Deloitte Unveils Zora AI, Agentic AI for Tomorrow's Workforce

Built on NVIDIA, Zora AI by Deloitte business agents act as a digital workforce to change the way work gets done

NEW YORK, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --

Key takeaways

• Zora AI™ by Deloitte is an AI platform that offers a suite of ready-to-deploy agents that perceive, reason and act, autonomously executing complex business functions with speed and accuracy to help clients augment their workforce, boost productivity and efficiency and drive new ways of working.
• Built on NVIDIA AI—including the new NVIDIA Llama Nemotron models with reasoning capabilities and NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint—Zora AI provides optimized performance and accuracy for an expanding portfolio of agents for business functions, including finance, human capital, supply chain, procurement, sales and marketing and customer service.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is already tapping into Zora AI for Finance for financial statement analysis, scenario modeling, and competitive and market analysis to improve decision-making, automate operations and deliver value to its customers.
• Deloitte intends to use Zora AI for Finance internally to streamline and automate its expense management processes, with targets to reduce costs by 25% and increase productivity by 40%.
• The Zora AI agentic platform is available in a cloud subscription model, with a flexible architecture that can be deployed rapidly on existing technologies via pre-built integrations and customized to meet client needs.

Why this matters
Zora AI agents are intelligent digital workers with deep functional and industry-specific knowledge that emulate human decision-making and reasoning to execute complex business processes. Working as a multi-agent system, Zora AI agents can collaborate with other agents and employees to help organizations uncover new, more efficient ways of working. Zora AI is backed by Deloitte's extensive business knowledge, engineering skill, global scale and deep professional experience gleaned from its technology, risk, tax and audit businesses.

"We are entering the autonomous enterprise era where agents can transform work and business models, ushering in entirely new ways of working. Our vision with Zora AI is to assist our clients in their transition into this new era, where agents and employees interact to reinvent business processes and unlock new sources of business value, growth and innovation for their organizations."

— Jason Girzadas, CEO, Deloitte US

Powering the next generation of co-workers
Zora AI is built on the full NVIDIA AI stack—including NVIDIA Llama Nemotron reasoning models, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA NeMo, NVIDIA AI Blueprints and accelerated computing. These integrations optimize the platform for digital agents with reasoning capabilities, which require accelerated computing and data during inference. The Zora AI portfolio of functional agents for finance, to be expanded into human capital, supply chain, procurement, sales and marketing and customer service can perceive, reason, and act, enabling organizations to streamline processes, reduce inefficiencies, and focus employees on more strategic activities.  Architected with Deloitte's Trustworthy AI™ principles, Zora AI offers security, transparency and reliability and includes a human feedback loop to help instill confidence in the accuracy and quality of its insights and recommendations.

"AI agents turn data into action. With Zora AI agents built on NVIDIA AI, Deloitte clients can put intelligence to work—helping professionals find insights, make decisions and get things done."

— Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA

Zora AI expands Deloitte's AI solutions with NVIDIA, joining the existing suite of industry and functional domain accelerators and recently released AI infrastructure services that include AI Factory as a Service. 

Transforming finance decision-making and operations with agents
Zora AI for Finance draws upon Deloitte's extensive experience in the business finance function. Created with NVIDIA AI and integrated with all major enterprise software platforms, these specialized digital agents can complete complex tasks and provide on-demand insights, analysis, reporting, workflow automation, decision support and data sourcing. Zora AI for Finance addresses critical workflows in the finance lifecycle, including expense and invoice management, sales and performance trends, optimization of working capital requirements and more.

Deloitte is collaborating with HPE to both deploy and offer to customers Zora AI for Finance on HPE Private Cloud AI. Additionally, HPE's finance team is rolling out Zora AI for Finance, bringing offline, latent, and static periodic business performance reviews into an active, engaging digital platform. With Zora AI, financial executives can analyze, monitor and react to business performance in real-time with agents to tell them what they need to care about today and tomorrow. HPE anticipates that Zora AI will increase productivity for finance leaders and reduce reporting production time by 50%.  

"We are excited that HPE will both deploy and go to market with Deloitte to offer Zora AI for Finance on HPE Private Cloud AI. With Zora AI we are transforming our financial operations and giving our financial executives access to real-time business performance data and instant insights into the information that matters most. This is a natural extension of our collaboration with Deloitte to help our joint customers quickly deploy generative and agentic AI solutions on HPE Private Cloud AI."

— Marie Myers, EVP and CFO, HPE

Deloitte adopts agentic AI
Deloitte intends to use Zora AI for Finance internally to streamline and automate its finance processes including expense management, a common challenge for many organizations, and one of many agents Deloitte plans to implement to transform its business with agentic AI. Zora expense management agents monitor expenses across payroll, facilities, sales and marketing, and employee time and expenses, enabling finance leaders to identify expense outliers, compare expenses against industry and competitor trends, and drill down into specific budgets. Zora AI will liberate thousands of hours of effort a year for Deloitte's finance team, with our target to reduce costs by 25% and increase productivity by 40%. Deloitte plans to implement Zora AI for thousands of users by the end of 2025. 

About Deloitte
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world's most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 8,500 U.S.-based private companies. At Deloitte, we strive to live our purpose of making an impact that matters for our people, clients, and communities. We leverage our unique blend of business acumen, command of technology, and strategic technology alliances to advise our clients across industries as they build their future. Deloitte is proud to be part of the largest global professional services network serving our clients in the markets that are most important to them. Bringing 180 years of service, our network of member firms spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte's approximately 460,000 people worldwide connect for impact at www.deloitte.com.

Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee ("DTTL"), its network of member firms, and their related entities. DTTL and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent entities. DTTL (also referred to as "Deloitte Global") does not provide services to clients. In the United States, Deloitte refers to one or more of the US member firms of DTTL, their related entities that operate using the "Deloitte" name in the United States and their respective affiliates. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting. Please see www.deloitte.com/about to learn more about our global network of member firms.

SOURCE Deloitte LLP