporting and compliance, such as the EU directive. | | Territory planning | 9 | AI-assisted territory design and account assignment. | | Quota setting | 7 | AI-assisted quota setting and capacity planning. | | Equity administration | 7 | Cap tables, grants, vesting and equity reporting. | | Job leveling | 5 | AI-built job architecture, levels and job matching. | | Total rewards | 4 | Total rewards statements or communication of pay, equity and benefits. | ## Every dated event | Date | Company | Kind | Event | Source | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-11-02 | EquityList | Product launch | EquityList goes AI-native: EquityList says its platform now reads the ESOP scheme, shareholders' agreements and board resolutions, answers questions from them, and carries out workflows within the scheme's vesting and approval rules. It says 'The new EquityList is live today.' | | | 2026-10-20 | beqom PaySuite | Product launch | beqom launches PaySuite with Intentional AI: beqom launched PaySuite, which joins compensation, performance, pay equity and pay transparency on top of a customer's HR system, with explainable and auditable AI recommendations and people making the final decision. | | | 2026-10-19 | Mantle Equity | Product launch | Mantle adds a read-only MCP connector: Mantle now exposes a read-only MCP connector so AI assistants can look up cap table summaries, securities, stakeholders, board resolutions, equity plans and exercise notices, within a user's existing permissions. | | | 2026-10-12 | Qobra | Partnership | Qobra MCP becomes native in Dust: Qobra and Dust are official partners. Dust agents can read quota attainment, commission statements, plans and reports through Qobra's MCP server (65 actions, 45 read and 20 write), inside each user's permissions. Agents cannot edit statements or payouts. | | | 2026-10-05 | Ledgy | Product launch | Ledgy publishes its MCP guide (beta): Ledgy's help centre guide describes Ledgy MCP (Beta) as a read-only live link that lets Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT query a customer's Ledgy data, on the Scale plan and above. | | | 2026-10-02 | Pave | Product launch | Pave Agent builds files from a conversation: "The Agent can generate real files directly from a conversation," producing PowerPoint, Word, Markdown and HTML dashboard drafts grounded in the same data as its answers. | | | 2026-09-28 | Salary.com | Product launch | Salary.com launches SalaryTalent, an AI-native talent platform: Salary.com launched SalaryTalent, "an AI-native, compensation-first talent management platform". HR Agent Orchestration gives "human-in-the-loop control over AI agents" with "configurable approval gates, permission scopes, and audit logs". | | | 2026-09-27 | Cake Equity | Product launch | Cake is listed in Claude's connector directory: Cake is now in Claude's connector directory, so a user can connect it once and ask about the cap table from any chat with no setup. | | | 2026-09-24 | Qobra | Partnership | Qobra and HiBob become official partners: Qobra is now listed on the HiBob Marketplace, and the Bob integration that syncs employee data into Qobra moves from a service account to OAuth. The companies plan jointly built sync features. | | | 2026-09-17 | Cake Equity | Product launch | Cake MCP lets AI tools query the cap table: Cake's changelog says Claude, Codex, Grok, Cursor or any MCP client can connect to Cake and answer cap table questions from the live cap table, with no export. | | | 2026-09-16 | Gradient Works | Product launch | Gradient Works relaunches Carve for end-to-end territory planning: The new Carve runs design, feedback, deployment and adjustment in one place. An AI agent acts as a "sales territory expert" that builds and adjusts plans and deploys them to Salesforce, and through MCP an outside agent in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini can run the whole process. | | | 2026-09-08 | Payscale | Product launch | Payscale launches Ascent AI-first benchmarking: Ascent is "an AI-first benchmarking platform within the Payscale Intelligence Cloud" on Peer data from 4,500+ organizations; it bundles Smart Price and Smart Reporting ("Ask in plain language and get a report back"). | | | 2026-09-01 | Pave | Product launch | Pave Agent reaches Claude over MCP: Pave opened The Pave Agent to outside AI tools over MCP: it "is reachable from the AI tools you're already using, starting with Claude." | | | 2026-08-25 | Salary.com | Partnership | Salary.com completes Workday