Moveworks
AI agents & customer service · https://www.moveworks.com
Verdict: Buy · Confidence: medium · Reviewed 2026-10-15
ServiceNow agreed to buy Moveworks for $2.85 billion and completed the deal on December 15, 2025. The grade matches ServiceNow's Buy rating (/companies/servicenow/). Moveworks is no longer an independent vendor.
Rubric
| Dimension | Score (1–5) | Notes & sources |
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| Real customers & revenue quality Are there named paying customers, recurring revenue, and retention evidence? | 4/5 | ServiceNow's March 10, 2025 announcement said Moveworks served 350+ large enterprises and over 5 million employees, naming Hearst, Instacart, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens, Toyota, and Unilever. The Dec. 15, 2025 close release said 5.5 million employee users and about 250 mutual customers. Moveworks revenue was not disclosed. ServiceNow's own results are on the ServiceNow page.
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| Unit economics Do gross margins survive inference/compute costs? Is pricing durable? | Unknown | Unknown. Neither the announcement nor the close release disclosed Moveworks gross margin or inference cost. |
| Moat Proprietary data, distribution, switching costs, or tech that is hard to copy? | 4/5 | ServiceNow said it already had more than 100 Moveworks integrations and that the assistant, search, and Reasoning Engine are being folded into the ServiceNow AI Platform. The moat is now ServiceNow's workflow installed base.
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| Platform risk Could a model provider or incumbent ship this as a feature? (higher score = lower risk) | 2/5 | The product is no longer sold by an independent company. ServiceNow said Moveworks' assistant becomes a front door on the ServiceNow AI Platform, so roadmap and packaging depend on ServiceNow. See /companies/servicenow/.
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| Team & execution Shipping cadence, leadership track record, stability. | 4/5 | ServiceNow said hundreds of Moveworks AI experts joined, and Moveworks CEO Bhavin Shah is quoted in the close release describing the combination. Post-close retention was not independently reported.
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| Funding vs. traction Is capital raised justified by verifiable traction? | 4/5 | ServiceNow said it would pay $2.85 billion in cash and stock, subject to adjustments. The SEC prospectus states aggregate consideration of $2,850,000,000 and that Moveworks had raised about $315 million through June 2021, including a round that valued it at about $2.1 billion post-money. Disclosed users (5.5 million at close) are the traction evidence; Moveworks revenue was not disclosed.
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| Hype signals Demo-driven marketing, vague metrics, valuation outrunning evidence? (higher score = fewer red flags) | 4/5 | Adoption figures and the $2.85 billion price are in ServiceNow's announcement and the SEC prospectus. The press releases are promotional about 'the world's most advanced AI platform,' which is marketing language, not a separate metric.
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Listing source: https://www.moveworks.com. Revenue, users, and valuation figures appear only when publicly sourced; otherwise they are marked unknown.