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The agent
The system

Make Writer act in Workday — safely

Writer agents draft, decide, and approve — Upware carries those decisions into Workday with deterministic execution, RBAC enforcement, and a full audit trail on every HR and finance action.

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Governed by policy & RBAC Full audit trail Outbound-only on-prem bridge No rip-and-replace
The gap

Writer stops at the Workday boundary

Writer's agents generate and reason well, but executing governed actions across operational systems needs an execution and policy layer beneath them.

Three ways to close it

Only one is governed

Writer alone
Acts in WorkdayNo
Governedn/a
Auditedn/a
Custom API glue
Acts in WorkdaySort of
GovernedYou build it
AuditedYou build it
Writer + Upware
Acts in WorkdayYes
GovernedPolicy + RBAC
AuditedEvery action
In practice

When the Agent's Answer Has to Stick

A compensation review cycle is open and a manager submits a merit increase request through a Writer-powered chat interface. Writer reasons over the company's pay bands, equity data, and the manager's justification, then produces a structured approval recommendation. That recommendation hits Upware's governed execution layer, which verifies the requester's RBAC permissions, routes any required secondary approval, then replays the exact Workday business process — updating the worker's compensation record, triggering the payroll downstream sync, and writing every step to the immutable audit trail. The manager sees confirmation; the CHRO sees the audit log. No one touched a Workday screen.

The harness

AI to learn. Deterministic to execute.

Upware learns the process once and encodes it as a mostly-deterministic workflow: system interactions replay exactly, and any LLM steps are wrapped in policy, verification, and audit — so execution stays governed and drift-proof.

O
Observe & Learn
Records the real workflow once, across every system it touches.
G
Generate
Builds the API, data flow, and logic automatically — no integration project.
E
Encapsulate
Wraps it as a governed AI skill over secure MCP or API.
R
Run
Executes deterministically — RBAC, audit, and scale built in.
FAQ

Common questions

Writer already has tool-calling — why do we need Upware between Writer and Workday?
Writer's tool-calling is designed for data retrieval and content generation, not for executing sensitive HR and finance transactions at enterprise scale. Upware adds the policy layer that Workday actions actually require: RBAC checks that match your Workday security groups, mandatory approval routing, and a tamper-evident audit trail per change. It also covers Workday screens and processes that Workday's own API doesn't expose, so your agents aren't blocked by integration gaps.
Payroll and comp data is highly regulated. How does Upware handle PII and compliance?
Upware's on-prem bridge means the actual PII — worker records, salary figures, job codes — never leaves your environment to reach a third-party cloud. The execution layer enforces which roles can initiate which Workday actions, logs every field touched with full attribution, and produces the kind of timestamped, actor-identified audit record that satisfies SOX, GDPR, and internal HR governance requirements. The AI reasoning stays in Writer; the sensitive data stays inside your perimeter.
What Workday actions can Writer agents actually trigger through Upware?
Upware learns Workday actions the same way a human performs them — by recording the full interaction, including screens that have no public API. That means your Writer agents can initiate worker and job changes, update organization and position data, trigger HR and finance business processes like merit increases or headcount approvals, and sync outcomes to downstream systems. If a human can do it in Workday, Upware can encapsulate it as a governed, repeatable AI action.

Connect Writer to Workday

See a governed action go from recorded workflow to live in days.

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