3 Employee Lifecycle AI Agents, Live in Production.
3 live agents automate employee lifecycle within human resources. They all run on demand. Each one publishes the inputs it needs, the steps it works through and what it hands back.
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Employee Offboarding
Work an exit through to the end — what access must be gone by the last day, what the person is still owed, and what leaves the business with them if nobody asks. Nothing is sent.
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Employee Relations Case Review
Review an ER case before a decision is taken — whether the process has been followed, what the evidence actually establishes, and which allegations rest on nothing.
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Staffing Plan Review
Test a staffing plan against the demand it claims to meet — whether the headcount adds up, whether the timing works given how long hiring actually takes, and what happens if it does not.
Working an exit through to the end, including what leaves with the person
The lifecycle processes fail at their edges. Offboarding is a checklist that nobody owns end to end: IT revokes what it is told about, finance settles what is claimed, and the things in between — a shared credential, an outstanding expense, the operational knowledge that existed only in that person’s head — leave with them because no step asked. Employee relations has a more serious version of the same problem. A case reaches a decision point having accumulated allegations of very different evidential quality, and under pressure to resolve it, the ones resting on nothing are weighed alongside the ones that are documented. And staffing plans are built as arithmetic — headcount against demand — with no test of whether the hiring can happen in the time assumed.
These agents work the edges. Employee Offboarding takes an exit through to the end: what access must be gone by the last day, what the person is still owed, and what leaves the business with them if nobody asks. That third question is the one no checklist contains. Nothing is sent. Employee Relations Case Review examines a case before a decision is taken — whether the process has been followed, what the evidence actually establishes, and which allegations rest on nothing. Separating those is what protects both the employee and the decision. Staffing Plan Review tests a plan against the demand it claims to meet: whether the headcount adds up, whether the timing works given how long hiring actually takes, and what happens if it does not — the contingency being the part that turns a plan into something usable.
What this moves
- Access still live after a last day
- What must be gone by the final day is enumerated explicitly, which is the offboarding step most often left to whoever remembers to raise a ticket.
- Allegations resting on nothing
- An employee relations case is tested for whether the process was followed and what the evidence actually establishes before a decision is taken.
- Staffing plans that survive contact with hiring timelines
- Headcount and timing are tested against how long hiring actually takes, and what happens if the plan does not land.
Human Resources
How AI agents handle employee lifecycle
Drawn from the 3 agents above — what they require, how they run, and what comes back.
What they need
- Leaver record
- Exit settings
- Case file
- Case context
- The staffing plan and the demand behind it
- Review settings
What comes back
- Ready for the last day
- Handover brief
- Must be done by the last day
- Action by action
- What the leaver is owed
- Fit for a decision
- Review note
- Do not proceed until resolved
How they run
- Run on demand
- 3
- Steps per run
- 3–4
- Credits per run
- 8
- Use a knowledge base
- 1
Where employee lifecycle fits in human resources
Leave, expenses, notice periods and benefits questions arrive daily and the answers are already in the handbook. Employees ask a person because searching a PDF is worse than asking — an agent fixes that side of it.
Next Step
Deploying employee lifecycle agents
These run as-is against the inputs listed above. Most deployments adapt one — a different source system, a different tolerance, a different approval path. The first call establishes which.