The Art of the Possible · AI for Workday & UKG

Turn HCM systems of record into systems of decision.

synpoint.ai is where HR, finance, and workforce leaders explore what AI can really do inside Workday and UKG — beyond chatbots and dashboards. Real recommendations. Real postings. Real outcomes.

Explore the playbook → See the vision
5–10%
Labor recovery from AI scheduling
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Workforce event → financial posting
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Suites, one AI playbook
Predictive talent
Workday HCM
AI scheduling
UKG Dimensions
Auto-payroll
UKG Ready
Scenario planning
Workday Adaptive
Built around the suites your enterprise already runs
Workday UKG Pro UKG Ready UKG Dimensions Workforce Central
The Vision

AI doesn't replace your HCM. It finishes the sentence.

Workday and UKG are extraordinary at recording what happened. AI is what tells you what to do about it — in time to change the outcome. synpoint.ai exists to help leaders explore that frontier without ripping out the core.

PRINCIPLE 01

Insight, not just dashboards

Replace static reports with proactive recommendations grounded in your own people, payroll, and production data — with confidence scores and reversible actions.

PRINCIPLE 02

Clean-core, by design

Every implementation lives outside the core suite. We extend Workday and UKG with AI agents and orchestration — never modify them. Upgrades stay safe.

PRINCIPLE 03

Outcomes, not implementations

Pricing tied to overtime hours saved, fill-rate lift, time-to-hire, and forecast accuracy. The model only wins when the customer's P&L wins.

UKG · Workforce Suite

AI inside the systems that run your shifts, your payroll, and your people.

From the enterprise HCM to the legacy time-and-attendance core — every UKG product is a different surface for the same idea: workforce data deserves a brain.

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UKG · Four Products, One AI Layer

Pro, Ready, Dimensions, and Workforce Central each serve a different segment — but the AI playbook is consistent: surface the leak, recommend the fix, post the result.

UKG Pro

Enterprise HCM

UKG Pro is the enterprise-grade HCM running tens of thousands of employees end-to-end — HR, talent, payroll, performance. AI turns it from a system of record into a system of foresight.

AI implementations
  • Predictive talent analytics — flight-risk modeling, internal-mobility recommendations, succession planning grounded in 24+ months of employee history.
  • AI-driven engagement — sentiment analysis on pulse surveys + 1:1 notes, surfacing morale issues before they show up in attrition.
  • Generative HR copilot — natural-language policy lookup, performance-review drafting, and compensation-band guidance for managers.
  • Compensation intelligence — pay-equity audits and market benchmarking refreshed continuously, not annually.
Benefits
  • Better hires, kept longer — measurable improvement in 1-year retention by acting on risk signals before exit interviews.
  • Manager leverage — HR partners scale 3-5× by automating routine policy, comp, and review interactions.
  • Equity, by default — pay-gap drift caught the day it appears, not at year-end.
Primary stakeholderCHRO · CPO

UKG Ready

Mid-market HR + Payroll

UKG Ready is the unified HR, payroll, talent, and time platform built for mid-market employers. AI lifts it out of "necessary plumbing" and into a competitive advantage for resource-constrained teams.

AI implementations
  • Auto-payroll preflight — anomaly detection on hours, deductions, and tax calculations before each run, flagging only what needs human eyes.
  • AI-driven compliance checks — continuous scanning against federal, state, and local wage-and-hour rules; auto-generated audit trails.
  • Smart onboarding — generative agent that builds personalized 30/60/90 onboarding paths based on role, location, and union status.
  • Conversational employee self-service — payslip explainers, time-off forecasting, and benefits Q&A in plain English.
Benefits
  • Payroll runs that just work — error rate near zero with continuous validation instead of post-mortem corrections.
  • Compliance without a department — mid-market HR teams operate with enterprise-grade rigor.
  • HR ticket volume drops — self-service copilot resolves 60-80% of routine employee questions.
Primary stakeholderVP People · Controller

UKG Dimensions

Advanced WFM

Dimensions is the modern workforce-management platform — scheduling, time, attendance, leave — for industries where labor is the largest cost and the most volatile lever. AI is its native language.

