Alight, Inc. (ALIT)
Benefits administration platform, 80% North America. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 15 of the 135 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
35%
End of 2028
64%
Employees, annual report
9,500
Leading staffing pattern
Agencies, Brokerages, and Other Insurance Related Activities
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now35%
- End of 202756%
- End of 202864%
- End of 203067%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 33%
- Becomes checking a model's work 55%
- Handed over with lighter checks 8%
Alight states more than 9,500 colleagues at December 31, 2025, about 80% in North America, administering health, wealth and benefits programs for employers on its platform with no count by kind of work, so the administration work takes the insurance services group that holds third-party administration and the platform engineering the rest by description (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 35% now, 56% at the end of 2027, 64% at the end of 2028, 67% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 67% desk work, 29% people work and 4% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 33% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 55% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
9,500 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states approximately 80% of colleagues in North America; the U.S. alone is not stated.
The filing: “Human Capital Management As of December 31, 2025, we employed more than 9,500 colleagues, approximately 80% of whom were located in North America.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Agencies, Brokerages, and Other Insurance Related Activities | 70% | The administration of health, wealth and benefits programs for employers and their employees, the filing's business, is third-party benefits administration, and with no count by kind of work it takes most of the workforce by description (c). |
| Computer Systems Design and Related Services | 30% | The platform, data, analytics and AI engineering the filing describes behind its services, counted by no employee figure, takes a share by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: More than 9,500 colleagues, about 80% in North America; 67% of U.S. colleagues identify as female; the count fell from 18,000 in 2023, which the excerpt does not explain.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Agencies, Brokerages, and Other Insurance Related Activities, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MRSH, 95,000 employees)35% now, 63% by 2028
- Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG, 72,000 employees)39% now, 62% by 2028
- Aon plc (AON, 60,000 employees)36% now, 63% by 2028
- Brown & Brown, Inc. (BRO, 22,888 employees)39% now, 62% by 2028
- First American Financial Corporation (FAF, 19,102 employees)39% now, 65% by 2028
- Crawford & Company (CRD-A, 9,943 employees)40% now, 62% by 2028
- Stewart Information Services Corporation (STC, 7,800 employees)39% now, 65% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
18 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names its data, analytics and AI delivering actionable insights such as healthcare claims savings and AI-driven omnichannel engagement for its clients' employees.
- “A summary of the principal factors that create risk in investing in our securities and might cause actual results to differ is set forth below: declines in economic activity in the industries, markets, and regions our clients serve, including as a result of macroeconomic factors beyond our control, heightened interest rates or changes in monetary, trade and fiscal policies; risks associated wit...”
- “Our data, analytics and AI allow us to deliver actionable insights that drive measurable outcomes, such as healthcare claims savings, for companies and their people.”
- “Our data and access across the breadth of human capital solutions provides us with comprehensive employee records to enable AI-driven, omnichannel engagement and a personalized, integrated experience for our clients' employees.”
- “AI and analytics layer that uses data from our transactional systems, combined with client and third-party data to drive insights for clients.”
- “Large and well-capitalized competitors may be able to respond to the need for technological changes (including the implementation of AI and ML) and innovate faster, or price their services more aggressively.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 202112median 0
- Fiscal 20229median 0
- Fiscal 202315median 1
- Fiscal 202414median 4
- Fiscal 202518median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 9,500 | 2026-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 9,500 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 18,000 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 18,000 | 2023-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 16,000 | 2022-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by kind of work: the split is by description (c); the data service's segment and geography tables are stale.
- The U.S. share is not stated; North America holds 80%.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-011108, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Alight, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 35% now and 64% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Alight, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Alight, Inc. employ?
- 9,500 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Alight, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Agencies, Brokerages, and Other Insurance Related Activities; by those patterns the work is about 67% desk work, 29% people work and 4% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Alight, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 18 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 12, 9, 15, 14 and 18 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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