๐จ BREAKING: $PATH and Deloitte partner on agentic testing platform delivered through Deloitte's ASCEND platform.
What does this mean for $PATH investors? A brand new revenue stream is just beginning - one where $PATH's agentic orchestration engine is used to iterate software testing and development, delivered through Deloitte's ASCEND platform.
$PATH partnered with Databricks to connect enterprise data directly into agentic automation workflows.
The goal is to let UiPath Maestro orchestrate AI agents, robots and business processes with real-time data access, governance and compliance built in.
Umโฆ. Did Box CEO just lay out the clearest bull case for why $PATH is going to thrive in this AI transition world???
Read the whole thing and tell me if youโre still confused after about why $PATH is more essential and important than ever!!!
I spent last night doing some preliminary research on how Claude Managed Agents fits into the AI landscape and ultimately what it means for $PATH.
A key distinction to make - Claude Managed Agents IS NOT a top-layer orchestration platform. It is not designed to sit at the top of an organization and manage end-to-end multi-agent, multi-RPA processes spanning modern API and legacy on-premise systems in the same way as UiPath Maestro.
However, Claude Managed Agents IS a runtime orchestrator for Claude agents. This puts its focus on making agents run much longer and smoother than before with the back-end plumbing (sandbox environment, memory, state management) being handled by Claude. Basically, individual Claude agents will now be able to go off and run with more autonomy and stability and with more memory and duration than before.
So, who does this directly threaten? In my opinion, that would be #OpenClaw (parent company OpenAI), which, in its raw, open-source form, is a bit more of a blank canvas agent runtime that can run on your own hardware or VPS and be powered by an LLM of your choosing. On April 4, 2026, Claude announced that the $20 per month Claude membership could no longer be used to power OpenClaw. 4 days later, on April 8th, they announced Managed Agents, which allows customers to deploy Claude's answer to agent runtime natively within the Claude platform.
As individual agent runtimes get stronger - like with this leap forward in Claude Managed Agents - it seems that agents will be able to handle more tasks at the individual level without needing as much top-level orchestration for ad hoc tasks. As an analogy, think about an individual employee that is now granted more access and a larger brain - this would give them more autonomy with less reliance on top-level management to hold their hand. In the near-term, I see Claude Agents doing very well in the bottom-end of the automation spectrum; however, this is not $PATH's target market as PATH plays in the high-end of the automation space focusing on very complex, highly regulated, high volume workflows.
Soโฆwhat does this mean for more open platforms like $PATH and $PLTR? Well, this signals that Claude is starting to come after the orchestration market with more of a closed ecosystem powered by Claude LLMs. And, they seem to be starting from the bottom of the complexity spectrum and presumably working their way up over time. This still gives $PATH and $PLTR time to leverage their existing customer base and to gain new customers by focusing on the very complex, high-end workflows that their platforms are much better suited for than Claude. This also means that $PATH and $PLTR will likely need to stress to their customers why an open vendor-agnostic environment is better to build with vs. a more vertically integrated solution like Claude.
$PATH is in a uniquely strong position as their technology foundation is rooted in agentic AI + RPA and is currently much better suited for top-layer enterprise orchestration than Claude. PATH's strength is not only in its ability to safely automate end-to-end complex solutions for their customers, but to provide unparalleled robustness and cost-management capabilities by allowing use of a wide variety of tools including cheaper RPA or free-open source models/agents where necessary.
Also, I expect that this is only the beginning of the agent battle between OpenClaw and Claude agents. I expect more developers to build on top of OpenClaw since it is much more flexible and open source. For example, $NVDA has launched NemoClaw, which is built on top of OpenClaw. As enterprise customers struggle to navigate this rapidly evolving market, I predict that they will find comfort in a vendor-agnostic platform like $PATH.
