
Client-side project management for Workday & AI programs
Ignite Partners project manages and advises on multimillion-dollar enterprise Workday & AI programs with one allegiance — yours. We sit on your side of the table, managing your implementation so it's delivered on time, on budget, and done right the FIRST time. Protecting your investment (and career reputation).
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How we protect your project at every stage
These are the 5 ways we help C-suite and their project leaders protect their investment (and their career reputation) during high-stakes Workday and AI implementations.
Vendor Selection
We review every SOW, compare every vendor, and close every gap before you sign anything - so you're not spending the next 18 months paying for what should have been caught on Day 1.
Project Management
A dedicated client-side project manager who runs your project day-to-day, owns scope and risk, holds the vendor accountable, and makes sure your and your leadership always knows exactly where things stand.
Advisory
We sit on your PMO or Steering Committee as an independent advisor - helping you and your leadership teams see what's coming, what's at risk, interpreting what the vendor is really saying, so you can make confident decisions at every stage of the deployment.
Testing
We lead test strategy, planning, scenario creation, and test execution - so your team has full confidence the system actually works before it goes live, not after.
Project Rescue
When a program is going sideways - budget spiraling, timeline slipping, vendor relationship breaking down - we step in to diagnose what went wrong, re-plan what's ahead, and get delivery back on track before it's too late
Workday & enterprise AI
Two practice areas. One delivery standard.
Workday Deployments
From first-time rollouts to phased expansions, global deployments, M&A integrations, IPO-readiness, and board-mandated transformations - we've done it all across Workday's entire product suite.
AI & Agentic Workflows
Enterprise AI deployments across Microsoft Co-Pilot, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and more - from pilot programs and secure rollouts to governance frameworks and workflows your teams will actually adopt.
Industries we serve
Deep experience across the sectors where Workday and AI programs carry the highest stakes.
Helping financial institutions modernize HR, finance, and operations at scale.
Turning data into insight, risk into opportunity, and operations into advantage.
Securing top talent and operational clarity so clinicians can focus on patient care.
Automating at scale and staying compliant on platforms that adapt as fast as you do.
Unifying student, faculty, and institutional operations on a single modern platform.
Real-time visibility into mission impact, funding, and workforce.
Simplifying finance and HR while building tomorrow's federal workforce.
Flexible systems for budgeting, HCM, procurement, and citizen services.
Scaling finance and people operations to keep pace with hypergrowth.
Staying agile through new partnerships, formats, and service models.
Forecasting accuracy, uptime, and workforce planning for what's next.
Adapting to new regulations and business models while keeping workers safe.
Driving workforce efficiency and revenue with a platform built for how you operate.
Meeting shifting consumer demands and workforce expectations without missing a beat.
Optimizing the workforce while keeping flexibility, agility, and costs in check.
Bringing finance, HR, and PSA into one platform to deliver greater client value.
Meet our founders
Operators who have led enterprise programs from the client side, not the integrator bench.

Eddy Castillo
Eddy has sat across the table from every major vendor in the Workday and AI ecosystem - Deloitte, KPMG, Accenture, Strada, TopBloc, Invisors, Workday, and emerging AI platforms - and his only job is to protect the client sitting next to him. That's what makes him different.
While most project leaders are navigating a Workday or AI implementation for the first time, Eddy has already seen how it plays out - the SOW gaps that cost millions, the change orders that shouldn't exist, the offshore resource swaps that quietly derail timelines, and the polished status reports that hide projects in freefall.
He's saved clients millions in combined spend in the first weeks of engagement through SOW advisory alone, stabilized a $50M healthcare implementation that was six months from go-live and falling apart under a Big Four firm, and guided C-suite leaders through some of the most complex and high-stakes programs of their careers.
C-suite and project leaders seek out Eddy because he's seen everything they're about to walk into and he's the one person in the room with no back-end vendor deals, no hidden agenda, and will tell you exactly what you need to hear before it's too late.

Punya Gill
Punya has been on every side of an enterprise implementation - and that's exactly why clients trust her with theirs. She started inside the product companies themselves, leading implementation divisions and shaping product strategy at SAP and Workday in Silicon Valley. She's seen how these platforms are built, how they're sold, and where the gap between what's promised in a vendor pitch and what actually gets delivered starts to form.
With 15+ years and 30+ programs delivered for companies like Coinbase, AT&T, Salesforce, Bank of America, and Ohio State University, she's guided the kind of implementations where everything is on the line at once - HCM, Financials, Supply Chain, global rollouts across 100+ countries during M&A, and high-pressure go-lives with zero margin for error ahead of an IPO.
She's the person a CHRO calls when they can't afford to get this wrong, the one a CFO brings in when the budget is too large to leave in the vendor's hands alone, and the one a CIO trusts when they need someone who will tell them the truth about where their project actually stands - not the version the vendor put in the status report.
Clients we've helped


IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS WE'VE WORKED WITH






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