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Workshop launches AI Studio, an agentic layer designed to give internal communications teams the capacity they’ve never had

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AI Studio adds scheduled AI agents, secure connectors to company systems, and a Workshop MCP server, so small comms teams can get work done without adding headcount. Workshop is the first internal communications platform to give communicators the ability to build their own agents and put them on a schedule. Announced today at BrightSide, Workshop’s annual internal communications conference in Omaha.

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Workshop, the modern internal communications platform built for employee communicators, today announced AI Studio, a new premium AI add-on that moves organizations from asking AI for help to delegating real work to it.

Most internal communications teams are one or two people responsible for reaching an entire company. They gather information from across the organization, run the same programs every week, watch what’s happening on the ground, and get the right message to the right people at the right time. The work matters, and there has never been enough of them to do all of it. AI tools so far have offered help at the margins: a better subject line, a faster first draft. It’s been useful, but the interaction ends there, and the communicator is still the one carrying every process from start to finish.

According to Workshop’s own Internal Comms Trends Report, 68% of communicators name automating repetitive tasks as their top priority this year. AI Studio was built for that team. It adds an agentic layer to Workshop: AI agents that take on the work a comms team already knows how to do but rarely has time for, following the team’s instructions, pulling from the systems where the source material already lives, and bringing finished drafts back for a person to approve.

“Comms teams don’t need another tool that makes them faster at typing. They need help with the list of things that have to happen every week, whether or not anyone has time for them. Things like weekly digests from Sharepoint, performance summaries for leaderships, event or benefits reminders that have to go out for the fourth time. AI Studio takes that list and does the work, then hands it back to the communicator to review. The team stays in charge of what gets said and how. They just get to spend their time on the parts of the job that actually need them.” — Rick Knudtson, co-founder and CEO of Workshop

What’s new for comms teams

Agents. Prebuilt AI teammates, plus the ability to build custom ones, that complete work end to end, from gathering information to drafting to notifying the right person when it’s ready for review. Teams can hand off the programs they run on repeat and pick them back up at the approval step. Workshop is the first internal communications platform to let communicators build their own agents and put them on a schedule.Connectors. Secure links between Workshop’s AI and the places comms teams already keep their source material, starting with SharePoint, with OneDrive, Teams, and more coming soon. No more copying context from one window into another before the work can start.Workshop MCP server. A secure way to use Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or other AI tools to access Workshop context and take permitted action, so a communicator’s existing AI tool of choice can pull campaign results or start a draft without leaving it.Enterprise AI controls. Admin-level settings for what agents are allowed to do, including which connectors are approved, whether web search is on, and what company context AI can draw from. Comms leaders can say yes to AI with IT and legal comfortable in the room.Unlimited AI credits. AI Studio removes metered usage so teams can put agents to work without watching a counter or rationing help.

Built on the permissions teams already have

Communicators handle some of the most sensitive information in a company, and the last thing a small team needs is a new category of risk to manage. So every one of AI Studio’s capabilities runs inside the access a team already has, not around it. If someone can’t open a file in SharePoint, their agents can’t either, and anything an agent isn’t sure about stays out of sight. The same goes for the Workshop MCP server: every request is tied to the person who’s actually logged in, and the moment someone disconnects a tool or turns off AI Studio, that access goes with it.

“The easiest way to lose a team’s trust is to give an agent access it shouldn’t have. So we built it the other way: if you can open it, your agent can use it, and if you can’t, neither can it. Nothing runs that a team didn’t set up themselves. Communicators should be able to try this without a single conversation they don’t want to have with security,” said Mikey Chaplin, Director of Product at Workshop.

Availability

AI Studio is rolling out to existing customers starting today at BrightSide, available as an add-on to any Workshop plan. Agents, the Workshop MCP server, and enterprise AI controls are available now, with connectors expanding beyond SharePoint in the months ahead.

For more information, visit useworkshop.com/ai-studio.

About Workshop

Workshop is a modern, purpose-built internal communications platform that helps teams create, send, manage, and measure employee communications in one place — starting with email and extending to Teams, Slack, SMS, and more. With AI and automation built in, Workshop helps communicators spend less time on production and more time on strategy. Most teams are live in 2–4 weeks. Companies like HarperCollins, ServiceNow, Steve Madden, and Madison Square Garden use Workshop to reach every employee and prove the impact of their communications. Learn more at useworkshop.com.

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AdminaHealth® Brings AI-Powered Data Assistant to the Enterprise Tier of the AdminaHealth Billing Suite®

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Read-only assistant lets Enterprise customers ask plain-language questions about their own billing, enrollment, and reconciliation data

GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AdminaHealth, an industry-leading provider of benefits billing technology for brokers, carriers, third-party administrators, and benefits teams, today announced that its AI-powered data assistant is now available to Enterprise customers of the AdminaHealth Billing Suite.

Ask questions about your benefits data in plain language and get answers directly from your workspace.

The assistant lets users ask natural-language questions about billing, enrollment, and reconciliation data within their own workspace, rather than navigating screen by screen or pulling a report to find an answer. A user can ask what a group’s bill totaled for a given month, where a mid-period adjustment originated, or which member’s coverage changed, and receive a direct answer drawn from that workspace’s records.