From an agent runtime perspective, $PATH recently announced that they are now providing an environment to safely deploy OpenClaw agents for enterprise-use in Maestro. If Maestro leverages OpenClaw as its primary native agent runtime of choice, then it could create a bit more inherent competition between PATH and Claude. At the same time, UiPath is still very much a customer/partner of Anthropic via their use of Claude for reasoning in the back-end of the PATH platform. Since Maestro supports Model Context Protocol (MCP), my understanding is that $PATH workflows would still be able to trigger Claude agents to run within Maestro workflows. I am interested to learn how this would look/act within from a customer experience perspective though.
It is also very important to note that $PATH is within weeks of launching their own coding agent capabilities - this means that Claude Code and OpenAI Codex will be leveraged natively within Maestro. PATH is designing Maestro's use of coding agents to intake necessary customer-specific documents (business policies, regulatory compliance requirements, etc.), so that the coding agents can consider all of this information when writing code tailored to the customers' needs. This will drastically speed up time-to-value allowing PATH to more rapidly capture the complex, high-end enterprise automation market.
Daniels Dines has explained that coding agents will quickly become the PRIMARY way that technical users/developers interact with Maestro to build out workflows. With Maestro being such an agnostic platform, you could theoretically use a Claude-powered coding agent to build an OpenClaw-powered agent - all built and deployed natively within Maestro.
This is the beauty and strength of $PATH. Always adapting and leaning into major pivots where needed. And ultimately embracing their position as a truly agnostic platform taking the best tools available and integrating them into a uniquely robust platform.
BREAKING: UiPath and Deloitte Expand Partnership With Agentic ERP Tool utilizing Maestro
UiPath is expanding its partnership with Deloitte through the professional services company's new Agentic ERP offering.
The agentic enterprise resource planning tool, built using UiPath Agent Builder and UiPath Maestro, will standardize orchestration, security, and policy enforcement across enterprises and can be used alongside any large language model, the agentic artificial-intelligence company said Thursday.
"We're also providing a scalable blueprint to expand agentic automation across the enterprise, transforming how business users engage with ERP through seamless collaboration between automation, AI agents and human intelligence," said Hitesh Ramani, UiPath's chief accounting officer and deputy finance chief.
As part of the expanded partnership, UiPath will support Deloitte's SAP AI & Innovation Center in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region, intended to accelerate deploying AI in SAP's enterprise resource planning environments.
Read release: https://t.co/lOTWta68D1
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EXCITING! $PATH Aquires WorkFusion, strengthening agentic solutions for financial services
@Uipath, a global leader in agentic automation, today announced the acquisition of WorkFusion, a pioneer in AI agents for financial crime compliance. The acquisition expands and strengthens the UiPath portfolio of agentic AI-powered industry solutions for the financial services and banking industries, including processes and workflows for financial crimes compliance such as anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) operations.
WorkFusionโs pre-built library of AI agents automates the most labor-intensive aspects of financial crime compliance, from customer screening to investigations. Coupled with UiPathโs agentic automation and orchestration platform, banks and financial institutions can automate intricate workflows, analyze complex patterns, and help prioritize cases requiring human expertise, while maintaining the security, governance, and regulatory controls they require to reduce operational costs and improve compliance effectiveness.
โJoining UiPath is a moment of validation for the years our team has poured into creating something bold, different, and deeply needed in financial crime compliance, AI agents that automate work and mitigate risk,โ said Adam Famularo, CEO of WorkFusion. โNow, UiPath gives us the scale to grow faster than we ever could alone, without losing the heart of who we are, our people, our products, and our mission. Together, weโre creating something bigger than any one company: we are modernizing financial crime compliance. Iโve never been more excited for our future or more proud of the team carrying us there.โ
โFinancial institutions need intelligent solutions to combat sophisticated financial crimes and navigate evolving compliance requirements,โ said @danieldines, CEO of UiPath. โIncorporating WorkFusionโs purpose-built AI agents for financial crime compliance into our platform expands our portfolio of agentic AI solutions for these industries, extending our ability to deliver comprehensive business orchestration and automation solutions to our customers. Weโre delivering a powerful set of AI-powered solutions capable of automating and orchestrating critical compliance processes and workflows while working alongside people to deliver impact.โ
๐ฆ๐ผ๐ณ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ช๐ถ๐น๐น ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ญ๐ฎ ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ต๐
This is what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. His exact words: โI think we might be 6 to 12 months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all of what SWEs do end-to-end.โ
It is a bold prediction, but the headlines omit the part about others' views.
