The AI workforce planning software map

Anaplan Workforce Analyst is "your AI agent for smarter workforce planning" and sits inside the Operational Workforce Planning app. It answers questions, forecasts trends and starts workflows. It is one of four role-based agents, with CoModeler, Custom Analyst and Agent Studio added in 2026.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, Scenario modeling

Homepage lists a Project Resource Planning application; the 2026-03-27 release names Contact Center Planning and Project Resource Planning among 12 new applications.

• 27 Mar 2026 Anaplan releases CoModeler, Custom Analyst and Agent Studio with 12 new applications
  Anaplan made CoModeler (an AI agent for planning architects), Custom Analyst and Agent Studio available, plus 12 purpose-built applications. Contact Center Planning and Project Resource Planning are aimed at HR and workforce leaders.
• 9 Dec 2025 Anaplan launches role-based AI agents, including Workforce Analyst
  Anaplan introduced four role-based agents for finance, sales, supply chain and workforce. Workforce Analyst "identifies workforce risks, determines and communicates the impact of headcount decisions" and the release says the agents are now available to customers.

SensibleAI Agents (reporting, analysis, search, and a Forecast Agent) became generally available in May 2026, with a Finance Agentic Layer that opens OneStream data to Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini over MCP. The workforce page cites AI chat only; it does not name an HR agent.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, MCP or agent API

• 21 May 2026 OneStream launches AI-Assisted Developer Studio and Agentic Finance Toolkit
  OneStream launched Developer Studio, which lets teams build with AI developer tools such as Claude Code and Cursor, and an Agentic Finance Toolkit with MCP finance tools for AI agents.
• 19 May 2026 OneStream makes SensibleAI Agents generally available and adds a Finance Agentic Layer
  At Splash 2026 OneStream announced the general availability of SensibleAI Agents, with a new Forecast Agent for "forecast analysis in plain language", now within Microsoft 365 including Excel and Teams. A Finance Agentic Layer lets finance forecast, guide and report using Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
• 1 Apr 2026 OneStream completes its acquisition by Hg
  OneStream announced the completion of its acquisition by Hg. The all-cash deal values it at about $6.4 billion in equity value, and its stock ceased trading on Nasdaq.
• 6 Jan 2026 OneStream agrees to be acquired by Hg for $6.4 billion
  OneStream entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity controlled by Hg, with minority investments from General Atlantic and Tidemark. Shareholders get $24.00 a share in cash.
• 13 May 2025 OneStream unveils SensibleAI Agents, Studio and Forecast preview
  At Splash 2025 OneStream unveiled SensibleAI Agents, "AI-powered chat assistants that retrieve data, do deep analysis, visualize data and execute tasks", in private preview. SensibleAI Studio (30+ routines) was expected to be generally available in June 2025, alongside an updated SensibleAI Forecast.

Board Agents (FP&A, Controller, Merchandiser, Supply Chain, Architect) run on an Agent Orchestrator, and the site also names Board MCP, Board Foresight and Board Signals. The HR workforce page describes AI only at a high level, so no HR-specific agent is confirmed.

AI capabilities: Named agent, MCP or agent API

The workforce page mentions industrial labor standards and attendance data but does not say it is built for hourly teams.

• 18 Mar 2026 Board makes FP&A and Controller Agents available
  Board unveiled its Office of Finance AI agents. The release heading reads "FP&A Agent and Controller Agent Now Available", "designed to help finance teams reduce manual effort". It does not mention HR or workforce planning.
• 21 Jan 2026 Board announces Board Agents on Microsoft Foundry announced
  Board announced Board Agents on Microsoft Foundry, "an intelligent suite of domain-specific, enterprise-ready AI agents". The FP&A and Controller Agents "will be available globally starting March 31, 2026", with Merchandiser and Supply Chain Agents to follow. The release covers finance, supply chain and merchandising, not HR.

Planful AI has an Analyst Assistant (October 2025), a Planner Assistant (April 2026) and an MCP Server that connects Claude. The Planner example prompt reads "What does CAPEX look like if we increase headcount by 15% in Q3?". Workforce data is not yet in the MCP Server ("on the way").

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, MCP or agent API, Scenario modeling, Workforce cost

Vector Capital is named as backer, not as owner of record.

• 20 Jul 2026 Planful launches an MCP Server that connects Claude
  Planful's MCP Server brings governed finance data into Claude, read-only, covering reports, actuals and variance. Workforce data is listed as "on the way"; ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot support is planned.
• 29 Apr 2026 Planful makes Planner Assistant generally available
  Planful announced general availability of Planner Assistant, a conversational interface for forward-looking forecasts built on the Planful Predict engine. The example prompt asks about CAPEX if headcount rises 15%.
• 8 Oct 2025 Planful makes AI Analyst Assistant generally available
  Planful announced general availability of its AI Analyst Assistant, "an agentic AI assistant purpose-built for finance". It is now available to all customers; a Planner assistant was listed as upcoming.

Prophix One Intelligence will "generate workforce planning baselines automatically at the start of each planning cycle". Prophix One agents include an Architect Agent, a Consolidation Agent and an Autonomous Planning Agent, plus Prophix Copilot for Microsoft Teams. The workforce page names no individual workforce agent.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, Scenario modeling, Workforce cost

• 18 Sep 2026 Prophix unveils the Autonomous Planning Agent in its Fall 2026 release Agent
  FF News reports Prophix launched the Prophix One Autonomous Planning Agent, "built to automate recurring FP&A processes through governed workflows", with people kept in the review loop.
• 22 Apr 2026 Prophix releases a second wave of Prophix One agents Agent
  Prophix said Prophix Copilot for Microsoft Teams and the Architect Agent are available now to all Prophix One customers. The Consolidation Agent was due in Spring 2026.

Vena AI has a Planning Agent (generally available May 2026) that generates forecasts, updates plans and applies scenario logic by natural language, an Analytics Agent (open beta October 2026), Vena Copilot for Microsoft Teams, and an MCP Server for Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, MCP or agent API, Scenario modeling, Workforce cost

• 6 Oct 2026 Vena launches the Analytics Agent in open beta and expands MCP Agent beta
  Vena's new Analytics Agent does multi-step financial analysis on the live Vena model and builds context over time. It is in open beta, with general availability expected later in October 2026. Vena MCP gains scheduled automations and desktop AI workflows.
• 18 Aug 2026 Vena completes its Morpheo AI acquisition
  Vena completed its acquisition of Morpheo AI, an enterprise agentic data platform, for its Vena Omega context engine. The definitive agreement was announced in July 2026.
• 13 May 2026 Vena makes the Planning Agent and MCP Server generally available
  At Excelerate 2026 Vena made the Planning Agent (forecasts, plan updates, scenario logic in natural language) and the Vena MCP Server for Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot generally available.
• 26 Mar 2026 Vena completes its Acterys acquisition
  Vena completed its acquisition of Acterys, which "provides enterprise-grade planning, analytics and application development solutions", to extend Orchestrated Planning.
• 15 Sep 2025 Vena launches the Planning Agent in open beta beta
  Vena launched the Vena Planning Agent in open beta with select customers. Business users run driver-based planning in natural language across Excel, Power BI, Azure and Teams.
• 16 May 2025 Vena Copilot for Microsoft Teams becomes generally available
  Vena announced general availability of Vena Copilot for Microsoft Teams at its Excelerate Summit, bringing FP&A insights into Teams.

Abra "brings the full power of Abacum into one experience" and coordinates agents such as Modeler, Analyst, Reporter and Data Manager. On the headcount page, "Ask AI breaks down headcount and cost variance by department, role or location".