The assistant is read-only by design. It cannot modify a bill, alter a ledger entry, or change a record. Access requires workspace permission, acceptance of AdminaHealth’s terms of use and privacy policy, and multi-factor authentication.

The assistant operates entirely independently of the Billing Suite’s reconciliation, consolidation, and payment-calculation engine. Those calculations remain governed by AdminaHealth’s proprietary technology, protected under U.S. Patent Nos. 11,410,246 B2 and 11,935,133 B2 and refined through more than a decade of production use.

“AI is most valuable when it helps people get to the information they need faster, without introducing risk into the processes that demand precision,” said Dennis Reaves, Chief Technology Officer at AdminaHealth. “We designed the assistant to give customers a simple, conversational way to explore their own data while keeping our core billing and reconciliation calculations completely separate from generative AI. That distinction was deliberate.”

AdminaHealth also uses AI to convert PDF invoices into structured data for processing by the Billing Suite. This capability expands the range of carrier and vendor invoice formats the platform can ingest and reconcile, reducing the need to manually convert or reformat source data.

Enterprise customers are the first to receive access to the AI data assistant, with availability for additional customers determined on an account-by-account basis.

AdminaHealth is HITRUST-compliant, and the AdminaHealth Billing Suite has adopted the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and earned the elite HITRUST CSF Certification®.

About AdminaHealth

AdminaHealth is a cloud-based provider of the AdminaHealth Billing Suite, which automates benefits premium billing reconciliation, invoice consolidation, self-bill creation, and payment administration to improve accuracy, visibility, efficiency, and control.

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LevelUP HCS Achieves ISO 42001 Certification, Advancing Responsible AI Standards in Talent Acquisition

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Independent certification reinforces LevelUP’s commitment to AI governance, human oversight, and responsible innovation in recruitment.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — LevelUP Human Capital Solutions (LevelUP HCS), a global provider of talent acquisition and workforce solutions, today announced that it has achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification, becoming an early adopter of the international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS) within the recruitment industry.

“Our clients trust us with decisions that affect their businesses and people’s careers. This certification validates our commitment to ensuring AI innovation is backed by strong governance, accountability, and human oversight.” John Fitzgerald, President & Chief Innovation Officer

The certification marks an important milestone in LevelUP HCS’s commitment to advancing AI-enabled talent acquisition while maintaining the governance, accountability, and human oversight essential to responsible hiring.

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in recruitment, employers face new questions about how the technology is deployed, how candidate information is handled, and who remains accountable for hiring decisions. For organizations outsourcing all or part of their talent acquisition function, these questions extend directly to their recruitment partners.

ISO/IEC 42001 provides an internationally recognized framework for establishing, maintaining, and continually improving an AI management system. Certification demonstrates that LevelUP HCS has undergone an independent, accredited assessment of its AI management system against the standard’s requirements.

The audit was conducted by A Good Certification Group (AGCG), one of a small number of certification bodies worldwide accredited to assess organizations against ISO/IEC 42001. AGCG’s auditor noted: “You are one of the first 500 companies globally to get certified and genuinely one of the first recruitment companies to do so.”

“AI is fundamentally changing how organizations find, engage, and evaluate talent. But adopting new technology is only part of the equation,” said John Fitzgerald, President and Chief Innovation Officer at LevelUP HCS. “Our clients are trusting us with decisions that affect their businesses and people’s careers. That comes with a responsibility to ensure the technology we use is governed appropriately, risks are actively managed, and human judgment remains central to the hiring process. This certification is an important validation of that commitment.”

Raising the Standard for AI in Recruitment

AI can help recruiters identify talent, improve candidate engagement, streamline screening, and deliver stronger workforce insights, but it also introduces risk: bias, transparency gaps, and questions about the reliability of AI-generated outputs. For Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) providers, that responsibility is amplified. LevelUP HCS and firms like it operate as an extension of their clients’ talent acquisition teams, often working inside client systems and handling sensitive candidate information across multiple markets.

ISO 42001 establishes a structured approach to managing that responsibility, including AI risk assessment, defined accountability, appropriate oversight, and ongoing evaluation. It is the highest standard of AI governance that few companies, globally, have achieved.

For LevelUP HCS clients, certification provides independent assurance that the company has established a formal management system for governing AI within its certified scope, rather than relying solely on individual technology vendors’ assurances or internal policies.

Bringing Responsible AI Into the Hiring Process

The certification builds on LevelUP HCS’s broader investment in technology-enabled recruitment, including the LevelUP Hiring Engine™, which combines AI-powered capabilities with recruiter expertise across sourcing, engagement, screening, and recruitment orchestration.

Designed to work alongside clients’ existing systems, the Hiring Engine helps recruitment teams expand their capacity while keeping people at the center of the process.

LevelUP HCS’s approach is grounded in a simple principle: technology alone doesn’t hire people. People do.

