BrightHR
· #520 most-usedManage people, shifts, and absence in one place
BrightHR is a people management platform designed for small and medium businesses — covering employee records, absence management, shift scheduling, and time tracking in one place. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can react to new employee additions, monitor absence requests, track clock-ins and clock-outs via Blip, and keep your HR data flowing into payroll, calendar, and communication tools without manual exports or copy-paste.
Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of checking absences, chasing approvals, reconciling timesheets, auditing documents, and building headcount reports — tasks that individually take minutes but collectively consume hours of HR, finance, and operations time every week.
What your BrightHR agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
BrightHR × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
Full onboarding sequence on new employee
When a new employee record appears in BrightHR, the agent retrieves the full profile, creates an onboarding checklist in ClickUp, sends a personalised welcome email via Gmail, and books a first-week check-in in Google Calendar — all before the hiring manager has had their morning coffee.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales75 min / weekManual headcount checks before territory planning
Sales managers manually check who is absent each morning before assigning calls and territories, spending 15 minutes per day on a task the agent handles in seconds.
Sales Agent0 minAgent posts the staffing grid before the week beginsEvery Monday at 8 AM the Sales Agent posts a full-week availability grid to Slack so managers plan call volumes with complete coverage visibility from the first minute of Monday.
- Marketing40 min / weekManual rota checks before campaign launches
Campaign managers individually check BrightHR before each campaign launch to confirm key team members are available — a manual process repeated for every campaign.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent flags campaign-day absences automaticallyThe Marketing Agent checks the rota and absences for every planned campaign launch day and alerts the manager if coverage is at risk, with enough lead time to adjust.
- Customer Support25 min / weekManual daily headcount before opening support queues
Support team leads manually count available agents each morning and compare to the contact volume forecast before the queues open — a repetitive daily task the agent now handles.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent posts the support coverage brief every morning at 07:45Every morning the Support Agent compares available headcount against the forecast and flags any shortfall to the team lead before the first customer contact of the day.
- Human Resources180 min / weekManual absence monitoring, approvals, and document chasing
HR manually monitors pending requests, chases overdue approvals, tracks document expiries, and runs Bradford Factor calculations — each a separate, time-consuming manual task.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent runs the full HR admin cycle automaticallyThe HR Agent handles approval sweeps, Bradford Factor scoring, document expiry alerts, and onboarding checks every week — without HR manually opening BrightHR for each task.
- Finance120 min / weekManual timesheet reconciliation and overtime logging
Payroll staff manually download Blip records, calculate hours worked, compare against contracted hours, and flag overtime in a spreadsheet — a multi-hour task before every pay run.
Finance Agent0 minAgent reconciles timesheets and flags overtime before the pay runThe Finance Agent pulls clock-in and clock-out records, calculates hours, writes totals to the payroll sheet, and flags variances and overtime without any manual spreadsheet work.
- Operations90 min / weekManual rota gap checks and late arrival logging
Operations managers manually check the rota for gaps and compare clock-in records against shift start times to find late arrivals — tasks repeated across every team every day.
Operations Agent0 minAgent identifies rota gaps and late arrivals automaticallyThe Operations Agent checks the rota for gaps twice a week and reviews clock-in records daily, flagging every late arrival and unfilled shift to the manager without any manual checking.
- Legal60 min / weekManual document expiry checking and compliance chasing
The legal and HR teams manually scan BrightHR each week for expiring documents and individually chase employees for missing right-to-work evidence and policy acknowledgements.
Legal Agent0 minAgent runs the compliance sweep and sends the chase automaticallyEvery week the Legal Agent scans all employee documents for expiry, confirms right-to-work status, and sends personalised reminders to employees with outstanding acknowledgements — with no manual effort.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on BrightHR's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug BrightHR into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
Connect your BrightHR account via the secure OAuth flow. Actionist opens a BrightHR authorisation window, you sign in and grant access, and the agent gains permission to read your employee records, absences, rotas, and documents.
Find BrightHR in the Apps library and click Connect. OAuth is selected by default.
A BrightHR login window opens — sign in with your BrightHR credentials and grant Actionist permission to access your people data.
Actionist runs a read-only check to confirm the handshake. You are ready to build agents.
14 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
5 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.