Design Approved integration: CompAnalyst now connects to Workday HCM through a Workday Marketplace integration that syncs employee data so teams can price roles and build pay structures without manual uploads. | | | 2026-08-19 | Vestd | Product launch | Vestd launches an MCP server: Vestd built an MCP server so an AI agent such as Claude or ChatGPT can pull a company's live cap table, options, governance, filings and documents under the user's own permissions. | | | 2026-08-13 | Pave | Product launch | Pave Agent reasons across the full compensation system of record: Pave expanded the Pave Agent: "The Agent can now reason across a company's full compensation context," including merit cycles, pay ranges, a new job-posting dataset and customer documents, and "Every recommendation cites its sources and explains its reasoning." | | | 2026-08-13 | Compa | Partnership | Mercer and Compa form an alliance around Analyst Agent: Mercer adds its compensation insights, built on its global dataset and advisory experience, to Compa's Analyst Agent, so shared clients can assess market pricing and pay trends. | | | 2026-08-12 | Xactly | Partnership | Xactly partners with ServiceNow; ServiceNow will bundle Xactly with ServiceNow CRM: Xactly and ServiceNow announced a partnership that connects the Xactly Intelligent Revenue Platform to ServiceNow CRM. As part of the agreement, ServiceNow will bundle Xactly's platform alongside ServiceNow CRM so territory, quota and pay decisions reach the seller in real time. | | | 2026-07-31 | Visdum | Product launch | Visdum adds an AI Report Builder: Finance and RevOps describe a commission report in plain English, review a live preview, refine it in chat and save it. It is read-only and does not change a plan, rate or payout. | | | 2026-07-30 | Carta | Product launch | Carta Plugins for Claude open to all customers: Carta announced broad availability of its Plugins for Claude, including the Cap Table Plugin, following an April 2026 launch. More than 1,500 companies and firms already use them. The Cap Table Plugin generates any of 18 report types for Excel export. | | | 2026-07-29 | Visdum | Product launch | Visdum opens an MCP server so Claude can read commission data: Users connect Claude to their own Visdum data with OAuth 2.1 and their existing permissions. Ten of 11 tools are read-only; the one write action saves a report after the user approves a preview. It cannot adjust or reprocess payouts. | | | 2026-07-29 | Maine LD 54 | Law or rule | Maine pay range disclosure law takes effect: Maine's LD 54 took effect July 29, 2026 and requires employers with 10 or more employees to state a pay range in job postings. | | | 2026-07-29 | CaptivateIQ | Product launch | CaptivateIQ Revenue Planning Agent can now change the plan model, in open beta: The July 2026 product update says the Revenue Planning Agent "moves from reading your model to changing it." Before it acts, the agent shows what it will change and the downstream impact, and it can compare scenarios in one conversation. The post lists native MCP support for the Knowledge Base as coming soon. | | | 2026-07-24 | Visdum | Product launch | Visdum adds an AI Nudge Generator: It drafts a short coaching email for one rep from where that rep stands in the current commission cycle, and sends it only after a manager approves it. | | | 2026-07-15 | Mantle Equity | Product launch | Mantle Clerk reaches general availability: Every Mantle customer now has access to the Clerk AI assistant to help draft grants, manage documents and answer questions. | | | 2026-07-06 | Greece Law 5316/2026 | Law or rule | Greece publishes its pay transparency law: Greece's Law 5316/2026 was published in the Government Gazette on 6 July 2026. Most of its operational provisions apply from 1 November 2026; structural provisions such as scope and definitions took effect on 6 July 2026. | | | 2026-07-01 | Virginia SB 215 | Law or rule | Virginia pay transparency law takes effect: Virginia's pay transparency law (SB 215) took effect July 1, 2026. | | | 2026-06-23 | Syndio | Acquisition | Syndio acquires agentic AI company Embrace.ai: Syndio, "the leader in Decision Intelligence for Pay", acquired Embrace.ai, "an agentic AI company built to deploy AI-driven automation across business workflows"; its founders join Syndio's product and go-to-market team. Terms were not disclosed. | | | 2026-06-18 | Performio | Product launch | Performio AI Implementation Agents cut an ICM build from months to weeks at customers: