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HR Onboarding Agent

Onboarding that runs itself.

An AI agent answers every employee question, collects the documents new hires need to submit, and routes HR tasks, instantly, in any language.

hr-agent · live
JAM Horeca proof
employee“How many holiday days do I have left?”
agentchecks policy + HR system
agentanswers · 14 days remaining
✓ resolved · no ticket
StatusLiveSourcespolicy · HRISChannelsSlack · Teams
The problem

HR spends its day answering the same questions.

Repetitive questions

Holiday balance, payroll dates, policy, asked over and over, every week.

Slow, messy onboarding

New hires chase documents and wait days for answers in their first week.

Knowledge lives in heads

Policy and process are scattered, so answers depend on who’s available.

What it does

An HR teammate that never gets interrupted.

01

Answers from policy

Replies on holiday, payroll, benefits and process from your real HR docs.

02

Runs onboarding

Guides new hires, collects required documents and ticks off the checklist.

03

Routes tasks

Opens the right HR tickets and notifies the right person automatically.

How we work

Live in weeks, not quarters.

  1. 01

    DiscoveryWeek 1

    We map your workflow on your real data and pick the highest-ROI use case to ship first.

  2. 02

    DesignWeek 1–2

    We design the agent around your tools and guardrails, and prove it on a working prototype.

  3. 03

    BuildWeek 2–4

    We build it as real engineering: integrated, tested, with logging and human escalation.

  4. 04

    Launch & ownOngoing

    We deploy into your stack, hand over the code and docs, and tune it live with your team.

The impact

The interruptions that drained HR, handled.

Policy questions
Asked HR every time
Answered instantly from policy
Document collection
Chased by email
Collected and tracked automatically
New-hire week 1
Waiting and paperwork
Guided, equipped and productive
The results

Onboard faster, interrupt no one.

typical-results
Typical
What good looks like
70%

fewer HR questions

24/7

availability

1

day to productive

100%

policy-grounded

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Where does it get its answers?

From your own policy documents, handbook, contracts and HR system, never invented. If a question is not covered by your source material, it says so and points the employee to HR rather than guessing. That grounding is what makes it safe to put in front of staff, and updating a policy doc updates its answers.

Does it work in Slack and Teams?

Yes. Employees ask in the channel they already use, whether that is Slack, Microsoft Teams or a web portal, and get an answer right there. There is no new app to learn or password to remember, which is exactly why adoption is high. It can also handle private questions in a direct message so people feel comfortable asking.

Is sensitive HR data safe and GDPR-compliant?

Yes. Access is scoped per employee, so someone only ever sees information they are entitled to, like their own leave balance or contract. It runs on trusted infrastructure with full logging, stays within your governance, and we do not train public models on your data. We document the setup so your HR and legal teams can sign off before launch.

Do you have a proof point?

Yes. Our work with JAM Horeca shows this exact onboarding and FAQ pattern running in production, handling repetitive staff questions and guiding new hires. We are happy to walk you through what we built and what it changed for them on a call. It is a real reference, not a hypothetical.

How does it handle onboarding documents for new hires?

It guides each new hire through the documents they need to submit, like ID, bank details and signed contracts, and chases anything still missing so HR does not have to. It tracks the checklist per person and notifies HR when something needs a human, so week one is about getting productive rather than paperwork. Everything lands in your HR system in order.

How long to set up and what does it cost?

A first version answering your most common HR questions is typically live within 2–4 weeks, then we add onboarding flows and task routing. Pricing is a one-time build plus a monthly fee for hosting and keeping the knowledge current. For a team of fifty or more, the time HR gets back from repetitive questions usually covers it quickly.

Axel Dekker, founder of What's Next

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