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, Scenario modeling

• 2 Nov 2026 Abacum launches Abra, an orchestrating AI agent Agent
  Abacum launched Abra, an orchestrating agent that coordinates Modeler, Analyst, Reporter and Data Manager agents. It is "available today to all Abacum customers as standard functionality".
• 13 Oct 2026 Abacum launches Modeler, an agentic modeling agent Agent
  Abacum launched Modeler, "an AI agent that brings Agentic Modeling to finance teams". It turns prompts or spreadsheets into live business models and is available to all customers at no extra cost. A headcount plan is one of its examples.
• 9 Apr 2026 Abacum launches Abacum Intelligence
  Abacum launched Abacum Intelligence, a platform-wide intelligence layer with Context, Modeling, Narrative, Scenario and Workflow components. An example scenario prompt is "How do we reach $125M without adding headcount?".
• 11 Jun 2025 Abacum raises a $60 million Series B
  Abacum's newsroom carries the item "Abacum raises $60M to redefine the office of the CFO" dated this day. Scale Venture Partners led the round.

The homepage names the Aleph Agent, an AI Scan tool and an AI-SQL Editor. The headcount page shows "Analyze with AI" in the product and a customer quote about Aleph MCP; it does not describe a headcount-specific agent.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Headcount and hiring plans, MCP or agent API

Its AI covers business planning in general, not workforce plans alone, so it fits less closely than the workforce planning specialists.

• 17 Sep 2025 Aleph raises a $29 million Series B led by Khosla Ventures
  Aleph announced a $29 million Series B led by Khosla Ventures, with Picus Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Y Combinator, bringing total funding to $46 million.

Ari is an agent that "tells you what changed before you ask" and "messages you first when something moves". It connects to ledger, bank, payroll (Rippling, ADP) and CRM systems and models hiring scenarios; the page names the spreadsheet engine REAM.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Headcount and hiring plans, Scenario modeling

• 10 Sep 2026 Runway rebrands as cfo.ai
  SiliconANGLE reports Runway Financial decided to "pivot away from accounting software and rebrand itself as cfo.ai". The company was founded in 2020 as an AI-native accounting software firm.
• 10 Sep 2026 cfo.ai launches Ari, a proactive AI CFO for founders Always-on
  Ari connects to accounting, payroll, banking and CRM systems and keeps a live financial model. Founders can ask it to analyze hiring plans and model their financial impact.

Four teams of FP&Agents (Data Managers, Analysts, Planners, Business Partners), with Business Partners answering department heads in Slack, Teams and email, and a Cube MCP Server for Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini. The Planner Agents "rerun forecasts as new actuals land, build scenarios, and keep budgets current".

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, MCP or agent API, Scenario modeling

• 22 Oct 2026 Cube MCP Server goes live in Claude's connector directory
  Cube announced a partnership with Anthropic. Finance teams add Cube from Claude's connector directory and query their governed financial model in plain English. The release says it is "available now".
• 6 Dec 2025 Cube and Rillet launch an AI-powered integration
  Cube and the AI-native ERP Rillet launched an integration that syncs Rillet general ledger actuals to Cube for variance analysis, AI forecasts and natural-language questions.

Strategy, Planning and Reporting AI Finance Agents build board-ready PowerPoint, PDF and Excel files from ERP, CRM, HRIS and Excel data. The FinanceOS AI Connector links AI tools such as Claude to governed financial data. Its headcount guide does not mention AI.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, MCP or agent API

Headcount planning is described in a blog guide, not on a dedicated product page. Low confidence it is a core product.

• 21 Jan 2026 Datarails launches Strategy, Planning and Reporting AI Finance Agents
  The release says the three agents are "launching today". They answer finance questions and build board-ready PowerPoint, PDF and Excel files from ERP, CRM, HRIS and Excel data.
• 21 Jan 2026 Datarails raises a $70 million Series C led by One Peak
  Datarails raised $70 million in Series C funding, bringing total funding to $175 million. The money goes to AI for the CFO's office.

Autoforecast uses "AI-driven logic" to build forecasts. Jirav Intelligent Forecasting (JIF) "leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to automate the forecasting process" (press release dated 2024-10-03). No AI feature is named for workforce planning itself.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics

Low confidence on AI fit: the AI is generic forecasting, and the homepage names no AI.

The Analyst Agent "identifies gaps between budgeted and actual headcount". The Modeler Agent "extends the model", such as by adding new roles or cost rules. An MCP Server lets external AI tools query the governed plan, and Frames builds leadership views. The Planner Agent is listed as coming soon.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, MCP or agent API

• 21 Oct 2026 Pigment raises $250 million Series E at a $2.3 billion valuation
  PYMNTS reports Pigment is worth $2.3 billion after a $250 million Series E, per a press release of Wednesday 21 October. The money goes to its Graphite compute engine and the AI agents that run on it.
• 10 Sep 2026 Pigment launches Frames, AI-built interfaces for planning beta
  Pigment introduced Frames, a generative UI that lets teams build custom planning interfaces from plain-language descriptions on the live planning model. It is in beta, with open beta for all customers on September 28.
• 4 Mar 2026 Pigment launches AI Intent Modeling with the Modeler Agent Agent
  Pigment launched AI Intent Modeling: teams "describe the outcome they want in natural language" and the patent-pending Modeler Agent builds "governed, production ready models and applications". The Modeler Agent is generally available; access is requested through a customer success manager.
• 10 Sep 2025 Pigment makes the Analyst Agent available to all customers
  Pigment made the Analyst Agent and Financial Consolidation "now available for all Pigment customers". The Analyst Agent monitors metrics, flags anomalies and generates reports.

The product page says planning is "powered by Faethm AI" and offers dynamic scenario planning and skills gap assessment; Pearson's page adds a Skills Extraction section that normalizes skills from existing data.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Labor demand forecasting, Labor market data, Scenario modeling, Skills inventory

Not built for hourly or project staffing on its own pages.

• 12 May 2026 Pearson and Salesforce expand partnership using Faethm, Credly and assessments
  Pearson will use Pearson's Faethm, Credly and assessment capabilities to help Salesforce "anticipate emerging skill needs across the workforce" with predictive, role-level insights. The release calls it a multi-year collaboration.

Skills Agent continuously updates skill-to-job links in Talent Transform. ASK answers workforce questions in plain language inside the Analyst platform, and the Lightcast MCP server connects AI assistants to Lightcast labor market data.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Labor market data, MCP or agent API, Skills inventory

• 20 Oct 2026 Lightcast launches ASK and an MCP server
  ASK answers workforce questions in plain language in the Analyst platform and links to the underlying report. The MCP server connects AI assistants to Lightcast data on hiring demand, wages and talent supply.
• 1 Oct 2025 Lightcast acquires Simply
  Lightcast acquired Simply, a UK-based workforce analytics provider. The Simply team will be integrated into Skill Collective. Terms are not given on the page.
• 4 Sep 2025 Lightcast acquires Skill Collective
  Lightcast acquired Skill Collective, a UK-based consulting firm that builds skills-powered workforce models. Terms are not given on the page.
• 12 Aug 2025 Lightcast launches Skills Agent Always-on
  Skills Agent continuously updates skill-to-job links in Talent Transform from labor market data and justifies each recommendation. Lightcast says current skills data supports redeployment, workforce planning and internal mobility.
• 8 Jul 2025 Lightcast acquires Rhetorik
  Lightcast acquired Rhetorik, a UK B2B data firm with 800M+ professional profiles and 280M+ company records, to expand its people, company and labor market data.

