Someone asksAn employee wants a payslip. A manager approves leave.
WorkdaySana, metered in Flex Credits per action
LeenaUniversal Assistant: flat, unlimited, every channel
Leena AI vs Workday
Where should your AI agents live when you run Workday?
Keep Workday as your system of record. Three differences decide where the rest of the work runs.
Three differences
Workday decides for you. Leena lets you choose.
Keep Workday. These three decide where the rest of the work runs.
Which systems
Every system, 200+. Workday's agents stay on Workday.
Who builds
Your process owner, in plain English. Workday needs a developer.
How you pay
Flat per employee. Workday meters every agent action.
Start here
Work starts two ways.
Someone asks, or something happens. Workday covers the first,
and only inside Workday.
Someone asks
Something happensAn offer is accepted. A start date arrives. A ticket changes state.
WorkdayNothing without a developer build in Extend
LeenaAI Colleague Platform runs it end to end
Reach
Which systems: all of them.
Workday's agents stay on Workday.
A job change touches five systems and nine steps. Workday owns the first two. An AI Colleague runs all nine as one audited run, and picks up where it left off.
200+
systems Leena acts on
18
apps Sana reaches
One run · nine steps · user identity carried through
Workday
Leena AI Colleague1Read change
2Update job
3Tickets
4Okta groups
5M365 licence
6Cost centre
7Notify manager
8Confirm in Teams
9Log every step
Who builds
Who builds: your process owner.
Workday needs a developer.
Hire, Change Job and Termination change several times a year. The cost that decides it is the hundredth change.
Described in plain English by the process owner
Evaluated against real cases before go-live
Every run logged step by step
cost
How you pay: you choose.
Workday meters every agent action.
Self-service is a fixed price per employee, so you know the full cost before the year starts. Automation shows its cost in tokens, per run.
Workday Flex Credits
Universal Assistant
AI Colleague Platform
Flex Credits
1 credit per lookup, 5 per completed task. Credits expire yearly, and only Workday sets the rate.
Flat per employee
Universal Assistant, per year, unlimited. Cost rises with headcount, never with usage.
Tokens per run
AI Colleague Platform fee plus tokens you can see per run, in the industry-standard unit.
The question that decides itWhat does one year of self-service cost at your headcount, on each platform?
Feature comparison
Every row is traceable to Workday or Leena AI published material.
Dimension
Leena AI
Workday
Evaluation checklist
Ten things to make every vendor show you live.
Including us. The highlighted three are the hardest for Workday's agents today.
- 01
One request across Workday and two other systems, end to end
- 02
A write into a third-party system, not a read
- 03
Starts from an event or a schedule, no chat window
Hardest for Workday - 04
Called from an orchestrator you control
Hardest for Workday - 05
Runs under the employee's own permissions
- 06
A business user changes the procedure, no developer
- 07
Completed over voice by a frontline worker
- 08
A full year of projected cost at your volume
Hardest for Workday - 09
Exactly which licences and SKUs you will need
- 10
A named customer running it in production
Frequently asked questions
Does Leena AI replace Workday?
No. Workday stays the system of record. Leena calls Workday with the user's own identity, so Workday's security model governs every Workday transaction.
When are Workday's agents enough?
When the work begins and ends in Workday, an employee asks for it, and cost predictability is not a concern. Check the cost first: at scale, every lookup and task draws credits.
What is the difference between Workday Sana and Leena AI?
Sana is Workday's assistant: 18 connected apps, now opening inside Copilot, Teams and Slack, paid in Flex Credits. Leena AI is an independent agentic layer: a flat, unlimited Universal Assistant, plus an AI Colleague Platform that runs processes across 200+ systems, billed in tokens you can see. Both can be called from any orchestrator over MCP and A2A.
What are Workday Flex Credits and how do they affect cost?
Workday's consumption currency for AI: 1 credit for a lookup, 5 for an autonomous task. Unused credits expire annually. Model the full year at your volume.
Can Workday's agent builders replace an agentic layer?
They need an Extend Professional licence. Test three things: can the agent be called from outside Workday, start from an event, and write into a non-Workday system?
Sana already acts across our systems. Isn't that enough?
Sana connects your systems to Workday. Leena runs the whole process across them. Ask what starts the work when a business event fires, like an approved job change, and who builds and maintains each connection.
Where do employees use Leena AI?
Teams, Slack, voice, SMS, WhatsApp or web, or behind Microsoft Copilot or your own assistant.
How does Leena AI handle Workday security?
Leena acts as the employee, not a system account. Workday's role, country and PII rules apply exactly as in the Workday UI.
Can Leena AI run behind our own AI front door?
Yes. Every Colleague is exposed over MCP and A2A, and is already called from Microsoft Copilot Studio and IBM watsonx Orchestrate.
How is Leena AI priced?
Two licences. Universal Assistant: flat per employee per year, unlimited. AI Colleague Platform: a platform fee plus tokens you can audit.
Where does our data live and how is it protected?
Multi-tenant, single-tenant, or your own VPC across 14+ regions. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and more. Customer data never trains shared models.
