HR & Talent

AI for HR teams, staffing firms and HR tech.

We help people teams hire faster and fairer, plan the workforce with data and give employees instant answers, with bias testing and privacy designed in from the start.

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The challenge

What is holding HR teams back.

01

Too many applicants, too little time

Recruiters skim hundreds of CVs per role and good candidates still slip through.

02

Bias and compliance risk

Any automated decision about people must be fair, explainable and legally defensible.

03

Attrition you did not see coming

Exit interviews explain the past, but leaders need early signals to act.

04

HR teams answering the same questions

Policy, payroll and leave queries consume time better spent on people.

Where AI pays off

Use cases we build and run.

Each one is scoped to a measurable business outcome and shipped to production, not left as a proof of concept.

01

Screening and matching

Skills-based matching that ranks candidates with clear reasons and removes identifying signals.

  • Matching
  • Explainability
02

AI interview assistants

Structured first-round interviews and scoring rubrics that keep assessments consistent.

  • Voice
  • Agents
  • Rubrics
03

Workforce planning

Headcount, skills and cost scenarios linked to business plans.

  • Forecasting
  • Scenarios
04

Attrition prediction

Team-level risk signals from engagement, mobility and performance data, used responsibly.

  • People analytics
  • ML
05

Employee helpdesk copilot

Instant, cited answers on policy, payroll and benefits across chat and email.

  • RAG
  • Slack
  • Teams
06

Skills intelligence

A live skills graph built from CVs, projects and learning data to guide mobility and upskilling.

  • Knowledge graph
  • LLM

Our approach

How we deliver in HR & Talent.

The same disciplined loop we use everywhere, adapted to the data, risks and rhythms of your industry.

Built responsibly

  • DPDP Act, 2023 for employee and candidate data
  • Adverse-impact and bias testing
  • NYC Local Law 144 and EU AI Act for global hiring
  • Transparency notices and human review of decisions

Typical stack

  • Greenhouse
  • Workday
  • SuccessFactors
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • Neo4j
  • Snowflake
  • Microsoft Teams
01
Weeks 1 to 2

People-first discovery

We involve HR, legal and employee representatives from the start.

  • Hiring funnel and HR service analysis
  • Data audit across ATS, HRIS, payroll and engagement tools
  • Use cases ranked on time saved, quality of hire and risk
02
Weeks 2 to 3

Fairness by design

Bias testing and explainability are requirements, not afterthoughts.

  • Protected-attribute handling and adverse-impact test plan
  • Candidate and employee transparency notices
  • Architecture with strict access controls
03
Weeks 3 to 8

Build and validate

Recruiters and HR partners validate outputs before anything is automated.

  • Matching and interview models tested against past hiring outcomes
  • Human review on every decision during pilot
  • Bias and quality dashboards
04
Ongoing

Scale responsibly

Wider rollout with continuous fairness monitoring.

  • Quarterly bias audits and model refreshes
  • Training for recruiters and managers
  • Clear escalation and appeal paths

Case studies

Results from the field.

Case study 01 IT services company

Shortlists in 48 hours instead of two weeks

The challenge

Recruiters manually screened thousands of applications for high-volume technical roles, and hiring managers waited weeks for shortlists.

What we did

We deployed skills-based matching with reason codes and structured AI first-round interviews, with recruiters approving every shortlist.

Results

48 hrsmedian time to shortlist
3xmore candidates assessed per recruiter
0adverse-impact flags in quarterly audit
Case study 02 Staffing firm

Matching bench talent to open demand

The challenge

Consultants sat on the bench while recruiters searched externally for similar skills.

What we did

A skills graph built from CVs and project history now surfaces internal matches for every new requirement before external sourcing begins.

Results

26%lower bench time
35%of roles filled internally
Case study 03 Consumer company HR team

An HR helpdesk that answers itself

The challenge

The HR shared-services team handled thousands of repetitive policy and payroll questions every month.

What we did

A copilot in Microsoft Teams answers questions with citations from policies and routes sensitive cases to HR partners.

Results

82%of queries answered instantly
5 hrssaved per HR partner per week

Case studies illustrate the kind of engagements we run. Details are generalised and figures are indicative, not guarantees of results.

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