Nintex, which began in process automation and has since moved beyond that to unlock the power of agentic business orchestration by combining process intelligence, workflow orchestration, low-code development, and agentic AI, has now formally announced Agentic Business Orchestration, its vision and strategic direction for the evolution of business process automation and application development. As an agentic business orchestration platform, Nintex CE unifies legacy systems, manual processes, and agentic AI to transform how organizations drive strategic outcomes. Intelligent agents in the Nintex CE platform dynamically manage workflows, assign tasks, and adjust processes within governance frameworks and purpose-built solutions.
Nintex also unveiled six new AI actions that add operational intelligence to document processing, and previewed Agent Designer, which will enable organizations to build and orchestrate specialized AI agents. These latest enhancements add to the suite of generative AI capabilities that empower both business users and developers to design, integrate, and deploy solutions faster than ever, including AI Process Generator, AI Forms Assistant, AI Workflow Generator, and AI Nintex Xtensions Generator.
“Agentic approaches are reshaping how enterprises think about automation, extending business orchestration beyond tasks and processes to focus on business outcomes,” said Maureen Fleming, Program Vice President, Intelligent Process Automation research at IDC. “Agentic business orchestration represents a shift toward coordinating people, systems, and AI agents in governed ways that ensure automation and AI deliver measurable results at scale.”
“At Nintex, we believe agentic business orchestration is the natural next era of digital transformation,” said Amit Mathradas, CEO of Nintex. “By bringing together low-code app development, workflow orchestration, and AI agents in a single, governed platform, we’re empowering businesses to move beyond automation toward intelligent, adaptive, enterprise-wide orchestration.
“This is not just evolution,” Mathradas added. “It’s a new way of working, in which organizations can confidently unify their people, systems, and AI to achieve more. The organizations that thrive in the coming years won’t be those that automate more tasks. They’ll be those who understand their processes, orchestrate intelligently, and align technology with strategy to deliver outcomes at scale.”
Nintex started as a native process engine to create powerful automation tools. Since then, the company has created a unified platform with Nintex CE that allows mid-market organizations and enterprise departments to identify and map their processes, orchestrate operations across people and systems, and build AI-powered solutions tailored to their unique business needs rather than trying to cobble together off-the-shelf apps. Now, Nintex is evolving into an agentic business orchestration platform that drives business outcomes with purpose-built solutions, harmonizes AI and people-powered innovation, and unlocks mission-critical operational delivery with scalability and governance in mind.
“For centuries, automation has advanced in waves — from windmills and looms to digital assistants and RPA,” Mathradas stated. “Each chapter raised the bar, but most advances focused on isolated tasks. Today, organizations need more. The next era isn’t just about automating what’s in front of us: it’s about orchestrating across people, systems, and AI agents to deliver outcomes at scale. That’s what agentic business orchestration makes possible. By unifying process intelligence, agentic workflow orchestration, and AI-driven solution building in one governed platform, Nintex is helping organizations move beyond the clutter of software sprawl and the risks of disconnected AI pilots into a future where every process is purposeful, adaptive, and outcome-driven.”
Agentic Business Orchestration goes beyond traditional automation, application development, and AI by enabling organizations to unite human, system, and AI agent interactions across an organization, with a single platform that orchestrates strategic outcomes through purpose-built solutions.
”Our vision for agentic business orchestration is rooted in this mantra of experiment fast, scale with confidence,” Mathradas said. “We want users to be able to take optimized workflows and easily build solutions that unlock efficiency across their organizations. But we also want to ensure that their innovation is done with the necessary governance and oversight in place. Think vibe-coding but with the proper guardrails that enterprise-grade solutions require. And I firmly believe that Nintex is well-positioned to be the agentic business orchestration platform for mid-sized and enterprise businesses. We’ve been building toward this moment for years.”
Mathradas explained about the company’s vision in more detail.
“Nintex started as a native process engine with a bold vision: to create powerful process automation tools,” he said. “From the very beginning, we focused on helping both developers and business leaders simplify how work gets done. Nintex quickly became trusted in the early days of digital collaboration, delivering workflows and document automation that organizations could depend on. Fast forward, we’ve evolved into the possibility engine as our platform has expanded beyond process automation to include forms, workflow, apps, data, document generation, and e-sign.
“We are now taking the next massive stride: evolving Nintex into an AI-native platform on which rich solutions can be generated at scale, but with governance at its core that reflects business realities. Nintex will be much more than just a platform for automation — it is becoming the central operational layer where people, applications, manual processes, and AI agents work together under governance and control to drive strategic business outcomes.”
The Nintex CE platform contains or will contain several new agentic capabilities. Nintex Agent Designer is a forthcoming capability that will enable organizations to design, evaluate, and orchestrate enterprise-grade AI agents natively within the Nintex CE platform. With Agent Designer, users will be able to build agents from scratch or customize pre-built templates, orchestrate agents alongside workflows, apps, and human interactions, integrate custom-built agents into core business systems, incorporate third-party agents into orchestrated processes when needed, and manage agents in a governed, low-code environment required for mission-critical operations.
“AI is rapidly removing barriers for organizations to innovate, automate, and reimagine their business operations, allowing them to reduce software footprint, drive material process efficiencies, and accelerate data-driven decisioning,” said Niranjan Vijayaragavan, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Nintex. “Organizations need governance and auditability around agentic solutions that are being built. We architected Nintex CE so every process, decision, and action, whether manual or automated, flows seamlessly from trigger to outcome enabling compliance, auditability, security, and oversight for our customers.”
Customers will also be able to turn complex documents into instant insights with Nintex AI Document Processing, which lets organizations more quickly understand and act on documents and images within orchestrated workflows, reducing manual review and unlocking value hidden in unstructured data. Native AI actions include Text Extraction, Detect Document Language, Translate Text, Summarize Text, Analyze Sentiment, and Information Extraction.
“Nintex AI Document Processing has huge potential across healthcare, where unstructured documents pour in from multiple sources in all kinds of formats,” said Kyle Seitz, President, SNAP Consulting. “Extracting key chart details from scanned PDFs has always been a slow, manual process, but this technology can streamline it dramatically. By automating data extraction across varied file types, it promises to save overworked teams hours of sifting and let them focus on member care.”
“Unlike generative AI, which produces outputs, agentic orchestration enables AI to take purposeful action – initiating, adapting, and completing workflows across multiple systems, all while coordinating with humans in the loop,” Mathradas concluded. “This is the leap from “intelligent tools” to “intelligent partners” in business execution. Each chapter in this evolution raised the bar for what we considered possible. But as impressive as these advances have been, they’ve largely focused on isolated tasks. The future requires a way to orchestrate across systems, workflows, humans, and AI agents — not just automate what’s in front of us in siloes. That’s the promise of Agentic Business Orchestration.”