Part of our HR & People agents

AI workforce for Consulting HR & People

AI agents for HR teams in consulting

Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps your consulting HR team already uses, from chasing scorecards and evaluations by hand to a queue of drafts and packs ready for you to decide.

Consulting HR teams get back the hours lost to CV books, interview logistics, joiner checklists, and review-cycle chasing.

Your AI workforce
26 hrssaved on avg per person / month
$1,248avg saved per person / month
30avg scheduled jobs a week
Operates your stackActionist App Store
How it works

AI Employees for Consulting HR & People in 4 simple steps

  1. Manual Time

    We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.

  2. Actionist Automations

    We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.

  3. Your Benefits

    How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.

  4. Easy to use

    We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.

01

Where you spend your time

Why Consulting HR & People teams switch

We know how your week actually goes

What matters to you
  • A campus season that runs to plan
    Every school's CVs sorted, every first-round slot picked, and no summer offer deadline missed.
  • Interview loops that finish on time
    Panels booked and scorecards in the evening of the interview, so the debrief starts on schedule.
  • Offers that never wait on paperwork
    References, right-to-work documents, and screening returns tracked against each start date.
  • A first week that feels organised
    Laptop, accounts, buddy, and academy seat ready before a new consultant walks in.
  • A review cycle people trust
    Evaluations collected, summarised, and filed so promotion committees decide on complete files.
  • Built around your people process
    These are examples. Build a custom agent for any HR job your team repeats.

And hundreds of other tasks you do manually..

An agent can take a lot off your team's plate. Take a look below to see the time and cost you could save by adding AI agents to your Consulting HR & People team's day.

The problem

Where the hours go

  • Campus season buries the team in PDF CV books from university careers services, scribbled careers-fair names, and students who still have not picked a first-round case slot, while the offer deadlines tick down in a spreadsheet nobody trusts.

    An agent sorts each CV drop by school and graduation year, logs fair contacts into the ATS, and queues a nudge draft for every student without a slot, so you spend the season meeting candidates rather than sorting them.

  • Every case-interview loop ends the same way: five interviewers, three scorecards missing, and a recruiter pasting comments into a sheet at nine in the evening so the partner debrief can start the next morning.

    An agent chases empty scorecards the evening of each interview and assembles one debrief sheet per candidate, leaving the panel to argue about the candidate instead of the paperwork.

  • A new starter's first week depends on a laptop request, an account request, a buddy, an academy seat, and signed forms, all tracked in different inboxes and discovered missing on the Monday they arrive.

    An agent builds the start-date roster, raises the equipment and access requests, and drafts the pre-boarding pack for your approval, so day one starts with everything in place.

  • Year-end promotion files are assembled by hand from engagement evaluations that managers submitted late, in different formats, so committees meet on incomplete evidence and HR spends December chasing.

    An agent chases missing evaluations as each engagement closes, collates a one-page summary per consultant, and flags gaps in the calibration sheet, so the committee decides and HR does not scramble.

02

Actionist Will Automate

Anatomy of an automation

What one automation looks like

Trigger·A candidate's accepted offer is recorded in the ATS
Trigger
Step 1
Actionist
Accepted offer is recorded against the candidate in Recruitee
Confirmation
Step 5
Human
You review the roster, resolve any exception such as a visa gap or late laptop, and approve the pre-boarding pack
Saved per run
45 min
Runs / week
~1×
A new consultant's laptop, accounts, and buddy are settled before the first Monday, not discovered on it
A week in the life

A week with your Consulting HR & People agents

30Scheduled jobs
6Agents at work
24/7Always on
Agents
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Apps

Some of the apps for your Consulting HR & People team

Some of the HR apps your agent operates for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.

Triggers

Your Agent wakes up Automatically whenever something happens

Your agents watch the apps you already use and act the moment something happens, usually within about a minute, handle it based on your instructions, 24/7.

WhenA university careers service emails a CV bookfires within about a minute
The agent automatically

When a careers-service CV book lands in the recruiting inbox, the agent opens it within about a minute, splits the applications by target school, programme, and graduation year, and writes a list of applications missing a transcript or cover letter. The recruiter gets a clean shortlist to review.

Receives this trigger from
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Your benefits

Manual vs agent

Where the time goes back

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Campus recruiting
    240 min / week
    Sorting CV books and logging fair contacts by hand

    A recruiter splits a careers-service PDF by school and year, then retypes the names written on a notepad at the fair into the ATS the following week.

    Campus recruiting Agent
    0 min
    Agent sorts the drop and logs the contacts

    An agent splits each CV drop by school and year, enters fair contacts with the partner who met them, and lists the incomplete applications for you.

  • Interview loops
    180 min / week
    Chasing scorecards and building the debrief sheet

    Interviewers forget the form, so someone messages each one the next morning and then copies scores into a debrief sheet minutes before the partner meeting.

    Interview loops Agent
    0 min
    Agent chases and assembles

    An agent reminds interviewers the evening of the interview and builds one debrief sheet per candidate with scores and comments side by side.

