Agentforce 2.0 is the digital labor platform
for enterprises, enabling a limitless workforce through AI agents
for any department, assembled using a new library of pre-built
skills, and that can take action across any system or workflow
Agentforce 2.0 makes autonomous AI part of
every team, empowering every employee to collaborate with
Agentforce in Slack
Agentforce 2.0 features enhanced reasoning and
data retrieval to deliver precise answers and orchestrate actions
in response to complex, multi-step questions
Customers like Accenture, The Adecco Group,
Finnair, Heathrow Airport, IBM, Indeed, Saks Global, and SharkNinja
are embracing Agentforce to augment their teams with digital labor
— streamlining business operations and unlocking new capacity for
growth
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the world’s #1 AI CRM, today announced
Agentforce 2.0: the newest version of Agentforce, the first digital
labor platform for enterprises — a complete AI system for
augmenting teams with trusted, autonomous AI agents in the flow of
work. This release introduces a new library of pre-built skills and
workflow integrations for rapid customization, the ability to
deploy Agentforce in Slack, and advancements in agentic reasoning
and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). These advances will
enable companies to scale their workforce with customized agents
capable of handling complex, multi-step tasks with even more
precision and accuracy.
Why it’s relevant: Every team has more work to do than
resources available, leading to poorer customer interactions and
lengthy backlogs. Organizations are turning to AI to help, but have
a low tolerance for inadequate solutions that provide generic
responses. Existing solutions such as copilots struggle to provide
accurate, trusted responses to complex requests — such as
personalized guidance on a job application — and cannot take action
on their own — like nurturing a lead with product recommendations.
Organizations need a new type of platform designed to supply
digital labor in the form of autonomous AI agents that can reason
over data and tap into workflows to take action on behalf of
overwhelmed teams.
“Agentforce 2.0 takes our revolutionary Salesforce digital labor
platform to another level, with new reasoning, integration and
customization features that supercharge autonomous agents with
unprecedented levels of intelligence, precision and accuracy,”
said Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO, Salesforce. “The demand
for Agentforce has been amazing — no other company comes close to
offering this complete AI solution for enterprises. We’re
seamlessly bringing together AI, data, apps, and automation with
humans to reshape how work gets done. Agentforce 2.0 cements our
position as the leader in digital labor solutions, allowing any
company to build a limitless workforce that can truly transform
their business.”
How the Adecco Group Uses Agentforce to Scale Personalized
Recruiting with Digital Labor:
"At the Adecco Group, we are committed to creating meaningful
connections between candidates and opportunities. By centralizing
data across over 40 systems with Salesforce's Data Cloud and
leveraging Agentforce, we’re transforming the candidate experience.
Agentforce will help prequalify candidates, enhance CVs, and ensure
faster job placements. Agentforce agents also operate 24/7, freeing
recruiters to focus on meaningful connections while delivering
speed and personalization at scale." – Greg Shewmaker, Senior
Vice President of Global Operations and AI, The Adecco
Group
New Library of Skills Brings Agentforce to Every Team and
Workflow:
Time and integration challenges make it difficult to build
customized agents for individual business teams or departments.
Agentforce 2.0 eliminates these barriers with a new library of
pre-built agent skills — tasks Agentforce can perform — spanning
CRM, Slack, Tableau, and partner-developed skills on the
AppExchange. This latest release empowers customers to extend
Agentforce to any system or workflow using MuleSoft. It also
features an enhanced Agent Builder capable of interpreting natural
language instructions, such as 'Onboard New Product Managers,' to
auto-generate new agents. These agents seamlessly combine pre-made
skills with custom logic built in Salesforce, offering unparalleled
flexibility and speed.
- New CRM Skills for Agent-First Customer Experiences: New
skills for sales teams such as Sales Development and Sales Coaching
enable the creation of autonomous AI agents that can nurture leads
based on your rules of engagement, as well as agents that can join
your prospecting calls and provide instant feedback on interactions
with customers, helping reps do their best work at massive scale.
Additional skills include Marketing Campaign and Commerce Merchant
skills, scheduling skills for service engagements, and new skills
for field service workers.
