Agentic HR, defined
HR has an agent now. You still hold the pen.
An AI agent for HR doesn't wait behind a chat window — it carries the task: reads the applicants and ranks the shortlist, counts the leave days, drafts the policy, files the announcement. Otto HR is built on one rule: the agent brings the work finished, and no action touches a person's record until a person approves it.
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Every action
stops for a person's approval
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One agent
across hiring, time off and company records
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steps executed unsupervised
What "agentic" means
An agent does the task. A chatbot talks about it.
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Not a chatbot
A chatbot answers a question and waits for you to do the work. An agent takes the task itself — reads the applicants, checks the balances, assembles the draft — and comes back with finished work for a person to approve.
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Not rules automation
If-this-then-that fires the same step no matter what the case looks like. An agent reads the case — this CV against this role, this request against this calendar — and prepares the right next step instead of a canned one.
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Never unsupervised
The act that changes a record, a balance or a pay run is always a person's. Otto proposes behind an explicit confirmation, publishing and email sends stay human, and what the agent did stays on record.
Where the agent works
Four surfaces where the work arrives done.
Shortlists arrive ranked
Otto reads every CV against the role and hands you a ranked shortlist with its reasoning, and can compare candidates side by side. Advancing or rejecting someone is a decision — so it stays yours.
Maya Chen
Product Designer
Tom Weber
Backend Engineer
Lena Vogel
Data Analyst
Arjun Mehta
HR Generalist
Sofia Ricci
Frontend Engineer
James Cole
Sales Associate
Nora Smit
Accountant
The pay run fills from data on record
Approved time off and attendance live in the same system as payroll, so rows prefill from recorded salaries and the statutory columns are calculated for you. The platform prepares. Review and confirmation stay with you.
Alex Morgan
Product Designer · day one
Sign employment contract
HR · e-signature
Upload ID & bank details
Employee
Set up laptop & accounts
IT
Intro meeting with the team
Manager
Leave that counts itself
Working days, holidays, carry-over and entitlements are computed on a ledger, and requests route through the approval chain you configure. A request that dips into an advance never auto-approves — a person always signs it.
Company overview
This monthDrafted and filed, not sent
Ask in plain language: Otto files the announcement, drafts the survey, drafts the policy. Publishing — and the email fan-out that follows it — stays with you.
How many vacation days does Deniz have left?
Frequently asked questions
An AI agent for HR is software that carries out multi-step HR tasks — screening applicants, counting leave days, drafting documents, filing announcements — inside your HR system, rather than only answering questions about them. In a human-in-the-loop design like Otto HR, the agent prepares each action and a person approves it before it takes effect.
A chatbot answers a question and stops. The work is still yours. An agent takes the task itself: it reads the CVs, checks the balances, assembles the draft, and returns with finished work for a person to approve. The difference is who does the doing, not how the conversation sounds. Our AI-agents-for-HR guide on the blog walks through the full comparison.
Every step that changes something: who advances in the pipeline, whether a leave request is approved, when the pay run is confirmed, what gets published to the team. In Otto HR the agent screens, drafts, prepares and files — the approval that makes it real is always a person's, and what was done stays on record.
Start where reading volume is highest and the decision clearly stays yours: CV screening and shortlists, then answering employees' policy and balance questions, then drafting announcements, surveys and policies. Each of these hands you finished work to approve, so the risk model doesn't change while the hours saved show up immediately.
Company data stays in the company's workspace: tenant isolation is enforced at the database layer, access follows the signed-in person's role, and actions are logged. The agent never reaches beyond what its user could already see, and the platform is built for KVKK-aligned processing of employee data.
Agentic HR, human-approved
Hand the work to an agent. Keep every approval.
Otto screens, drafts, prepares and files across hiring, time off and company records — and stops for your yes before anything takes effect. Start without a credit card, or walk through a workspace already full of data.