Nakisa AI Agents (beta switch, off by default) build headcount plans from a prompt and help with org design. Nakisa Decision Intelligence runs "what-if simulations and forecasts" and its agents can carry out recommendations. Nakisa MCP covers Workforce Planning at no extra charge for subscribers.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Headcount and hiring plans, MCP or agent API, Org design, Scenario modeling, Workforce cost

• 28 Jul 2026 Nakisa Decision Intelligence comes to Databricks
  Nakisa Workforce Planning and NDI connect to Databricks through API and SQL, so leaders can compare hiring, redeployment, expansion and automation scenarios using data such as revenue forecasts and labor-market intelligence.
• 21 Jun 2026 Nakisa MCP supported across its product suite Agent
  Any MCP-compatible agent can work in Nakisa Workforce Planning, Lease Accounting, IWMS and NDI under the user's identity, with approval workflows and an audit trail. No extra charge for existing subscribers.
• 8 Oct 2025 Nakisa launches its agentic Decision Intelligence platform in preview preview
  Nakisa describes the platform as running "what-if simulations and forecasts", and says "Nakisa AI agents can execute instantly" on recommendations. Access is through a preview environment. Workforce planning and org design are one of three demoed uses, with real estate and lease accounting.

Henshaw Roles (early access) clusters positions into roles and job families. Henshaw Assistant (early access) answers natural-language questions about workforce data. WebMCP connects a customer's agent of choice to an open Orgvue Workspace tab, with human review before any data changes (early access, general availability from January 2027).

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Assistant, MCP or agent API, Org design, Skills inventory

• 6 Oct 2026 Orgvue adds a WebMCP interface for customer agents beta
  WebMCP connects a customer's AI agent to an open Orgvue Workspace tab so the agent can model restructuring steps and their impact. No data changes without explicit human review. Early access now, general availability from January 2027.
• 8 Sep 2026 Main Capital Partners takes a majority stake in Orgvue
  Main Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in Orgvue, which it describes as Strategic Workforce Management software. Orgvue's management team stays in place.
• 3 Dec 2025 Orgvue unveils the Henshaw AI suite beta
  Orgvue announced Henshaw Roles, which groups similar positions into roles, role clusters and job families, and Henshaw Assistant, which answers natural-language questions about org data. Both start in early access.

Synapse (launched as Synappy in March 2026) is an "agentic AI assistant" for labor market questions. The vendor also cites automation-impact analysis at the task and role level and automated gap-closing proposals.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Headcount and hiring plans, Labor market data, Org design, Scenario modeling, Skills inventory, Workforce cost

• 19 Oct 2026 TalentNeuron and BCG partner on workforce redesign for AI
  BCG and TalentNeuron will help clients model the cost and capability effects of scenarios and decide whether to hire, reskill, redeploy or automate. The platform stays in place afterward for plan updates.
• 8 Apr 2026 TalentNeuron launches Organizational Design
  Organizational Design builds structure scenarios on a live workforce plan and tests them against talent supply, compensation benchmarks and competitor hiring. It links task-level automation impact to headcount planning. Available to all clients.
• 18 Mar 2026 TalentNeuron launches Synappy, a conversational AI assistant
  Synappy answers workforce questions in everyday language using talent supply, employer demand, skills trends and competitor hiring data. Available to existing customers now.

The Job Architecture Redesign Agent helps rebuild job architectures, finds where work can be automated or augmented, and compares an organization with peers using labor market insights.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Skills inventory

• 23 Jul 2026 TechWolf and WTW partner on skills execution
  WTW and TechWolf will give large enterprises a real-time view of workforce skills linked to jobs, tasks and business priorities, using the Job Architecture Redesign Agent.
• Jul 2026 TechWolf Job Architecture Redesign Agent goes GA
  The agent, first announced in April 2025 as the TechWolf Agent, reached general availability in July 2026 as part of the Summer '26 launch. It helps rebuild job architectures and finds where work can be automated or augmented.

Workforce Context Engine grounds AI guidance in the customer's own workforce and finance data. Vee, the Workforce Insights Agent, answers questions. Org Design uses GenAI to narrate the impact of proposed changes. Talent Agents and the Visier MCP carry plan signals to managers and to any AI agent.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, MCP or agent API, Org design, Scenario modeling, Skills inventory, Workforce cost

• 20 Oct 2026 Vee Diagnostics explains why the workforce changed beta
  Vee Diagnostics adds statistical driver analysis to Vee, ranks the factors, flags confidence levels and can model the effect of changing a driver. Early access for select customers; general availability planned for Winter 2027.
• 24 Apr 2026 Visier updates Workforce AI and connects to Glean over MCP announced
  At Outsmart, Visier announced decision blueprints, a Glean MCP connection to its governed people data, and a joined experience for org design and skills planning. The vendor schedules general availability from May 2026.
• 13 Nov 2025 Visier launches an MCP server for AI agents
  The Visier MCP lets any MCP-capable agent call governed people data functions, checked against the customer's entitlements. It was due to become available on 22 November 2025 and is bundled with Vee in Visier Enterprise.
• 18 Sep 2025 Visier adds AI-powered Org Design to its workforce planning suite
  Org Design lets leaders model future-state structures on a canvas with roles, layers and spans, compare them with current state on any Visier metric such as compensation cost and attrition risk, and track execution. GenAI narrates the impact.

Ask ChartHop answers questions, compares planning scenarios and, since October 2026, drafts a full headcount plan from a description that opens in the planning wizard for review. AI Pro adds agentic actions, custom agents and MCP support; every AI-created action is reviewable before it goes live.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, MCP or agent API, Scenario modeling, Workforce cost

• 27 Oct 2026 Ask ChartHop drafts headcount plans and builds agentic actions
  Ask ChartHop can draft a complete headcount plan from a description; the draft opens in the planning wizard at the Review step for submission. It can also set up agentic actions from plain-language triggers in AI Pro.
• 25 Jun 2026 ChartHop adds a cost view to Scenarios and AI Pro agents in Slack and Teams Agent
  The new Impact tab in Scenarios gives Finance and HR one view of a hiring plan's full cost. AI Pro agents run in Slack and Teams with each employee's own permissions, and sensitive actions need approval.
• 24 Mar 2026 ChartHop launches AI Pro with agentic actions and MCP Always-on beta
  AI Pro adds agents that carry out multistep tasks such as starting headcount approvals, custom agents that watch span of control and forecast budget alignment, and MCP support. Early access through customer success.
• 6 Nov 2025 Ask ChartHop expands to all five modules
  Ask ChartHop, available in Headcount Planning among other modules, can review the org structure, compare planning scenarios and show how each affects budgets by department.

AI summaries sit beside dashboards and give plain-language readings of the data. The vendor says the platform brings together "trusted data, organisational context, and AI for every decision-maker."

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Scenario modeling, Workforce cost

Curie is an agentic AI assistant that can pinpoint skill shortfalls, project hiring needs and compare pay benchmarks. Etter scores task-level AI automation and augmentation. Draup's talent data is exposed as MCP servers.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Labor market data, MCP or agent API, Skills inventory

• 16 Jul 2025 Draup launches Curie, an agentic AI for HR teams
  Curie lets HR leaders query labor market data in conversation to find skill shortfalls, project hiring needs, compare pay benchmarks and design reskilling paths.
• 15 Jul 2025 Draup makes its data available over MCP
  Draup exposes its sales, talent and market intelligence datasets as MCP servers, including skills data for workforce planning and reskilling, with role-based access and PII masking.

