Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a global leader in workforce readiness solutions, has launched Cornerstone Workforce Planning and Cornerstone Agent Ready, two AI-native agentic solutions that give organizations the workforce intelligence to shape strategy in real time and incorporate a governance framework to deploy AI agents responsibly. Both are built to make workforce skills and capability the foundation of business transformation rather than a byproduct of it.
Cornerstone has launched Cornerstone Workforce Planning and Cornerstone Agent Ready, two AI-native agentic solutions.
New Cornerstone research finds only 28% of AI initiatives fully deliver expected ROI, and 80% of enterprise AI project failures trace back to organizational and workforce readiness factors.
Cornerstone Workforce Planning is grounded in the Cornerstone People Graph and enriched by labor market intelligence, connecting business demands to a shared view of people, skills and work.
Functional leaders can plan within guardrails set by HR and finance, with AI generating options and decisions reserved for human judgment.
Cornerstone Agent Ready works with any HR or customer-facing agent on any platform, evaluating agent conduct judgment rather than accuracy alone.
Both solutions are debuting at HR Tech 2026 in Las Vegas and UNLEASH 2026 in Paris.
"Every transformation initiative ultimately succeeds or fails on the readiness of its people and the effectiveness of its AI agents," said Guna Jayaraman, Chief AI Officer at Cornerstone. "We're excited to bring to market solutions that each address a distinct and urgent challenge organizations face as they scale AI and navigate continuous transformation. Cornerstone Workforce Planning translates workforce intelligence into the confidence to decide and act on consequential decisions like whether to develop existing talent, hire new talent or bring in AI to fill skill and capability gaps, giving HR and business leaders the ability to adapt as quickly as their organization demands. Cornerstone Agent Ready holds agents to the same standards of conduct as people in equivalent roles."
"One of the biggest challenges organizations face with AI is translating workforce insights into meaningful action. Our research shows that while 48% of organizations conduct workforce planning, many still face gaps in reporting functionality, customization, and access to the data needed to make informed decisions. Bringing workforce intelligence together with agentic AI, as Cornerstone is doing, creates an opportunity to move beyond identifying skills gaps and workforce needs toward helping organizations act on those insights. The key will be using AI to improve planning and execution while keeping human judgment, data governance and business priorities as the primary drivers of decisions," said Cliff Stevenson, Principal Analyst, Sapient Insights Group.
As workforce decisions become high-stakes calls on growth, resilience and risk, and leaders navigate constant reinvention, most organizations still plan with static, centralized headcount models drawn from fragmented data that quickly becomes outdated. HR, finance and business leaders end up reconciling numbers instead of getting ahead of change.
Grounded in the Cornerstone People Graph and enriched by labor market intelligence, Cornerstone Workforce Planning connects evolving business demands to a shared, current view of people, skills, and work. Leaders can understand the workforce they have and what is needed, determine how to close gaps, and turn decisions into actions with clear owners. Functional leaders can plan within guardrails set by HR and finance, with AI generating options and decisions reserved for human judgment.
Cornerstone Workforce Planning expands Cornerstone's growing portfolio of AI-native, agentic solutions within Cornerstone Workforce AI. When developing existing talent is the answer, decisions flow directly into Readiness Agents for learning, talent development, and mobility, so the plan and the action live on the same platform and progress feeds back into the plan.
As organizations deploy AI agents to advise employees on workforce conduct and policy and to engage external customers and partners, a new risk has emerged. The agents handling these sensitive interactions are often not held to the same standards as the people in equivalent roles.
Cornerstone Agent Ready directly addresses this to allow organizations to move faster while building responsibly. The solution works with any HR or customer-facing agent on any platform, evaluating agent conduct judgment rather than accuracy alone. It generates a documented evidence record and delivers a remediation specification developers can act on immediately.
About Cornerstone
At Cornerstone, we believe in AI that works in the service of people, amplifying their judgment to drive high-performing, future-ready organizations forward. Cornerstone Workforce AI, the intelligence platform for workforce readiness, brings together workforce and labor market data into a proprietary Cornerstone People Graph, translating signals into intelligence, targeting learning where it matters, developing critical skills, and surfacing hidden talent. Delivered as an open, enterprise platform across whatever application your people work in every day, Cornerstone Workforce AI is built for scale, security, and trust, with certified AI guardrails. As an industry leader, Cornerstone is helping approximately 7,000 organizations, 135M users, across 180 countries build continuous workforce readiness.
