For Workday functional consultants
Describe the app. kiweely builds it in your Workday tenant.
No PMD. No ticket in someone else’s queue. kiweely writes the real Extend app — object model, pages, orchestration — then asks Workday whether it’s valid, before you press Publish.
kiweely doesn’t grade its own homework. Pass or fail comes from Workday.
The functional / technical line
You can configure the business process. You just can’t touch the PMD.
Workday draws a hard line between configuration and technical build. You own the what. Extend is the how, and it belongs to a developer you may not have — or one who is three sprints deep in someone else’s backlog.
What you already own
- Business process configuration
- Security groups and domains
- Reports and dashboards
- Tenant setup and BP definitions
What waits on someone else
- PMD page definitions
- AMD object models
- Orchestration Builder
- WQL queries and API calls
The distance is real. Workday’s own customer story about On has them taking three months to build their first Extend app and two weeks for their most recent one — after they had built the skill up in-house. Workday customer story: On
How it works
Four steps. You are in the room for all of them.
Every screen ahead is a real state the app can be in, not a mockup of one. Step through them.
Why trust it with your tenant
kiweely doesn’t grade its own homework.
It will never tell you a build passed because it looks right. It tells you a build passed because Workday said so.
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Workday grades the work, not kiweely
There is no local approximation of what Extend will accept. The app goes to your tenant’s own validation, and whatever comes back — pass or reject — is what you are shown.
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Three actions stop and ask before they happen
Creating the app in your Workday account, pulling the tenant copy over your local one, and publishing a live version each stop for an approval naming the app and the tenant. You can answer once, or allow it for the rest of that session — that grant covers only that chat, that app and that tenant, lapses after about an hour of inactivity, and never survives a restart.
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No integration system user behind the curtain
kiweely acts through the Workday session of the person running it. There is no ISU, no API client, no separate identity to go audit — its reach is whatever yours already is, and no more.
Someone’s real Workday screen, redacted for this page.
The honest comparison
Workday Developer Agent still expects a developer. kiweely doesn’t.
On 2 June 2026 Workday announced Developer Agent — natural-language app building that plugs into the coding agents developers already use, in early access through Extend Professional. Workday newsroom, 2 June 2026
Where it runs
Inside Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Codex or Antigravity — a coding agent you already have open.
A Mac app. Nothing else to install, no terminal in between.
Who it assumes you are
A developer who wants to move faster in a language they already read.
A functional consultant who has never opened a PMD file, and doesn’t intend to.
What you get back
Extend’s own tools and skills, exposed to your agent over MCP.
One loop — describe, build, validate against your tenant, publish — with the same three lifecycle buttons visible the whole way.
Who stands behind it
Workday. It is their platform, their roadmap, and their support contract.
An independent product in private beta. That is a real difference, and it should count against us until it doesn’t.
If your team already has a developer fluent in Extend, Developer Agent is probably the better fit for them. kiweely is for the person sitting next to that developer — or for the team that doesn’t have one.
Tenant safety
Written for the security review you didn’t ask to run.
Six questions your IT and InfoSec team will ask first, answered here so you don’t have to forward this page and wait a week.
- Which tenant does it touch?
- The one you connect it to, and only that one. kiweely doesn’t request its own access to anything — it signs in through a real browser window you can watch, and the session ends rather than being stored forever. We’d start in Sandbox or Preview, the same way you’d stage any other new integration.
- Can it publish on its own?
- Not without you saying so. Publishing a live version stops and waits for an approval that names the app and the tenant, and so do creating the app in your Workday account and replacing your local files with the tenant copy. Nothing skips that first prompt. On it you can answer Allow Once, or Allow for Session — which covers that chat, that app and that tenant only, lapses after about an hour of inactivity, and is gone the moment the app restarts. No standing allow-list is ever written to disk.
- What identity does it act as?
- Yours. There is no integration system user and no API client credential — kiweely works through the Workday session of whoever is signed in, so its reach is exactly that person’s reach, and no more.
- Whose AI account is this?
- Yours as well. The agent runs on your own ChatGPT sign-in, done once inside the app under Settings → AI Connections. kiweely doesn’t proxy your work through a backend key we control.
- Can we see what it changed?
- Yes. Every file it writes appears in the app’s source tree as it writes it, and the conversation that produced it stays with the app. Nothing changes behind a spinner you can’t inspect.
- What about Production?
- Whatever you build still moves to Production through your own path — the same review, transport and change control any Extend app goes through today. kiweely doesn’t create a side door around that, and it shouldn’t.
Where we actually are
kiweely is in private beta. It has not completed SOC 2 or any other third-party security attestation. If that is a blocker for your tenant today, say so and we’ll tell you exactly where we stand rather than selling you around it — support@kiweely.com.
Questions
The ones consultants actually ask.
Not here? Ask it directly — support@kiweely.com. A person answers, and if the answer is “we haven’t built that yet,” that is what you’ll get.
Will this replace the Extend developer on my team?
No, and we’d be careful of anyone who says otherwise. kiweely gets you from an idea to a reviewable first draft without a queue in between. It doesn’t own your security configuration, your complex integrations, or the judgment about what belongs in Production. Its output is built to be read by your technical consultant, not to route around them.
What happens when a Workday release breaks something it built?
The same thing that happens to a hand-built Extend app: something stops working. The difference is what you do next. You tell kiweely what broke, it reads the app it wrote and the errors the tenant is giving back, and it proposes the fix in the same plain language you built it in. We are not going to pretend release risk disappears because an agent wrote the app.
Isn’t this shadow IT? We already pay for Extend.
kiweely sits on top of the Extend entitlement you already have — it can’t do anything without a real tenant you can already sign into. It produces the same artifacts App Builder produces, in the same tenant, reviewable by the same people. It is a faster way to a first draft inside the system you already bought, not a second system beside it.
Do I need to be technical to use it?
You need to know your business process and what your tenant is for. If you can describe the process in a couple of sentences and you know what Sandbox means, you have enough. You will not be asked to read PMD.
What do I actually need to run it?
A Mac. A Workday Extend subscription and a tenant you can sign into. A ChatGPT account to sign the agent in with. And a license key from us, because the beta is closed.
What does it cost and how do I get in?
We’re onboarding a small number of Workday teams directly so we can watch it work against real tenants before opening up. Request a key below and tell us what you’d build first — that is genuinely the part we read.
Describe your next Extend app. See what comes back.
Private beta, macOS, one license key. The screen on the right is the one you’ll land on — we’d rather show you that than a thank-you graphic.
One last time, because it is the whole point: kiweely doesn’t grade its own homework. It never tells you a build passed because it looks right — only because Workday said so.
kiweely’s activation screen, recreated. Your key arrives with the download link.