Exploring Now Assist Center

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated May 27, 2026
  • 2 minutes to read
  • The ServiceNow® Now Assist Center application is a single control hub that brings together other Now Assist capabilities and configuration functions, making it fast and effortless for administrators to set up and manage generative AI solutions from a unified experience.

    Now Assist Center overview

    Now Assist Center is a unified administration workspace that consolidates the various Now Assist applications into a single, guided, conversational environment.

    It provides a centralized location for setup, configuration, navigation, recommendation, and solution‑building capabilities so administrators can activate, manage, and scale generative‑AI solutions quickly and with far less complexity.

    Now Assist Center users

    The following table lists the primary users of Now Assist Center.

    Table 1. Users
    User Description
    Now Assist administrators

    Now Assist administrators responsible for organization-wide AI deployment and management

    Platform administrators

    Platform administrators overseeing enterprise AI governance

    AI builders and practitioners

    AI practitioners building and deploying custom AI solutions across ServiceNow workflows

    Now Assist Center workflow

    The following diagram shows the AI adoption activities you can accomplish in Now Assist Center.

    Figure 1. Now Assist Center activities
    List of the Now Assist Center capabilities and their related activities.
    This diagram shows the following capabilities in Now Assist Center:
    • Assess AI readiness
      • Take remediation steps
      • View readiness assessments
    • Install and configure AI products
      • Install plugins
      • Activate skills
    • Deploy AI solutions
      • Activate proposed solutions
      • Deploy AI agents
    • Discover AI automation opportunities
      • View opportunities
      • Implement automations
      • Find and create AI agents
    • Create datasets
      • Create and manage datasets
      • Cleanse sensitive data
    • Manage AI assets
      • View asset library
      • Create AI assets
    • Set up AI settings and guardrails
      • Configure settings
      • Manage models
      • Set data sharing and use
      • Set AI content guardrails
    • Monitor your AI
      • View Now Assist skill analytics
      • View AI agent analytics
      • View assistant analytics
      • View AI adoption analytics
      • View recent activations
      • View business value analytics

    Now Assist Center benefits

    Now Assist Center provides the following benefits.
    Table 2. Benefits of Now Assist Center
    Benefit Feature User
    Accelerate and simplify setup of your AI solutions in a unified experience. The workspace tab structure enables you to work with multiple Now Assist applications without leaving Now Assist Center. Now Assist Center workspace

    Now Assist administrator

    Easy-to-use conversational interface to perform common admin tasks, from basic setup to proposed AI implementations to guided help. Now Assist Panel in Now Assist Center

    Now Assist administrator

    Automated assessment of your instance readiness helps you prepare for AI adoption. The readiness assessment enables you to assess whether updates, installations, or customizations on your instance could affect AI implementation. It helps you to identify configuration gaps, view actionable insights, measure readiness over time. AI readiness

    Now Assist administrator

    Get started right away with guided quick-start use cases that appear as actionable cards on the home page. This gives both new and experienced administrators a clear starting point for enabling AI. Actionable use cases

    Now Assist administrator

    Quickly discover automation opportunities for your instance. AI Agent Advisor analyzes actual instance data to identify and propose AI automations that provide the greatest efficiency gains. Automation discovery with AI Agent Advisor

    Now Assist administrator

    Matches identified automation opportunities to existing AI agents on the platform and supports automated creation and deployment of new agents, shortening the path from insight to action. AI agent matching and automated deployment

    Now Assist administrator

    AI developer

    Provides centralized access to the broader Now Assist and AI ecosystem within a consistent tabbed workspace experience. Now Assist integrations

    Now Assist administrator

    View performance and usage statistics for your AI implementation. AI adoption metrics

    Now Assist administrator