Workday prices AI in credits per action and never in dollars. If you own Workday Financials and someone has asked you what agents will cost next year, this works out the number, whether your tenant is ready to carry them, and what to negotiate before you sign.
A seven-hundred-and-fifty-to-one spread means a blended average rate tells you nothing. One team adopting a high-cost agent can consume more than the rest of the organisation combined.
The complimentary allotment sounds generous until you price it in the work you actually do.
| Talent rediscovery requisitions | 80 |
| Contract redlines | 120 |
| Self-service lookups | 60,000 |
For a mid-size employer, eighty requisitions is roughly four months of recruiting. Rates are third-party reported; the Flex Credits Rate Card is not publicly available, which is part of the problem. Rate data current as of 16 September 2026.
Most organisations are enabling agents inside a complimentary or promotional credit window. Usage accumulates while nobody watches the cost, and the first representative invoice arrives after the baseline that would have explained it can no longer be captured.
Two platform behaviours make it worse, both documented by Workday. Consumption reporting refreshes daily rather than in real time. And exceeding your entitlement deactivates nothing, so there is no automatic ceiling on what you spend.
Put your headcount and volumes in, find out which month your allotment runs out and what the overage costs. No signup.
Three working documents: the full consumption model, a thirty-eight question tenant readiness assessment, and the contract negotiation checklist. Company licence, not per seat.
Half a day with your team, working through your own tenant against the seven readiness dimensions. Up to eight people, remote.
This is a new practice and I am not going to pretend otherwise by putting invented quotes on a page. Four things stand in for a testimonial, and you can check every one of them.
The free tool is the sample. The calculator is a working piece of the paid model, given away. If its logic does not hold up, do not buy the version with more of it.
The output is on the page. The kit page shows the real Summary tab from both spreadsheets, numbers and all, before you pay anything.
Prices are published. Every comparable offering in this market says contact us. You can see what this costs without giving anyone your email address.
Thirty days, no questions. A refund policy is the only guarantee that costs the seller something, which is why it is worth more than a quote from a company you cannot call.
| Calculator | Readiness Kit | Workshop | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tells you whether you have an exposure | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Includes platform entitlements | — | Yes | Yes |
| Stress-tests volumes at 1.5x, 2x, 3x | — | Yes | Yes |
| Assesses your tenant against seven dimensions | — | Yes | Yes |
| Contract and Order Form negotiation points | — | Yes | Yes |
| Run against your own live tenant | — | — | Yes |
| Time from your team | 2 minutes | Half a day | 4 hours, up to 8 people |
| Price | Free | $850 | $4,500 |
The kit is a company licence rather than a per-seat one, so it can be circulated to everyone who touches the decision. Workshop attendees receive the kit as part of the engagement.
It takes two minutes and it will tell you whether you have a problem worth paying anyone to solve.
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