HR and payroll · Workday data quality for AIWorkday knows who works here. Does anyone else?
Workday holds worker records, positions and supervisory organisations, and every change carries effective-dated history. Reorgs, acquisitions and integration loads leave that history uneven. We compare Workday exports with payroll, CRM and finance to show whether workforce AI, or any AI that relies on who owns what, would see the real organisation.
Starts with a 30-minute call. Commits you to nothing. Then exports only: no login, no connected app, nothing installed.
Source of truth
What Workday gets right.
Every system is built to be right about something. Knowing what Workday owns, and what it doesn’t, is where a cross-system check starts, and where the Truth Score™ (a score out of 100 for how far your data can be trusted) begins to take shape.
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Who works here
Workers, hire and termination dates, worker type.
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The organisation
Supervisory organisations, managers, cost centres.
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Roles and pay structure
Positions, job profiles and compensation grades.
What people were paid, where payroll runs elsewhere, or who owns which customer. Those live in payroll and the CRM, and can disagree with Workday.
Inside the system
Common Workday data problems for AI.
What goes wrong inside Workday itself, with the objects and fields where it shows. Each one is checkable from an export.
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Positions that don’t reconcile with headcount
Filled, vacant and closed positions overlap, so staffing and attrition models miscount the workforce.
Position_IDPosition statusWorker_ID - 02
Gaps in effective-dated history
Retroactive edits and missing prior rows make tenure, promotion and mobility timelines unreliable.
Effective_DateBusiness_Process_TypeJob history - 03
Broken supervisory organisations
Empty orgs, orphaned managers and dotted lines fracture the reporting hierarchy.
Supervisory_OrganizationManagerCost_Center - 04
Contingent workers captured unevenly
Contractors recorded in some places and not others distort cost and capacity models.
Worker_TypeContingent_Worker_ID - 05
Job profiles and grades that overlap
Legacy profiles and off-grade pay make role and pay analysis meaningless to a model.
Job_ProfileJob_FamilyCompensation_Grade
Between systems
Workday looks clean on its own. The gaps are next door.
The problems that sink AI sit between Workday and the systems beside it: the same customer, person or transaction recorded differently in each. These are the gaps to test for each pairing.
HR and payroll
Workday
Source of truth forWho works hereThe organisationRoles and pay structure
Workday ↔ Payroll
ADPWorkday Payroll
- Leavers still on the payroll
- Pay rates that differ from Workday grades
Workday ↔ CRM
- Accounts owned by people who have left
- Sales territories that don’t match orgs
Workday ↔ Finance
- Cost centres missing from the ledger
- Headcount cost that disagrees with GL payroll
What to export
What we need from you, in plain English.
Your HRIS team can run standard or custom reports to Excel. We list the columns and agree how personal fields are minimised first. No tenant access and no integration system user.
- Exports only, no access to your systems
- NDA and data processing agreement first
- The full list of sub-processors comes with our data processing agreement, before any data moves
- Raw exports deleted after the engagement; we keep quality metrics, not your records
AI that depends on it
AI use cases that lean on Workday.
If one of these is in a proposal or your plan, Workday is one of the systems we compare. Each page sets out what the use case needs and where it breaks.
- Operations Process automation Approval and routing workflows depend on a correct manager and organisation for every worker.
- Operations Natural-language analytics Headcount questions only get one answer when positions, workers and orgs agree. Assessed with your team, not from exports alone.
- Operations Customer service automation Escalation to a named owner fails when that owner has left; Workday is the evidence.
- Revenue Lead scoring Routing scored leads relies on knowing which reps are still employed and in which team.
How a Truth Score Read tests Workday
From your exports to a signed verdict.
Within 5 working days of complete exports. A fixed fee, agreed before we start, that never moves with the verdict.
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Export Workday, and one system beside it
The Workday exports listed above, plus at least one neighbour, such as payroll. Under NDA, using the field list we send.
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Match across systems
Our engine matches each worker and its related records across the exports by ID, name, email and domain, including the ones spelt differently in each system.
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Check by hand, then score
Every red flag is checked by hand against sample records before sign-off. Then the Truth Score: each pillar shows what was measured and what wasn’t, and pillars with too little signal are marked, never guessed.
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Get the verdict in writing
A signed memo: the red flags between Workday and the other systems, a Leverability read on the AI you’re considering (which AI ideas you can use now, after fixes, or not at all), a verdict (sign, fix first or walk away) and a short fix list your own team can work from.
What you get back
See what comes back: a real sample memo.
One fictional B2B software company, Example Co: 72,837 records in 7 exports from its CRM, finance and HR systems, run through the same engine and the same checks as a paid Truth Score Read. Each system passes its own checks. Matched across systems, only 13% of deals tie to an invoice.
Questions
Workday and AI, answered plainly.
Anything else, ask on the 30-minute call. It commits you to nothing.
Book the callHow do you handle employee data?
We agree the minimum fields first: typically IDs, dates, org and role without pay or personal details. Exports only, under NDA and a data processing agreement, and raw exports deleted after the engagement.
Why compare Workday with the CRM?
Because AI that routes work, scores leads or escalates tickets relies on owners being real. Leavers who still own accounts are a classic cross-system gap.
Can you test a workforce planning tool?
We can test whether positions, history and orgs are complete and consistent enough to feed it, and say where they break.
Do you need Workday access?
No. Report exports run by your HRIS team are all we use. Nothing configured in your tenant.
Find out what your Workday data can carry. Before the AI does.
Your Workday export and one other system in. The gaps between them in writing, within 5 working days of complete exports. Starts with a 30-minute call. Commits you to nothing.
Starts with a 30-minute call. Commits you to nothing.