6 Best ai.work (Henry) Alternatives in 2026

ai.work built Henry, one of the most convincing AI workers in production: an IT worker that handles app access, distribution lists, onboarding, license cleanup, password resets, temporary admin and ITSM updates across ServiceNow, Okta, Slack, Teams, Workday, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, running under policy, storing resolutions as reusable skills, escalating and requesting approval when needed. Then ServiceNow moved to acquire it. Which is exactly why you might be here: the roadmap now points into the ServiceNow ecosystem, the scope is the IT queue only, and buying means enterprise procurement.

Here are the best ai.work alternatives in 2026, whether you want another specialist worker or one employee for everything outside the ticket queue.

1. Molted: the AI worker for everything that isn't a ticket

Full disclosure: Molted is our product. Henry works the IT queue; Molted works the rest of the company. It is one general AI employee built on OpenClaw, the largest open-source agent ecosystem, handling inbox, research, ops, outreach and admin across your browser, phone and 1,000+ apps. Independent, self-serve, no acquisition to factor into your planning.

It is fully managed, monitored and auto-healed 24/7, at a flat monthly price with a 24-hour free trial and cancel anytime. If you liked the idea of Henry but your busywork is not IT-shaped, this is the general version. Read the full ai.work vs Molted comparison.

2. Resolve AI: the worker for production engineering

The nearest specialist neighbor: Resolve AI puts agents on the systems themselves, on-call triage, incident investigation, root cause analysis and daily operational tasks, with MCP, API and Skills extensibility plus background agents. Henry handles the IT service desk; Resolve handles the pager. Enterprise posture on both. Our Resolve AI comparison.

3. Kognitos: governed automation beyond IT

Kognitos extends the policy-aware idea to finance, procurement and supply chain: plain-English automations, deterministic and fully governed, integrated with Oracle, SAP, Workday and Dynamics. If what you valued in Henry was auditable execution under rules, Kognitos applies it to the back office. Expect an enterprise implementation. Our Kognitos comparison.

4. Beam AI: build workers from your SOPs

Beam AI generalizes the worker model into a platform: upload SOPs, deploy production agents, finance and HR suites, 1,000+ integrations, on-prem or hybrid options, with 10m+ agent tasks and Fortune 500 usage claimed. More surface area than a single Henry, more building on your side. Our Beam AI comparison.

5. NinjaTech AI: the workforce in your own cloud

NinjaTech deploys autonomous agent teams for multi-week projects inside your own cloud and tools, collaborating through Slack, Teams and WhatsApp with approvals and handoffs. If Henry's appeal was working inside your stack under your control, NinjaTech pushes that model furthest, at enterprise integration cost. Our NinjaTech comparison.

6. Devin: the specialist for engineering work

Devin from Cognition is the vertical-worker archetype for software engineering: it plans, writes, tests and ships production code inside real codebases, with large enterprise deployments and parallel fleets for migrations. A different specialty than Henry, the same lesson: specialist workers go deep and stop at their lane. Our Devin comparison.

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The bottom line

If your problem is literally the IT queue and you live in the ServiceNow world, Henry inside ServiceNow may end up being exactly right, and Resolve AI covers the engineering side of the same coin. But if the acquisition made you rethink betting on a single-department worker, the resilient move is one general employee that covers inbox, ops and admin, independent and flat-priced. That's Molted.