Visier
Enterprise people analytics and workforce planning with Vee, an AI agent that answers workforce questions in Slack, Teams and Copilot, and an MCP server for other agents.
Quote-based pricing MCP server API
Bottom line
Visier is the enterprise standard for people analytics: one governed model of the whole workforce, thousands of pre-built metrics, benchmarks against other enterprises, and Vee, an AI agent that answers workforce questions wherever people already work. It is sales-quoted and built for large organisations, so a small team or agency will find it out of reach.
Stands out for: Vee and the MCP server. Most analytics vendors give you dashboards; Visier gives every leader an agent that answers a workforce question in Slack, Teams or Copilot, and lets your own Claude or ChatGPT agents query the same governed data over MCP with each person's permissions intact. Sixteen years of benchmark data tell you whether your turnover or time to fill is normal.
Watch out for: No public pricing and no free trial: this is a sales-led enterprise purchase, with independent estimates running well into five or six figures a year. It reads your HR systems rather than replacing them, so the value depends on how clean your HRIS and ATS data are, and answers reflect the last data load, not live records.
Overview
Visier, founded in 2010 in Vancouver, describes its platform as Workforce AI: a context engine that unifies data from HRIS, ATS, finance, engagement and other systems into one workforce model, with sixteen years of domain expertise and benchmarks built in. It says more than 85,000 organisations use it, and that Vee is used by over two million people.
Workforce Insights covers headcount, movement, compensation, diversity, skills and turnover with pre-built metrics and analyses. Workforce Planning models headcount, cost and org-design scenarios shared between HR and Finance. Workforce Programs push a recommended action to the right manager and track whether it changed the outcome.
Vee is the AI agent. It answers plain-English questions inside Visier, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Copilot (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), suggests follow-ups, and can be reached from an intranet or internal chatbot over the API. Vee Boards add AI commentary and recommendations to existing analyses.
Pre-built connectors cover SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle Fusion, UKG, Dayforce, BambooHR, Greenhouse and iCIMS, plus API, JDBC, SFTP and manual upload for anything else. A first-party MCP server, bundled with Vee, lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or a custom agent query Visier data over OAuth 2.0, with the same row- and column-level permissions the user has in Visier.
Who it's for
Best for
- Enterprise HR and talent leaders who need one trusted picture of headcount, cost and attrition
- People analytics teams that want to hand routine questions to an agent
- HR and Finance teams planning headcount and org design from the same numbers
- IT teams that want AI agents on people data with permissions enforced at the source
Not ideal for
- Small companies and agencies without an HRIS worth analysing
- Teams that need recruiting-only reporting an ATS already provides
- Anyone who needs a published price or a self-serve trial
Key features
People analytics. Pre-built metrics and dashboards on headcount, movement, cost, skills, turnover and hiring, joined across HRIS, ATS and finance data with every employee's history over time.
Vee AI agent. Ask a workforce question in plain English inside Visier, Slack, Microsoft Teams or Microsoft Copilot and get an answer, chart or summary scoped to what you are allowed to see.
Workforce planning. Model headcount, cost, skills and org-design scenarios with HR and Finance working from the same numbers.
Benchmarks. Compare your turnover, promotion and compensation metrics against thousands of other enterprises.
AI features
| What the AI does | Plan |
|---|---|
| Vee answers plain-English workforce questions inside Visier, Slack, Teams and Microsoft Copilot, scoped to the asker's permissions | Vee Add-on |
| Vee Boards add AI commentary, trends, outliers and recommended actions to existing analyses | Vee Add-on |
| Build-your-own agents on Visier's governed workforce model, with Visier's help | Quoted Add-on |
| MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or a custom agent query the same governed data | Vee Add-on |
Only features named in the vendor's own documentation. Anything sold separately is marked as an add-on.
Screenshots
Workforce Insights skill gap
Workforce Planning scenario
Workforce Programs view
Vee agent insights
Workforce data via MCP agent
Images: Visier's own website. Select an image to see it full size.
MCP server
First-party MCP, hosted by Visier and bundled with Vee. It is tenant-scoped at {vanity}.app.visier.com/visier-query-mcp, secured with OAuth 2.0, and exposes Vee's question tool plus structured data-query tools (metrics, dimensions, analytic objects) and prompts for employee, candidate and requisition analysis. Users only see data they can already see in Visier.
Setup steps and live status MCP Directory Check your stack in the MCP readiness checker
Pricing
Sales-quoted, with no public rate card and no free trial. Visier is sold to mid-market and enterprise organisations, priced by organisation size and the modules chosen; the Visier MCP Server is bundled with Vee, the people-analytics agent. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 28 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Is Visier expensive?
Visier does not publish a price. It is one of 19 quote-based tools among the 28 people analytics tools in our directory. 3 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $14 a month.
- 19 quote-based
- 3 free tier
- 12 public price
Worked out automatically from every people analytics listing, so it updates as the directory changes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- One governed workforce model across HR, ATS and finance data
- Vee answers questions in Slack, Teams and Copilot, not just in a dashboard
- First-party MCP server with permissions enforced at the source
- Benchmarks from a very large customer base
- Pre-built connectors for the major HRIS and ATS platforms
Cons
- Sales-quoted only, no free trial
- Built for large organisations; overkill for small teams
- Answers reflect the last data load, not live records
Integrations
Workday SAP SuccessFactors Oracle Fusion UKG Dayforce BambooHR Greenhouse iCIMS
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How Visier compares
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| Tool | Free tier | From | MCP | API | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visier (this tool) | – | Sales-quoted | ✓ | ✓ | |
| | – | Sales-quoted | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | Sales-quoted | – | – | Compare |
| | – | $5/employee/mo | – | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | Sales-quoted | – | – | Compare |
Sales-quoted MCP API
People-data warehouse on top of your HCM systems, for teams that want to build their own models rather than adopt Visier's pre-built ones.
Sales-quoted
Mid-enterprise people analytics with an EU footprint, for organisations that find Visier too large or need European data residency.
$5/employee/mo API
Org charts, headcount planning and people analytics from $5 per employee a month, with a published price and a mid-market fit.
Sales-quoted
Org design and workforce scenario modelling, if the planning side matters more than the analytics.
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