The Big Deel 2026: Everything We Announced

Seven years ago, Deel started with a single belief: opportunity shouldn't be limited by geography. Today, more than 40,000 companies, from SMEs and startups to household name enterprises, use Deel to manage their global workforces. And at The Big Deel 2026, we showed what comes next.

This year's event was about more than features. We unveiled a new operating model for global work—one that's connected, intelligent, and built around the people who actually do the work. Here's everything we announced.

Deel AI: A real teammate, not a chatbot

Most AI sits on top of your tools. You ask it questions, and it gives you answers. In global work, that breaks down fast. Data is fragmented, rules change by country, and answers without context create real risk.

We took a different approach. Deel AI works like a real teammate. It has the reasoning to understand what's happening, the knowledge to stay within your policies and local laws, and the ability to take action directly inside the platform. It's always on, continuously monitoring your workflows, detecting anomalies, flagging risks, and surfacing missing information as things happen. No one has to ask it to work.

Building on that foundation, we launched our AI Workforce, a suite of proactive AI agents. These aren't generic assistants. Each agent owns a real part of the workflow—hiring, onboarding, payroll, IT, compliance, and more. They follow your rules, your approvals, and your risk thresholds. Sometimes you ask an agent to step in. Other times, it steps in before something breaks.

Here's what that looks like across the full employee lifecycle:

• Hiring agent: Recommends the right talent partners, generates job descriptions, and guides sourcing from day one, including directly inside ChatGPT. Deel is the first B2B HR and payroll app in ChatGPT.
• Onboarding agent: Proposes the right equipment, places orders, and sends updates automatically. No tickets. No back-and-forth.
• Payroll AI: Catches anomalies before a cycle starts, traces changes back to their source, and surfaces risk while there's still time to fix it, so the payslip goes out accurately every time.
• PTO agent: Handles time-off requests for managers, checking policy, local law, and approvals automatically.
• Build your own agent: Upload your handbook, define your rules, and give employees a benefits agent that answers questions with the right context every time—during life events, performance reviews, offboarding, and more.

Deel AI isn't a layer on top. It's embedded directly into the platform, taking ownership of real work.

Deel HR: The connected system that makes everything work

For AI agents to work effectively, they need a single place where workforce data actually lives and stays consistent. That's Deel HR.

Over the past year, we invested heavily in making our HRIS truly AI-native. It's the single source of truth for your workforce—every worker, every role, every country, every change. That structured, global data is what makes our AI workflows possible.

• Workforce planning: Headcount planning used to mean mismatched spreadsheets between HR and Finance, and no single view of costs. Workforce planning gives HR, Finance, and Management teams real-time access to accurate workforce data straight from your HRIS.
• Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS): Approved roles flow automatically into job openings, no data re-entry, no handoffs. AI supports screening, scoring, and sourcing, surfacing the most relevant profiles first. When an offer is accepted, everything captured in the ATS flows directly into HRIS—automatically powering what comes next.
• Automations that connect onboarding, learning, performance, and compensation: Once a hire is confirmed, Deel IT orders and ships the right laptop, provisions apps, and sets up secure access—anywhere in the world. Learning journeys launch automatically. Performance, development plans, and compensation cycles all live on the same HRIS foundation. And when compensation decisions are made, changes flow automatically into payroll.

Deel Mobility:

Even companies with great HR and payroll systems hit a wall when it comes to moving people across borders. Immigration cases live in spreadsheets and with disconnected external vendors. Processes are slow. Compliance is reactive. The cost is real—more risk, more admin, more confusion.

Deel Mobility is your new system of record for all immigration cases—combining real-time visibility with built-in compliance. It connects directly to your HRIS, so updates flow automatically. No manual syncing. No stale data.

• Initiate services in-platform, like short-term business travel, permanent relocation, right-to-work checks, and more
• Track every case, document, and timeline in one place, with proactive alerts on immigration law updates, contract changes, and renewal windows
• Use AI-powered eligibility tools to understand visa options upfront and get instant quotes
• Get support from 100+ mobility experts in more than 100 countries, or let Deel fully own execution on your behalf

Immigration becomes predictable, trackable, and compliant by design. This is mobility at Deel speed.

Mobile app updates: The world of work in the palm of your hand

We redesigned the Deel mobile app from the ground up. The new app is a central hub for your entire professional life—with powerful financial tools built into the core, and a personalized experience that shows only what's relevant to you in the moment.
Here's what's inside:

• Clarity from the first screen—upcoming tasks, pay date, time off balance. Peace of mind built in.
• Submit expenses, request time off, access contracts, view the org chart, and manage your own growth—all in one place.
• A modern financial experience built into payroll. Contractors can view transactions, access Deel Cards, use Deel Advance, and now hold earnings in stablecoins and earn rewards. Employees get clear payslips, Anytime Pay (fee-free), and the new option to receive part of their salary in stablecoins.
• Approve time off and expenses with a swipe. Deel AI surfaces directional insights to help managers make confident decisions fast.

Deel at enterprise scale

The largest organizations in the world can't pivot their entire tech stack overnight. Deel is built with that reality in mind. Here's what we announced for enterprise teams.

• Modularity: Start where the pain is biggest—EOR, contractors, or fragmented payroll. Deel’s enterprise path starts anywhere, integrates easily, and expands when you’re ready.
• Deep integrations: Deel is now a certified Workday Global Payroll Cloud partner, with expanded integrations across SAP, UKG, and NetSuite, and open APIs for custom connections. Barings used Deel and Workday together to unify payroll across 18 countries.
• Governance and AI guardrails: One global approval chain, one audit trail, one control framework across every legal entity. Deel’s AI agents operate fully within your enterprise rules—you set the guardrails.
• Enterprise Operations: Every enterprise customer now gets a dedicated Enterprise Operations Manager in their timezone, guaranteed operational SLAs, and executive sponsorship for fast escalation.

Discover the future world of work

Everything we showed at The Big Deel 2026 exists for one reason: to make global work simpler and more reliable for your team.

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