- Take Action Across Any App or Workflow with MuleSoft:
MuleSoft now enables Agentforce to get work done across your
business. With MuleSoft for Flow, it’s easier than ever to create
low-code workflows that span any system, with pre-built connectors
for building multi-system workflows fast. As teams look to turn
their APIs into Agentforce actions, the new MuleSoft API Catalog
enables builders and Salesforce Admins to view, discover, and
manage APIs across Salesforce, MuleSoft, Heroku, and any external
services from one central location for rapid reuse. And the new
MuleSoft Topic Center expands on this by enabling teams to infuse
Agentforce metadata into every API they build, ensuring that any
point of connectivity can be automatically turned into an
Agentforce skill or action, making every API “agent-first” by
default.
- Tableau Skills for Analytics and Insights: New Tableau
Topics and Actions deliver data visualizations and predictions for
deeper understanding of agent responses and accurate, business
context-rich answers using Tableau Semantics. This unlocks new
conversational analytics use cases, further lowering the barrier to
data access for everyone.
- Slack Skills for Engaging in Channels and Conversations:
With Slack Actions now available in Agent Builder, a team can
enhance Agentforce with, for example, the ability to send a DM to
provide a summary of what’s happening with a project, or update a
Slack Canvas when a customer asks for changes to an ongoing
project.
- Partner Skills Through the AppExchange: Agentforce is
backed by the first-ever enterprise ecosystem of agent skills —
enabling customers to extend their Agentforce with custom Topics
and Actions ranging from new agent types such as the AI Employee
Service Agent with Workday, to new, partner-built actions from
Asymbl, Docusign, and Neuron 7.
- Agentforce Now Recommends Skills for the Work You Need
Done: Create new agents in seconds using natural language
descriptions. Agent Builder now uses Agentforce to compose new
agents for the work you need done by auto-generating relevant
topics and instructions while pulling from the library of skills
and actions already available to you, ensuring teams can go live
with new digital labor fast.
How Accenture Uses Agentforce to Scale Sales Productivity
with Digital Labor:
“At Accenture, we embrace emerging technologies first so we can
help our clients go fast. Our sales team within Accenture’s
Salesforce Business Group and Accenture Song are starting to use
Agentforce to automate contact and close plan creation, surface
insights through enterprise search, and keep teams aligned with
dynamic updates. It’s helping to increase time-to-effectiveness,
accelerate decision-making, and is allowing them to focus on
delivering innovative solutions for their clients.” – Stephanie
Sadowski, Salesforce Business Group lead at Accenture
Agentforce in Slack — Humans with Agents Working Together
Where Work Happens: As organizations look to unlock value from
AI agents, they need solutions that are embedded where their
employees already are. Agentforce 2.0 is deployable in Slack,
bringing customizable digital labor into the messages (DMs) and
channels where work happens.
- Bring Agentforce to any Message or Channel: Agentforce
2.0 enables teams to easily bring Agentforce into any Slack
conversation. Slack users can start a conversation directly from
the Agentforce Hub, or @ mention Agentforce agents through DMs or
in channels, tapping into their digital labor force directly in the
flow of work.
- New Slack Actions in Agent Builder: Agent Builder now
features pre-built Slack Actions such as “Create Canvas” or
“Message Channel” that enable teams to rapidly enhance existing
agents or create new ones that can effortlessly engage with your
teams in Slack.
- Unlock conversational context with Enterprise Search:
Slack contains a wealth of domain knowledge across DMs, channels,
and Canvases that reflect the unique nature of your business. With
Slack Enterprise Search, Agentforce can draw from conversational
data — enhancing the relevancy of responses and actions by drawing
from public and permissioned information in Slack.