  • Offers and clearance
    150 min / week
    Tracking references and right-to-work documents

    Referee forms, passport copies, and screening returns live in separate inboxes, and the start date slips because nobody saw which one was missing.

    Offers and clearance Agent
    0 min
    Agent keeps one clearance tracker

    An agent logs each returned document against the start date, drafts the referee chaser for approval, and lists exactly what is still missing per hire.

  • Joiner onboarding
    120 min / week
    Assembling the first-week checklist per starter

    HR emails IT, the office manager, and the academy lead separately for every joiner, then checks on Friday afternoon whether each reply ever came.

    Joiner onboarding Agent
    0 min
    Agent raises requests and tracks replies

    An agent raises each request with the start date, tracks the replies in one roster, and flags any joiner still missing a laptop or an account.

  • Review cycle
    200 min / week
    Collecting evaluations and assembling promotion files

    HR chases managers for evaluations all year, then spends weeks in the autumn pasting ratings and comments into one file per promotion candidate.

    Review cycle Agent
    0 min
    Agent collects and collates as the year goes

    An agent chases each evaluation as an engagement ends and keeps a running one-page summary per consultant, so the committee file already exists in autumn.

+ 100s of other automations
Average monthly
24 hrs / person / month
ROI

What that's worth

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
4 people
Hourly rate
$48 / hr
Hours saved / week
24
Hours saved / year
1,200
Annual ROI
$57,600

Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~6 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

04

How easy it is to use

Automatic onboarding

We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.

From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.

  1. Step 1

    Enter your website

    • We'll research your business
    • Automatically configure everything for you
    Try the demo
  2. Step 2

    Actionist Auto

    Optional
    • Watches you work
    • Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
    Get the extension
  3. Step 3

    Marketplace

    • Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
    • Pre-configured by other users
    Browse the App Store
  4. Step 4

    Invite your team

    • We'll automatically onboard them too
    • Focus on the things that matter
    Open Actionist

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See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.

Trust & control

You stay in control

People data is among the most sensitive a firm holds. Actionist is built so you see everything an agent touched, approve anything that reaches a candidate or a colleague, and keep every hiring, pay, and promotion decision with a person.

Candidate messages wait for your approval

A first-round invitation, a decline, or an offer letter is drafted and queued for sign-off. Nothing reaches a candidate on its own unless you widen that autonomy yourself.

Hiring, pay, and promotion stay human

The agent shortlists against criteria you set, assembles files, and flags gaps. A recruiter, partner, or committee makes every decision about who is hired, paid, or promoted.

A full record of every record it touched

Each CV it sorted, each field it updated in the HRIS, and each reminder it drafted is logged with a timestamp, so an audit or a candidate query has an answer.

Employee and candidate data stays yours

Records are encrypted and never used to train any model. If everything must stay on your own infrastructure, self-host Actionist on a VPS.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does our consulting HR team need to be technical to use Actionist?
No. You describe how your campus season, interview loops, and review cycle work in plain language, connect the apps you already use, and coach the agent the way you would coach a new HR coordinator. There is no code and, for most tools, no API setup.
How do we get started with an HR agent?
Book a free demo, pick one repeated job such as chasing scorecards or building the joiner roster, and connect the tools involved. Start in an approval mode where everything the agent drafts waits for you, then widen it as you build trust.
How do we make customised AI agents for our firm's own people process?
What you see here is a sample of possible work. For whatever your HR team repeats, such as your academy schedule or your counsellor model, you can build a custom agent by describing the steps and the tools, then testing it on sample records.
How quickly can we set an HR agent up?
A single job like sorting a CV drop or chasing evaluations can be running within hours of your demo. A multi-tool flow such as joiner onboarding usually takes a few days of tuning against sample records before it touches live people data.
Where does candidate and employee data live, and is it used to train AI?
Your people data stays yours. It is encrypted, never used to train any AI model, and every action the agent takes is logged in an audit trail. If you need it all on your own infrastructure, you can self-host Actionist on a VPS.
What if our ATS, HRIS, or a university portal has no API?
The agent can operate apps and browsers on its cloud machine the way a person does, reading a careers portal or updating an HRIS field by clicking through it. That means a campus platform with no integration is still reachable, provided you give the agent a login.
Will the agent send an offer or a decline on its own?
No, not unless you choose to widen its autonomy. Offers, declines, referee requests, and invitations are drafted and held for a recruiter's approval. Destructive actions, such as deleting a record, always need your sign-off regardless of the mode.
Does the agent decide who gets shortlisted, hired, or promoted?
The agent sorts and flags against criteria you write, such as missing transcripts or a graduation year, and assembles the file. A recruiter, a partner panel, or a promotion committee makes every decision about hiring, pay, and promotion, and the agent never ranks people on its own judgement.
Can it cope with the autumn campus rush and the year-end review cycle?
Yes, scheduled agent tasks scale to a busy season because each CV drop, scorecard, or evaluation is handled the same way. You review a longer queue, not a longer to-do list, and approval modes keep you in control while volume spikes.
Get started

See an agent turn a CV book and a scorecard backlog into a clean queue

Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent sort a campus CV drop, chase an empty scorecard, and build a joiner checklist, end to end.