OVI is the AI-native ATS where you chat to hire. Two AI agents — Sora for sourcing and Milo for screening — find candidates, score every CV, and run AI interviews, all controlled from a single chat.

What does "chat to hire" mean?

Chat to hire is OVI's AI-native hiring workflow: instead of clicking through a traditional ATS, you describe what you need in chat and OVI's AI agents source candidates, screen applicants, run AI interviews, and send outreach for you.

What is an AI-native ATS?

An AI-native ATS is an applicant tracking system built around AI agents rather than forms and pipelines. OVI's AI chat ATS lets recruiters source, screen, interview, and follow up through conversation — the agents do the work and surface only the candidates worth meeting.

Who are Sora and Milo?

Sora is OVI's AI sourcing agent — she scans LinkedIn, the open web, and your ATS history to find best-fit candidates and reach out in your name. Milo is OVI's AI screening agent — he scores every applicant against your rubric and surfaces a ranked shortlist.

How do OVI's AI interviews work?

OVI runs async AI interviews for every shortlisted candidate and returns scores, transcripts, and recordings — so your team only meets the people worth meeting.

Workday's Developer Agent Lets HR Teams Build Custom AI Agents in Minutes — No IT Sprint Required

2026-06-23

What if your next workforce planning agent took minutes to build instead of months? At Workday DevCon on June 2, 2026, Workday announced Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools — two capabilities designed to collapse the distance between an HR team's idea and a working AI agent.

The pitch is concrete: type a plain-language prompt like "Build an agent that alerts finance when a department is trending to go over budget this quarter," and Developer Agent assembles the necessary data connections, tools, and logic automatically. What previously required a cross-functional IT sprint — scoping requirements, mapping APIs, negotiating security reviews — now happens inside a developer's existing coding environment in a single session (Workday Newsroom).

For HR technology leaders who have watched promising AI use cases stall in IT backlogs, the implications are significant. Developer Agent and its companion Agent-Ready Tools don't just speed up agent development — they shift who can initiate it, moving the starting line closer to the teams that understand the business problem (HR Tech Edge).

Developer Agent: Plain-Language Prompts Meet Enterprise Data

Developer Agent integrates directly with the coding environments developers already use: Claude Code, Cline, Codex, Cursor, and Google Antigravity. Built on an open standard called AgentSkills — defined through a Skills.md file — it lets developers describe what they need in natural language. The system then selects the appropriate tools, connects the required data sources, and scaffolds the agent, reducing setup from days to minutes (PR Newswire).

The key insight is that Developer Agent doesn't replace the developer — it removes the boilerplate. Instead of manually wiring API calls, parsing Workday's data model, and configuring permission scopes, developers focus on the business logic that matters.

"Platforms win when they make the hard thing disappear for the developer," said Gabe Monroy, Workday's CTO. "Anyone can give an agent speed; the hard part is letting it act on the org chart or ledger and trusting every step" (Workday Newsroom).

That trust component is deliberate. Every agent built through Developer Agent inherits Workday's full security and governance model by default — not as an afterthought.

Agent-Ready Tools: Hundreds of Secure Connectors via MCP

Alongside Developer Agent, Workday released hundreds of Agent-Ready Tools that operate through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI agents to enterprise systems. These tools span every major Workday function — HR, payroll, workforce planning, procurement, and finance (PR Newswire).

Unlike traditional APIs, Agent-Ready Tools are purpose-built for autonomous agents. They provide precise business logic and contextual guardrails that reduce hallucination and latency — critical when agents are reading and acting on sensitive employee or financial data (HR Tech Edge).

Every Agent-Ready Tool inherits Workday's security delegation model, business process controls, and full audit trails. An agent built by an HR analyst cannot access data outside that analyst's existing Workday permissions. Every action is logged with the same rigor as a human user's (Workday Newsroom).

For teams that need to connect agents to systems beyond Workday, thousands of pre-built Pipedream connectors are available as custom agent actions, extending reach without sacrificing governance (PR Newswire).

What HR Teams Can Build Now

The combination of Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools opens several HR use cases that were previously too integration-heavy to justify:

Workforce planning alerts: An agent monitors headcount and compensation data across departments, flagging when teams are trending over budget or nearing attrition thresholds — before quarterly reviews surface the same issues weeks later.
Cross-functional data signals: Agents that pull from both HR and finance systems to surface insights like the correlation between open-requisition age and project delivery timelines.
Automated approval routing: An agent that routes compensation exceptions or org-change requests through the correct approval chain based on real-time business rules, eliminating manual handoffs.

Jules Mayberry, a developer at Waste Connections, sees the shift in practical terms: "Developer Agent will give me a real starting point to build agents on top of my existing Extend apps, handling the technical work so I can build cool, creative apps and agents" (Workday Newsroom).

Availability

Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools are available now in early access through the Workday Extend Professional program. General availability is projected for the second half of 2026 (PR Newswire).

Workday also introduced Agent Passport at DevCon — a separate verification framework for validating agent security and compliance before deployment. For a detailed breakdown of that capability, see our earlier analysis: Workday Agent Passport: The AI Security Framework HR Leaders Need.

For enterprise HR teams evaluating AI agent strategies, the tooling has caught up with the ambition. The barrier to building custom agents on live Workday data is no longer technical complexity — it's deciding what to build first.

What is Workday Developer Agent?

Developer Agent is a tool that lets developers build AI agents on Workday data using plain-language prompts from within coding environments they already use, including Claude Code, Cline, Codex, Cursor, and Google Antigravity. It is built on the open AgentSkills (Skills.md) standard and reduces agent setup time from days to minutes.

What are Agent-Ready Tools and how do they use MCP?

Agent-Ready Tools are enterprise data connectors purpose-built for autonomous AI agents. They operate through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting agents to enterprise systems. Hundreds of tools are available spanning all major Workday functions — HR, payroll, workforce planning, procurement, and finance — with thousands more custom actions accessible via Pipedream connectors.

How does security and governance work for Workday-built agents?

Every agent built using Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools automatically inherits Workday's existing security delegation model, business process controls, and audit trails. Agents can only access data within their builder's existing Workday permissions, and every action is logged. No separate governance project is required.

When will Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools be generally available?

Both capabilities are available now in early access through the Workday Extend Professional program. General availability is projected for the second half of 2026.