Employee self-service and HR workspace
AI HR assistant
Autessa Homebase includes an AI HR assistant: press Ctrl+J (⌘J on a Mac) on any page and ask in plain words, and it answers with what you are allowed to see and can do the work for you, such as booking time off, checking in on a goal or drafting a self-review. It acts as you, with your access, and anything important waits for you to press Confirm.
- Knows HR and sees the page you are on
- Acts as you, with your own access
- Confirm before approving, releasing or changing anything important
- Suggested questions for every page
The problem
Simple questions, slow answers
Who is out next week? How many days do I have left? What is our parental leave policy? Each one means a click hunt or a message to HR. The assistant answers in seconds and can take the next step for you, without ever seeing more than you can.
How it works
How aI HR assistant works in Homebase
Open it anywhere
Press Ctrl+J or open the assistant. It knows which page you are on, so this person or this review is enough context.
Ask or start from a suggestion
Each page offers starter questions, like Who is out next week?, Draft my self-review from my goals and feedback, or Prep my next 1:1 agenda.
It answers or acts
It reads and writes with your access, the same rules as every page, so nothing private can appear where it should not.
You confirm
Anything important, like approving time off or releasing a review, waits for you to press Confirm.
Options and settings
Every option, in plain words
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Time off | Who is out next week, what is waiting for approval, book Friday off and let my team know, days left, cancel my next request. |
| Reviews and goals | Reviews to write, draft my self-review, cycle deadlines, how my goals are going, check in at a percent, team goals at risk. |
| 1:1s and feedback | Prep my next agenda, open action items, add a topic to the next 1:1. |
| Promotions | Build a case, what the next level expects, where my nomination is. |
| Onboarding | My steps, who starts in the next two weeks, start onboarding for a new hire. |
| Knowledge and policies | Policy questions, policies still to confirm, how-to answers. |
| Benefits and learning | My benefits, request a transit card, trainings due, who has not finished security training. |
| People and lists | Who reports to someone, summarize goals and reviews, org chart for a department, explain or narrow a list, count by department. |
| Forms | Fill this form from what I paste, which fields are required. |
| Confirm | Important actions show a Confirm card; nothing runs until you press it. |
Permissions
Who can do what
✦ AI assist
How the assistant helps
The assistant is the AI layer across all of Homebase. It never has more access than the person using it, and its actions are logged.
It acts with your own access, and anything important waits for you to press Confirm.
About the HR assistant →Connected
How it connects to the rest of Homebase
AI review writing →
Draft with the assistant on the review form uses the person’s goals and feedback.
Time off →
Book time off and let your team know in one sentence.
Knowledge base →
Policy answers come from the articles you may read.
Privacy →
The same server rules apply to the assistant as to every page.
Autessa Autobots
The same assistant technology that runs across Autessa.
FAQ
Questions about aI HR assistant
Does Autessa Homebase have an AI assistant?
Yes. The Homebase assistant knows HR, sees the page you are on, and answers or acts for you. Open it with Ctrl+J.
Can the assistant see other people’s salaries or reviews?
Only if you can. It acts as you, with your access, and the server enforces the same privacy rules for the assistant as for every page.
Will the assistant approve things on its own?
No. Anything important, like approving time off or releasing a review, waits for you to press Confirm.
What can I ask it?
Things like How much time off do I have?, Who is out next week?, Draft my self-review from my goals, Prep my next 1:1 agenda or What is our parental leave policy?
100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa Homebase fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
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