Workday to Acquire C1.ai, a Leading Agentic Identity Platform

Workday, the agentic platform for HR, finance and IT, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire C1.ai, a leading agentic identity platform for people and agents.

Orrick advised Workday.

THE COMPANIES

C1.ai is the identity platform for the AI era. It connects humans and agents to the enterprise systems with scoped access, enforced policies, human approval and a record of every action. With C1.ai, the fastest path to AI adoption at scale is the governed path, giving organizations visibility and control without sacrificing security or slowing innovation.

Workday operates at the heart of the enterprise - HR, finance, and IT - where the margin for error is effectively zero. By tightly coupling AI with the context, guardrails, and trusted processes that run the business, Workday goes beyond AI that assists with work to agents that are capable of driving measurable outcomes.

THE IMPACT

Every new hire, job change, and exit is a Workday event. Workday already governs the people, money and agents at the heart of the enterprise. With C1.ai, Workday will become the identity governance layer for people, money and agents. Every employee and agent using Workday can have the right access to the apps, data and systems they need, from the day they join to the day they leave, and every move in between.

THE TEAM

The Orrick team is led by Ramy Shweiky and includes Jamie Baroff, Anna Hardcastle, Susana Min, Tamia Sutherland, Jesse Shapiro, Juliano Banuelos, Eric Wall, Sarah Schaedler, Matthew Coleman, Shannon Yavorsky, Jennifer Criss, Craig Falls, Victoria Newbold, Amy Ray, Christina Bouchot, Jeanine McGuinness, Bill Hughes, Laura Becking, Chanani Sandler, Taylor Ball, Lilla Lavanakul, Tiantian Shi, Karen Cannon, Grace Guan, Danielle Mangogna, Neetu Ahlawat, Shruthi Maganti, Nori Lu, Kyle Holt, Carly Owens, Enny Olaleye and Betsy Wang.

LEARN MORE

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