Performio reported customer results from its AI Implementation Agents: a Discovery Agent that structures requirements, a Configuration Agent that builds the configuration, and a UAT Agent that generates and validates test scenarios. In one implementation a configuration phase scoped at eight weeks finished in under one week. The release says the AI Admin Assistant can call the same agents for plan changes in live environments. | | | 2026-06-15 | Vestd | Funding | Vestd takes its first institutional round from Foresight Group: Vestd announced a growth investment from Foresight Group, a FTSE 250 investment manager, its 'first institutional round after ten years'. The amount is not disclosed. Vestd says AI is already deployed tactically across the business. | | | 2026-06-11 | Workday | Product launch | Workday says Pay Transparency Analyzer is available in 135 countries: Workday says Pay Transparency Analyzer powered by Kainos 'is available to organisations across Workday's 135 countries of operation', after the EU transposition deadline passed. It says Fugro is preparing to adopt it, and David Lloyd Clubs and Kongsberg have set up central data platforms for people and total rewards data. | | | 2026-06-07 | Lithuania Labour Code pay transparency amendments | Law or rule | Lithuania's Labour Code amendments on pay transparency take effect: The Law Amending the Lithuanian Labour Code took effect on 7 June 2026, with changes to pay confidentiality and recruitment. Employers must adopt or update remuneration systems by 31 December 2026; job categorisation, pay data submission and employee pay information rights follow on 1 January 2027. | | | 2026-06-07 | Italy Legislative Decree 96/2026 | Law or rule | Italy's pay transparency decree applies to all employers: Italy published Legislative Decree No. 96/2026 in the Official Gazette on 1 June 2026. From 7 June 2026 all employers, regardless of size, must comply with its immediate obligations. | | | 2026-06-07 | EU Pay Transparency Directive | Law or rule | EU deadline for member states to adopt the Pay Transparency Directive: Directive (EU) 2023/970 requires member states to bring into force the laws needed to comply "by 7 June 2026" (Article 34(1)). It was published in the Official Journal on 17 May 2023. | | | 2026-06-05 | Malta pay transparency regulations | Law or rule | Malta implements the EU Pay Transparency Directive: Deloitte Legal says that on 5 June 2026 Malta implemented the remaining provisions of the EU Pay Transparency Directive 'with immediate effect' through new Regulations, two days before the 7 June deadline. | | | 2026-06-03 | Shareworks | Product launch | Morgan Stanley opens Shareworks and Equity Edge to outside AI agents: CNBC reported that Morgan Stanley at Work will let clients' outside AI agents connect directly to Shareworks and Equity Edge over the Model Context Protocol. It has granted 'a handful of clients' early agentic access and plans to open it to its 3,400 administration clients by next year. | | | 2026-06-01 | QuotaPath | Product launch | QuotaPath launches Atlas, an AI revenue strategist for comp plans: Atlas helps revenue leaders create and check compensation plans and model the go-to-market plan needed to hit revenue targets. The release lists plan validation against benchmarks, scenario modeling before rollout, linking pay structures to business goals, and answers on team performance. | | | 2026-05-15 | CaptivateIQ | Product launch | CaptivateIQ launches CaptivateIQ Agents and an MCP Server in limited beta: Three agents: a Compensation Builder Agent that creates plans, formulas and columns and explains errors; a Compensation Operations Agent that checks payouts and data before they go out, answers rep and manager questions and manages approvals; and a Revenue Planning Agent that builds a plan from a leader's goals including territory and account assignments. An MCP Server connects live compensation and planning data to outside AI tools. The release says the agents are in limited beta for select customers, with general availability planned for later in 2026. | | | 2026-05-14 | Xactly | Product launch | Xactly launches a Fleet of Agents and Intelligence Studio: The Fleet of Agents covers builder, workflow and optimization agents, with an Incent Plan Configuration Agent and a Dispute Management Agent as early examples. Intelligence Studio lets Xactly, customers and partners create and configure agents on their own business rules. The release ties the Fleet to Intelligence