Pipefy
Also known as: Pipefy AI Agents, AI Agents 2.0, Pipefy BOAT
No code process orchestration platform where agents run governed end to end processes rather than only reading data, with a bring your own LLM engine, intelligent document processing and an adaptive governance layer.
Pipefy is a no code business process orchestration platform that has moved its centre of gravity to agents. It launched AI Agents 2.0 alongside intelligent document processing in late 2025, and in June 2026 Gartner named it a Market Shaper in its Emerging Market Quadrant for No-Code Agent Builders among startup vendors. Gartner separately listed it as an illustrative provider in research arguing that enterprise AI will fail to scale without agentic orchestration platforms.
Its thesis is the same one the larger process incumbents arrived at, stated in unusually clean language: rather than giving AI access to data alone, Pipefy lets AI run governed processes end to end, because processes are where approvals, business rules and audit trails already live. Business teams gain speed while IT keeps centralised oversight. The company positions itself as an orchestration layer bridging rigid legacy systems and agile business needs, centralising disparate processes under a single control plane through what it calls an Adaptive Governance framework, explicitly to eliminate shadow IT.
The agent surface covers autonomous document analysis and task execution, and the platform runs on a bring your own large language model engine, which is a more open model posture than most of its peers document. Intelligent document processing combines AI with optical character recognition to read complex and unstructured documents, and Pipefy reports customers saving 130,000 hours of manual document review and extraction.
Security is well evidenced for a company of this size: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701 for privacy management and ISO 27018 for personally identifiable information in cloud services, plus GDPR and Brazilian LGPD compliance and continuous penetration testing and vulnerability scanning.
The honest limits are memory, evaluation and deployment. No agent memory model, agent testing tooling, computer use capability or deployment choice was documented anywhere in this pass.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.pipefy.com
Category
Enterprise operations agent
Subcategory
No code agentic process orchestration
Funding status
Private, headquartered in San Francisco with Brazilian origins, founded 2015 by Alessio Alionco who remains CEO. Reported to serve more than 3,000 organisations. Funding detail not retrieved in this pass.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Positions an enterprise iPaaS layer with native connectors to the main systems of record, unifying data across ERPs, CRMs and HRIS without replacing them. A strategic collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate AI initiatives in process orchestration was announced. No MCP support or public SDK family was retrieved in this pass.
In practice
An IT team pulls departmental processes that had spread across spreadsheets and shadow tools onto one governed control plane, then lets agents execute them under existing approval rules.
A shared services team drops high volumes of invoices and contracts into the platform so document processing extracts structured fields automatically instead of staff rekeying them.
An enterprise points agents at processes that cross an ERP and a CRM without replacing either system, using the orchestration layer as the connective tissue.
Sources & related URLs
Research sources
Agentic Index coverage score
9.0 / 14 capabilities · 64%
| Integrations & Tool CallingAn enterprise iPaaS layer supplies native connectors to the main systems of record, unifying data silos across ERPs, CRMs and HRIS while leaving those systems in place; a strategic collaboration with Microsoft supports process orchestration. A full connector inventory was not retrieved. Pipefy platform description and blog 2026-08-07 | Full |
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| Workflow OrchestrationPositioned as a Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies platform managing complex NON LINEAR workflows across departments without replacing core systems, with agentic orchestration framed as the control layer for scaling AI, and end to end processes spanning departments and tech stacks. Pipefy platform description and Gartner AI Vendor Race commentary 2026-08-07 | Full |
| Knowledge Grounding & RAGIntelligent document processing combines AI with optical character recognition to read complex and unstructured documents and deliver contextual interpretations, with customers reported to have saved 130,000 hours of manual review, but no retrieval, semantic search or RAG layer was retrieved, unlike tungsten which ships a named Question Answering Agent. Pipefy AI Agents 2.0 and IDP launch coverage 2026-08-07 | Partial |
| Human Oversight & GuardrailsAgents run inside processes precisely because that is where approvals, business rules and audit trails already live, so business teams gain speed while IT retains centralised oversight and compliance; an Adaptive Governance framework centralises processes under one control plane explicitly to eliminate shadow IT, and agents are positioned as secure and audit ready. Pipefy Gartner announcement and platform description 2026-08-07 | Full |
