On Tuesday I was at a Workday event at its San Francisco offices, during San Francisco Tech Week. They showed how their AI-powered finance and HR platform is helping global companies scale.
The main conversation was between Zane Rowe, Workday's CFO, and Aaron Ellis, AVP of Emerging Enterprise.
I had the chance to ask Zane Rowe directly about the recent acquisitions of Paradox, Flowise and Sana, and how they fit into its AI and automation expansion strategy. I also talked with Aaron Ellis and with Workday's head of AI.
The three acquisitions
- Flowise, in August: an open-source platform for building AI agents without code.
- Paradox, in August: a conversational assistant for high-volume hiring that schedules interviews and talks to candidates over chat. It joins Workday Recruiting.
- Sana, in September, for about 1.1 billion dollars: AI search, agents and learning.
It is not Workday's first move toward our region. In January it took part in Buk's Series B, as we covered in HR Tech is in fashion.
What I take away
It's interesting to see Workday betting on a more open, connected ecosystem powered by AI agents.
When one of the largest HR platforms buys an agent builder and a conversational assistant, it says something: holding each person's data is no longer enough. Work is moving to conversation and to agents, and that is what we build at Aindez for companies that manage employment at scale.
A trip around the bay
Two days later we were with Workday again. They organized a boat trip around San Francisco Bay, with more conversations with people from the industry.
Originally posted in Spanish on LinkedIn on October 8, 2025. Sources for the acquisitions: Flowise, Paradox and Sana.
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Manuel Vallejos · Founder and CEO of Aindez, the AI orchestration layer for companies that manage employment at scale.