Built apps for its unique business needs.
Platform and product extensions
Expand your horizon. Build on Workday.
Solve pressing business challenges with an open, AI-ready platform. Workday Build empower you to build high-impact solutions directly in Workday—helping you meet evolving business demands with speed and confidence.
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What sets us apart
There’s unlimited ways to Workday.
With access to our app gallery, marketplace, integrations, and developer community, you can securely connect and extend the power of Workday—wherever and whenever you need.
Build groundbreaking apps.
Workday Extend is your gateway to developing apps and solutions that upgrade your investment. Our low- and no-code developer tools work to enhance productivity with AI like never before.
Work where work happens.
Workday Everywhere and Workday Messaging keep you in your flow state with seamless connection to your preferred workspaces such as Microsoft Teams®, Slack, or SMS. Get notifications and reminders so you can take quick action.
Integrate flawlessly.
Workday Orchestrate expands integration capabilities by delivering a complete integration toolkit with thousands of public APIs as well as a marketplace of prepackaged connectors.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Build a well-oiled business machine.
Activate your innovation engine by harnessing Workday to build new business solutions that integrate and interoperate with your other systems.
WHO SUCCEEDS WITH US
Meet the brightest builders in the business.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
FAQs.
What is Workday Build?
Workday Build is Workday's agent-ready developer platform. It empowers organizations to build custom AI apps, agents, orchestrations and more using their agentic tools of choice, run them on the trusted Workday platform with industry-leading security and governance controls, and surface them everywhere work happens.
How can organizations extend Workday applications?
Organizations extend Workday by using Workday Extend to build custom apps and agents that run natively in Workday. These solutions can introduce new data objects, business processes, and user experiences—and can include AI-powered and agentic capabilities—all built on Workday's security, UI, and integration frameworks, and open to any external system through APIs.
What types of custom apps can be built on Workday?
Organizations use Workday Extend to build custom apps that run natively on Workday, working directly with their people and money data. Use cases span HR, finance, and industry-specific processes — from compensation reviews and succession planning to billing and capital management, materials management, research grants, and faculty workload tracking, among many others. Explore our customer use-case stories here.
Do you need to be a developer to build on Workday?
No. Workday Extend includes options to build with agentic tooling and low- and no-code, browser-based experiences so that anyone can build on Workday Build — not just professional developers. Build in plain language, with a visual, drag-and-drop interface and preview modes, or go deeper with code when needed.
How do you build AI agents on Workday?
Building custom AI agents with Developer Agent in Workday Extend is available today to early access customers. Builders describe what they want in plain language from the agentic tools of their choice, securely connect agents to their HR and finance data through purpose-built connectors, and surface those agents across the tools and systems their teams already use.
How does Workday integrate with other systems?
Organizations build integrations on Workday using a native set of integration tools—with no separate middleware required. Workday Orchestrate, a low-code capability built into the platform, connects to payroll, ERP, finance, IT, benefits, and other systems. APIs, prebuilt connectors, and tools like Enterprise Interface Builder and Workday Studio further support moving data in real time or batch across connected systems. For AI agents, Agent-Ready Tools provide secure, governed access to HR and finance data over MCP.
How does Workday keep custom apps and AI agents secure and governed?
Because custom apps and AI agents built on Workday run natively, they automatically inherit its security model, business process controls, and audit trails—so governance and compliance are built in, not bolted on. Any AI agent—Workday, partner, or third-party—is managed through the Workday Agent System of Record, from registration to retirement.
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