How Indeed Uses Agentforce to Scale Personalized Job Seeker
Engagement with Digital Labor:
“Indeed is the world’s leading job site, with three people hired
every second through its platform. At the heart of Indeed’s success
is its ability to match the 580 million profiles created by job
seekers with over 3 million hiring employers. By harnessing the
power of Data Cloud, Indeed has enhanced its data architecture,
creating a solid foundation for its go-to-market strategies and
enhancing connections to its rich job seeker profiles,” said Indeed
CIO Anthony Moisant. “By leveraging Agentforce, Indeed can stay
focused on its mission to help people find jobs while advancing its
goals, including reducing time-to-hire by 50% and helping 30
million individuals facing barriers to employment secure jobs by
fiscal year 2030.” - Anthony Moisant, CIO, Indeed
Expert Answers to Complex Questions and Execute Actions with
Agentforce 2.0: The Atlas Reasoning Engine is the brain behind
Agentforce, enabling it to retrieve relevant data, then reason and
act. With Agentforce 2.0, Salesforce is introducing enhanced
reasoning and retrieval to handle deeply nuanced questions, powered
by new capabilities in Data Cloud that fuel Agentforce with greater
context — complementing structured and unstructured data with
business-specific metadata for greater accuracy across the most
complex, multi-faceted requests.
- Enhanced Reasoning with Advanced Retrievers:
Agentforce’s Atlas Reasoning Engine can now handle a wider variety
of interactions, including those with multiple layers that require
deeper thought. For example, a question that is straightforward,
such as “what is the status of my portfolio?” will employ basic
reasoning for rapid responses. A deeper question, such as “What
would be the right investment vehicle for my child’s college fund
based on my current income and risk preferences?” would use
enhanced reasoning with advanced data retrievers — improving the
answer by refining the query before pulling both relevant data and
context-specific metadata in Data Cloud. The Atlas Reasoning Engine
assesses its own response and loops through a variety of tools and
sources in what's known as an 'agentic loop,’ enabling it to
provide a trusted, well-researched response or action to nuanced
and more complex requests, and do so without writing custom
code.
- Enhanced RAG with Enriched Indexing: RAG enables
Agentforce to quickly find relevant information in unstructured
content. To power enhanced reasoning in the Atlas Reasoning Engine,
Data Cloud can now enrich RAG chunks — the snippets of retrieved
data — with metadata from the Salesforce Platform. Enriching RAG
indexes with metadata context adapts Agentforce 2.0 to the unique
conventions of your business without additional work, improving
accuracy and relevancy for even the most intricate requests, while
increasing trust through inline citations that point to the exact
sources Agentforce pulled from to answer a given question.
How Salesforce provides faster, more personalized customer
support with Agentforce:
The Salesforce Help page receives more than 60 million visits a
year from customers who need assistance with product support and
account queries. Agentforce on help.salesforce.com provides
customers with personalized, 24/7 service, while seamlessly
escalating to human reps with the full case history and context
when needed. Since launching in October, Agentforce is now solving
83% of customer queries without a human, has halved the number of
issues that require human intervention, and has nearly doubled its
average number of weekly conversations.
Customer Perspectives:
“At 1-800 Accountant, we’re using Agentforce to manage service
inquiries, especially during tax season. With Agentforce now
managing up to 90% of incoming requests, we can automate responses
to common questions like tax return statuses, freeing up our team
to focus on more complex tasks. This boosts efficiency, improves
customer satisfaction, and ensures fast, secure, personalized
support. Plus, Agentforce adheres to strict data security
standards, keeping sensitive tax information safe and accessible
only to authorized personnel. It’s a game-changer, helping us scale
and serve our clients better during peak times.” – Ryan Teeples,
CTO, 1-800 Accountant
“Embracing autonomous agents is a game-changer for Bionic. We’re
on a mission to make life radically easier for Britain’s small
businesses by combining smart technology with expert human service.
With agentic AI, we’re streamlining tasks like meter readings and
switch tracking to deliver 24/7 support. This innovation empowers
our 200,000 SME customers to save time and hassle so they can focus
on growing their business.” – James Lomas, Chief Technology
Officer, Bionic
“With Agentforce, we want to transform Capita’s recruitment
process into a fast, seamless and autonomous experience that
benefits candidates, our people, and our clients. With autonomous
agents providing 24/7 support, our goal is to enable candidates to
complete the entire recruitment journey within days as opposed to
what has historically taken weeks. At Capita, we give time back to
our clients so they can focus on what they do best – and Agentforce
will improve our ability to do just that. This is just the start of
our agentic journey with Salesforce, where we believe an Agentic
Economy can drive big growth potential for UK businesses.” –
Adolfo Hernandez. Chief Executive Officer, Capita
“At Finnair, we will use Agentforce to transform our customer
service operations, enabling us to efficiently handle routine
inquiries and improve response times. With Agentforce automating a
significant share of standard inquiries, our team can focus on more
complex issues, ensuring faster and more accurate support. This
allows us to provide a seamless experience for both customers and
customer service personnel, reducing onboarding times for our
contact center teams with quicker access to vital information.”
