09/11/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/11/2026 06:24
New job-ready agents help companies get to business outcomes faster across sales, service, commerce, and the workforce - driving revenue, reducing costs, and improving customer experiences
Advances across Agentforce enable these agents to take on more complex work - pursuing goals over days and weeks, learning new skills, working together, and continuously improving
SAN FRANCISCO, September 11, 2026 - Every company is racing to turn AI into real business results. But the hardest part is no longer getting AI to answer a question. It's getting AI to do the work that matters across every business function.
Over the past two years, Salesforce has worked alongside customers across thousands of agentic deployments and delivered 7 billion Agentic Work Units (AWUs) across Agentforce and Slack, including 3.2 billion in Q2 alone. That experience has made one thing clear: putting agents to work requires more than intelligence. Agents need to understand the job, work across the business, and keep moving toward a goal as the work gets more complex.
Today, Salesforce is introducing a new portfolio of job-ready agents built to take on high-value work across sales, service, commerce, employee experience, and the back office. Connected to Customer 360, these agents can work with the customer context and business processes companies already have in Salesforce. These agents come ready for the job and are powered by new Agentforce technology that enables them to pursue goals over time, learn new skills, work with other agents, and continuously improve.
Instead of building every agent from scratch, companies can now start with agents designed around the jobs where AI can have an immediate business impact. Each comes with the skills, actions, and data models required for the job, and can be tailored to how each company works.
Customers can tailor each agent to their business - including giving it their own name - so the agent becomes an extension of their brand and workforce.
Every agent operates within the customer's business rules, permissions, and security. With Agent Script, Salesforce's open-source language for agent behavior, customers can also combine AI reasoning with deterministic rules for granular control over how agents make decisions and take action.
And these agents are already delivering measurable results:
Some of the most valuable work in a business can't be completed in a single conversation. A seller doesn't just research an account once. Winning an opportunity can require weeks of outreach, new information, changing priorities, and decisions along the way.
That's why Salesforce built a new long-horizon runtime for Agentforce, enabling agents to pursue goals across days and weeks instead of completing only a task or interaction.
With the new runtime, a seller might ask Hunter to rescue their at-risk deals before the end of the quarter. Hunter can turn that objective into a measurable goal, build a plan, and begin working toward it - determining the tasks to complete, the tools and context required, and the guardrails that define when it can act autonomously and when seller approval is required.
As the work unfolds, Hunter can incorporate new information and adjust the plan while keeping the seller in control. Underneath, three capabilities make that possible:e make that dependable:
Hunter is the first agent to run on the long-horizon runtime. Over time, more agents across the portfolio will run on it, and customers will be able to build long-horizon agents of their own with Agentforce.
Job-ready agents give companies a faster starting point. And with Agentforce Coworker, employees have an agent that works alongside them across the surfaces where they work, grounded in the context of their business. New capabilities across Agentforce make it easier to teach agents how your company works, coordinate them across complex work, and continuously improve their performance:
Together, these capabilities give companies a new way to put AI to work: start with an agent built for the job, give it the ability to take on more complex work, and continuously teach, coordinate, and improve it as the business evolves.
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, helping companies connect with their customers in a whole new way through the power of agents, data, and apps working together. For more information, visit salesforce.com.
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