OrgPilot AI is an "Advisor and Agent for AI workforce design" that gives advice on a scenario or changes it directly. The help page says it runs on OpenAI's ChatGPT model and that scenario data is not shared with OpenAI.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, Org design, Scenario modeling, Workforce cost

One AI Assistant is "a conversational interface for exploring workforce questions." MCP services connect One Model-governed data to Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. AI Impact (October 2026) shows how employees use AI tools.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Assistant, MCP or agent API, Workforce cost

• 25 Feb 2026 One Model lists One AI Assistant as live and MCP services as available
  One Model's 2025 results release lists the One AI Assistant as live, "a conversational interface for exploring workforce questions", and says MCP services are "available today" for Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. It also lists a first release of One AI Data Intelligence for AI-powered onboarding.

"AI Chat allows users to explore the full depth of Revelio Labs' data in plain language" in the Terminal, and an MCP integration brings the data into outside AI tools.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Labor market data, MCP or agent API, Skills inventory

• 28 Jul 2026 Revelio Labs introduces the AI Labor Market Tracker
  A monthly tracker of AI's effects on employment, wages and job activities. It separates AI exposure from adoption and finds the mix of work changing faster than job titles. The article calls itself "deliberately descriptive rather than predictive or prescriptive".
• 28 Jul 2026 Revelio Labs launches the Revelio Terminal with AI Chat and MCP
  The Terminal brings Revelio's workforce data together, with AI Chat for plain-language questions and an MCP integration for outside AI tools. Data spans 1.1 billion professional profiles and 5 billion job postings.

Deputy AI, 'the on-shift teammate that gets work done': a conversational AI Agent with mobile voice actions, schedule building from the last four weeks of data, peak-demand cover, multi-day sick cover, payrun readiness checks and AI proaction for coverage gaps. The FAQ says it works human-in-the-loop and cannot publish a schedule or approve a timesheet without explicit confirmation.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Shift scheduling

Homepage says 'Built for hourly work'. A Manufacturing & Logistics industry page mentions production and shift planning; no warehouse wording found.

• 5 Nov 2025 Deputy AI opens in global beta beta
  Deputy unveiled Deputy AI, an AI teammate for shift-based operations that connects scheduling, labor forecasting and real-time performance insights, and answers manager questions with recommended schedule changes. Managers could request early access. The CEO described it as a shift from smart scheduling to agentic workforce orchestration.
• 24 Jun 2025 Deputy signs exclusive AI partnership with Predelo
  Deputy and Predelo, an AI decision-agent service, agreed an exclusive partnership. Predelo's AI labor forecasting and auto-scheduling agents run in the background and adjust schedules down to store and department level. Deputy is piloting it with customers in its home market and the US; global availability is a later rollout.

Smart Scheduling (demand forecasting, schedule generation and auto-fill of shifts, listed as early access on the vendor's own pages), Compliant Shift Patterns, Employee-Centred Fill, Coverage Gap Detection, Ask AI in the Command Centre, HR Analytics, AI Recruitment and AI Clocking.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Shift scheduling

Positioned for 'frontline industries'; the pages do not use the word 'hourly'. Manufacturing & Logistics appears only as an industry link; no plant or warehouse use is described.

• 8 Jul 2026 Humanforce launches HR Analytics and Learning tools
  Humanforce announced HR Analytics, which analyses workforce data for trends, anomalies and risks and answers plain-language questions, and Humanforce Learning, which assigns training automatically on workforce events. Both are available now.
• 21 May 2026 Humanforce launches Smart Scheduling, an AI rostering tool beta
  Humanforce launched Smart Scheduling, which forecasts staffing needs from sales, weather, bookings and foot traffic, generates and fills shifts against availability, skills, budget and award rules, and runs compliance checks before publishing. Managers review and approve rosters, and organisations choose how much to automate. The vendor claims up to 70% less roster management time.

Auto Schedule (beta on Plus and Pro), Intelligent Shift Assignment (beta, a ranked list of best matches with compliance checks), and verified connectors that let managers use Planday rota data in ChatGPT and Claude. The February 2026 blog says the goal is 'the world's first fully proactive assistant'.

AI capabilities: Assistant, MCP or agent API, Shift scheduling

Built around shiftwork and shift-based payroll in hospitality, healthcare, hotels and retail; the pages do not use the word 'hourly'. No manufacturing or warehouse use found.

• 3 Nov 2026 Planday brings rota management to ChatGPT and Claude beta
  Planday launched verified connectors that let managers use Planday rota data inside ChatGPT and Claude, draft new shifts and reassign staff with user confirmation, and review staffing against weather, events or bookings. It is an early-access rollout at no extra cost, and over 216 customers had connected.
• 17 Apr 2026 Planday releases Intelligent Shift Assignment in beta beta
  Planday's winter and spring product update introduced Intelligent Shift Assignment (beta), which analyses availability, contracted hours and working time rules to give a ranked list of best matches for each shift and flags compliance issues before they happen. The vendor says it is building agentic AI.

Ava Assistant (conversational answers for managers and employees), Auto-Schedule, Auto-Assign (skills, certifications and compliance rules) and demand forecasting on 'proprietary machine-learning models'. The page says these capabilities are 'live and trusted by customers', not roadmap. The vendor's September 2026 release also refers to 'agentic AI'.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Shift scheduling

Frontline shift workforce; the pages do not use the word 'hourly'. The Sep 2026 release lists retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare and manufacturing, and the vendor's August 2025 release says its AI 'runs in warehouses and restaurants every day'. Navigation lists a Warehousing & Logistics solution.

• 22 Sep 2026 Quinyx named a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workforce Management Technology
  Quinyx says it is one of seven Leaders in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workforce Management (WFM) Technology, dated 14 September 2026 in the vendor's citation. The release says it now supports around 800 customers across more than 50 countries.

AI Insights ('Ask your workforce data a question, get an answer'), demand forecasting from history, seasonal trends and events, and auto-scheduling that builds rotas to forecast demand.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Labor demand forecasting, Shift scheduling

Pages say 'shift workers', store teams and multi-site operators, not 'hourly'. Manufacturing appears in the industries list; no plant or warehouse use is described.

• 10 Jun 2025 ELMO Group acquires Rotageek
  ELMO Group, parent of Breathe HR, acquired Rotageek, a London-based provider of AI-driven workforce management and rota software. Rotageek's CEO said the mission is to help businesses schedule intelligently "using data, AI and design thinking".

Shiftbase AI: revenue forecasting from sales history, Auto-scheduling (marked 'New'; strategies Profit, Employee and Balanced; draft the user applies or discards), a spreadsheet converter and guided payroll preparation that flags odd hours.

AI capabilities: Labor demand forecasting, Shift scheduling

Built for shift teams; hourly wages are not named. The Production industry page is headed 'Keep the line moving, shift after shift' and the Transport page mentions depot and warehouse shifts.

• 22 Apr 2026 Shiftbase describes Shiftbase AI: revenue forecast and auto-scheduling in pilot preview
  Shiftbase's chief product officer published a post on its AI approach. The AI forecast turns sales data into expected revenue per day, and Auto-scheduling drafts a week from availability, contract hours and skills, shows the shifts it cannot fill, and leaves publishing to the manager. Pilot customers were already using the forecast.

AI Scheduling Agent (conversational; builds, reviews and edits schedules against compliance rules and labor budgets, with no shift written until a person approves) and AI-guided labor forecasting based on sales and foot traffic.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Labor demand forecasting, Shift scheduling

Homepage targets 'your hourly workforce'. Listed industries are hospitality, retail and care; no manufacturing or warehouse use is named.

• 8 Sep 2026 Thoma Bravo makes growth investment in Tanda (Workforce.com)
  Thoma Bravo announced a strategic growth investment in Tanda, which operates internationally as Workforce.com, to support product innovation including its AI roadmap. The co-founders stay significant shareholders and the company had been bootstrapped since its founding. The amount was not disclosed.

