Overview
- Levi Strauss announced a partnership with Microsoft to develop an integrated agentic AI system to automate workflows across IT, HR, operations and other functions.
- The platform is in development and testing now with rollout planned for early 2026 and phased expansion to global offices throughout the year.
- An orchestrator agent embedded in Teams will serve as a single portal for corporate, retail and warehouse employees, routing requests to subagents behind the scenes.
- Levi also unveiled Stitch for store associates to access product and procedure information conversationally, and an Outfitting app feature that powers a Complete the Look experience.
- AI analysis of finance processes broke 1,100 SOPs into 19,000 steps and flagged 35% as data entry, informing an automation roadmap, with human-in-the-loop safeguards and broader adoption of Copilot+ PCs, Azure and GitHub Copilot supporting the push to $10 billion in revenue.