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Nintex Names Amy Payne Chief Marketing Officer

Nintex, a global leader in process management and workflow automation, has appointed Amy Payne as Chief Marketing Officer. Payne, who brings over 25 years of B2B technology marketing experience, will lead Nintex's global marketing organization and focus on strengthening market position, accelerating demand, and deepening customer and partner engagement. The appointment is part of Nintex's advancement of its vision for agentic business orchestration, which combines people, processes, data, and AI agents. Prior to Nintex, Payne served as Vice President of Global Customer, Partner, Regional and Digital Marketing at Talkdesk and held marketing leadership roles at Dassault Systèmes. CEO Stephen Elop praised Payne's brand-building and demand-generation skills.

• Amy Payne appointed Chief Marketing Officer of Nintex.
• Payne has over 25 years of B2B technology marketing experience.
• She previously served as VP of Global Customer, Partner, Regional and Digital Marketing at Talkdesk.

Talkdesk report: AI in CX outpaces orchestration

Talkdesk published “The State of Agentic Automation in CX,” reporting that AI deployment across customer journeys is nearly universal but organizational orchestration is lagging. The survey of 252 mid-market and enterprise CX, IT, operations, and AI leaders (fielded April 2026 by NewtonX) found 98% of organizations have deployed AI, yet only 15% combine agentic AI with cross-departmental orchestration and 85% lack the orchestration to connect AI agents, human teams, data, and workflows. The report highlights hidden costs from fragmented AI (unfinished workflows, increased human handling) and shows that organizations with higher CXA maturity achieve materially better outcomes. Talkdesk and cited analysts argue that multi-agent orchestration and operating models for a hybrid human-AI workforce are the critical capabilities to translate AI activity into measurable business impact.

• Talkdesk published “The State of Agentic Automation in CX” report.
• 98% of organizations have deployed AI in their customer journey; only 15% combine agentic AI with cross-departmental orchestration.
• Talkdesk commissioned NewtonX to survey 252 director-level-and-above CX, IT, operations, and AI strategy leaders; fielded in April 2026.

Talkdesk launches Agent Builder for AI agents

Talkdesk announced Talkdesk Agent Builder, a natural language-driven product that lets business and technical teams create, test, diagnose and validate customer-facing AI agents before deployment. Agent Builder uses a “zero-prompt” approach to shorten agent development from weeks to hours, automatically ingests enterprise assets (SOPs, policies) to generate structured instructions and guardrails, and provides continuous monitoring and governance through the CXA Operations Center. Capabilities highlighted include plain-language agent creation, pre-deployment validation that surfaces gaps and recommends fixes, and simplified troubleshooting with human-in-the-loop approval. Talkdesk showcased Agent Builder at Customer Contact Week (CCW) Las Vegas (booth 638) and positions the tool as a way to reduce deployment risk and accelerate production-ready AI workforce scale.

• Talkdesk announced Talkdesk Agent Builder, a natural language-driven tool for building customer service AI agents.
• Agent Builder introduces a zero-prompt approach that compresses agent development from weeks to hours.
• The platform ingests enterprise assets (e.g., standard operating procedures and policies) to create structured instructions and guardrails.

Workato Launches Otto AI Superagent for Teams

Workato announced a self-serve launch of Otto — an autonomous, multiplayer AI "superagent" — now available to individuals and teams via Slack, the web, and SMS with a 30-day free trial. Otto runs on Workato’s control and execution platform and is powered by Anthropic’s Claude through the Claude Agent SDK. The agent plans and executes multi-step projects across applications (claiming access to 1,400+ connectors) and builds persistent memories tied to team and individual context. Customers and partners quoted in the announcement include GitLab, Casco, and Box, which describe integrations (including a native GitLab plugin) and use cases spanning marketing campaigns, sales tracking, and go-to-market operations.

• Workato announced Otto is available to individuals and teams in Slack, on the web, and via SMS.
• Otto is powered by Claude, Anthropic’s model, via the Claude Agent SDK.
• Workato says Otto can act across more than 1,400 business application connectors and 20 widely used work apps.

Workato Launches Enterprise MCP Registry for AI Governance

Workato announced the Enterprise MCP Registry as part of its Workato Enterprise MCP control and execution platform for enterprise AI. The Registry provides a governed system of record for MCP servers across an organization and works alongside MCP Composer, MCP Gateway, and MCP Proxy to enable discovery, versioning, centralized policy enforcement, identity-backed execution, and auditability. Workato is shipping more than 60 production-ready Enterprise MCP servers and promotes reusable "Enterprise Skills" that encapsulate business logic and multi-system workflows for AI agents. The company cites strong customer adoption—customer-published servers grew over 2,100% in six months and 43% of current customer-published servers began from Workato’s pre-built servers—while highlighting integrations with mission-critical systems such as SAP, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks.

• Workato announced the Enterprise MCP Registry to govern Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers across enterprises.
• Workato is offering more than 60 production-ready Enterprise MCP servers as part of Workato Enterprise MCP.
• Workato pairs the Registry with MCP Composer, MCP Gateway, MCP Proxy, Verified User Access (VUA), and centralized audit trails for governance and security.

Product Scoop – June 2026

June's updates focus on giving builders more control over Genie knowledge and observability, extending the MCP Gateway with new capabilities, and adding usage visibility for Embed customers. With the Enterprise Context by Workato connector, builders can manage knowledge base documents directly from a recipe, and Genie Conversation Log Streaming gives security and operations teams full visibility into every Genie conversation. In Slack, For MCP Gateway, MCP Apps let any skill…