SK Ecoplant to deploy personalized AI agents for every employee

SK Ecoplant is launching a "one employee, one AI agent" system that analyzes individual employees' work data to develop and deploy AI agents tailored to each person's role.

The company said Monday it would operate a framework in which AI agents directly analyze real work data from internal systems to identify each employee's workflow patterns and bottlenecks, then generate customized AI transformation, or AX, solutions based on those findings.

A key feature of the approach is that it identifies AI application areas by department and job function using actual work data, rather than relying on subjective methods such as surveys or interviews.

The customized AX solutions will be applied first at major project sites, including semiconductor and AI data center operations. Those sites spend considerable time periodically compiling process records and work logs and drafting reports, so the company plans to automate repetitive data gathering and routine report writing with AI agents — freeing on-site staff to focus on core tasks such as quality review, construction issue response and safety management.

SK Ecoplant will also run AI FAB, a platform that lets employees build their own AI agents, alongside an AI Portal for distributing the agents once developed. The system is designed so that staff can create agents suited to their own operational needs and share them across the entire organization.

The company's dedicated in-house AI team will provide coaching and short-term development courses to help turn ideas from the field into working systems within two to three weeks.

A recent internal "AI Agentathon" surfaced more than 20 projects, covering areas such as integrated on-site cost inquiry and analysis, design-change response, construction estimate review, and external correspondence and contract review. Development for practical deployment is now under way through AI FAB.

SK Ecoplant is also expanding its AI-capable workforce. Through an internal capability-building program this year, the company has trained 318 domain AI specialists drawn from frontline operations. These specialists will develop AI agents tailored to the work demands of their respective departments.

Agents that are developed will go through internal security verification and governance procedures before being registered on the AI Portal and made available to all employees company-wide.

"We analyzed field work processes in detail to identify practical ways to apply AI to actual tasks," a company official said. "We plan to work with frontline domain experts to broaden the scope of AI agent deployment and support employees in focusing on their core responsibilities."

Earlier, in September, SK Ecoplant ran a 12-day "Hi-Tech Junior Talent Onboarding Program" for 68 new hires in the semiconductor and AI sectors. The recruits had been selected in June to strengthen the company's AI infrastructure project capabilities; upon completing the program, all were assigned to the hi-tech business division to be developed as semiconductor and AI project professionals.