Deloitte has unveiled Zora AI, an advanced platform of business agents that can perceive, reason, and act to execute complex business functions.
Built on NVIDIA’s AI technology, including the new NVIDIA Llama Nemotron reasoning models, these digital agents aim to augment human capabilities while improving productivity and efficiency across multiple business domains.
Digital Assistants for the Workplace
Zora AI represents a suite of ready-to-deploy intelligent agents designed to function as digital assistants. These agents support human decision-making and reasoning to handle business processes across finance, human capital, supply chain, procurement, sales and marketing, and customer service.
Jason Girzadas, CEO of Deloitte US said:
We are entering an era where agents can enhance work and business models, introducing more efficient ways of working. Our vision with Zora AI is to assist our clients as they adopt these technologies, where agents and employees collaborate to improve business processes and create additional business value.
The platform leverages the full NVIDIA AI stack – including NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA NeMo, and NVIDIA AI Blueprints – to optimize performance for digital agents with reasoning capabilities. These technologies enable the agents to process and analyze data during inference; providing more accurate and contextual support for business functions.
Finance Improvements in Practice
The first deployment, Zora AI for Finance, demonstrates the platform’s benefits for enterprise finance teams.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is implementing the solution to evolve financial operations from periodic reviews to more responsive, data-driven insights.
Marie Myers, EVP and CFO at HPE said:
With Zora AI we are enhancing our financial operations and providing our financial executives with access to business performance data and insights into key information.
The company expects to increase productivity for finance leaders and reduce reporting production time by 50%.
The finance agents can assist with workflows including expense and invoice management, sales performance analysis, working capital optimization, financial statement analysis, and scenario modeling; bringing efficiency to processes that traditionally required a large human effort.
HPE’s finance team is specifically leveraging Zora AI to create an active, engaging digital platform that replaces offline, static periodic business performance reviews. This allows financial executives to analyze, monitor, and react to business performance in real-time, with agents highlighting what requires attention today and tomorrow.
Measured Results and Implementation
Deloitte has implemented Zora AI within its own finance operations, particularly in expense management. The results show a 25% reduction in costs and a 40% increase in productivity. Zora expense management agents help monitor expenses across multiple categories, including payroll, facilities, sales and marketing, and employee time and expenses.
These agents assist finance leaders in identifying expense outliers, comparing expenses against industry and competitor trends, and drilling down into specific budgets. According to Deloitte, Zora AI will save its finance team thousands of hours of effort annually.
Deloitte plans to implement Zora AI for thousands of users by the end of 2025, which shows its confidence in the platform’s value.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang noted:
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.
Enterprise-Ready Solutions
What distinguishes Zora AI is its enterprise-focused architecture built on Deloitte’s Trustworthy AI principles. The platform offers security, transparency, and reliability – with human feedback loops to ensure accuracy and quality of insights and recommendations.
These Trustworthy AI principles aim to provide ethical safeguards ensuring the AI is transparent and explainable, fair and impartial, robust and reliable, respectful of privacy, safe and secure, and responsible and accountable; all critical considerations for enterprise adoption.
Available through a cloud subscription model, Zora AI features architecture that can be deployed on existing technologies via pre-built integrations with major enterprise software platforms. This flexibility allows organizations to customize the platform according to their specific needs without requiring significant infrastructure changes.
The collaboration between Deloitte and HPE means customers can access Zora AI for Finance on HPE Private Cloud AI, combining Deloitte’s business expertise with HPE’s infrastructure capabilities. This joint solution will be available to customers worldwide, allowing them to benefit from both companies’ experience and technological advantages.
Evolving Work Practices
This development reflects consulting firms’ ongoing efforts to leverage AI for improving both internal operations and client services. Industry analysts at IDC have recognized Deloitte among the top strategic partners for generative AI initiatives, ranking second among service providers.
As organizations explore agentic AI, solutions like Zora AI offer a path toward increased collaboration between humans and AI assistants. The platform’s ability to handle routine tasks and provide data-driven insights allows human employees to focus on more strategic activities that require creativity, emotional intelligence, and complex decision-making.
With PwC estimating that generative AI could contribute between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion annually to global GDP by 2030, enterprises that effectively implement these technologies stand to gain efficiency advantages in increasingly competitive markets.
For business leaders, particularly in finance, the opportunity to enhance operations with digital assistants is becoming increasingly accessible and practical. Zora AI represents a significant step in making agentic AI approachable and valuable for enterprise use, with demonstrated benefits in real-world applications.
As both Deloitte and HPE continue to refine and expand these capabilities, other organizations will likely look to their implementation experiences as a model for how intelligent digital agents can be effectively integrated into existing business ecosystems.