AI implementations
  • AI-powered scheduling — demand-aware shift generation that balances service level, employee preference, fatigue rules, and cost-to-serve simultaneously.
  • Predictive labor demand forecasting — Prophet + LSTM ensemble trained on traffic, weather, sales, census; refreshed daily.
  • Overtime drift agent — surfaces OT spikes 2-4 weeks before payroll, with redistribution recommendations posted to UKG on approval.
  • Fatigue & safety modeling — flags shift sequences likely to drive accident or quality incidents.
Benefits
  • 5–10% labor recovery — proven across services, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.
  • Fill-rate lift, on the same headcount — 4–6 points from cross-training pools and demand-aligned scheduling.
  • Schedules employees actually want — preference + AI optimization beats rules-based templates on retention.
Primary stakeholderCOO · VP Ops · Plant Manager

UKG Workforce Central

Legacy WFM

Workforce Central is the on-prem and hybrid platform still running large parts of the Fortune 1000. AI is how you modernize without a rip-and-replace migration on day one.

AI implementations
  • AI-driven data analytics layer — extract WFC time-and-attendance signals into a modern data fabric (Datasphere / Databricks / Snowflake) and run the same models you'd run on Dimensions.
  • Process automation agents — exception handling for missed punches, manager approvals, and timecard adjustments resolved without ticket queues.
  • Migration intelligence — analyze 5+ years of WFC history to design the cleanest possible Dimensions transition path.
  • Compliance retro-checks — AI scans historical timecards for wage-and-hour exposure before it becomes a class action.
Benefits
  • Buy time, gracefully — extract value from WFC for 18-36 more months while planning a controlled migration.
  • De-risk the upgrade — go live on Dimensions with a model already trained on your real labor patterns.
  • Hidden liabilities surfaced — historic compliance issues found and corrected proactively.
Primary stakeholderCIO · CHRO · Migration PMO
Workday · Enterprise Suite

AI across HCM, Finance, Planning, and Analytics — all in one closed loop.

Workday is uniquely positioned: one data model spanning people and money. AI on that foundation is not a feature — it's a category. synpoint.ai shows you what to build first.

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Workday · Four Pillars, One Brain

HCM, Financial Management, Adaptive Planning, and Analytics & Reporting — connected by Workday's unified object model. AI that lives across all four is qualitatively different from AI that lives in any one.

Workday HCM

Human Capital Management

End-to-end workforce management from recruit-to-retire. Workday's unified model means AI gets one consistent picture of every employee — the foundation for genuinely personalized experiences.

AI implementations
  • AI-driven recruitment — candidate-job matching using skills graphs, not keyword search; bias-audited; explainable to legal.
  • Performance management copilot — continuous-feedback summarization, goal recommendations, and calibration support for managers.
  • Personalized employee experience — every Workday landing surface tailored to role, lifecycle moment, and stated career intent.
  • Skills intelligence — auto-tagged skill inventory across the org, refreshed from real work artifacts (projects, peer feedback, learning).
Benefits
  • Time-to-hire compresses — quality candidates surface in days, not weeks, with explainable rankings.
  • Performance reviews stop being theater — managers see real signals, employees see real growth paths.
  • Internal mobility unlocks — skills-based redeployment turns layoffs into transitions.
Primary stakeholderCHRO · CPO · CIO

Workday Financial Management

Real-time Finance

A real-time financial system whose biggest unlock is its data — every transaction touched by an explainable AI before it lands in the GL.

