Hancom is targeting the AI workforce market with a platform built on its own agentic operating system, in which artificial intelligence agents collaborate as a single team. The company is introducing Nomadian, which it calls the world's first AI workforce platform, allowing users to assemble teams of multiple AI agents and divide up real tasks among them, much as a company hires employees and splits the workload.
Nomadian is a global product that combines Hancom's proprietary agentic OS with a three-dimensional workspace. Users can select the AI agents they need for a given purpose, form a team and assign roles. Hancom plans to focus on the United States, where the solo-entrepreneur market is well developed, and to secure early demand by emphasizing Nomadian's practicality.
Industry watchers say Hancom, which has been shifting its business from document software to artificial intelligence, is making a decisive bet to expand into the global agentic OS market with Nomadian. Rather than simply offering individual AI agents, the company has secured a foundational platform that organizes multiple agents and distributes and manages their work, which observers see as a new growth pillar for its global AI business.
Hancom said on the 15th that it has formed a dedicated task force and is running the "Nomadian Project." Nomadian is offered as software-as-a-service, usable directly from a web browser without installation. A beta version will be released first in the United States in December, with a paid subscription service to begin in 2027.
Nomadian was designed around three features: AI teams organized by job function, a 3D office where the work process is visible, and final approval authority that remains with the human user.
On Nomadian, users can select AI agents for the roles they need and assign them to tasks, much as they would hire actual employees. When a user picks roles such as data analyst, content marketer or email marketer, the tools required for those tasks are connected as well. If no agent exists for a needed role, users can build one themselves and put it to work. Once a user gives a one-line instruction, Nomadian breaks it into detailed tasks and automatically distributes them to each AI agent.
The agents' work can be monitored in "Room," a 3D virtual office. Each AI moves as a character, showing at a glance which tools it used, how far it has progressed and how its output is passed to the next agent. Unlike existing chat-based AI services that present only the final output, Nomadian visualizes the collaboration process itself. Brand guidelines and work rules are also stored in the Room, so users do not have to repeat the same instructions for recurring tasks.
Nomadian also includes a safeguard that leaves final decisions on important tasks to the user. For actions that are difficult to reverse, such as sending an email or applying an electronic signature, the AI pauses just before execution and waits for user approval. A user can hand off work before leaving for the day, and the AI team will prepare a draft for review and approval the next morning.
Underpinning Nomadian is Hancom's agentic OS. The company extended 36 years of accumulated document software technology into AI agents, then developed it into an operating system that coordinates and controls multiple agents. Hancom said Nomadian is the first AI workforce platform to assemble multiple agents that create documents, spreadsheets and presentations into a team that collaborates in a 3D space.
An agentic OS is a platform that builds, runs and controls multiple AI agents in one place. It handles orchestration, in which a higher-level agent assigns roles to subordinate agents, directs their work and collects the results, as well as approval controls just before irreversible actions and permission management that blocks access to unapproved tools.
Expertise in AI transformation gained across private conglomerates, government agencies and state-owned enterprises is now feeding into proof-of-concept work for the agentic OS. Namyang Dairy Products and several other companies are currently running agentic OS proof-of-concept projects. Earlier, Hancom built an AI knowledge search system for BGF Group as part of its AI transformation business. It also supplied Hancom Pedia and Hancom Assistant for the first phase of the National Assembly's big data platform project, and provided an AI document-writing solution to Korea Western Power. For Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, it supplied Hancom Assistant linked to the utility's own generative AI platform, Hainuri, a case of generative AI applied to work in a closed-network environment.
Hancom has chosen the United States as Nomadian's first target market. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 30.4 million businesses operating without employees, with combined annual revenue of $1.8 trillion. Data from Carta also show that solo founders accounted for 36.3% of new startups in the first half of 2025, up from 23.7% in 2019.
AI adoption is rising quickly as well. In a Goldman Sachs survey of small businesses conducted in January and February this year, 76% said they were already using AI, but only 14% said they were fully applying it to core operations. A shortage of technical staff (49%) and difficulty choosing the right tools (48%) were cited as the main obstacles. Hancom believes Nomadian, which links multiple AI systems and work tools to carry tasks through to completion, can tap that demand.
The company is discussing market entry and commercialization plans with U.S. companies. After beta testing, it plans to finalize pricing, distribution channels and local regulatory requirements before launching in the United States, then expand to markets including South Korea and Europe.
"In the United States, more than 30 million businesses operate without employees," Hancom CEO Kim Yeon-soo said. "For them, Nomadian is not merely a work tool but AI employees and teams to work alongside." Kim added: "Nomadian is a product we can build because we hold both 36 years of core document technology and our own agentic OS. We will open a market where an individual becomes a company, and set the standard for the global AI workforce market."
