Think of Artificial Intelligence. Like most people, you may have pictured the quintessential chatbot: ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and more. 

Generative AI has transformed the way millions of people around the world work. From writing emails, solving problems, to creating images or codes, these models create content based on your prompts. You ask. AI delivers. 

There is another kind of AI model that is creating a paradigm shift in workplaces: Agentic AI.

Understanding Agentic AI and its growing power

What is Agentic AI? Unlike Generative AI, this model is autonomous. It does not rely on manual prompts to get things done. Agentic AI can execute tasks and make decisions on behalf of the user to achieve specific goals, even with minimal human oversight. 

To perform tasks, Agentic AI interacts with external applications, APIs, and databases alongside Large Language Models. This makes it a much more powerful tool than Generative AI.

Presently, Agentic AI is being used in different fields such as cybersecurity, finance, and workplaces using productivity tools like time-tracking. 

Agentic AI is expected to revolutionize more workplaces and industries across the world.

  • No less than Forbes and IBM predicted that agentic systems will emerge as the next wave of AI innovation in 2026.

  • At the 2026 Cisco AI Summit, agentic AI was a topic in the spotlight. Tech and industry leaders are seeing a breakthrough shift from AI chatbots to agents.

  • In China, tech giants like Alibaba and ByteDance are competing to dominate the ‘agentic commerce’ race, where AI researches, compares, and purchases products on behalf of customers.

To better illustrate Agentic AI in concrete terms, let us look at WebWork’s AI solution, the blueprint for intelligent time tracking in 2026 and beyond.



WebWork AI: The future of time tracking

WebWork, as a time-tracking tool, helps growing teams track work, manage tasks, and understand productivity — with optional extensions to automate payroll.  

What makes WebWork different is that it doesn’t just log work hours. WebWork also observes how employees interact with their digital work environment–from websites, apps, mouse, and keyboard activity. WebWork then interprets this data automatically. 

WebWork can detect patterns in workplace productivity, identify risks, and alert managers if there are early signs of anomalies. This is especially helpful for teams working remotely.

Agentic AI supercharges these abilities, being able to analyze performance and act on the data.

WebWork: Agentic AI in action

With Generative AI, interaction stops once your tool has responded to your prompt. But Agentic AI is capable of acting on your behalf.

For example, Generative AI can give me a draft for a marketing campaign, including details on what tasks to include and how to delegate them to my team members.

But I can ask Agentic AI to do the actual work for me.

And it doesn’t stop there. WebWork’s Agentic AI feature can automatically record how much time my team members worked on these tasks, without me having to ask. 

This also takes away the burden of manually recording work hours for each project.

Perform autonomous actions. Delegate activities like project, task, and standup creation to WebWork AI.

WebWork AI runs Smart Monitoring to detect anomalies, burnout, overload, irregular activity, and attendance risks based on existing data.

WebWork Smart Monitoring silently checks minute-by-minute activity data for every employee, every day, and comes back with what’s worth knowing—without being asked.

WebWork’s Smart Monitoring Add-On

Here is a sample of a WebWork AI-powered activity report.

Real Output from WebWork AI: Workday Breakdown.

I can ask WebWork AI to send me automated emails on my team’s productivity and activity level — at any hour and day of the week I choose.

Send automated emails. With WebWork AI, get performance, project, and member data analyses straight to your inbox.

And much like Generative AI chatbots, I can ask WebWork AI questions about work, like project timelines or my team’s performance and productivity. 

Ask and get intelligent answers. WebWork AI answers questions about employee performance.

I can also brainstorm solutions with WebWork AI when needed.

Find solutions with WebWork AI. Receive data-driven suggestions on how to improve employee productivity.

WebWork AI can also detect project management risks before they blow up, like budget or task budget overruns. 

Moreover, WebWork will automatically email me so I can act fast. This takes away the mental labor of having to constantly be on the lookout for risks.

Event emails. Stay on top of budget and time with email alerts from WebWork AI

WebWork AI also remembers important days, such as holidays and birthdays. It automatically sends reminders of upcoming holidays two days before, which helps team members better prioritize tasks within the week.

WebWork also automatically greets team members happy birthday on their special days.

Birthday greetings. WebWork’s AI Assistant celebrates your teammates’ birthdays right on time, with cheerful messages sent directly to your Slack or WebWork Chat.

These are concrete examples of what Agentic AI can do in the workplace, powered by WebWork.

Unlocking Agentic AI in the workplace

In the AI race, the frontrunners have already moved past Generative AI and towards Agentic AI.  The demand in 2026 is no longer for how much AI knows, but what AI can do and how it can act on our behalf.

Innovative tools like WebWork give us a glimpse of what this next phase looks like: AI agents that assist us at work, and technology that operates alongside us.

WebWork’s Agentic AI feature is a clear example. WebWork AI turns the tedious burden of recording work hours to a task performed by AI agents, and even into a source of intelligent data and insight.

This level of innovation allows leaders and employees to focus on what truly matters at work: High-level strategy, creativity, and complex decision-making.

Because at the end of the day, what has AI always been intended for, but to make work easier, and not to replace human intelligence and creativity? Agentic AI is making that shift increasingly possible. 

It is up to workplaces to unlock this powerful phenomenon.