AI implementations
  • AI-enhanced financial forecasting — rolling forecasts updated with operational and labor signals, not last quarter's spreadsheet.
  • Automated expense management — receipt OCR, policy classification, anomaly detection, and approval routing — all without human touch on routine items.
  • Continuous close acceleration — AI-driven journal-entry validation and intercompany matching during the period, not after it closes.
  • Vendor risk and payment intelligence — anomalous payment patterns, duplicate invoices, and emerging vendor concentration flagged in real time.
Benefits
  • Close days, not weeks — forecast and actuals converge throughout the period.
  • Expense fraud and policy leak shrink — every transaction reviewed, not just sampled.
  • FP&A becomes strategic — analysts spend time on insight, not data wrangling.
Primary stakeholderCFO · Controller · VP FP&A

Workday Adaptive Planning

Continuous Planning

A continuous planning platform that thrives on speed. AI turns "what-if" from a quarterly exercise into a daily reflex.

AI implementations
  • AI-driven scenario modeling — generate dozens of credible scenarios (demand shock, hiring freeze, FX move) with probability-weighted outcomes.
  • Predictive analytics for budgeting — driver-based forecasts that learn from how your business actually behaves, not just how it was planned.
  • Workforce + financial co-planning — headcount changes simulate down to GL impact and span-of-control consequences.
  • Variance explanation agents — every plan-vs-actual gap explained automatically with the top three contributing drivers.
Benefits
  • Decisions made in hours, not quarters — twenty scenarios in twenty minutes; commit with confidence.
  • Plans tied to operational reality — drivers refresh from HCM and Finance live, not from a CSV upload.
  • Variance loses its mystery — every gap has a cause, attributable in seconds.
Primary stakeholderCFO · VP FP&A · COO

Workday Analytics & Reporting

Embedded Analytics

Embedded analytics that live where the work happens. AI is the difference between dashboards people open once and insights people act on every day.

AI implementations
  • AI-powered data blending — Workday + non-Workday sources joined automatically; semantic-layer agents resolve dimension and metric conflicts.
  • Advanced people analytics — DEI, span-of-control, manager effectiveness, and skill-gap analytics with statistical rigor and explainability.
  • Conversational analytics — ask questions in natural language; get charts, citations, and follow-up suggestions.
  • Anomaly and trend detection — surfaces emerging issues (attrition spike in a region, hiring slowdown in a function) without anyone running a query.
Benefits
  • Insight reaches the edge — line managers see what they need without filing a request to a central analytics team.
  • People analytics earns a board seat — defensible, statistically sound, ready for compensation committees.
  • Data literacy compounds — conversational interfaces lower the barrier from week-one analyst to whole organization.
Primary stakeholderCHRO · CIO · Chief Data Officer
Why synpoint.ai

A strategic lens, not another integration tool.

Suite-fluent, vendor-honest

We know Workday and UKG natively — the data model, the upgrade path, the politics. Our recommendations work with the platforms you've already bet on, not around them.

Closed-loop architecture

Insight → Recommendation → Action → System Update → Financial Impact. Every AI surface we design closes back into the system of record with audit trail and reversibility.

Outcome-tied delivery

We sign on the metric the customer cares about — overtime saved, fill rate, time-to-hire, forecast accuracy — not on hours billed. Risk shared, upside shared.

Clean-core, always

Extensions live outside the suite — never in it. Your upgrades stay smooth. Your AI evolves continuously without the drag of a 12-month testing cycle.

The Closed Loop

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InsightAI agent detects an emerging signal in Workday or UKG data
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RecommendationHigh-confidence next-best-action with citations and projected impact
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ActionApproved by a human; orchestrated across UKG, Workday, and finance systems
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System updateSource-of-truth records updated with full audit trail and reversibility
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Financial impactOutcome flows to the GL within the period, not the quarter

Show me the art of the possible — in my own Workday and UKG data.

Pick one suite. We'll build a working demonstration on synthetic data that mirrors your model — then show you exactly what the same agents would surface in production.

Book a discovery → Download the playbook

What you'll walk away with

  • ✓ A prioritized list of 3–5 AI use cases ranked by ROI in your environment
  • ✓ A reference architecture aligned to your Workday or UKG estate
  • ✓ An outcome-pricing proposal tied to a measurable KPI
  • ✓ A 12-week pilot plan with go/no-go gates