Connect, released in 2025, and Xactly's MCP server. | | | 2026-05-13 | Dolfin | Funding | Dolfin raises a EUR 2.1M seed round: Swanlaab led a EUR 2.1M ($2.5M) seed round with Archipelago Next, Inveready and Dozen to scale its AI-native sales compensation platform. | | | 2026-05-13 | Carta | Acquisition | Carta buys Avantia and launches Carta Law: Carta acquired Avantia, an AI-powered legal and compliance law firm for asset managers, and launched Carta Law. Terms were not disclosed. | | | 2026-05-07 | Payscale | Product launch | Payscale Smart Reporting builds compensation reports from chat: Smart Reporting lets compensation teams "use natural language chat to request reports" across pay, equity, performance and market data, "powered by AI that has been trained on decades of compensation expertise." | | | 2026-05-04 | Pave | Product launch | Pave launches the Pave Comp Agent: Pave launched the Pave Comp Agent, which "sits directly inside PaveOS with full access to each organization's structured compensation data" and runs multi-step work such as building cases for employees flagged as underpaid, monitoring for retention risks and running merit-cycle simulations. It went to select enterprise clients with a waitlist. | | | 2026-05-01 | Mantle Equity | Product launch | Mantle Clerk AI assistant opens in beta: Mantle's changelog says the AI assistant for cap tables, Mantle Clerk, is available in beta for users who request early access through support. | | | 2026-04-21 | Xactly | Product launch | Xactly and ServiceNow launch a Dispute Management AI Agent: The Dispute Management AI Agent uses the Model Context Protocol and works with ServiceNow Now Assist to automate compensation inquiries and dispute workflows. The release says it manages the investigation and resolution of commission disputes in one AI-guided interaction and is available via the ServiceNow Marketplace. | | | 2026-04-13 | SAP SuccessFactors | Product launch | SAP SuccessFactors 1H 2026 release adds pay transparency insights: The release introduces pay transparency insights in People Intelligence in SAP Business Data Cloud, to analyze compensation patterns and potential pay gaps, with the EU in view. | | | 2026-04 | Carta | Product launch | Carta launches Plugins for Claude: Carta's July 2026 release says its Plugins for Claude launched in April 2026. The Cap Table Plugin pulls live cap table summaries and 409A records into Claude and runs under each user's existing Carta permissions. | | | 2026-03-31 | Salary.com | Product launch | Salary.com launches Max, an AI model with autonomous agents: Salary.com launched Max, "a purpose-built AI that brings autonomous agents and real-time market intelligence into compensation workflows". The agents "execute complex tasks" and automate pre- and post-planning analysis and flag pay-compression risks before a cycle begins. | | | 2026-03-31 | Aon Radford McLagan Compensation Database | Product launch | Aon adds an AI Compensation Assistant and job-matching agent to Radford McLagan: Aon's AI Compensation Assistant gives on-demand access to compensation data, and a job-matching agent automates role matching and report setup from plain-language instructions. Aon says the database covers over 30 million employees in 115 countries. | | | 2026-03-26 | Decusoft Compose | Product launch | Decusoft adds Compose Insights, conversational AI for comp data: Compose Insights lets users ask plain-language questions of their own Compose data, for pay equity analysis, budget scenarios, outliers and ad hoc reports, alongside Predictive Compensation. Available to all Compose clients. | | | 2026-03-11 | Trusaic | Partnership | Trusaic and gradar partner on pay equity and job evaluation: Trusaic and gradar announced a strategic partnership to "help enterprises build transparent, defensible pay programs", pairing gradar's factor-based job evaluation with Trusaic's PayParity platform for pay equity analysis. | | | 2026-03-11 | Syndio | Partnership | Syndio and Kognitiv partner on EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance: Syndio and Kognitiv announced a strategic partnership "to help global enterprises prepare for the EU Pay Transparency Directive" and "achieve and maintain EUPTD compliance", moving from reactive compliance to continuous pay governance. | | | 2026-03-01 | Mantle Equity | Product launch | AI Assist drafts option grants from an employment letter: Uploading an employment letter lets AI Assist extract details into a draft option grant. | | | 