Workday Illuminate Fields Hundreds of AI Agents Across HR and Finance Workflows — Incumbent Defense Plays the Breadth Card
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Workday's Illuminate now spans hundreds of AI agents across HR and finance workflows, the incumbent counter to AI-native HR/recruiting entrants. The bet is that breadth-of-workflow-coverage plus system-of-record data is a stronger moat than any single agentic point tool. For builders it raises the bar for vertical HR/finance startups — they're no longer competing with static SaaS but with a fleet of embedded agents on the same data.