Autonomous AI layer (July 2026) that assigns tasks to specific employees on specific shifts, reprioritizes and verifies completion; managers can override and every decision is logged. AI-powered workflow automation and contextual agent experiences (January 2026 release). WorkJam AI Task Priority Engine due in the second half of 2026. A WorkJam AI Agent gives employees HR answers.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant

Built for shift-based store, hospitality and plant employees (homepage). A Manufacturing solution page covers warehouse and production floor operations; the AI section mentions connecting to a WMS.

• 15 Sep 2026 Catalyst Brands expands WorkJam and launches its AI Agent for HR support
  WorkJam is expanding across the Catalyst Brands portfolio (JCPenney, Aeropostale, Brooks Brothers, Lucky Brand, Nautica), reaching about 70,000 associates, and Catalyst is launching WorkJam's AI Agent for conversational HR and benefits answers inside the app.
• 13 Jul 2026 WorkJam launches autonomous AI that runs frontline work in real time Always-on
  WorkJam added an autonomous AI layer that assigns the right task to the right person on shift, reprioritizes through the day, confirms completion and learns at store, district and region level. It works inside shift, certification and labor-rule limits, managers can override any decision, and every decision is logged. The AI Task Priority Engine was announced for the second half of 2026.
• 7 Jan 2026 WorkJam major release adds AI workflow automation and agent experiences Always-on
  WorkJam's January release builds AI into workflows: it triggers tasks, flags exceptions without waiting for a user to ask, enforces SOPs and connects to other systems to resolve issues, with contextual agent experiences. WorkJam positions it as respecting compliance and non-compensatory time. Agent-to-agent orchestration was planned for Q1 2026.
• 30 Oct 2025 WorkJam and UKG launch FastTrack pilot for task and audit management
  WorkJam announced a free 60-day FastTrack pilot for qualifying UKG Pro Workforce Management customers, with intelligent task distribution by role and availability, multi-level workflows and photo or video verification of each step.

Automated scheduling with 'AI-powered forecasting' on the Workcloud Scheduling page; the suite page says it 'leverages AI to optimize scheduling'. Workcloud BI is described as an 'AI-powered analytics platform'. No named assistant or agent.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Labor demand forecasting, Shift scheduling

Frontline store and retail operations focus; the page does not use the word 'hourly'. Zebra markets manufacturing and warehouse hardware separately, but its Workcloud Scheduling pages name no plant or warehouse use.

Connecteam AI (marked 'New'): Auto Scheduling ('Scheduling Genius'), AI Agent for search-free answers from company resources, AI Course Creator, File-to-Form automation, Smart Voice Input and AI Updates & Translate.

AI capabilities: Assistant, Shift scheduling

Time clock and shift scheduling for hands-on jobs; its pages do not use the words 'hourly' or 'deskless' or name plant or warehouse use.

Homebase Assistant (waitlist page lists schedule building, open-shift filling, compliance and overtime flags, timecard checks, business monitoring and hiring), plus Hiring, Scheduling and Payroll Assistants and AI-powered auto-scheduling on the Plus plan. Labor cost and sales forecasting is listed but not described as AI.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Shift scheduling

Homepage and FAQ target 'hourly teams' and 'hourly, shift-based small businesses' in restaurants, retail, beauty, medical and home services. No manufacturing or warehouse use found.

• 20 Oct 2026 Homebase announces Homebase Assistant for hourly teams Agent announced
  Homebase Assistant helps with scheduling, payroll timecard checks, job posts, finding replacements for uncovered shifts and screening candidates. SiliconANGLE reports: 'None of them is contacted before the owner gives the go-ahead.' Homebase's own assistant page offers a waitlist.
• 5 Jun 2025 Homebase launches Hiring Assistant and Scheduling Assistant
  Homebase introduced its first AI Assistants, a Hiring Assistant and a Scheduling Assistant, 'automating tedious, manual tasks end-to-end'. The Scheduling Assistant builds schedules automatically and was free on any paid tier until 5 September 2025; owners confirm interviews the Hiring Assistant pre-schedules.

Legion AI with Demand Forecasting, Legion Optimization and Automated Scheduling. Seven named Legion AI Assistants. Legion Agentic AI names six agents: Schedule Create, Schedule Publish, Schedule Update, Employee Request Handling, Forecast Audit and Repair, and Deep Labor Analysis.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Scenario modeling, Shift scheduling

Vendor calls its product 'Hourly Workforce Management' (Jan 2026 release) and links a 'State of the Hourly Workforce' report. A January 2026 partnership with Rebus brings its labor forecasting and scheduling to warehouse teams.

• 14 Jul 2026 Legion adds Upper Field Schedule Assistant in Spring 2026 release
  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.
• 12 Jan 2026 Legion ships 90+ features and next-generation AI Assistants
  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'.

AVA AI assistant, Resourcing Agent, Expense Agent, Insights Agent and BigTime MCP. Release notes show AI-powered resourcing in BigTime Foresight since March 2025, before the event window.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, MCP or agent API, Project staffing

Vendor industries: accounting, architecture, consulting, engineering and IT services.

Veda AI: packaged agents and Veda Intelligent Actions (from 64 to 135 in the September 2026 release, with 14 new agents). Staffing agents named on the Veda page; the September 2026 release adds resume-to-skills-profile parsing and ranked resource recommendations.

AI capabilities: Named agent, MCP or agent API, Skills inventory, Project staffing

Vendor industries: consulting and advisory, IT services, software, IT hardware, tax and audit; project staffing is core.

• 9 Sep 2026 Certinia expands Veda with 14 agents and MCP access Agent
  The largest Veda expansion adds 14 agents and raises Veda Intelligent Actions from 64 to 135, including resume-to-skills parsing and ranked resource recommendations. Actions run natively, in Agentforce, or through MCP in Claude and Copilot.
• 15 Apr 2026 Certinia launches Veda Agent
  Veda is a suite of packaged agents and intelligent actions across estimation, resourcing, delivery, finance and customer success. Certinia says it is available today.

Smart assign (shipped March 2026) recommends people for open roles. Float MCP (beta since November 2025) connects Float data to ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP tools. The AI page lists Smart insights as rolling out in August 2026 and Intelligent kickoff as exploring in Q3 2026.

AI capabilities: MCP or agent API, Project staffing

Vendor page: for "professional services firms and in-house delivery teams" planning projects, estimates and profitability.

• Mar 2026 Smart assign ships
  Smart assign recommends a person for unassigned roles on an estimate or project, based on role fit and availability. The page says "Shipped in March 2026".
• Nov 2025 Float MCP opens in beta beta
  Float says its MCP server lets people ask about their people and projects in plain language inside tools like ChatGPT and Claude. The page prints "Beta available since November 2025".

Named agents: Resourcing Agent (September 2025), Expertise Agent (June 2026) and Agent Studio (September 2026), on the Kantata AI Expertise Engine. Agentic Business Intelligence answers questions and forecasts. The platform page lists MCP connectivity.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Capacity and utilization, MCP or agent API, Project staffing

Vendor page: for agencies and professional services firms; resource planning and project delivery.

• 30 Sep 2026 Kantata adds Agent Studio Agent
  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.
• 16 Jun 2026 Kantata launches the Expertise Agent Agent
  The Expertise Agent takes natural-language goals, can create agents to coordinate project, resource and finance systems, and staffs teams by skills and capacity.
• 14 Oct 2025 Kantata rolls out the Expertise Engine preview
  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.
• 24 Sep 2025 Kantata launches the Resourcing Agent Agent
  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.