2026-02-04 | SAP SuccessFactors | Product launch | SAP announces EU Pay Transparency Insights for People Intelligence: SAP says EU Pay Transparency Insights, an AI-powered app in the People Intelligence package in SAP Business Data Cloud, will let organizations analyze compensation, find outliers and address pay gaps. Launch set for 1H 2026. | | | 2026-02-02 | WTW Rewards AI | Product launch | WTW launches Rewards AI: WTW announced Rewards AI, "Generative AI-enabled software" for HR and compensation professionals. Users ask questions in plain language, and each recommendation can be traced back to its source data. | | | 2026-02-01 | Mantle Equity | Product launch | AI Assist builds vesting schedules from plain language: Mantle's AI Assist configures a vesting schedule from a natural language description. | | | 2026-01-26 | Compa | Funding | Compa raises $35M Series B for AI in enterprise compensation: Compa announced a $35M Series B led by Jump Capital. The post names Analyst Agent and Partner Agent as its AI agents. | | | 2026-01-12 | Bettercomp | Partnership | Bettercomp and WTW announce a strategic partnership: Bettercomp's post says WTW "evaluated all the available market pricing solutions and chose Bettercomp as their preferred market pricing technology partner", with WTW survey results flowing into Bettercomp automatically. | | | 2026-01-05 | Bettercomp | Rebrand | Bettercomp rebrands with a new logo and site: Bettercomp's post "Welcome to the new Bettercomp" announces a new logo, a lowercase C and a redesigned website; a banner on the post says "Ask Bettercomp is LIVE!", its AI-powered interface. | | | 2026-01-01 | California SB 642 | Law or rule | California SB 642 redefines pay scale: California SB 642 took effect January 1, 2026. It changes the Labor Code Section 432.3 definition of "pay scale" to a "good faith estimate" of the range upon hire. | | | 2025-12-24 | Poland Labour Code pay transparency amendment | Law or rule | Poland's pay transparency rules for recruitment take effect: Amendments to the Polish Labour Code that partly implement the EU directive entered into force on 24 December 2025. Employers must give applicants the pay or a pay range, in the ad, before the interview or before the contract, and may no longer ask about previous pay. Pay gap reporting and corrective action were not yet in national law. | | | 2025-12-09 | Xactly | Product launch | Xactly unveils Incent AI Agents in early access: Two agents on the Xactly Intelligent Revenue Platform. For practitioners, they model and deploy incentive plans from natural language prompts and show how well plans work. For sellers, they explain performance and commissions, answer questions about plan documents and policies, estimate commissions and let sellers start disputes. The release calls it an early access preview. | | | 2025-12-09 | CaptivateIQ | Product launch | CaptivateIQ opens AI Payee Agents to a waitlist: The December 2025 product newsletter introduced two AI Payee Agents: a Plan Doc Explainer that answers questions about the full compensation plan, and a Statement Explainer that checks payout statements and flags items that may need review. The newsletter says they are available via waitlist only. | | | 2025-12-09 | Anaplan | Product launch | Anaplan makes the Sales Analyst agent available: Anaplan Sales Analyst is one of four role-based AI agents made available with this announcement. It "alerts teams to risks, runs impact scenarios and enables decisive action to optimize revenue performance management." | | | 2025-12-04 | Varicent | Product launch | Varicent shows AI-native updates for planning, incentive logic, data work and inquiries: At its Unlock Innovation Forum, Varicent showed how to "model scenarios and adjust territories on demand", "automate the building and testing of incentive logic", "use AI to process data from multiple sources and create instant documentation" and cut compensation inquiries to minutes. The page gives no availability dates. | | | 2025-11-20 | Performio | Partnership | Performio and LINEN Cloud partner on sales planning and incentive pay: LINEN Cloud, an AI and no-code sales planning platform, and Performio announced a partnership to unify territory and quota planning with incentive compensation management. | | | 2025-11-13 | Payscale | Product launch | Payscale launches Smart Price agentic job pricing and Compass: Payscale launched Smart Price, which "walks users through four simple steps" of job pricing with "AI job matches that can