Hire your AI HR Manager
People operations for small teams — without a 60-page employee handbook.
Your AI HR Manager runs people ops for the small team you actually have — not the enterprise org chart you imagine. It drafts offer letters, runs onboarding, tracks PTO, handles performance conversations, and keeps compliance tight without a 60-page handbook nobody reads. You stop being the accidental HR person.
What your AI HR Manager does
Workflows on autopilot
Without vs With a AI HR Manager
- —Offer letters take three days because you're writing them yourself at midnight
- —Onboarding means a Notion doc that new hires never finish
- —You forget someone's 90-day review and they resign in month 7
- —Labor compliance is a vague anxiety until a state letter arrives
- —Hiring a fractional HR person at $3K/month for 10 employees
- ✓Offers ship within an hour of the decision, clean and consistent
- ✓Day-by-day onboarding tracked with real completion signals
- ✓Check-in cadence runs automatically and surfaces flight risks
- ✓Compliance calendar means nothing catches you by surprise
- ✓AI HR Manager at a fraction of the cost with faster turnaround
A day in the life of your AI HR Manager
Tools your AI HR Manager uses
Frequently asked questions
Do I actually need an HR function if I have five people?
You need the functions, not the title. Someone has to draft offer letters, track PTO, onboard new hires, and keep compliance current — if you do not assign it, it falls to the CEO, which is the worst possible outcome. The AI HR Manager runs these functions at the quality of a competent fractional HR lead without the $3K/month retainer. Once you cross 20 people you will likely want a human HR lead; below that, the AI HR Manager plus Gusto is genuinely enough.
Can it handle difficult conversations like terminations?
It prepares you for them, it does not have them. The AI HR Manager drafts the script, runs an attorney check on the specific situation, structures the severance offer, prepares the separation agreement, and coordinates the final paycheck and benefits conversion. You still deliver the conversation yourself because terminations are one of the places where humans must look other humans in the eye. The preparation quality is noticeably higher than most founders manage on their own — which matters because these conversations have legal and emotional risk.
How does it work across states and countries?
US multi-state is well supported: state registrations, labor law differences, tax withholding, required postings, state-specific leave laws. International works through Deel or Remote for contractor and EOR setups; the AI HR Manager drafts the right contract type (contractor vs EOR vs local entity) based on the country and hours. For complex international (permanent local entities, equity for non-US employees) it escalates to a specialist. Countries with fast-moving labor law (UK, France, Germany, Brazil) get extra scrutiny and an attorney check before any significant change.
What about performance reviews?
The AI HR Manager runs the cadence — quarterly or semi-annual depending on your choice — and drafts both the self-review prompts and the manager review skeletons. Managers still write the actual reviews; the AI is not there to judge humans. What it does save is the 4-6 hours per cycle of process management: scheduling, reminding, compiling 360 feedback, formatting, distributing. Most small teams either skip reviews entirely or do them poorly because the process cost is too high. The AI HR Manager makes the process cost near zero.
How is this different from Rippling or Gusto?
Gusto and Rippling are systems of record — they store employee data and run payroll. The AI HR Manager is a system of action — it gets the work done that lives between and around those tools. Think of it as the human layer: the one who writes the offer letter, runs the onboarding, notices the performance issue, drafts the handbook. The AI HR Manager sits on top of your existing payroll provider and operates through it. You do not replace Gusto; you stop needing a human to use Gusto on your behalf.
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