Planview Anvi: conversational assistant, prebuilt and custom agents, Scenario Planning and an Anvi MCP server. Agent resource management (early access, available from Fall 2026) adds AI agents and their cost to the resource model.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Capacity and utilization, Assistant, MCP or agent API, Scenario modeling

Vendor pages: resource and portfolio planning for R&D, software engineering and professional services work.

• 16 Jun 2026 Planview adds Scenario Planning and an Anvi MCP server announced
  Scenario Planning returns ranked scenarios with tradeoffs across capacity, financials and strategic fit. The Anvi MCP server lets Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT or any enterprise agent call Anvi.
• 4 May 2026 Planview announces agent resource management Agent announced
  The capability adds AI agents and their cost, including compute and token spend, to the Planview resource model, with PM, Backlog and Forecasting agents. Available from Fall 2026 with early access.
• 15 Oct 2025 Planview introduces Anvi announced
  Planview Anvi is its enterprise AI for connected work: in-app risk alerts, conversational chat that can take actions, and an agent studio with prebuilt agents. The release mentions capacity and resource constraints.

Productive 5.0 (May 2026): Agents, Skills, AI Notetaker, AI Timetracking, Connectors and MCP server support. Launched as a limited-access beta.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, MCP or agent API, Project staffing

Vendor: "Purpose-built for agencies, consultancies, and other professional services businesses".

• 11 May 2026 Productive 5.0 adds AI Agents and MCP server support Agent beta
  Agents handle entire tasks or work areas autonomously within set limits. The release also adds Skills, AI Notetaker, AI time tracking, Connectors and MCP server support. It rolled out as a limited-access beta.

MCP server (read-only) for AI assistants, announced 30 July 2026. No built-in assistant or recommendation engine is named.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, MCP or agent API

Vendor lists agencies, consultants, construction, engineering and IT as target teams.

• 30 Jul 2026 Resource Guru launches an MCP server
  The read-only MCP server lets AI assistants explore schedules, availability, utilization, project budgets and time off in plain-language prompts.

AI Suitability Matching for people-to-work matching. MatchingCore and Skills+ are described without the word AI.

AI capabilities: Skills inventory, Project staffing

Vendor industries: accounting and audit, consultancies, engineering, IT services; project and engagement staffing.

Enterprise AI platform with Proactive AI, Predictive AI and Interactive AI for resource forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling and optimization. The AI page names AI Explorer as its assistant and describes Suggestions and Opportunities that surface next steps and available capacity. No named agent.

AI capabilities: Capacity and utilization, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Project staffing

Vendor industry pages: professional services, IT services, construction and engineering, audit and accounting.

ELI AI teammate and the Scoro MCP server (October 2025, now offered with all packages per the MCP page). ELI is not tied to resource features on its site.

AI capabilities: Assistant, MCP or agent API

Vendor industries: consultancy, agency, architecture, engineering and construction, software development, IT services.

• 8 Oct 2025 Scoro launches an MCP server for early adopters beta
  The Scoro MCP server connects a Scoro workspace to AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT for multi-tool workflows. At launch it was open to early adopters.

Loop (Intelligence, Visibility, Strategy, Planning) is in an early access program, per the page. The home page demo shows capacity and timelines recalculated when AI agents join a team. Capacity Planner itself carries no AI claim.

AI capabilities: Capacity and utilization, Scenario modeling

Built for teams that plan work in Jira, including engineering teams.

Bridgit AI: Ask Bridgit chat, Import Roles, Smart Suggestion Summaries (October 2025), then five agents (Team Builder, Assignment Finder, Project Change Digest, Project Org Chart, Workforce Brief) and Bridgit MCP (July 2026).

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, MCP or agent API, Project staffing

Vendor page: "Purpose-built for construction workforce planning" for general, self-perform and specialty contractors.

• 29 Jul 2026 Bridgit launches five AI agents and Bridgit MCP Agent
  Team Builder, Assignment Finder, Project Change Digest, Project Org Chart and Workforce Brief move Bridgit AI from answers to tasks. Bridgit MCP connects Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini to live Bridgit data.
• 15 Oct 2025 Bridgit introduces Bridgit AI announced
  Bridgit AI launches with Ask Bridgit (workforce chat and reports), Import Roles (roles from an uploaded file) and Smart Suggestion Summaries (why a person fits a role).

AI Portfolio Optimiser, Resource Allocation Advisor, What-If Analysis and Predictive Analytics. AI Agents as a Resource plans agents like staff and can run them on EpicStaff, which Epicflow includes. An Epicflow blog post (updated 2026-06-14) says "Epica is our AI-powered assistant".

AI capabilities: Capacity and utilization, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Scenario modeling, Project staffing

Vendor roles: Head of PMO, VP Engineering; industries include aerospace, automotive, telecom and manufacturing project work.

Predictive AI for resourcing and capacity, AI-assisted resourcing recommendations, an in-app AI assistant, in-app agents (Margin Guard, Capacity Assist, Automated Replanning) and an MCP connector, per Accelo's AI page.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Capacity and utilization, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, MCP or agent API, Scenario modeling, Project staffing

Accelo lists consulting, engineering, architecture, agency and IT services firms.

• 28 May 2026 Forecast.app becomes Accelo.com
  Accelo completed the brand and website integration with Forecast. Forecast.app now redirects to Accelo.com and Forecast's predictive AI is the core of Accelo's platform.
• 22 Jul 2025 Accelo acquires Forecast
  Accelo, a professional services automation platform, announced its acquisition of UK-based Forecast, an AI-powered project and resource management vendor. Terms were not published.

Chello AI Assistant (built in; plans capacity, flags gaps, runs scenario analysis and forecasting) plus AI resource allocation and "The Digest" (workforce forecasting, scenario planning).

AI capabilities: Capacity and utilization, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Scenario modeling

Vendor customer quotes come from architecture and engineering firms; built for professional services project work.

Skills Intelligence Engine with automatic skills detection and LLM-based skills extraction; the Prism AI Agent for employees; a Workforce Analyst AI Agent planned for 2H 2026.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Assistant, Internal mobility, Skills inventory

Not built for hourly or project staffing on its own pages.

• 17 Apr 2026 365Talents says its Prism AI Agent is available
  The Prism AI Agent is a conversational agent for employees. It asks guiding questions, suggests opportunities with reasons they fit, and flags skill gaps. The page also plans a Workforce Analyst AI Agent for HR in 2H 2026.
• 20 Jan 2026 Docebo acquires 365Talents
  Docebo acquired all issued shares of 365Talents for about US$54.6M in cash plus up to US$5.1M in earn-outs. Docebo plans to keep the 365Talents brand and is 'progressively integrating the two platforms'.

AI-driven Skills Inference that updates employee skill profiles, Work Intelligence for task-level automation and augmentation, an AI Agents Registry, an AI-Readiness Index and AI interviews.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Internal mobility, Skills inventory

Not built for hourly or project staffing on its own pages.

• 13 Aug 2026 iMocha partners with Lightcast on its skills taxonomy
  iMocha Skills and Work Intelligence will run on the Lightcast Skills Taxonomy, a shared skills language for hiring, learning, internal mobility, succession and workforce planning.
• 25 Jun 2026 iMocha Skills Intelligence listed on Workday Marketplace
  The listing writes AI-validated, proficiency-rated skills into Workday Skills Cloud and the Worker Profile for internal mobility, succession planning, learning recommendations and workforce analytics.
• 17 Jun 2026 iMocha and Udemy partner on skills validation and learning
  iMocha and Udemy connect iMocha's skills validation with Udemy's course catalog. 'Validated skills data is mapped directly to Udemy's course catalog' through a native integration with Udemy Business, so customers can assign targeted learning for skill gaps, and refreshed skills data flows back into iMocha.