be reviewed and adjusted", and Compass, an executive scorecard on pay strategy. Both are available within Payfactors. | | | 2025-10-29 | Pequity | Acquisition | ADP acquires Pequity: Pequity co-founder Kaitlyn Knopp announced that Pequity is joining ADP to broaden ADP's compensation tools for mid-size, enterprise and multinational clients; the post says the "entire Pequity team and platform are moving to this new world together". Terms were not disclosed. | | | 2025-10-29 | Massachusetts Salary Range Transparency Act | Law or rule | Massachusetts salary range transparency law takes effect: "An Act Relative to Salary Range Transparency" took effect Oct. 29, 2025 for employers with 25 or more employees in Massachusetts. | | | 2025-10-27 | Syndio | Product launch | Syndio launches Syndi, AI pay recommendations inside Teams, Slack and the ATS: Syndio launched Syndi, which "delivers AI-guided pay recommendations embedded where teams work"; the first release covers new-hire offers, with promotions, merit cycles and workforce planning to follow. | | | 2025-10-27 | Cleveland Ordinance 104-2025 | Law or rule | Cleveland salary range ordinance takes effect: Employers with 15 or more employees in Cleveland must show the salary range or scale before applicants apply, and may not ask external applicants about past or current pay. Effective October 27, 2025. | | | 2025-10-23 | Visdum | Product launch | Visdum introduces an AI Copilot for commissions: A chat assistant that works with live compensation data answers questions about plans, quotas, deal credits and payouts, and traces a commission back through each step to find where it broke. It is read-only and walks the user through a change instead of making it. | | | 2025-10-23 | Performio | Product launch | Performio launches an AI Admin Assistant and an MCP Server: The Performio AI Admin Assistant lets comp admins use natural language to find issues in the workspace, get plan explanations with optimization suggestions, and learn the app. The Performio MCP Server lets users run calculations, inspect plans and data flows, import data and chain workflows from tools like Claude Desktop or Salesforce Agentforce. The release adds that internal AI agents already configure plans and will reach customers. | | | 2025-10-15 | Fullcast | Acquisition | Fullcast acquires Copy.ai: Fullcast acquired Copy.ai, which it calls "the leading generative AI platform for sales and marketing workflows", to offer an end-to-end "Plan-to-Pay" model with AI outbound outreach and proposal drafting. | | | 2025-10-09 | Everstage | Product launch | Everstage launches an AI-first CPQ with a quote-to-commission link: Everstage CPQ adds AI-driven deal configuration and DealRooms to the platform and shows sellers the commission impact of a quote in real time while AI guardrails protect margins. | | | 2025-10-02 | Workday | Product launch | Workday launches Pay Transparency Analyzer powered by Kainos: AI-powered solution that analyzes compensation, performance and demographic data, finds pay disparities and root causes of gaps, and gives budgeted recommendations to close them, for the EU Pay Transparency Directive. With early adopters at launch; due for all customers in the second half of fiscal year 2026. | | | 2025-10-01 | Mercer Talent All Access Portal (TAAP) | Product launch | Mercer launches Aida and Workforce Insights: Mercer "announced the launch of Workforce Insights, an AI-powered platform" and is launching Aida, a proprietary AI assistant inside the Talent All Access Portal that answers HR questions in natural language. | | | 2025-09-17 | Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM | Product launch | Oracle adds concierge agents that route pay questions to compensation agents: Diginomica reports Oracle doubled its Fusion HCM agents to 25. Employee and manager concierge agents call other agents across compensation, leave and benefits, at no extra charge. | | | 2025-09-09 | Salary.com | Product launch | Salary.com introduces the CompAnalyst AI Suite: Salary.com announced the CompAnalyst AI Suite, pairing its compensation data with new AI tools for benchmarking, salary structure management and market analysis. | | | 2025-08-28 | Fullcast | Acquisition | Fullcast acquires Atrium: Fullcast acquired Atrium, which the article calls a 'data-driven sales performance management platform' that gives sales managers data to help reps improve. Terms were not disclosed. | | | 2025-08-26 | Fullcast | Product launch | Fullcast releases an