Alight Solutions

What Alight Solutions does

Alight Solutions is a publicly traded (NYSE: ALIT) cloud-based human capital technology company headquartered in Chicago that provides AI-powered benefits administration, healthcare navigation, retirement, and absence management solutions to large employers. Its flagship Alight Worklife platform unifies health, wealth, and leaves benefits in a single experience, integrating more than 600 third-party HR and benefits tools and serving over 30 million people across 1,400 corporate clients, including a majority of the Fortune 100. The platform is underpinned by Alight LumenAI, a proprietary AI engine that delivers personalized guidance, predictive analytics, and process automation, and is being extended through a multi-year IBM watsonx collaboration covering generative and agentic AI.

The company operates a platform-plus-modules architecture with solutions spanning health benefits administration (supporting over 13,000 plan designs), healthcare navigation (clinical, behavioral, cancer, and surgical guidance), reimbursement accounts (HSAs, FSAs, HRAs), dependent eligibility and compliance, employee onboarding, wellbeing, retirement benefits (the largest independent U.S. defined contribution recordkeeper, defined benefit administration, retiree health, and pension risk transfer), and absence management (LeavePro software and outsourced leave administration). Go-to-market is predominantly direct enterprise sales to large U.S. employers with growing multinational coverage and a partner ecosystem spanning carriers, brokers, consultants, and point-solution providers.

Alight generated $2.26 billion in FY2025 revenue but faces acute financial and governance stress: revenue declined 3% year over year, a $803 million goodwill impairment drove a $933 million Q4 2025 net loss, the dividend was cancelled in February 2026, the NYSE issued a sub-$1 listing notice in March 2026 addressed by a 1-for-20 reverse stock split in June 2026, and multiple securities class action lawsuits are pending. The board installed a new CEO (Rohit Verma, effective January 1, 2026), a new CTO from Disney (Naveen Baweja, effective April 29, 2026), and a sequence of interim CFOs, while committing to a $100 million investment in user experience, AI, and data infrastructure and aggressively expanding the Alight Partner Network to reposition the platform for AI-driven service delivery.

Name

Alight Solutions

Legal name

Alight, Inc.

Website

https://alight.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Alight Solutions is a cloud-based human capital technology company providing AI-powered benefits administration, healthcare navigation, retirement, and absence management to 1,400+ large employers, serving 30 million+ people and administering $1.7 trillion in assets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Benefits Administration & Human Capital Management Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Wellbeing, Mental Health & Employee Assistance (EAP) (BPACAPAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Worksite Financial Wellness & Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) (FSAIAMAN)

Keywords

• Benefits administration
• Human capital technology
• Retirement recordkeeping
• Employee experience platform
• Leave management software

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

Alight Solutions provides the Alight Worklife cloud-based employee experience platform that unifies health, wealth, and leave benefits administration for large enterprise employers. The platform is powered by Alight LumenAI, the company's proprietary AI engine that personalizes the employee experience, automates HR tasks, and predicts workforce needs. On top of the core platform, Alight sells a suite of solutions including Benefits Administration, Healthcare Navigation, Reimbursement Accounts, Defined Contribution recordkeeping, Defined Benefit administration, Pension Risk Transfer, Financial Wellbeing advisory services, and LeavePro enterprise SaaS for absence management.

Product overview

Alight Solutions offers a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on its flagship Alight Worklife cloud platform, an integrated and AI-powered employee experience platform that connects health, wealth, and leaves in one place. At the heart of Worklife is Alight LumenAI, the AI engine that drives intelligent predictions, automates routine HR tasks, and personalizes the employee experience. On top of this core platform, Alight offers a comprehensive suite of solutions organized into four major categories: Health Benefits (including Alight Total Health, Benefits Administration, Healthcare Navigation with sub-solutions like Clinical Guidance, Behavioral Health Guidance, Cancer Guidance, Expert Medical Opinion, SmartSelect MD, Surgery Decision Support, Alight Smart-Choice Accounts for reimbursement, Dependent Eligibility & Compliance, Alight Well, Employee Engagement Services, Employee Guidance, and Alight Employee Onboarding); Retirement Benefits (Retiree Health Solutions, Defined Contribution, Defined Benefits, Financial Wellbeing, Pension Risk Transfer, Alight IRA); Absence Management (Leave Administration outsourcing, LeavePro enterprise SaaS platform, co-sourcing); and Wellbeing (Alight Well, Alight Partner Network, Benefits Guidance). Adjacent services include OneSource (an outsourced call center solution) and the Alight Partner Network connecting employers to third-party point solutions. Alight administers benefits for over 30 million people, manages 180 million interactions annually, and $1.7 trillion in assets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Alight Worklife: AI-powered cloud-based employee experience platform unifying health, wealth, and leaves benefits administration.
• Alight LumenAI
• Alight Financial Advisors
• Alight Well
• LeavePro
• OneSource
• Alight Total Health
• Alight Smart-Choice Accounts
• Alight Employee Onboarding (AEO)
• Alight Benefits Advantage

Products and services

• Alight Worklife

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ADP (Automatic Data Processing): ADP is a global leader in payroll, benefits administration, and human capital management solutions, directly competing with Alight in benefits administration and HR services for large employers. Both serve Fortune 100/500 clients with cloud-based platforms.
• Workday: Workday is a leading cloud-based enterprise platform for HR, benefits, and financial management. It competes with Alight's Worklife platform in HR cloud services for large enterprises with AI-driven capabilities.
• Paychex: Paychex provides payroll, HR, and benefits administration services primarily to SMB and mid-market employers, overlapping with Alight's benefits administration offerings in the U.S. market.
• UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group): UKG provides cloud-based workforce management, HR, and benefits solutions for large enterprises, directly competing with Alight's HR and benefits administration platform, including time/leave management.
• Sedgwick: Sedgwick is a leading provider of absence management, leave administration, and disability management services, directly competing with Alight's Leave Administration and LeavePro offerings for large employers.

Broad incumbents

• Aon: Aon is Alight's former parent company and a global professional services firm offering benefits consulting and HR solutions. It competes with Alight in benefits advisory and retirement/health benefits administration for large employers.
• Mercer: Mercer, a Marsh McLennan company, is a global benefits consulting and administration firm competing with Alight in retirement benefits, health benefits, and HR advisory services for multinational employers.
• WTW (Willis Towers Watson): WTW is a global advisory, broking, and solutions company providing benefits administration and pension/retirement services. It competes with Alight's defined contribution, defined benefit, and pension risk transfer offerings.

Emerging players

• Benefitfocus: Benefitfocus is a benefits administration technology platform competing with Alight Worklife in health and voluntary benefits administration for large employers and health insurance carriers.
• HealthEquity: HealthEquity is a leading custodian of Health Savings Accounts and consumer-directed benefits, competing with Alight Smart-Choice Accounts in the reimbursement accounts (HSAs, FSAs, HRAs) market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/AlightSolutions
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCccOxWy3Mv_igsPoO9Hmvwg
• Facebookfacebook.com/AlightGlobal
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/alightsolutions
• Instagraminstagram.com/alight_solutions

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors11 records

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M&A6 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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