EightX Labs Opens Platform to Manage AI Agents Like Human Employees
agnt8x, a new workforce management platform, lets enterprises recruit, hire, onboard and manage AI agents across multiple AI providers under a single system. The platform launched publicly today at agnt8x.ai, addressing a practical problem: companies now run agents from three or four different AI labs with no unified way to track, audit or manage them.
The fragmentation mirrors the early days of cloud computing. Every major AI lab released agents in the past year. Without a central management layer, enterprises cobble together separate tools for each provider-no audit trail, no unified billing, no way to move agents between platforms.
What the Platform Does
agnt8x operates through five functional areas. FIND works as a job board matching agents to roles. FORGE lets companies catalog and onboard their own agents. STUDIO provides a nine-step onboarding workflow. MANAGE serves as the control plane, showing real-time profit and loss per agent, alignment monitoring, full audit trails, and unified billing across providers and individual tasks. CONDUCTOR orchestrates multi-agent teams across different providers on a single canvas-a capability the company says no competitor offers.
The platform tracks spending and performance at granular levels: per agent, per memory layer, per task call. HR teams get the same visibility into AI workforce costs that they have for human headcount.
Three Deployment Options
agnt8x ships in three modes. SaaS serves startups and mid-market companies. Tenant Workspace is a single-tenant deployment for larger enterprises. EMBASSY runs the full platform inside a customer's own data center with zero access to runtime data-designed for government and systemically important institutions.
All three support bring-your-own-key arrangements, letting customers use their own cloud infrastructure and API keys rather than routing data through agnt8x systems.
Open Standards and a Marketplace
The company published the EightX Agent Manifest (EAM) v0.1 under the Apache 2.0 open-source license. The specification allows agents to compile to any major runtime without vendor lock-in.
agnt8x also operates a two-sided marketplace. Developers can publish agents and applications, earning recurring monthly revenue when enterprises use them. Builder supply is live in production.
The Business Case for HR Leaders
For human resources and talent teams, the platform raises a straightforward question: if your company will employ AI agents, how do you recruit, onboard, manage and audit them? agnt8x treats agents as workforce assets requiring the same governance as human employees.
John Shipman, founder and CEO of EightX Labs, said: "Every company will have an AI workforce, and right now there is no system to run it. agnt8x is the recruitment and management layer above the AI providers, built to grow the business, run operations, and govern the workforce with real accountability."
The company's leadership includes David Puth, former CEO of Centre Consortium and CLS Bank, and co-founder Michael Harte, a former group CIO and COO at three global banks. The team's background in financial operations and custody suggests the platform is designed to handle the compliance and audit requirements that regulated industries demand.
HR professionals exploring AI for Human Resources should consider how agent management fits into broader workforce strategy. For HR executives, an AI Learning Path for CHROs covers workforce analytics and recruitment automation aligned with these emerging tools.
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