| Security, Identity & GovernanceSOC 2 Type 2 audited against security, confidentiality and availability, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for its ISMS, plus ISO/IEC 27701-2019 for privacy information management and ISO/IEC 27018-2021 for protecting personally identifiable information in cloud services; GDPR and Brazilian LGPD compliance, granular role based access control, and continuous penetration testing and vulnerability scanning. Pipefy certifications press release and compliance announcements 2026-08-07 | Full |
| Observability & AuditabilityAudit trails are named as a core property of the processes agents run inside, agents are positioned as audit ready, and the single control plane gives IT centralised oversight across previously disparate processes. Pipefy Gartner announcement and platform description 2026-08-07 | Full |
| Memory & State PersistenceNo agent memory, shared context store or cross session persistence model was documented anywhere across the AI Agents, IDP or platform surfaces retrieved. Honest absence rather than a judgement that none exists. Pipefy product announcements 2026-08-07 | Unable to verify |
| Deployment & Data ResidencyCloud SaaS only. ISO 27018 certification covers PII handling in cloud services and LGPD compliance implies Brazilian data handling alongside GDPR, but no deployment options, region selection, self hosting or published residency matrix were retrieved. Pipefy certifications and compliance announcements 2026-08-07 | Partial |
| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & PacksShips ready to use customisable workflow templates including boxed process designs such as Help Desk, alongside packaged automation for finance, HR and customer service. HONEST CAVEAT from an independent user review: the boxed designs are described as instructive rather than production ready. Pipefy platform description and user review 2026-08-07 | Full |
| Triggers & Channel CoverageProcesses accept service requests and documents as intake and agents execute within them, but no documented inventory of event triggers, schedules, webhooks or user facing channels was retrieved in this pass. Pipefy platform documentation 2026-08-07 | Partial |
| Model Flexibility & RoutingAgentic AI runs on a BYOLLM bring your own large language model engine, letting customers supply their own model for autonomous document analysis and task execution. This is the most open model posture in the BPM pocket, where pega, appian and tungsten all scored P or N on this axis. Pipefy platform capability description 2026-08-07 | Full |
| APIs, SDKs & MCP ExtensibilityAn enterprise iPaaS layer with native connectors provides the main extension path and a public API exists for the platform, but no SDK family, developer portal detail or MCP support was retrieved. Fourth vendor in this pocket without MCP, against pega and appian which ship it in both directions. Pipefy platform description 2026-08-07 | Partial |
| Testing, Debugging & OptimizationNo agent evaluation, simulation, testing or debugging capability for customer built agents was documented anywhere across the surfaces retrieved. Honest absence. Pipefy product documentation 2026-08-07 | Unable to verify |
| Browser & Computer UseAgents act through connectors, document processing and process execution; no browser control, page navigation, robotic process automation or computer use capability is documented anywhere on the product surface. Pipefy product documentation 2026-08-07 | Unable to verify |
The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Unable to verify against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded
Pricing
Not retrieved; historically tiered with a free starter plan
not retrieved
Included quota
Not retrieved.
What is public
Nothing on pricing was retrieved from Pipefy first party pages in this pass. Recorded as not retrieved rather than as confirmed contact only, and worth re checking.
Billing mechanics
Not retrieved in this pass.
Cost watchouts
The agent and document processing capabilities launched after the core platform, so whether they are included in existing plans or sold as add ons is the key unknown for any current customer. An independent user review also flags that time to production is long relative to the vendor claim of results in days rather than months, which makes implementation effort a real cost line even on a self serve tier.
Variable cost rationale
Graded medium rather than high because the BYOLLM architecture pushes model cost onto the customer own provider account, which is at least transparent and independently controllable, unlike the opaque vendor metered units used across the rest of this pocket. The offsetting unknowns are the platform tier price itself and whether agent and document processing capabilities carry separate charges, neither of which was retrieved.
Additional watchouts
BYOLLM means model cost may sit outside the Pipefy bill entirely, on the customer own provider account. Scope that separately from the subscription.
Overage / add-ons
Not retrieved.
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Free / trial
Free starter tier reported historically, not confirmed in this pass
Commercial notes
Private company reported to serve more than 3,000 organisations. This record deliberately carries no price figure rather than importing one from a third party aggregator, particularly given a direct competitor was found publishing inaccurate capability claims about Pipefy in the same research pass.
Key ambiguities
All pricing, and specifically the packaging of AI Agents 2.0 and IDP relative to the base platform. No agent consumption unit was retrieved, which is notable given the BYOLLM model means customers may supply and pay for their own model capacity separately.
Missing data
All pricing: tiers, list prices, whether agents and IDP are included or add ons, and any agent consumption metric.
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