Deel Says 8,000+ Akai Agents Now Do the Work of Roughly 600 Employees
testingcatalog · x · 2026-09-28
Deel, which manages payroll for 40,000+ companies in 150+ countries, says its Akai platform now runs across all its own operations teams, with 8,000+ agents doing the work of roughly 600 employees.
Reported results:
- 1M+ hours saved to date
- 250,000+ cases handled automatically per month
- 10,000+ live agents across finance, payments, and regulatory ops
How it works: show it a workflow once (or describe it in plain language); Akai captures network traffic, UI clicks, and audio, then builds connectors automatically—formal API, unofficial API, or browser—with rules, guardrails, human-in-the-loop measures, and risk-based AI governance. Once approved, agents run on schedule at any volume with no manual trigger.
Related event: Deel Launches Enterprise Agent Platform Akai at $140M ARR(2 posts)→
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