DaySight MCPExamples
What you can ask
Analytical questions to ask, and the charts and dashboards your assistant can draw from the answers. All names, numbers and charts are illustrative sample data from "Northwind Demo Co." The assistant words its replies itself, so yours will read differently.
Workforce analytics
Turn on Allow Workday Query Language (WQL) reports in the extension settings. Answers are summaries only: no names, no individual pay, and groups smaller than three people are never shown.
“Show the board scorecard.”
Headcount 4,812 (up 2.7% on a year ago), 4,655 FTE. 612 hires and 487 exits in the last 12 months, turnover 10.1%. Women in leadership 38%. Standing out: Customer Support has the highest turnover, and 9% of Finance is within five years of retirement age.
“Headcount, hires and exits by quarter for the last two years.”
Headcount grew from 4,402 to 4,812 over eight quarters. Hiring peaked at 181 in Q2 last year, and exits held steady near 120 a quarter.
“Turnover by function for Germany only.”
Germany has 642 active workers. Customer Support 17.9%, Sales 12.4%, Operations 9.1%, Engineering 7.2%, Finance 5.1%. Groups under three people are rolled into Other.
“Which locations have the highest voluntary turnover?”
Austin 9.8%, Munich 8.6% and Chicago 7.9%. The other 11 locations are below 6%.
“Where are people aged 55 or older concentrated?”
Finance (31% of the function) and Operations (24%). Together they hold 41% of everyone aged 55 or older.
“What does each of the CEO’s direct reports’ organization cost, and how big is it?”
7 organizations. The largest has 1,420 people and a base pay cost of $98M. Leaders appear as their organization plus a short code, never by name.
“How does women’s share in leadership compare across functions?”
Finance 52%, Marketing 47%, Sales 39%, Operations 34%, Engineering 27%. The company average is 38%.
“Give me the HR business partner view for the Munich location.”
Munich: 318 active workers, 24% women, average tenure 5.2 years, 11 exits in the last 12 months and an average span of control of 7.4.
“Which groups are growing fastest, and which are shrinking?”
Customer Support grew 9.4% and Engineering 6.1% over 12 months. Operations shrank 2.3%. Smaller groups are rolled into Other.
Dashboards and charts
Ask your assistant to draw an answer, or to build a whole dashboard. The pictures below illustrate the kind of output you can ask for.
Northwind Demo Co. · Workforce overviewSAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE SAMPLE DATA
Active headcount4,812up 2.7% on a year ago
Turnover, 12 months10.1%487 exits, 612 hires
Women in leadership38%up 2 points
Base pay cost$402M$86.4k per FTE
Build a one-page workforce dashboard for the board.
Chart headcount by quarter for the last two years.
Show turnover by function as a bar chart and highlight the highest.
Plot women in leadership by function against the company average.
Make a dashboard for the Munich location to share with its leadership team.
Add a cost view for finance: base pay cost by function and cost per FTE.
Women in leadership by function
Illustrations with illustrative sample data. Your assistant draws the charts from the answers it gets from Workday, so ask for the view that suits your audience and refine it in the same conversation.
Reports
“Build the workforce report as a PDF.”
Created a 24-page workforce report in your DaySight MCP Reports folder: 21 sections included, 2 left out because the data was missing, each with the reason. (Needs Allow workforce reports (PDF) switched on.)
“What can you do with my Workday?”
Lists the tools, switches, ready-made views and privacy rules that are active in your install, generated from the live setup so it is always current.
About your team and the wider Workday areas
Each area needs its scope on your API Client.
“Who reports to me?”
You have 4 direct reports: Maya Chen (Senior Analyst), Luis Ortega (Analyst), Priya Nair (Analyst) and Tom Becker (Associate Analyst).
“How much vacation do I have left this year?”
Annual Leave: 11.5 days available. Your next scheduled entry is 3 days in December.
“Show open job postings in Finance.”
2 postings: Senior Financial Analyst (Chicago) and Accounting Manager (Remote), with their posting dates.
“What goals do I have open this year?”
3 goals: Launch the quarterly forecast model (in progress), Document the month-end close (not started), Mentor one analyst (in progress).
“What compensation scorecards exist?”
2 scorecards: FY25 Merit and FY25 Bonus, each with its measures and weights.
Privacy and safety. Use DaySight MCP with Claude Enterprise, which does not use your conversations to train models. Workforce analytics is still being checked against real tenants, so compare the first figures with a Workday report you trust. Ask in the Chat tab of Claude Desktop, and if the assistant says it is not signed in, ask it to call
workday_login. Workday decides what you are allowed to see, so some questions return less, or nothing, for people without the matching permissions.Try it on your own Workday tenant
Download the extension, register your own API Client and ask your first question. A test or implementation tenant is the best place to start.