– Tiina Vesterinen, Vice President, Commerce & CX
Solutions, Finnair
"With Salesforce's Agentforce, SharkNinja will be able to
transform customer support across more than 30 markets, empowering
our agents to deliver personalized, 24/7 service. By unifying data
and addressing common inquiries like 'where is my order?', we can
streamline agent workloads, enabling them to focus on meaningful,
high-impact interactions. This integration will ensure a seamless
shopper experience, offering tailored product support, FAQs, and
personalized responses that meet consumers’ unique needs – helping
us to create extraordinary experiences at every touch point." –
Velia Carboni, CIO, SharkNinja
"The travel industry is a 24/7 business, often involving unique
and urgent requests. As our website, which offers luxury travel
deals, continues to grow and attract new customers, we wanted a
solution that could deliver a personalized service efficiently to
our 60 million European members. Agentforce uses our unified data
to automate routine tasks like processing cancellations, updating
booking information, or even answering common travel questions
about luggage, flight information, and much more, freeing up our
customer service agents to handle more complex and last-minute
travel needs to better serve our members.” – Kate Donaghy, Head
of Business Technology, Secret Escapes
“Unity Environmental University is leveraging Salesforce’s
Agentforce to expand our support beyond routine inquiries, allowing
our employees to focus on learners who need more personalized
guidance. By integrating agentic AI into our workflows, we can
quickly address standard questions like financial aid details or
class registration while freeing our team to engage more deeply
with students. This balanced approach ensures that every
conversation is more meaningful, as some learners can rely solely
on the AI for immediate answers, while others benefit from the
combined efforts of both the AI and our dedicated staff. In doing
so, we’re not only scaling from 10,000 to 50,000 students, but also
enhancing the quality and impact of every interaction along the way
and reducing our cost of acquisition per student.” – Dr. Melik
Khoury, President & CEO, Unity Environmental University
"At Wellness Extract, we’re excited about all of the new
possibilities Agentforce can bring to our business. As we continue
to grow, scaling customer support is key, and Agentforce offers the
potential to automate inquiries across all our channels while still
delivering personalized, seamless experiences for all of our
buyers. With Salesforce’s Data Cloud, we’ll gain deeper insights
into our customers, helping us boost website conversions,
strengthen connections, and reduce costs. It’s an opportunity to
not just streamline our business operations, but to elevate our
brand and set the stage for even greater innovation in health and
wellness.” – Arvind Madakan, Program Manager, Wellness
Extract
Availability:
- The full release of Agentforce 2.0 will be generally available
in February 2025, with specific features being released in advance
beginning today.
- Skills for Sales Development and Sales Coaching are generally
available today. Pricing for these skills starts at $2 per
conversation.
- Tableau Semantic Layer is generally available today, while
skills for Tableau will be generally available December 18.
- Agentforce in Slack, Slack Actions in Agent Builder, and Slack
Enterprise Search will be generally available in January 2025.
- Natural language creation of agents in Agent Builder will be
generally available in January 2025.
- MuleSoft for Flow, MuleSoft API Catalog, and Topic Center will
be generally available in February 2025.
- Enhanced reasoning and RAG will be generally available in
February 2025.
Learn more:
- Get started for free with Salesforce Foundations
- Join us at TrailblazerDX in San Francisco, March 5-6, 2025
- Explore how the Atlas Reasoning Engine powers well-researched
answers to complex questions
- Dive deeper inside the evolving brain of Agentforce
- Explore how Agentforce is redefining the customer
experience
- Learn more about Agentforce in Slack
- Explore Agentforce and Data Cloud customer stories
- Estimate your ROI with Agentforce
- See new AI agent statistics for 2025
- Join the new Agentblazer and Datablazer communities
- Watch Agentforce customer success videos
- Read more about the Adecco Group and Vivint customer success
stories
Any unreleased services or features referenced here are not
currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all.
Customers should make their purchase decisions based upon features
that are currently available.
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