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Workday Illuminate
Workday Illuminate is Workday’s AI foundation for automating HR, finance, IT, legal, and other business workflows.
Workday Illuminate powers AI agents, automated actions, insights, anomaly detection, document processing, and natural-language assistance across Workday. It uses Workday data, business context, permissions, and governance to support employees and business teams.
Organizations use it for recruiting, performance reviews, workforce planning, financial close, payroll, contract management, forecasting, and employee self-service. Access is sold through Workday Flex Credits, with complimentary credits for testing and annual bulk subscriptions for production use; Workday does not publish standard public prices.
Features
- Automates HR, finance, IT, and legal workflows with AI agents
- Surfaces exceptions, anticipates change, and predicts next actions
- Generates and summarizes job descriptions, contracts, messages, and knowledge articles
- Supports semantic search across business and contract data
- Uses Workday data, permissions, context, and enterprise guardrails
- Provides usage-based Flex Credit pricing and consumption visibility
- Supports responsible AI practices with ISO 42001 accreditation
Use cases
- Automate employee self-service questions and routine HR tasks
- Accelerate recruiting, performance reviews, and workforce planning
- Detect financial anomalies and support forecasting and financial close
- Search, create, review, and manage supplier contracts
- Build and manage AI agents across business functions
- Monitor AI consumption and redirect credits as priorities change
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Latest updates
- Workday Launches Autopilot Agents That Get Real Work Done Across HR, Finance, and IT
Workday launched Autopilot Agents for HR, Finance, and IT.
- Workday Brings Decision Intelligence to HR and Finance, Helping Teams Weigh Workforce and Financial Decisions Together
Workday brought Decision Intelligence to HR and Finance.
- Workday to Bring Sana Everywhere Employees Work, Including Claude, Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Teams, and Slack
Workday will bring Sana to Claude, Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.
- Workday's Trusted Agent Platform Now Delivers Headless Access to HR and Finance, Letting Customers Build and Run Lawful AI Agents
Workday's Trusted Agent Platform added headless access to HR and Finance for building and running AI agents.
- New Workday Candidate Profile Lets Job Seekers Save Their Information Once and Use It Every Time They Apply Through Workday
Workday introduced Candidate Profile, letting job seekers save their information once and reuse it for Workday applications.
Capabilities
- Writes and edits — “Drafts and redlines contracts, answers questions in plain language, and tracks obligations, risks, and renewals across every agreement.” source
- Summaries — “Classifies and assigns HR cases, guiding solvers with summaries and knowledge-based recommendations.” source
- Automations — “Automates high-volume audit evidence collection and facilitates communication with auditors, easing the pressure on accounting teams.” source
- AI agents — “Workday’s AI agents do real work across HR, finance, IT, and more—grounded in the data that runs your company and the rules that govern it—all seamlessly orchestrated in the background by Sana.” source
- Connects your apps — “Built on your trusted Workday data, Sana integrates with all your business apps to unlock a whole new way of working with AI, enabling you to build, orchestrate, and manage agents across business functions.” source
- Admin controls — “This gives users a seamless, single conversational interface for all tasks, while providing IT with centralized control and compliance across every agentic interaction.” source
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Pricing
- Prices checked
- 2026-10-23