Using AI agent workflows in Now Assist for WSD

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Using AI agent workflows in Now Assist for WSD

    Now Assist for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) offers AI agent workflows that automate and streamline workplace management tasks. These agentic workflows empower Workplace Event Planners, Space Planners, Facilities Managers, and Map Admins by autonomously handling repetitive and data-intensive processes related to space management, maintenance, reservations, cleaning optimization, and map updates.

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    Key Features

    • Manage Temporary Space Closures: AI agents coordinate maintenance tasks for emergency workplace cases by temporarily blocking locations, relocating existing reservations, and updating case details. This reduces manual workload and ensures functional spaces remain accessible.
    • Help Manage Workplace Reservations: AI agents assist event planners by retrieving, analyzing, and updating workplace reservation details. They provide suggestions and automate rescheduling based on changes, helping planners optimize event scheduling efficiently.
    • Optimize Cleaning Activities: AI agents analyze space utilization thresholds to create or deactivate cleaning and maintenance cases automatically. This ensures cleaning resources are allocated effectively based on actual usage patterns.
    • Automate Map Updates: AI agents support map administrators by retrieving CAD file sources and managing bulk updates to indoor maps autonomously. If sources are missing, agents prompt for user input, facilitating efficient map maintenance.
    • Workplace Advisor: An AI-powered solution providing intelligent insights and conversational support to help Space Planners and Facilities Managers optimize workplace management.
    • Workplace Concierge Workflow: Enables visitor registration via integration with communication tools such as emails, calendars, and the Virtual Agent.

    Practical Implementation

    To enable autonomous operation of AI agents in these workflows, ServiceNow customers must:

    • Duplicate the default, read-only agentic workflows.
    • Activate the relevant use cases and AI agents within those workflows.
    • Activate triggers for automatic invocation, or choose to invoke agents manually.

    Note that some AI agents may be installed but not associated with workflows by default; customers can find available agents and configure them accordingly.

    Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    • Automates repetitive and time-consuming workplace management tasks.
    • Ensures workspace availability and maintenance during emergencies with minimal manual intervention.
    • Supports efficient event scheduling and reservation management.
    • Optimizes cleaning schedules based on real utilization data.
    • Facilitates accurate and up-to-date indoor mapping for workplace navigation.
    • Enhances overall workplace operational efficiency through AI-powered insights and automation.

    Agentic workflows in Now Assist for WSD help complete workplace tasks autonomously.

    Table 1. Table 1. Available AI agent workflows for Now Assist for WSD
    Agentic AI Workflow Name Description Available AI agents
    Manage temporary space closures

    This team of AI agents come together when there’s a meeting room maintenance case that must be looked at with priority.

    • When the emergency maintenance request is submitted, maintenance work must be performed.
    • The emergency case is assigned to a user in the Workplace Event Planners assignment group.
    • The location is blocked by AI agents for maintenance.
    • If there are any existing reservations in the maintenance workspace, AI agents relocate or move the reservations to an available location.

    AI agents reduce repetitive tasks for Workplace event planners. They provide assistance and verify that employees have access to functional spaces within an organization during an outage or emergency maintenance. AI Agents handle the work for Workplace Event Planners so that they can focus on more important and complex tasks that require human intervention. For more information, see Manage temporary space closures agentic workflow.

    • Workplace case notes updater
    • Case Retriever
    • Reservation resolution processing AI agent
    Help manage workplace reservations

    This team of AI agents help Workplace Event Planners and autonomously reschedule events happening in the workplace. AI agents support Workplace Event Planners with all relevant information and preparation work when changes are occurring to a planned reservation. AI Agents gather relevant information and provide suggestions to the Workplace Event planners for the next best possible action. Event planners can review and optimize reservations as required by looking at the workplace case details.

    In order to finish the task, AI agents perform the following:

    • Retrieve the change event edit workplace case details.
    • Analyze the reservation retrieved from the previous step.
    • Update Workplace case notes with all the actions taken.

    For more information, see Help manage workplace reservations agentic workflow.

    • Reservation updating AI agent
    • Case Retriever
    • Reservation analyzing AI agent
    • Workplace case notes updater
    Optimize Cleaning activities This team of AI agents get all open workplace maintenance management cases. The Workplace Planned Maint Nightly Run scheduled job runs on a daily or hourly basis to create maintenance cases. Each workplace maintenance case represents a cleaning or a maintenance case on a location for a certain time interval, also known as schedule (on a daily or hourly basis). The Optimize cleaning activities agentic AI workflow retrieves space utilization threshold for each workplace maintenance cases. Based on the space utilization threshold data, it creates new maintenance cases or deactivates underutilized maintenance cases.

    For more information, see Optimize cleaning activities agentic workflow.

    • Case aggregator AI agent
    • Utilization rate AI agent
    • Case optimizer AI agent
    Automate map updates

    The AI agent helps map admins configure the map during bulk updates to Indoor Mapping. The AI agent autonomously retrieves sources for the CAD file and resumes the import task. If the source isn't found, the AI agent moves the task to the Waiting user input state.

    For more information, see Automate map updates agentic workflow.

    Map Admin Agent
    Important:
    All use case and AI agent records are read only by default.

    To run the AI agents autonomously, you must first duplicate the agentic workflow, and complete the following steps:

    • Activate the use case.
    • Activate all agents within the use case.
    • Activate the trigger to invoke the use case automatically. If you prefer to invoke it manually, activating the trigger isn't necessary.

    There might be AI agents installed with the Now Assist application that are not used in agentic workflows. To learn how to see all agents that are available to you, see Find AI agents.