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
Short answer
What is agentic HR, autopilot or a draft?
Agentic HR is software that prepares work inside your system: screening an application, counting leave, building a pay-run draft. It is not autopilot. Every step that changes a record waits for a person's confirm. The playbooks live on the agentic HR hub.
When do you need it?
You need it when the founder still owns hiring and pay, when the accountant asks for inputs to be rebuilt every month, or when the first HR hire is about to inherit a folder of spreadsheets. The aim is not to remove HR. It is to move repeating preparation into a draft.
How does Otto do this differently?
A bot answers the question. Otto brings the work finished and stops. Payroll, leave, and hiring read the same record. The stamp stays with a person. This is not a cheaper-suite promise. It is prepared work and a logged confirm.
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 and assembles the draft, then 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.
Hire
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.
Pay
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.
Time off
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, because a person always signs it.
Records
Drafted 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.
Frequently asked questions
An AI agent for HR is software that carries out multi-step HR tasks, from screening applicants and counting leave days to drafting documents and 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.
Hours, leave, and pay land in bordro software as a proposal from the same record. The accountant or authorised person stamps the period. Otto does not file the monthly SGK declaration for you. It prepares the packet. The loop closes. The professional is not replaced.
No. Otto takes repeating reading and drafting. Judgment, the offer, unpaid leave, and period close stay with people. The software carries HR's stamp. It does not erase the HR team. Playbook C is for the first HR hire inheriting a trail.
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. Create your own, or walk through a workspace already full of data.