Deloitte launches Zora AI platform to automate finance and business tasks

It’s Zora the Financial Explora!

Deloitte launches Zora AI, a new agentic platform that can autonomously complete tasks across finance, human capital, supply chain, and other business functions. This latest development reflects the growing enterprise adoption of agentic AI, with PwC estimating that generative AI could contribute up to $4.4 trillion annually to global GDP by 2030. The Nvidia-powered platform aims to facilitate collaboration between AI agents and human employees while maintaining ethical safeguards through Deloitte’s Trustworthy AI principles.

The big picture: Deloitte’s Zora AI platform offers specialized digital agents that can work autonomously across multiple business functions while integrating with major enterprise software systems.

• The platform leverages Nvidia AI Enterprise, Nvidia NeMo, and Nvidia Blueprints to power its specialized agents for finance, human capital, supply chain, procurement, sales, marketing, and customer service.
• Deloitte’s status as a trusted partner for AI initiatives—ranking among the top 10 vendors identified by C-suite executives for generative AI initiatives—positions it well to help organizations navigate the adoption of agentic AI.

Key details: Zora AI implements Deloitte’s Trustworthy AI principles to provide governance and ethical safeguards.

• The platform is designed to ensure AI systems are transparent, explainable, fair, impartial, robust, reliable, privacy-respecting, secure, and accountable.
• Available via a cloud subscription model, Zora AI can be deployed on existing technologies through pre-built integrations and customized according to client needs.

Strategic partnerships: Deloitte is collaborating with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to deliver Zora AI for Finance through HPE’s Private Cloud AI.

• HPE expects the platform will help customers increase productivity for finance leaders and reduce reporting production time by 50%.
• Marie Meyers, EVP and CFO of HPE, stated that Zora AI will transform HPE’s financial operations by providing real-time business performance data and insights.

Real-world applications: Both Deloitte and HPE are implementing Zora AI internally to enhance their financial operations.

• Deloitte is using the platform’s expense management agents to monitor expenses across multiple departments, identify outliers, compare expenses against industry trends, and analyze specific budgets.
• According to Deloitte, the implementation will save its finance team thousands of hours annually, reduce costs by 25%, and increase productivity by 40%.

What’s next: Deloitte plans to expand the platform’s implementation to thousands of users by the end of 2025.