Reporting lines you already know
Tools and rules flow down. The most specific grant decides.
Specialized AI workers, organized like your company. They meet people on WhatsApp, email, and the web. Your staff approve the important steps. Every action leaves a record.
One root cause: every case is still handled by hand. Hiring into the same maze does not fix the maze.
Workers sit on your tree. Each one has a written role you publish.
That is the whole product. Everything else is how you build, run, and inspect it.
Tools and rules flow down. The most specific grant decides.
Autonomy is granted, per team. It is not the default.
Steps, approvals, tokens, and cost — replayable on the job.
Build. Run. Measure. Then publish the next version.
Five layers. Follow a request from the person to the record it leaves.
A person starts the work. The platform assigns it. The AI workers do only what they are allowed. Passwords never enter the model. A person still signs off on what goes out.
WhatsApp, email, a portal, or the workspace — one job, one trail.
How one request becomes a plan, child runs, governed calls, a human decision and a complete record.
The same product in all three. Only the boundary moves.
Connectors reach your systems. Channels are where people meet the agents. Knowledge sources are what agents read. Automation starts work and reports back.
Nothing outside has to move.
Your portal keeps its screens. Your system of record keeps its data. Your agents keep their platform. This seam is the only thing that is new — and it is the same seam for all of them.
Grants, the tool gateway and approvals govern every crossing, and each call is signed and scoped to one organization.
Register an agent once, then call it from a run, a workflow step or a hand-off — and let it call your workers back.
Publish a worker and it is served as a signed A2A agent card (v1.0 and v0.3) and as an MCP tool, so anything on the list above can call it. Every inbound call is a real, metered, audited job; an approval pause shows on their side as input-required.
Open A2A for Foundry, watsonx, LangSmith, Google, Salesforce, ServiceNow and any A2A server. A native adapter for Copilot Studio, Claude, OpenAI Responses and Bedrock AgentCore. Either way it is one governed step in a run, a workflow, or a hand-off.
Grants, approval policies, audit, data residency and a daily cost cap apply to a remote agent exactly as to any tool. Outbound text is screened for personal data and secrets; what comes back is data, never instructions.
Trust levels set floors, not ceilings. An untrusted agent needs a named person’s approval on its first call in a conversation, and a change to its published agent card disables it until an admin reviews it.
Where the limits sit today: Foundry is text only, without streaming · OpenAI means the Responses API · asynchronous callbacks are A2A only · agents are addressed directly, not through a marketplace.
Foundry stays the Azure-native runtime plane — Entra, Purview, Defender, Monitor. This platform is the workforce control plane. Link to coexist; import to run here.
Understand, integrate, publish, import. The agent never has to leave Azure; when it should, it arrives as a draft a person reviews.
The same flow for every connector kind — an agent on another platform included. Default-deny from the first step; a person publishes the last.
Connect, verify, choose tools, grant, publish. Nothing is callable until granted; write tools wait for a person; what ran is what was granted.
A channel changes how a worker is reached. It never changes what the worker may do.
Written roles, grants, approvals, audit and metering live here — once. Every channel below inherits them, and what ran is always what was approved.
The console's chat for members — agents, crews, approvals, the run inspector.
One script tag puts a worker on your own portal or site, on your keys.
The workspace on a phone — same workers, voice or typed, photos, approvals.
Hands-free through the Android app; what the wearer sees goes with the next turn.
The same pattern — device token, device tools, approvals by voice — is the path to physical agents.
Where the limits sit today: the app is Android only, installed by hand — Meta's private tester channel for the glasses build · glasses features need the paired wearable and are opt-in per deployment, tenant and worker · voice needs a speech provider on the deployment.
A real case. A person at the gate. The trail it leaves. If that is true, your teams can write the next workers on the same platform.
We do not hand over a black box. We hand over a workforce you can see.
Available today, across orchestration, governance and knowledge.
● Available today
○ Planned — listed on the next slide
Available today. Planned items are marked below.
Agents on other platforms are addressed directly, over A2A or a native adapter. Physical agents: the glasses' device-token, device-tool and voice-approval pattern is the path — nothing is shipped, no partner or certification is named.
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