Workday dominates HCM with a decade-old cloud architecture, deep integrations and a sprawling services ecosystem that locks in customers. Now, modern AI-first tools and a push for core-system replatforming could finally unseat its legacy forms-and-approvals engine.

Enterprises struggle to test AI forecasts in real-world conditions, so startups are using prediction markets as a live sanity check. Augur lets companies spin up private markets where employees trade on AI-generated predictions to catch model flaws before they cause costly errors. It monetizes through tiered SaaS plans, transaction fees on public markets, and a data API for aggregated market sentiment.