Workato is evolving, and we’re excited to take you through some of the biggest updates shaping the platform. Whether you’re looking to build faster with AI, manage APIs more efficiently, or streamline large-scale data processing, there’s something here for you.
1. Smarter automation with AI-powered copilots
Recipe Copilot: A Smarter Way to Build Recipes
Released
Building automations has never been easier. Recipe Copilot introduces Recipe Sketches, a new way to visually outline automation workflows before committing to the build. Instead of manually creating each step, builders can provide input, review a suggested workflow, and iteratively refine it.
This makes automation more accessible, allowing both new and experienced users to accelerate development while ensuring best practices are followed.
Performance Copilot: Optimize Your Workflows
Coming soon
Automation efficiency goes beyond just building—it’s about making sure recipes are optimized. The upcoming Performance Copilot will assess recipes for efficiency, highlight redundant steps, and suggest optimizations for cost and performance. It ensures automations run smoothly without consuming unnecessary resources.
Discovery Copilot: Find Your Next Best Automation
Roadmap
Wondering what to automate next? Discovery Copilot analyzes existing automations and compares them with industry trends to suggest new opportunities. By understanding business contexts, it helps teams maximize their automation strategy and ROI.
2. API Portal Assistant: Self-Service API Discovery
Coming soon
Managing APIs is about more than just publishing endpoints—it’s about making them easy to discover and use. The new API Portal Assistant simplifies this process by providing an interactive portal where developers can explore, test, and integrate APIs seamlessly. This reduces onboarding friction and accelerates API adoption within organizations.
3. Workato Agentic Platform: The Future of Intelligent, Actionable AI
Coming soon
Workato is redefining automation with Agentic Orchestration, moving beyond static workflows to AI-driven, intent-based automation. Instead of following predefined steps, agents can dynamically assess real-time data, make decisions, and act autonomously—all within enterprise security and governance.
Workato Genies
At the core of this release are Workato Genies—intelligent agents designed to execute workflows, provide insights, and interact with users in Slack and Teams. Pre-built Genies like IT Genie for service management and Sales Genie for revenue operations allow teams to get started quickly, while businesses can create custom Genies tailored to their needs.
What makes this powerful?
- Dynamic orchestration – Agents decide the best action based on real-time data.
- Domain-specific knowledge – Equip agents with business logic and governance rules.
- Seamless collaboration – Automate tasks while interacting with teams in natural language.
Agentic Orchestration changes how enterprises automate, making workflows adaptive, intelligent, and proactive. This is automation that works with you, not just for you—paving the way for more scalable, efficient operations.
4. API Proxy Transformation: Making API Integrations Easier
Private beta
For teams dealing with schema mismatches, inconsistent formats, or legacy integrations, API Proxy Transformation allows in-flight modifications to API requests and responses. Whether it’s restructuring data, applying transformations, or adding conditional responses, this feature helps ensure APIs work seamlessly across different systems.
5. API Developer Portal 2.0: Accelerating API Consumption
Coming soon
For businesses managing multiple APIs, ensuring smooth API discovery, testing, and consumption can be a challenge. The API Developer Portal will provide a self-service hub where developers can quickly find, test, and integrate APIs with minimal friction.
- Faster discovery – A centralized catalog with clear documentation makes it easy to find the right API.
- Instant testing – Built-in tools let developers simulate requests and preview responses before integrating.
- Seamless access – Automated approval workflows eliminate delays in obtaining API credentials.
- Custom branding – Enterprises can personalize the portal to match their brand identity
By removing roadblocks in API consumption, this developer-friendly portal will accelerate integrations and improve the way teams work with APIs.
6. Workato IDP: Automating Document Processing
Public beta
Processing invoices, contracts, and other business documents manually can be slow and error-prone. Workato’s Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) helps businesses extract data from PDFs, images, and structured forms—without requiring extensive training.
With support for multiple languages, Workato IDP is designed to streamline processes like procurement, finance operations, and compliance workflows.
7. Data Pipelines: Simplifying Large-Scale Data Movement
Coming soon
For businesses dealing with high volumes of data, Workato is introducing Data Pipelines, a new recipe type that enables scalable and automated data syncing between cloud apps, databases, and data warehouses. With built-in schema management and real-time monitoring,
Data Pipelines will make it easier to handle bulk data movements for analytics, reporting, and machine learning.
8. Virtual Private Workato: Secure, Isolated Deployments
Released
For organizations with strict compliance and security needs, Virtual Private Workato (VPW) offers an isolated deployment environment.
With dedicated infrastructure, advanced encryption, and full workload separation, VPW ensures data sovereignty and regulatory compliance, making it ideal for financial services, healthcare, and government sectors.
9. EDI for B2B Transactions: Automating Supply Chain Operations
Public beta
For businesses managing high-volume supply chain transactions, manual data exchange can slow operations and introduce errors.
Workato’s EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) solution simplifies B2B data exchange to help businesses streamline supply chain transactions with partners, vendors, and logistics providers. Instead of relying on manual data exchanges, businesses will be able to automate document processing for smoother, error-free transactions.
- Broad standard support – Workato EDI is compatible with X12 and EDIFACT, covering dozens of versions and 95% of transactions, including purchase orders, invoices, and shipping notices.
- Predefined schemas & custom models – Easily parse and generate EDI documents while maintaining flexibility for custom transaction needs.
- Automated validation & error handling – Ensure compliance and accuracy with built-in real-time validation and exception handling.
10. A More Intuitive Navigation Experience
Released
Workato’s new navigation experience is designed to help users move between workspaces, environments, and assets more efficiently. With improved environment color coding and streamlined menus, users can quickly find what they need while minimizing errors.
Exciting updates you don’t want to miss
There’s so much more to explore beyond what we’ve covered here. In the full roadmap session, you’ll get an inside look at enhancements to Workflow Apps, new security and compliance features, and expanded enterprise deployment options—all designed to help you orchestrate work at scale.
If you’re excited about what’s coming, watch the roadmap video on demand above. We can’t wait to see how you put these new changes to work! 🚀