“The opportunity with AI isn’t simply to automate more recruiting activity. It’s to make recruiting more effective,” added Fitzgerald. “That requires understanding where technology adds value, where human expertise matters most, and how to manage the risks that come with both. We believe recruitment providers have a responsibility to lead on this.”

LevelUP HCS’s ISO 42001 certification follows its achievement of ISO 27001 certification for information security management earlier in 2026, reinforcing the company’s continued investment in governance, security, and responsible innovation.

As organizations evaluate the growing role of AI in their workforce strategies, LevelUP HCS believes responsible AI governance will become an increasingly important consideration when selecting talent acquisition partners.

About LevelUP HCS

LevelUP Human Capital Solutions is a global talent acquisition and workforce solutions provider helping organizations build more effective, scalable hiring programs. Its services include Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Embedded Recruitment, Managed Service Programs (MSP), Total Talent Solutions, and Talent Intelligence and Advisory. Combining human expertise with innovative technology, LevelUP HCS helps clients solve complex workforce challenges and improve hiring outcomes.

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Emerging from Stealth, Awear Introduces a New Platform for Personal AI

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Starting with smart glasses, Awear gives people greater control over their AI agents while enabling brands to create differentiated experiences across devices

MAUI, Hawaii, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Awear emerged from stealth today at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit with a cross-device, context-aware, multimodal intelligence layer for personal AI, built around a simple idea: your AI agent should belong to you, not to a device, an app, or a technology company.

Starting with smart glasses, Awear lets people create and shape their own private AI agents — agents that can move with them across different devices and different brands.

For device makers, that creates a new model. Rather than surrendering the customer experience to a third-party AI assistant, brands can build their own distinctive experiences around the customer’s agent, differentiate their products and maintain a direct relationship with the people who buy them.

“Devices are becoming companions,” said Dr. Ash Saulsbury, founder and CEO of Awear. “They’ll know us, talk to us, and be with us all day. But the memories at the center of that relationship shouldn’t belong to the company that made your glasses or your phone. They should belong to you.”

“You should be able to shape your agents around who you are and take them with you as your devices change. At the same time, the brands you choose should be able to create extraordinary experiences and build their own relationship with you. Awear is building the platform that makes both possible.”

That distinction becomes increasingly important as AI moves beyond phones and computers into the devices people wear throughout the day. When AI can see what people see, hear what they hear and understand the context around them, an assistant is no longer an application. It becomes a persistent interface between people and their digital world.

Awear is designed so the interface is controlled by the individual.

Saulsbury founded Awear after a career spent building many of the technologies now converging in AI-powered eyewear. At Apple’s Advanced Technology Group, he worked on core technologies behind products including AirPods and Apple Watch. At Meta, he spent two years incubating the technology and design behind its Ray-Ban smart glasses. At Microsoft, he led the AR1 silicon program.

Smart glasses are the starting point, not the boundary.

Awear is building its platform so a person’s agent can ultimately move across the devices they carry, wear and drive — and into the robotic systems they interact with — while preserving continuity of identity, preferences and context.

The hardware can change. Your agent remains yours.

For brands, that portability does not mean becoming invisible. Awear gives each device maker the ability to create experiences unique to its products, design, and customers. An eyewear brand can define how its glasses look, feel, and behave. An automotive company can create experiences specific to the vehicle. Another device maker can build entirely different capabilities — all while interacting with the same agents the customer has chosen and shaped.

This gives brands a way to participate directly in the AI era without handing their customers over to someone else’s ecosystem.

Saulsbury is joined by three co-founders bringing expertise across trust, AI, technology, and luxury consumer brands.

Jan Eißfeldt, former Global Head of Trust and Safety at the Wikimedia Foundation, has spent his career building trust systems at global scale, researching AI architectures, and helping define industry standards. Jennifer Van Beek has shaped brand experiences for LVMH and other leading prestige houses. Lila Tretikov, former Deputy CTO of Microsoft and former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, has built and led major technology and AI organizations.

Eißfeldt and Tretikov are leading Awear’s privacy and trust architecture. At Awear, privacy, trust and safety are not features added after the product is built. They are part of the architecture from the start.

“AI will only fulfill its promise if people trust it,” said Eißfeldt. “And trust starts with who is in control. Your agent will know more about you than almost any technology you have used before. That information should work for you, not become the product.”

“Follow the money: if your business depends on advertising to people and monetizing their attention or data, privacy will always be in tension with profit. We have a chance to establish stronger norms before AI-enabled devices become ubiquitous. That requires a different kind of company, built from the beginning around a different set of incentives.”

At Snapdragon Summit today, Saulsbury took the stage to announce Awear’s technology and preview how personal agents can move across smart glasses while brands create their own differentiated experiences around them.

Built on Snapdragon® AR1+, Awear is already working with its first group of device and eyewear partners.

“Great brands build worlds. They give people a way of seeing, a way of carrying themselves, and a sense of who they are when they wear them,” said Jennifer Van Beek, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Awear. “Until now, adding AI meant handing the most intimate part of that world to someone else. Awear lets brands bring the most advanced intelligence to their customers without giving up what makes them distinctive: their design language, their values, and their point of view.”

For more information and to be the first to receive product release updates, visit awear.ai.

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