People & HR Assistants

Onboard, support, and develop your people with AI embedded inside the tools they already use.

HR and People teams carry responsibilities that touch every part of the business, from first impressions during onboarding to the way conflicts and policy questions are handled years later. Yet much of the work they do is reactive and repetitive: answering the same questions, chasing approvals, and manually stitching together signals about engagement and culture. AI-powered People & HR assistants change this by handling routine queries, organizing processes, and surfacing patterns before they turn into bigger issues. Instead of spending hours replying to policy emails or manually building onboarding checklists, your team can rely on AI to guide employees through the basics and escalate only what truly requires human judgment. That frees HR to do the work that actually moves the organization forward—like coaching managers, designing better programs, and listening to what people are really saying.

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Why add AI to your People & HR workflows?

Your HR team is often the first and last line of support for your employees, but their time is rarely spent where it adds the most value. They field endless questions about benefits and policies, manually track onboarding tasks, and try to spot engagement risks using spreadsheets or gut feel. AI can help by taking on the predictable, repeatable parts of the job so HR can stay focused on people, not paperwork.

Better onboarding without more headcount

• Coordinate tasks across IT, managers, and operations.
• Help new hires understand what to do and where to go on day one and beyond.

Clear answers to everyday questions

• Provide plain-language responses to policy and benefits questions.
• Route edge cases and sensitive topics to HR with proper context.

Earlier insight into how your people are doing

• Summarize feedback, survey results, and common themes.
• Help leaders spot patterns in morale, workload, or turnover risk.

What your People & HR assistants can handle

We build AI assistants that work behind the scenes and inside the tools your employees already know—chat platforms, HRIS portals, and knowledge bases. They provide guidance and coordination, but they don't make final decisions about people.

Employee-facing

Answer common questions about policies, benefits, and procedures in plain language.
Guide new hires through onboarding steps, training modules, and paperwork.
Help employees find the right forms, links, or contacts quickly.

HR- and manager-facing

Generate onboarding checklists and track completion across teams.
Summarize engagement surveys, exit interviews, and feedback trends.
Draft communication templates for policy updates, reminders, or announcements.

People outcomes you can expect

The goal is not to make HR less human—it's to give HR more space to act like a strategic partner. The right automations will improve employee experience while making your team's workload more manageable.

Smoother, more consistent onboarding

Every new hire sees a clear path through their first days and weeks. Fewer missed steps or "I didn't know I was supposed to do that" moments.

Faster, clearer support for employees

Employees get answers to routine questions quickly, at any time. HR inboxes are less cluttered with repeat requests.

Better insight into engagement and sentiment

Themes across surveys and feedback are summarized automatically. Leaders see where to focus conversations and support.

More time for real HR work

Less time spent on manual tracking and copy-paste tasks. More time for coaching, 1:1s, and thoughtful program design.

Examples of People & HR assistants in action

Every organization has its own HR policies and culture, but the questions employees ask and the tasks HR teams handle are surprisingly similar. Here are a few ways AI can support those workflows.

Onboarding & Offboarding

New-hire checklists + provisioning

• Automatically generate role-specific onboarding checklists.
• Coordinate access to tools, systems, and equipment across departments.
• Remind managers and new hires of upcoming tasks and deadlines.

Policy & Benefits Support

Policy guidance with approvals

• Let employees ask questions about time off, remote work, or benefits in natural language.
• Provide answers derived from your handbook and HRIS.
• Route edge cases or exceptions to HR or managers with a summarized context and suggested actions.

Engagement & Leadership Insights

Pulse insights for leadership

• Summarize recurring themes from surveys, suggestion boxes, or feedback channels.
• Highlight areas of concern or improvement—workload, communication, recognition.
• Provide leaders with concise briefings before all-hands or team meetings.

How we bring AI into your People & HR operations

Introducing AI into HR is as much about trust as it is about technology. We move carefully, starting with low-risk, high-volume tasks and keeping your HR leaders involved at every step.

1. HR process and tools review

We begin by understanding your HR stack (HRIS, payroll, ticketing, communication tools) and your key processes: onboarding, policy communication, support, and feedback collection.

2. Identify safe starting points

Together with HR leadership, we choose initial use cases that are clearly defined and low-risk, such as FAQs, onboarding checklists, or survey summarization.

3. Knowledge and policy modeling

We structure your existing handbooks, policies, and FAQs into a form the AI can use safely. We define strict boundaries for what the assistant can and cannot answer directly.

4. Pilot with a defined group

We launch the HR assistant for a specific team, department, or new-hire cohort. AI responses remain reviewable, and HR receives feedback from employees and managers to fine-tune behavior.

5. Expansion and refinement

Once the assistant is performing reliably, we extend to more employees and use cases. We keep tuning prompts, knowledge, and workflows as policies, benefits, and organizational needs evolve.

Trust, privacy, and clear boundaries

Because HR deals with sensitive information and situations, it's essential that employees and leaders know where AI fits in and where it does not. We design these assistants to respect privacy, avoid overstepping, and clearly signal when a human should be involved.

Human-first for sensitive issues

Assistants are not used to handle performance reviews, conflict resolution, or discipline decisions. Any signal of a sensitive or high-risk situation is escalated to HR with a summary, not answered directly.

Controlled access to data

Assistants only access the data they need for their tasks, following least-privilege principles. Logs and access patterns can be reviewed by HR and IT.

Transparent to employees

Employees are informed when they're interacting with an AI assistant. Clear paths to talk to a human are always visible and easy to use.

Who benefits most from People & HR assistants

This service is most valuable when your organization has grown enough that HR is stretched thin, but you still want every employee to feel supported and informed.

You have a growing number of employees asking similar questions through many channels.
Onboarding feels inconsistent or depends heavily on individual managers.
HR spends a lot of time hunting information across systems to answer basic requests.
Leadership wants better visibility into engagement and sentiment without over-surveying employees.

Give your HR team more space to be human

AI won't replace the conversations and care that make a workplace healthy—but it can remove much of the friction that keeps HR teams from having those conversations in the first place. By automating routine questions, checklists, and summaries, you create more room for empathy, coaching, and thoughtful change. If you're ready to explore where an HR assistant could support your people and your team, we can walk through your current workflows and identify the best starting points.

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