MCP server for revenue operations: The server gives AI platforms such as Claude, OpenAI and Gemini two-way access to territory and quota management, incentive and commissions management and analytics, for enterprise clients. Fullcast calls it the first MCP-enabled revenue operations platform. | | | 2025-08-13 | CaptivateIQ | Product launch | CaptivateIQ joins sales planning and incentive pay in one AI platform with Catalyst: CaptivateIQ released its next-generation platform that puts capacity planning, quota management and predictive modeling next to incentive compensation. Catalyst, a new AI and machine learning layer, supports tailored forecasting models and flags unusual data patterns; AI-guided plan building lets teams revise plans without IT. | | | 2025-08-07 | Everstage | Product launch | Everstage launches Agent Core, an agentic layer for incentive compensation: Agent Core is a layer that holds an account's rules, workflows and business logic so agents answer in context. It launches with four incentive compensation agents, including a Databook Assistant that readies Salesforce data for commission processing, an Onboarding Assistant that assigns new hires to plans, and an Admin Assistant that routes support queries. Everstage says agents for territory, quota and capacity planning are coming. | | | 2025-07-22 | Decusoft Compose | Product launch | Decusoft adds Predictive Compensation to Compose: Compose gained AI-based predictive compensation that simulates pay scenarios in real time from variables the customer picks, such as performance, tenure, benchmarks, location and cost of living. Available to all Compose clients. | | | 2025-07-22 | Bettercomp | Funding | Bettercomp raises $33M Series A: Bettercomp announced a $33M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital to advance its AI-powered market pricing and pay recommendation capabilities. | | | 2025-07-15 | Compa | Partnership | Compa completes Workday certified integration: Compa completed Workday's certified integration, "certified at Workday's highest integration level"; Workday customers get Compa data, which "flows automatically from Workday into Compa". | | | 2025-07-08 | Varicent | Partnership | Varicent and ServiceNow partner to bring sales planning and incentives into ServiceNow CRM: Varicent announced a collaboration to integrate its Sales Planning and Incentive Compensation products into the ServiceNow Customer Workflows ecosystem, with CRM data flowing into Varicent for territory, quota and incentive modeling. The release says the joint solution will be available in the ServiceNow Store by Q4 2025, with early access open to select customers. | | | 2025-07-01 | Vermont pay transparency law | Law or rule | Vermont pay transparency in job postings takes effect: Vermont employers with at least five employees must disclose pay in job postings for new hires and internal promotions. Effective July 1, 2025; Vermont's Attorney General alone enforces it. | | | 2025-06-01 | New Jersey pay transparency law | Law or rule | New Jersey pay range disclosure in job postings takes effect: New Jersey employers with 10 or more workers over 20 calendar weeks must 'disclose pay ranges and a description of all benefits and compensation in any job posting', including internal transfers. Effective June 1, 2025. | | ## Companies also on other Newsprint maps These rows take their name, site, category, scale and funding from the other map, so one company has one set of facts. The description, stages, capabilities and events here are this map's. Pave, Payscale and Syndio are the exceptions: the AI hiring software map lists them under HR analytics and workforce planning, and this map lists them under compensation planning and pay equity, which is what they sell. - Pave: The AI hiring software map, https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-pave - Payscale: The AI hiring software map, https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-payscale - Syndio: The AI hiring software map, https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-syndio - Anaplan: The AI workforce planning software map, https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-anaplan - Pigment: The AI workforce planning software map, https://www.newsprint.com/research/workforce-planning-software/#co-pigment - ADP: The AI hiring software map, https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-adp - Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM: The AI hiring software