Part of our HR & People agents
AI agents for HR teams in interior design
Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps your studio's HR team already uses, from opening every portfolio link by hand to screening notes that wait for your decision.
Studio managers get back the hours lost to screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding paperwork.
AI Employees for Interior Design HR & People in 4 simple steps
Manual Time
We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.
Actionist Automations
We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.
Your Benefits
How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.
Easy to use
We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.
Where you spend your time
We know how your week actually goes
In most design studios HR is one person's side job: the studio manager or a principal who also runs projects. Every open role competes with a client deadline, and hiring a designer slips behind the install schedule.
These agents take the reading, scheduling, and paperwork across your people tools. A person still decides who is interviewed, hired, and paid.
- Portfolios read against the rolePortfolio, software skills, and project types are summarised against your scorecard for you to review.
- Panels booked around site visitsSlots are offered across the principals' and senior designers' calendars, with site visits already blocked.
- Freelancer paperwork ready before day oneEngagement terms, NDA, and IP assignment are assembled from your templates for visualisers and drafters.
- New hires with a working first morningLicences, project folders, and portal access are requested ahead of the start date, so nobody waits for a login.
- Leave checked against the install calendarEach time-off request is compared with install dates and presentation deadlines before it is approved.
- Your time goes to the people, not the formsCPD hours, probation dates, and review cycles are tracked, leaving you the conversations that need a person.
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 Interior Design HR & People team's day.
Where the hours go
Every open role means opening each applicant's portfolio link by hand, and the strong designers are gone to other studios by the time the screening notes are written.
An agent reads each application against your scorecard and writes the screening note, so you review a summary and decide who to invite.
Booking one portfolio review takes a week of messages because the principals are on site visits and the senior designers are in client presentations.
An agent offers open slots across everyone's calendars, drafts the invitations for approval, and briefs the panel the day before.
A new designer starts and then waits days for Adobe, CAD, Streamtime, and project folder access that nobody remembered to request.
An agent assembles the day-one pack and requests each licence and login before the start date, chasing anything still missing.
A time-off request is approved without anyone checking it against install day, and the clash only surfaces when a project has no designer on site.
An agent compares every request with install dates and presentation deadlines and flags the clash before you approve.
Actionist Will Automate
What one automation looks like
A week with your Interior Design HR & People agents
Some of the apps for your Interior Design HR & People team
Some of the HR apps your agent operates for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.
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.
When a new application lands in your applicant tracker or inbox, the agent reads the CV, opens the portfolio link, and checks software skills, project types, and NCIDQ status against the role's scorecard. A screening note appears in Slack within about a minute. It makes no decision, so you choose who goes forward.
Your benefits
Where the time goes back
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- HR and People240 min / weekScreening designer applications
Opening each portfolio link, scanning the CV for software skills, and typing a note for the principals, one applicant at a time.
HR and People Agent0 minAgent writes the note against your scorecardAn agent reads each application and portfolio, quotes evidence per criterion, and posts the screening note for you to decide on.
- HR and People180 min / weekBooking a portfolio review
Messaging principals and senior designers to find an hour between site visits and client presentations, then confirming with the candidate.
HR and People Agent0 minAgent offers slots and briefs the panelAn agent reads the calendars, offers open slots, drafts the invitation for approval, and sends the panel a brief the day before.
- HR and People120 min / weekEngaging a freelance visualiser
Copying the last agreement, retyping the project, rate, and dates, and chasing the NDA before the freelancer can see a file.
HR and People Agent0 minAgent fills the engagement packetAn agent fills your agreement, NDA, and IP assignment from the approved brief and holds the pack for your approval.
- HR and People150 min / weekSetting up a new designer
Emailing for Adobe, CAD, Streamtime, and folder access one at a time, and remembering the forms the day before the start.
HR and People Agent0 minAgent builds the pack and requests accessAn agent assembles the day-one folder and drafts each access request ahead of the start date, chasing what is still open.
- HR and People90 min / weekApproving time off
Opening the leave sheet and the install calendar side by side to guess whether a requested week will leave a project uncovered.
HR and People Agent0 minAgent checks the request against installsAn agent compares each request with install dates and deadlines and posts whether the dates are clear before you decide.
What that's worth
Calculate what your team saves
Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~4 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How easy it is to use
We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.
From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.
- Step 1
Enter your website
- We'll research your business
- Automatically configure everything for you
- Step 2
Actionist Auto
Optional- Watches you work
- Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
- Step 3
Marketplace
- Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
- Pre-configured by other users
- Step 4
Invite your team
- We'll automatically onboard them too
- Focus on the things that matter
Enter your website URL for a personalised demo
See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.
You stay in control
People data is the most personal data a studio holds, so control matters from the first application. Actionist is built so a person makes every people decision, nothing reaches a candidate unapproved, and everything the agent touched is on record.
Invitations, declines, and offer letters are drafted and held. They are sent only after you approve them, unless you widen autonomy on routine messages through Approval Modes.
Who is interviewed, hired, paid, or reviewed is decided by you. The agent writes the screening note against your criteria and shows its evidence, and it does not rank or reject anyone on its own.
Drafts and checklists reach you where you already work, so you can approve an interview invitation from a site visit with one tap.
CVs, contracts, and review notes are encrypted, never used to train AI models, and every file the agent opens or drafts is logged for you to audit.
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Frequently asked questions
Does my HR team need to be technical to use Actionist?
How do I get started with an HR agent for my design studio?
How do I make customised AI agents for how my studio hires and onboards?
How quickly can I set up an HR agent for an interior design studio?
Where do our CVs, contracts, and staff records live, and are they used to train AI?
How does an agent read portfolios on Behance, Issuu, or a personal site without an API?
Will the agent reject a candidate or send an offer on its own?
Can it check right to work or run payroll for the studio?
Is an HR agent worth it for a studio of ten designers?
See an agent screen a stack of designer portfolios
Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent read applications against your scorecard and prepare the interview invitations for your approval.