Loomra, a "Workforce Context Engine" with a knowledge graph and a governance engine; prebuilt Voice Agent and Career Agent; agents for workforce redeployment, succession planning, workforce planning and learning; a no-code Builder for custom agents.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Headcount and hiring plans, Internal mobility, Skills inventory

Not built for hourly or project staffing on its own pages.

• 28 Sep 2026 Gloat and The Josh Bersin Company partner on Galileo inside Gloat
  The Galileo research corpus (best practices, frameworks, benchmarks) becomes a building block inside Loomra so every Gloat agent can reason with Bersin guidance and live workforce context. The release says it is available now, starting with SAP SuccessFactors customers.
• 28 Apr 2026 Gloat Agentic HR available in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams Agent
  Gloat's Copilot Agent and Teams app are listed in the Microsoft Agent Store and Microsoft Marketplace. The article says Agentic HR is generally available to enterprises worldwide and lists prebuilt agent types including workforce planning, redeployment and succession planning.
• 31 Mar 2026 Gloat introduces Agentic HR on its Loomra engine Agent announced
  Gloat launched Agentic HR: agents built with the business rules and security already set up in Workday, SAP SuccessFactors or Oracle, running in Microsoft Copilot, Teams, Slack and other AI apps, plus an agent builder. Bersin lists agents already built for workforce redeployment, career development, internal talent sourcing, succession planning and learning.
• 9 Sep 2025 Gloat launches its Work Orchestration Platform
  Gloat introduced the "Exponential Workforce" and a Work Orchestration Platform with Signal (enterprise AI visibility), Mosaic (managers break work into tasks and skills and assemble hybrid teams) and Ascend (AI-era skills programs), on a multi-ontology Workforce Graph. The release says it is available immediately.

A Work Context Graph with a Work Architecture layer; analysis of where AI creates value; agents orchestrated into workflows in a seven-step Map, Analyze, Build, Run, Measure, Log, Update loop.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Org design, Skills inventory

Not built for hourly or project staffing on its own pages.

• 25 Jun 2025 Reejig launches Work Architecture
  Reejig launched Work Architecture, a living model of work built on its Work Ontology that breaks jobs into tasks, tracks emerging and obsolete skills, flags tasks AI can automate or augment, maps internal moves and links roles to pay. It integrates with Workday, SAP and Oracle.

Generative AI for sourcing, screening and ranking; a skills taxonomy and "capabilities genome" behind recommendations; auto-generated career pathing; explainable ("responsible") AI.

AI capabilities: Internal mobility, Skills inventory

Not built for hourly or project staffing on its own pages.

WorkforceGPT, an engine that scores job descriptions and builds role profiles; the standalone WorkforceGPT.AI app; an MCP connector listed in Claude's Connectors Directory; the Role Builder Agent named in its May 2025 investment release.

AI capabilities: MCP or agent API, Internal mobility, Skills inventory

Not built for hourly or project staffing on its own pages.

• 23 Sep 2026 TalentGuard WorkforceGPT joins Claude's Connectors Directory
  WorkforceGPT is listed in Claude's Connectors Directory and open to other MCP clients. An agent can score a job description and build a structured role profile with skills and proficiency levels. A free WorkforceGPT account is enough.
• Jan 2026 TalentGuard launches WorkforceGPT.AI as a self-serve app
  WorkforceGPT.AI builds a skills-based role profile (job description, skills, proficiency levels and learning pathways). New users can create three role profiles free.
• 12 May 2025 Juvo Ventures invests in TalentGuard
  Juvo Ventures Fund II made a strategic investment, amount undisclosed, to expand the WorkforceGPT product family, including agents such as the Role Builder Agent.

Skills Intelligence Engine with agentic AI and adaptive assessment; AI agents for skills assessments, hiring, AI Studio (custom assessments) and Ambient Coaching (always-on capability signals from daily work); an AI Readiness Index.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Assistant, Skills inventory

Not built for hourly or project staffing on its own pages.

• 29 Sep 2026 Pearson agrees to acquire Workera
  Pearson will fold Workera into its Enterprise Learning & Skills business, and founder and CEO Kian Katanforoosh joins that division's leadership team. Terms were not disclosed. The release expects closing in the second half of 2026.

Agentic Hub with a Career Advisor Agent and a Leader Coach Agent; Task Intelligence that classifies tasks as automated, assisted, collaborative or strategically human; an MCP Server (beta) that lets ChatGPT, Claude, Glean and Teams read Fuel50 skills data.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Assistant, MCP or agent API, Internal mobility, Skills inventory

Not built for hourly or project staffing on its own pages.

• 8 Oct 2026 Fuel50 launches the Leader Coach agent announced
  Leader Coach is an AI agent for people leaders. It brings Fuel50 skills, career and talent marketplace data into one natural-language view of team capability and suggests next steps such as mentors, gigs and assessments.
• 24 Sep 2026 Fuel50 launches Task Intelligence
  Task Intelligence surfaces the tasks inside roles and classifies each one on a Task Agency Scale (automated, assisted, collaborative, strategically human), then rolls the view up across roles, functions and business units to guide work redesign.
• 17 Sep 2026 Phoenix Education Partners agrees to acquire Fuel50
  Phoenix Education Partners (NYSE: PXED), parent of the University of Phoenix, signed a definitive agreement to buy Fuel50. Fuel50 keeps its brand and Jo Mills is expected to become CEO at close. The release expects closing within 30 days.
• 7 Aug 2026 Fuel50 launches an MCP Server in beta beta
  The Fuel50 MCP Server lets compatible AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Glean and Microsoft Teams read Fuel50 skills and career intelligence in real time. It is in beta for select clients.

ADP Assist analytics agents turn chat queries into reports and dashboards (release dated 2026-01-28). A Nucleus Research summary on adp.com credits ADP Workforce Manager with "AI-assisted decision-making and forecasting". The UK page for ADP Time and Workforce Manager says scheduling can start from up to three years of earlier data. The US WorkForce Suite release names no AI scheduling feature.

AI capabilities: Workforce analytics, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Shift scheduling

The workforce management page offers demand-based scheduling, shift swaps and open-shift fills, and the suite release mentions giving "frontline workers more flexibility with scheduling"; no opened page uses the word 'hourly'.

• 20 Nov 2025 ADP launches unified WorkForce Suite across its HCM platforms
  ADP brought its workforce management suite into Workforce Now, Lyric HCM and Global Payroll: time and attendance, demand-based scheduling with labor forecasting from business drivers, absence management, and predictive analytics.

Strategic Workforce Planning has predictive insights for skills and costs, what-if modeling and a conversational interface. Machine-learning labor demand forecasting uses past trends, holidays, events and weather. Dayforce AI Agents (time agents show shifts and schedules) and Dayforce Bots run on the Agentic HCM Platform; new scenario modeling across people and AI agents was announced in October 2026.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Org design, Scenario modeling, Shift scheduling, Workforce cost

The scheduling page offers time and attendance to "empower your frontline workers"; Strategic Workforce Planning covers frontline, knowledge, corporate, contingent and gig workers.

