AI and automation for HR and recruitment
AI for HR and recruitment, without letting it decide who gets hired
Scheduling, onboarding, employee queries and the administration around hiring — automated so your team spends time with people, while every decision about a person stays with a person.
The situation
HR teams are a search interface for their own policies
Most of what reaches an HR inbox is either a question already answered in a document, or a piece of coordination that follows the same shape every time.
- The same policy questions answered individually, every week
- Interview scheduling done by email across several diaries
- Onboarding tracked on a checklist somebody maintains by hand
- Candidate status invisible to hiring managers, so they ask
- Right-to-work and reference chasing done manually
- Absence, holiday and changes rekeyed between HR and payroll
What it covers
Where automation fits in HR
Coordination and retrieval, not judgement. The distinction runs through everything below.
Interview scheduling
Matching availability across panels and candidates without the email thread. Usually the quickest measurable saving.
Policy retrieval
An assistant answering from your approved handbook with the source shown, so staff self-serve and the answer is consistent.
Onboarding
Accounts, equipment, training and paperwork triggered and tracked automatically rather than from a checklist.
Candidate administration
Acknowledgements, status visibility and interview logistics — the coordination around a hiring process, not the sifting.
Compliance administration
Right-to-work, references and certification tracked with reminders before they expire.
HR and payroll integration
Changes entered once, so absence, holiday and salary changes stop being rekeyed.
How we work
How an HR engagement runs
The first conversation establishes what will stay human. Everything else is designed around that line.
Agree the boundary
Which decisions must be made by a person, written down before anything is built. In hiring, that is all of them.
Find the repeat questions
What actually reaches HR, and how much of it is a document lookup rather than a case.
Automate coordination
Scheduling, triggering, tracking and reminding — where the time goes and where no judgement is involved.
Measure time returned
Whether HR spends less week on administration and more on the cases that need a person.
Outcomes
What it can be worth
- Routine policy questions answered without reaching the HR inbox
- Interviews scheduled without the email thread
- Onboarding that triggers itself and is visible to everyone involved
- Candidates acknowledged and updated without manual chasing
- Expiring compliance records flagged before they lapse
- Employee changes entered once rather than into HR and payroll
Platforms and tooling
What we work with
HR systems
- Workday
- BambooHR
- SAP SuccessFactors
- Dynamics 365 HR
- Bespoke
Recruitment
- Applicant tracking systems
- Calendar integration
- E-signature
Build
- .NET
- Node.js
- React
- Retrieval over approved documents
- Azure
- AWS
Named as platforms we work with, not as formal partnerships.
Common questions
Questions we are usually asked
We will not build that, and it is worth being direct about why. Automated screening learns from your past hiring, which means it reproduces whatever bias that contained — and it does so at scale, consistently, in a way that is very hard to defend at a tribunal. Employment decisions are also classified high-risk under the EU AI Act. We automate the coordination around hiring; people decide who is hired.
Summarising for a human reader is more defensible than scoring, but it still shapes what the reader sees, and what it omits is invisible. If you want it, we would build it so the original is always one click away and the summary is never the only thing seen.
For policy and process, yes — retrieval from your approved handbook, with the source shown so the answer can be checked. Anything touching grievance, disciplinary, capability or a protected characteristic routes to a person immediately. Those are conversations, not lookups.
Retention, access and deletion are designed in — candidate data has a defined lifespan and most organisations keep it far longer than they should. We build to your requirements; we do not advise on whether they are correct.
Usually not. Most of this sits around the system you already run, and the common gap is that HR and payroll do not talk, which is an integration problem rather than a product one.
That is your decision, not a technical outcome, and it is worth settling internally before starting. Most organisations we work with are trying to absorb growth without adding administrators, or to move HR time from processing to the casework that actually needs judgement.
Talk to someone who has built this
Not a salesperson working from a form. Tell us what the problem looks like and someone who has delivered this kind of work will come back to you, usually within one working day.
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Where this usually connects
- Digital process automationApprovals, workflows and handoffs that currently sit in an inbox.
- Business automationTaking the repetitive administration out of a process.
- Systems integrationMaking the systems you already own talk to each other.
- Bespoke business applicationsSoftware shaped around how you work, when nothing off the shelf fits.
- Customer and member portalsSelf-service for the things people currently email or phone about.
- Change managementGetting a new system actually adopted rather than merely delivered.