map, https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-oracle-fusion-cloud-hcm - SAP SuccessFactors: The AI hiring software map, https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-sap-successfactors - Workday: The AI hiring software map, https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-workday - HiBob: The AI hiring software map, https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-hibob ## The data - Companies: https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/compensation-software.companies.json - Events: https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/compensation-software.events.json - Capabilities by company and category: https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/compensation-software.features.json ## Methodology and corrections **Who is on the map.** A company earns a row if an employer can buy its AI to set or explain pay: salary data and pay ranges, job leveling, comp cycles, pay equity and pay transparency, equity grants, and sales compensation from territories and quotas to commission payouts. Benefits administration, recognition and payroll are left off. Survey houses earn a row for the software they sell with their data, not for consulting. A name in a roundup is not a tool: every row rests on the vendor’s own site, or on dated trade press where that site would not open for us, and the data marks those rows as reported. The map covers companies we found, not every company that exists. Corrections and additions are welcome. **One category per company, one row across maps.** Each company sits in the category its own headline sells. Suites sell far more than one thing, so the five stage columns and the capability list carry the rest. A company that is already on another Newsprint map keeps that map’s row: its name, site, category, scale and funding come from there, and the row links to it (“Also on”). The HR suites come from the [AI hiring software map](/research/hiring-software/), and the business planning platforms from the workforce planning map. Pave, Payscale and Syndio are the exceptions to keeping the home map’s category. The hiring map lists them under HR analytics and workforce planning, and this map lists them under compensation planning and pay equity, which is what they sell. A company owned by another keeps its own row while it still sells its own product, and names its owner, as Pequity does under ADP. What each row says it sells, its stages, its capabilities and its events are this map’s own. **What counts as an event.** A product launch, a funding round, an acquisition, a partnership, a rebrand, a shutdown, a law or rule taking effect, or published research, dated between the window’s first and last day. Every event links to a page we opened that prints its date, preferably the vendor’s own release, blog or changelog, otherwise the trade press. Laws link to the official text or a law firm’s summary. No date is inferred. A date marks the first time we saw a capability launch in the window, not the first time the company ever offered it. Some launches were announced before they shipped; those carry a status (announced, preview or beta). **How autonomous a launch is.** We label each AI launch from the vendor’s own description of it. Assistive AI drafts, ranks or suggests when a person asks. An agent completes multi-step work on its own once a person sets it going, such as building a commission plan from a description or working through a pay dispute. Always-on AI runs without a prompt. Vendors use the word agent loosely; we used it only when the vendor names a step the software completes without a person. Where the page says a company shipped an agent, a launch the vendor has only announced does not count. A launch in beta does. **How it was made.** Research agents worked one segment each from a written spec and returned structured rows. An editor merged them. A second pass re-opened the source of every event and the headline page of every company, fixed dates and claims that did not hold up, and dropped duplicates, launches with no AI in them, and companies that have shut down or been absorbed. Where a vendor’s own site would not open, we cite a dated copy of its release in the trade press; pages that only mirror a vendor’s site do not count. Funding figures come only from the company’s own release or a named report. Nothing here is a ranking: the stage cells show what a company sells, not how well it sells it, and a launch count measures how much a company announces.