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title: "Ballet vs Moveworks (ServiceNow)"
description: "TL;DR: Moveworks (now part of ServiceNow) is a packaged enterprise AI copilot for employee support — conversational search and ticket resolution in Slack/Teams. Ballet is a build-your-own agent operations platform where you design custom playbooks. Choose Moveworks/ServiceNow for a turnkey IT assistant; choose Ballet when you need bespoke agent workflows across any department."
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# Ballet vs Moveworks (ServiceNow)

**TL;DR:** Moveworks (now part of ServiceNow) is a packaged enterprise AI copilot for employee support — conversational search and ticket resolution in Slack/Teams. Ballet is a build-your-own agent operations platform where you design custom playbooks. Choose Moveworks/ServiceNow for a turnkey IT assistant; choose Ballet when you need bespoke agent workflows across any department.

## What Moveworks is

Moveworks built an AI assistant that employees use in Slack, Teams, or a browser to get answers, reset passwords, and resolve IT requests. ServiceNow completed its acquisition of Moveworks in December 2025. The combined offering — **ServiceNow EmployeeWorks** and **Autonomous Workforce** — integrates Moveworks' conversational AI with ServiceNow's workflow platform, turning natural-language requests into governed, end-to-end execution. Moveworks also remains available as a standalone product within the ServiceNow portfolio.

## Where Moveworks / ServiceNow is strong

- **Packaged employee experience** — conversational front door where employees already work (Teams, Slack).
- **Enterprise search** — deep indexing across knowledge bases, tickets, and internal docs.
- **Pre-built templates** — hundreds of enterprise-ready agent templates (expenses, HR, IT).
- **Governance at scale** — ServiceNow's audit, security, and workflow infrastructure.
- **Autonomous Workforce** — AI specialists (e.g. L1 Service Desk) that execute jobs with enterprise authority.

## How Ballet is different

| Dimension | Moveworks / ServiceNow | Ballet |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Product type | Packaged enterprise copilot | Build-your-own agent ops platform |
| Scope | Employee support, IT, HR | Any ops workflow you design |
| Build model | Configure templates + Agent Studio | Ask Ballet builds playbooks |
| Customization | Plugins and marketplace templates | Full playbook with code + MCP |
| Platform lock-in | ServiceNow ecosystem | MCP + HTTP + first-party connectors |
| Time to deploy | Faster for standard IT/HR use cases | Faster for custom, non-standard workflows |
| Target buyer | IT / HR leadership | Ops builders, engineering, automation teams |

Moveworks/ServiceNow gives you a **turnkey AI employee assistant** tied to enterprise ITSM. Ballet gives you a **platform to build any agent workflow** — support triage, RevOps enrichment, marketing research, incident response — with full control over steps, code, and connectors.

## When to choose Moveworks vs Ballet

**Choose Moveworks / ServiceNow when:**
- You want a conversational IT/HR assistant out of the box for all employees.
- You are already on ServiceNow and want EmployeeWorks integrated with your CMDB and workflows.
- Standard employee self-service (password reset, PTO, expense) is the primary goal.

**Choose Ballet when:**
- You need custom agent workflows beyond a packaged copilot — multi-step research, enrichment, code execution.
- Your team wants to describe automations to Ask Ballet and iterate without a ServiceNow implementation.
- You prefer MCP-native tool orchestration over ServiceNow's plugin marketplace.

These are not always either/or: ServiceNow for employee-facing support; Ballet for backend agent ops and cross-system playbooks your COE builds.

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