• 27 Oct 2026 Agentic HCM Platform adds scenario modeling and frontline scheduling tools announced
  Dayforce unveiled the Agentic HCM Platform. New scenario modeling lets leaders model skills, capacity, structure and costs across people and AI agents; a Command Center for Frontline Operations and new manager time and scheduling tools cover coverage, schedules and exceptions.
• 4 Feb 2026 Thoma Bravo completes Dayforce take-private
  Thoma Bravo completed its acquisition of Dayforce, valued at about US$12.3 billion, at US$70.00 per share in cash.
• 7 Oct 2025 Dayforce buys Agentnoon
  Dayforce announced its recent acquisition of Agentnoon, a workforce planning company. The release says Agentnoon's open platform "provides the opportunity to rapidly re-platform within Dayforce" and that the deal sped up the release of Strategic Workforce Planning.
• 7 Oct 2025 Dayforce launches Strategic Workforce Planning
  Dayforce launched Strategic Workforce Planning, which pulls employee and organizational data into one view of workforce and cost drivers. Leaders test scenarios, model organizational changes and forecast skills and costs, using a conversational interface, across frontline, knowledge, contingent and gig workers.
• 21 Aug 2025 Thoma Bravo agrees to take Dayforce private
  Thoma Bravo agreed to buy Dayforce in a deal valued at about US$12.3 billion. Shareholders get US$70 per share in cash.

AI-powered labor planning and forecasting using machine learning and historical data, with adaptive models that pick the algorithm for each use case. Infor Industry AI Agents are in limited availability; its Job Architecture and HR Operations agents touch workforce structure and staffing assignments, and no scheduling agent is listed.

AI capabilities: Labor demand forecasting, Shift scheduling

The WFM page says "Empower hourly employees to work productively and control their own schedules"; Infor Clinical Science matches staffing to patient care needs.

• 16 Sep 2026 Gartner names Infor a Leader for workforce management
  Infor was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workforce Management Technology; Infor WFM "schedules staff in real time based on demand, skills, availability and preferences" for frontline employers.

Workforce Schedule Assistant (AI agent, release 26A, set up through support), Workforce Operations Command Center (a Fusion Agentic Application), Positions Assistant, and the Workforce Skills Supply vs. Demand Agent, all built on Oracle's AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Headcount and hiring plans, Shift scheduling, Skills inventory, Workforce cost

Workforce Operations Command Center is described as automating scheduling, time tracking and absence management "for frontline and operational teams" (trade copy of the release).

• 19 Aug 2026 Oracle adds Fusion Agentic Applications and AI agents for talent management announced
  Oracle said it is introducing new Fusion Agentic Applications and AI agents for HR, built into Fusion Cloud Applications and running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Work architecture agents include the Job Architect Agent, Intelligent Talent Profiles Agent and Role Guide Generation Agent. Pipeline's October 2026 issue also lists a Workforce Skills Supply vs. Demand Agent for workforce planners.
• 9 Apr 2026 Fusion Agentic Applications for HR include Workforce Operations Command Center
  Oracle introduced eight Fusion Agentic Applications for HR. The Workforce Operations Command Center helps managers and frontline leaders run scheduling, time and absence work and speeds up scheduling approvals.
• 16 Sep 2025 Oracle announces 13 HR agents including Positions Assistant announced
  Oracle announced 13 agents for Fusion Cloud HCM. The Positions Assistant helps with staffing decisions and the Succession Planning Advisor maps succession coverage and simulates risk scenarios.

Joule assistants and agents, AI-enabled organizational modeling for Employee Central, a Workforce Upskilling Assistant, and People Intelligence with Joule-powered insights. Workforce Scheduling matches staffing and capabilities against operational demand (early adopter access from January 2026).

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Org design, Shift scheduling, Skills inventory, Workforce cost

Workforce Scheduling is described as "optimized shift planning in manufacturing and other production industries"; it was in early adopter access.

• 6 Oct 2026 SAP agrees to buy TechWolf
  SAP agreed to acquire TechWolf, an AI work intelligence platform. After closing, TechWolf is expected to power SuccessFactors skills mapping, workforce planning and organizational redesign; terms were not disclosed and close is expected in Q4 2026.
• 14 May 2026 Workforce planning in SAP Enterprise Planning and AI org modeling announced
  At Sapphire 2026 SAP described a workforce planning capability in SAP Enterprise Planning that joins data from SAP Cloud ERP, SAP Fieldglass and SuccessFactors, and AI-enabled organizational modeling in Employee Central that lets leaders test structures before changes go live.
• 13 Oct 2025 SuccessFactors 2H 2025 release adds Workforce Scheduling preview
  SAP's 2H 2025 SuccessFactors release introduced Workforce Scheduling for "optimized shift planning in manufacturing and other production industries", with early adopter access in January 2026, plus a unified skills foundation and People Intelligence with Joule-powered insights.

Dynamic Labor Management and Dynamic Workforce Operations give managers real-time staffing guidance from demand data, schedules and forecasts. Bryte Voice (August 2026) lets frontline workers use voice assistants for actions such as checking their schedule; Frontline Assist gives workers schedules, punches and PTO balances. The Dynamic Labor Management release does not call the tool AI-powered; UKG describes itself as a leading global AI platform for HR, pay and workforce management.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Scenario modeling, Shift scheduling

UKG aims its scheduling and labor tools at frontline employers; the June 2026 release says demand "changes by the hour".

• 8 Jun 2026 UKG adds agentic orchestration with Dynamic Workforce Operations Always-on announced
  UKG added Dynamic Workforce Operations, with Live Schedule and Live Coverage that flags overtime, missed-break and schedule-adherence risks before they become costly exceptions, and a Workforce Intelligence Hub that unifies real-time data with frontline insights.
• 4 Nov 2025 UKG announces Dynamic Labor Management announced
  UKG announced Dynamic Labor Management, which works by "continually analyzing demand data, schedules, and forecasts" to help managers spot staffing gaps and rebalance staff within compliance and contractual limits. It said the tool would be available in the first quarter of 2026.

Adaptive Decision Intelligence (natural-language questions, side-by-side scenarios with Monte Carlo runs; early adopters from May 2026) and Workday Decision Intelligence for HR and finance (October 2026). Workforce Management Agent, powered by Sana, handles schedule changes and shift swaps. Skills Cloud uses AI and machine learning to infer skills.

AI capabilities: Named agent, Workforce analytics, Assistant, Labor demand forecasting, Headcount and hiring plans, Internal mobility, Org design, Scenario modeling, Shift scheduling, Skills inventory, Workforce cost

Workday Scheduling and the Workforce Management Agent target retail and manufacturing workers (agent page industries). Adaptive also lists professional services resource planning, but not as a staffing product, so projects stays false.

• 13 Oct 2026 Decision Intelligence for HR and finance
  Workday brought Decision Intelligence to Workday HCM and Financial Management customers. HR teams test workforce plans (for example whether a plan for 50 new hires is still needed), weigh hiring, internal talent, contingent labor or retention, and model scenarios across HR and finance.
• 17 Sep 2026 Gartner names Workday a Leader for workforce management
  Workday was named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workforce Management Technology. The release describes Workday Scheduling, AI demand forecasting from seasonality, events and history, and a Workforce Management Agent powered by Sana.
• 27 May 2026 Adaptive Decision Intelligence for planning questions and scenarios beta
  Workday introduced Adaptive Decision Intelligence in Adaptive Planning. Finance and operations teams ask questions in natural language, compare scenarios side by side with Monte Carlo simulations, and commit a chosen scenario to the governed plan. Headcount data feeds the analysis.
• 4 Nov 2025 Workday closes Sana deal
  Workday completed its acquisition of Sana, an AI company building enterprise knowledge tools, to make Workday the new front door for work.
• 16 Sep 2025 Illuminate adds Planning and Frontline agents beta
  Workday added new Illuminate agents. The release lists a Planning Agent, which it says helps early access customers cut data exploration and analysis by 30%, and a Frontline Agent, which it says cuts time spent managing staffing changes by up to 90%.
• 16 Sep 2025 Workday agrees to buy Sana for about $1.1B
  Workday agreed to acquire Sana, maker of Sana Agents and Sana Learn, to become the new front door for work.