How do you differentiate autonomous AI agents from earlier generations of enterprise software copilots?
Replied byAneel Bhusri
Co-Founder & CEO at Workday
Niche: SaaS
Revenue: Approx. USD 800 Million/month
Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Started: 2005
Copilots were advisory assistants that generated suggestions while requiring continuous human interaction. Autonomous agents execute multi-step workflows independently, making decisions and directly updating enterprise systems of record without manual intervention.
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