Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
*Featured in this video:* Thomas Newton, Head of Cloud and Engineering at UKG
*Executive summary:* UKG, a leading global platform for HR, pay, and workforce management, is building an intelligent system of action with Google Cloud. To bring AI directly into employee workflows, UKG created UKG Bryte™ AI — people-first AI that utilizes Google’s Gemini models to streamline information access and uncover workforce insights in real time through natural language interactions. To extend these capabilities, UKG is using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Agent Development Kit (ADK) to build and deploy Bryte AI agents for everything from complex data analysis to routine HR and admin tasks and self-service assistance. This foundation is also enabling UKG to build out a fleet of internal engineering agents that assist developers across the entire software development lifecycle, delivering fully working prototypes in four to six weeks and boosting raw code contributions by 30%.
*Challenge:* Traditional workforce systems often require navigating complex menus and screens, creating friction that slows down decision-making. UKG wanted to create a system of action, integrating AI directly into the flow of work to help people spend less time on the menial — and more on the meaningful.
*Solution:* Partnering with Google Cloud, UKG integrated Google’s Gemini models into UKG Bryte™ AI, its people-first AI that takes the complexity out of decision making and turns insights into action. Gemini’s multimodal and advanced reasoning capabilities allow users to ask questions in natural language to gain insights and automate tasks, making it easier to take action faster. Using Agent Platform and ADK, UKG is building and deploying Bryte AI agents that enhance productivity and service efficiency, helping to automate everything from complex data analysis to routine HR and admin tasks and self-service assistance. With a single destination to rapidly build, scale, govern and optimize enterprise-grade agents, UKG's tech teams now have more time to focus on creating value, including developing a fleet of internal engineering agents that can assist across the entire software development lifecycle — from requirements validation to shipping code.
*Results:* By supercharging AI agents across its HR, pay, and workforce management ecosystem, UKG is transforming work for tens of millions of employees across 80,000 organizations. Taking an AI-first approach has also provided a launchpad for junior talent while empowering senior staff to maximize their expertise — slashing prototype timelines to just four to six weeks and driving a 30% surge in raw code contributions.
*Key takeaways and highlights from our interview with Thomas Newton, VP of Cloud and Engineering at UKG:*
→ “With ADK, we’re able to leapfrog our timeline on this tremendously. Four to six weeks producing prototypes and producing working software that's unlocking this vision that we're actually able to pull all this off. Agent Platform, it’s kind of solving some of these key problems that we already were trying to solve — from hosting agents to securing them to the governance around them.”
→ “We want to be there in the front door and helping our engineers get that productivity gain. So, we’re creating literally a fleet of agents, enabling and empowering the engineer to go much faster. From requirements validation to shipping code, we’re really helping our engineers make this leap to be agentic-first.”
→ “We started measuring all the Git contributions — a clear 30% increase across the board. Our junior engineers are turning into rocket ships, but then our staff engineers, they’re becoming 10Xers because they’ve got all this background knowledge and they know how to talk to the agent.”
*Google Cloud products used:* Gemini, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Agent Development Kit
*Learn more:*
→ UKG and Google Cloud Partner to Transform Work with Agentic AI for Tens of Millions of Users
ukg.com/company/newsroom/ukg-and-google-cloud-partner-transform-work-agentic-ai-tens-millions-users
→ UKG unlocks real-time workforce intelligence at scale with the Agentic Data Cloud
cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-ukg-taps-workforce-intelligence-with-the-agentic-data-cloud
*Featured in this video:* Thomas Newton, Head of Cloud and Engineering at UKG
*Executive summary:* UKG, a leading global platform for HR, pay, and workforce management, is building an intelligent system of action with Google Cloud. To bring AI directly into employee workflows, UKG created UKG Bryte™ AI — people-first AI that utilizes Google’s Gemini models to streamline information access and uncover workforce insights in real time through natural language interactions. To extend these capabilities, UKG is using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Agent Development Kit (ADK) to build and deploy Bryte AI agents for everything from complex data analysis to routine HR and admin tasks and self-service assistance. This foundation is also enabling UKG to build out a fleet of internal engineering agents that assist developers across the entire software development lifecycle, delivering fully working prototypes in four to six weeks and boosting raw code contributions by 30%.
*Challenge:* Traditional workforce systems often require navigating complex menus and screens, creating friction that slows down decision-making. UKG wanted to create a system of action, integrating AI directly into the flow of work to help people spend less time on the menial — and more on the meaningful.
*Solution:* Partnering with Google Cloud, UKG integrated Google’s Gemini models into UKG Bryte™ AI, its people-first AI that takes the complexity out of decision making and turns insights into action. Gemini’s multimodal and advanced reasoning capabilities allow users to ask questions in natural language to gain insights and automate tasks, making it easier to take action faster. Using Agent Platform and ADK, UKG is building and deploying Bryte AI agents that enhance productivity and service efficiency, helping to automate everything from complex data analysis to routine HR and admin tasks and self-service assistance. With a single destination to rapidly build, scale, govern and optimize enterprise-grade agents, UKG's tech teams now have more time to focus on creating value, including developing a fleet of internal engineering agents that can assist across the entire software development lifecycle — from requirements validation to shipping code.
*Results:* By supercharging AI agents across its HR, pay, and workforce management ecosystem, UKG is transforming work for tens of millions of employees across 80,000 organizations. Taking an AI-first approach has also provided a launchpad for junior talent while empowering senior staff to maximize their expertise — slashing prototype timelines to just four to six weeks and driving a 30% surge in raw code contributions.
*Key takeaways and highlights from our interview with Thomas Newton, VP of Cloud and Engineering at UKG:*
→ “With ADK, we’re able to leapfrog our timeline on this tremendously. Four to six weeks producing prototypes and producing working software that's unlocking this vision that we're actually able to pull all this off. Agent Platform, it’s kind of solving some of these key problems that we already were trying to solve — from hosting agents to securing them to the governance around them.”
→ “We want to be there in the front door and helping our engineers get that productivity gain. So, we’re creating literally a fleet of agents, enabling and empowering the engineer to go much faster. From requirements validation to shipping code, we’re really helping our engineers make this leap to be agentic-first.”
→ “We started measuring all the Git contributions — a clear 30% increase across the board. Our junior engineers are turning into rocket ships, but then our staff engineers, they’re becoming 10Xers because they’ve got all this background knowledge and they know how to talk to the agent.”
*Google Cloud products used:* Gemini, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Agent Development Kit
*Learn more:*
→ UKG and Google Cloud Partner to Transform Work with Agentic AI for Tens of Millions of Users
ukg.com/company/newsroom/ukg-and-google-cloud-partner-transform-work-agentic-ai-tens-millions-users
→ UKG unlocks real-time workforce intelligence at scale with the Agentic Data Cloud
cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-ukg-taps-workforce-intelligence-with-the-agentic-data-cloud