Demis Hassabis, Nobel Prize-winning CEO of Google DeepMind, said current AI is โ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณโ human-level intelligence. He gives AGI a 50% chance within the decade and says we need โone or two more breakthroughsโ beyond existing technology.
Yann LeCun, Turing Award winner and former Meta AI chief, went further. He called the industry โ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐๐๐-๐ฑ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅโ and stated that large language models will never achieve human-level intelligence.
Three of the most respected minds in AI. Fundamentally incompatible views. Same stage.
The headlines also skip what Amodei actually described. His engineers โ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ.โ They let the model write it. They edit it. They do โ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต.โ But this means, obviously, that it is not a replacement. That is role transformation. The engineer is still there, and important.
We have seen this pattern before. Self-driving cars were supposed to be here by 2018. Level 5 autonomy was โ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ.โ Tesla still requires hands on the wheel. LeCun put it like this: ๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ๐ผ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฒ๐พ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐น๐ผ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐. There is a considerable distance between a demo and a system you put in peopleโs hands daily.
But let's consider who benefits from this story. Amodei runs a company valued in the billions, competing for talent, funding, and market standing against OpenAI and Google. Bold predictions attract attention, investment, and impetus to adopt their products. This is not a conspiracy. This is an incentive structure. ๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด, ๐ฎ๐๐ธ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด.
The fundamental transformation is already here. AI coding tools make developers more productive. Anthropicโs Cowork product was built in a week and a half, almost entirely with their AI tools. But someone still decided what to build. Someone evaluated if it worked. Someone made architectural decisions. Someone owned the outcome.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ. That requires different skills. No skills.
The question is not whether AI will change software engineering. It already has. The question is whether, 12 months from now, we will look back on this prediction the way we look at 2018's self-driving promises.
What do you think, is this a transformation or a hype cycle?
Enterprise software stocks are crashing across the board due to a huge misunderstanding about agentic AI. It's time to clear up this misconception among more investors, so I've now removed the paywall from what is probably my most important write-up of the year so far. It explains which software companies are really threatened by AI and which are not. https://t.co/ViQKcUf9ph
If you are a $PATH shareholder and you are concerned over the introduction of Claude, please read this so you understand what you own.
UiPath is NOT trying to build one single super-smart AI helper/agent.
Instead, UiPath built Maestroโฆ think of it as the team manager for a whole orchestra of helpers.
Imagine you have:
- Claude's new Cowork agent (great at working with files on your computer)
- OpenAI's agent (great at creative writing or research)
- Google's agent (great at searching and analyzing data)
- Plus older "robot" tools that do repetitive clicks (like filling forms super fast without getting tired)
- And real human people who need to approve important decisions
If you just throw all these different helpers at a big real-world job (like processing insurance claims, handling loans, or doing employee onboarding at a big company), it's chaos!
Maestro is the smart boss that organizes ALL of them:
- It tells each helper exactly when to jump in ("Okay Cowork, you handle the file part now")
- It gives them the right info automatically
- It watches everything, fixes mistakes, follows company rules & security, and keeps humans in the loop when needed
- It works with ANY AI agent โ old ones, new ones, from any company. The better and smarter those individual agents get (like with Cowork), the more valuable Maestro becomes! Because now you can mix the best ones together easily.
Big companies (banks, hospitals, insurance) care a lot about safety, rules, tracking, and not letting one AI run wild. That's where Maestro shines.
It's built exactly for the enterprise world, and thatโs what makes this company special.
Understand what you own๐ซก
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