An AI HR assistant your team can just ask

Ask how many days off you have left, what the remote work policy says or who’s out next week. AI companion looks up the answer in your PeopleForce data and knowledge base.

An AI HR assistant your team can just ask

How it works

What happens when someone asks AI companion

The same three steps run for every question, whether it’s one person’s leave balance or headcount for the whole company.

Step 1

Someone asks a question

Employees, managers and HR ask AI companion the way they would ask a colleague, in the language they work in.

Step 2

It checks your PeopleForce data

Time off, the people directory and your published knowledge base articles, limited to what the person asking is allowed to see.

Step 3

It answers in the panel

A short reply, often with a table, a chart if you ask for one, and links to the articles behind a policy answer.

See it in action

Watch a few questions get answered

Five questions asked on a demo account with fictional data, one for each kind of thing people ask: leave and policies, onboarding, procedures, HR documents and people analytics.

Sick today. Policy steps from the knowledge base plus the employee’s own sick-leave balance, with where to log the day.

For HR

Fewer tickets for HR, faster answers for everyone

Many of the questions that reach HR already have an answer in PeopleForce. When people ask AI companion first, they get it straight away, and HR keeps its time for the work that needs a person.

  • The articles HR has already published work as answers

  • People can ask at 23:00 on a Sunday, not just in office hours

  • Everyone keeps their own chat history

Fewer tickets for HR, faster answers for everyone

Knowledge base

Your knowledge base is its source of truth

AI companion answers policy questions from the articles your team has published, by meaning rather than exact words, and links up to three matching articles under its reply.

  • Ask in your own words

    The question doesn’t have to use the article’s title or wording. AI companion looks for the articles closest in meaning.

  • Only what HR has published, only to those who can open it

  • Update the article, the answer updates

Control

AI companion works within your roles and permissions

What it does in PeopleForce, and what stays your team’s decision.

What AI companion does

  • Reads leave balances, approved time off and public holidays
  • Searches the knowledge base articles your team has published
  • Counts people in your directory and draws the numbers as a chart

What your team decides

  • Which roles get AI companion, once PeopleForce switches it on for your account
  • Which articles it can use: the ones your team publishes
  • Your data: it isn’t used to train AI models, as set out in our AI Addendum

Four things to know about its answers

When you can ask, who the answers cover, what happens to your data and how to check them.

Answers at any hour

An employee can ask at 23:00 on a Sunday and get the answer without waiting for HR to come online.

Answers at any hour

Scoped to your role

Only colleagues in the part of the company your role can see, and no field your role can’t view.

Scoped to your role

Your data stays yours

It isn’t used to train AI models, as set out in our AI Addendum.

Your data stays yours

Links to check against

AI companion can be wrong, so a policy answer links the articles it used.

Links to check against

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Beyond the features

Why HR teams choose PeopleForce

You go live in weeks and can add the rest of HR when you’re ready.

Live in up to four weeks

A dedicated success manager guides your setup, and it’s included in your plan at no extra cost.

Support in your language

Real people on our support team answer, with a first reply in about two minutes and 98% satisfaction.

Room to grow

Start with Core HR and add Recruit or Perform later, all on the same employee record.

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Security and operational continuity

Certifications, granular access and full control over what happens to your data.

ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, Google Cloud data centers in Europe
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Questions about AI companion

How do we get AI companion?

Can it do things for me, like book time off?

What can it answer?

Does it respect our permissions?

Is our data used to train AI models?

Is it an HR chatbot?

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