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Employment Hero

Week 33, 2026 | Release notes

Employment Hero adds AI-powered timesheets, mobile HeroAI upgrades, broader HR and payroll reporting, stronger security logs, unified calendar access, and new EH Work and rostering tools across web, mobile, and API.

AI

Employees and managers can now create, update, delete, summarise, and approve timesheets using natural language through HeroAI on web and EH Work, making day-to-day timesheet tasks faster and easier to complete. (Released: 12 August 2026, All regions and orgs)

Mobile users can now @mention colleagues directly in HeroAI chat, making people-related queries faster and more accurate. (Released: 10 August 2026, All HeroAI users on mobile)

Mobile users can now view HeroAI’s live thought process as it searches, looks up information, and completes actions before returning a final answer. (Released: 10 August 2026, All HeroAI users on mobile)

Automations

Admins and IT managers can now build custom reports that combine employee and asset data in one place, making audits and offboarding workflows easier to manage. (Released: 10 August 2026, HR Admins and IT Managers with Asset Register and Custom Reports permission)

HR admins and finance teams can now report on leave liability values directly inside Custom Reports, helping them understand the financial value of leave balances without manual calculations outside the platform. (Released: 10 August 2026, HR Admins and Finance teams with leave and custom report permissions)

Core HR

Admins can now create and manage departments in Organisation Settings and assign workers to departments during onboarding, from profiles, or via CSV, improving workforce organisation and reporting. (Released: 11 August 2026, Global)

The Issues Summary Hub and Dashboard are now available to all supported regions, including Singapore. (Released: 11 August 2026, All sub-plans for Hub; HR Elite and Unlimited for Dashboard)

Recurring Compliance Task Distribution is now available across all regions, including Singapore, helping HR admins automate repeat compliance work. (Released: 11 August 2026, All sub-plans)

Workers can now open, read, and sign HR documents directly in the EH Work app on iOS and Android, removing the need to switch to desktop. (Released: 11 August 2026, Mobile-first and deskless workers)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

Sensitive leave details are now masked across key manager-facing web, mobile, and email surfaces, helping protect employee privacy while preserving approval workflows. (Released: 13 August 2026, Global)

The Unified Calendar is now publicly available for all customers, with added visibility of team schedules, blackout periods, contractors, and leave management actions. (Released: 13 August 2026, Global)

ITOps & Security

Users with Pay Details permissions can now manage employee portal access within their permitted scope, reducing the need to grant full admin rights for onboarding tasks. (Released: 11 August 2026, KeyPay-connected organisations using Custom Security Settings)

Payroll login audit logs now include device fingerprint IDs, giving organisations stronger visibility to help detect suspicious activity and potential account takeovers. (Released: 10 August 2026)

Users with Asset Register - Manage permission can now assign, return, and reassign assets across the whole organisation, including employees, contractors, and volunteers. (Released: 13 August 2026, Users with Asset Register - Manage permissions)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

HR staff with the right platform permissions can now use the Member Delete and Tax Declaration endpoints without needing admin or owner credentials, making integrations easier to manage. (Released: 9 August 2026)

Builders can now upload supporting documents and attach them to leave requests through the API, enabling fully automated leave request workflows. (Released: 12 August 2026)

Payroll

Payroll admins can now include employee tags in Custom Reports, making it easier to build richer reporting outputs without workarounds. (Released: 12 August 2026, All users with access to custom reports)

Performance Management

Employees can now open Chat in a side panel from anywhere in the platform and start messages or give shout-outs directly from the Org Chart, making communication more seamless alongside daily work. (Released: 7 August 2026, Employment Unlimited plus Chat add-on customers)

Platform Experience

Admins can now delegate editing access to specific organisation email categories through Security Groups, reducing admin bottlenecks without exposing full admin access. (Released: 7 August 2026, All regions)

Daily summary emails can now be scheduled more flexibly based on organisation or employee timezones, with options to respect working hours and days off. (Released: 13 August 2026, Global)

Platform-generated emails now use employees’ preferred names by default, making automated communications more personal and respectful. (Released: 13 August 2026, All regions)

Recruitment

Recruitment teams can now bulk import up to 1,000 candidate CVs into the Talent Pool, reducing manual entry and making platform migrations faster. (Released: 13 August 2026, Users with talent pool access)

Rostering & Timesheets

Managers can now edit timesheet entries directly in the EH Work mobile app, allowing corrections to be made quickly without switching to desktop. (Released: 12 August 2026, Managers and admins using timesheet management)

Volunteers can now view shifts, swap shifts, and bid for open shifts in the EH Work app, giving them the same rostering experience as other workers. (Released: 10 August 2026, Organisations using rostering with work sites and positions)
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Rippling

From unchecked AI spend to complete control: How Rippling built AI Spend Console

Rippling launches AI Spend Console, giving CFOs and CTOs a clear view of AI spend, tying it to teams and business outcomes, and helping govern approved LLM use. It also offers permissioned dashboards and a free 30-day trial.
AI Spend Console

Today, we’re launching AI Spend Console. It gives CFOs and CTOs a clear view of AI spend, connects it to business outcomes, and governs the use of approved LLMs.

Unlike simple usage dashboards or point solutions, AI Spend Console ties AI spend to employee attributes, so you can understand which departments, teams, or roles are driving your AI bill. It also connects spend to key business metrics like performance ratings or pull request volume, so you can understand where token usage drives improved business outcomes.

Here’s the journey of why we built this product and how we got here.

AI token spend was growing 80% MoM

Like many tech companies, we were early to AI adoption. We turned on AI tools for all employees, and there were no limits. We encouraged experimentation. We hosted hackweeks, lunch and learns, and “ship shows”.

Very quickly, we saw a freight train of new expenses rolling our way. Our AI token spend was growing 80% MoM, and we were on a path to spend 40% of our R&D headcount budget on tokens.

At first, we didn't have the infrastructure to track, understand, and manage usage patterns and this new expense category. Our Finance team was manually collating data from multiple vendor dashboards and then running ad-hoc analyses. They could see total spend but not which teams or roles drove increases. More importantly, there was no way of connecting AI-related expenses to any measure of business impact.

We couldn’t answer questions like:

Which models are used most frequently and by which teams?

Which roles and levels are driving up our AI bill?

How does AI spend per pull request differ between our top and bottom performers?

Which engineers have high AI spend, whose peers frequently ask them to redo work in code reviews?

I'd seen a similar pattern before. In a previous role, I managed AWS infrastructure spend for one of the largest websites in the world. I knew exactly what unchecked cloud costs look like, and I knew this was going to get worse, so I started to tackle this problem in partnership with Catalina Zhao from our BizOps team. We quickly spun up a SWAT team of leaders from every department, including BizOps, HR, Product Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and more, to build our AI program at Rippling.

First, we did a “go and see”

One of our core values at Rippling is Go and See, so we grabbed time with our engineers, while diving into usage patterns (e.g. daily active users) and data on model costs, vendor spend, and usage patterns.

We worked with a few engineers to scrape this data directly into a centralized data lake, which was entirely manual and extremely time-intensive.

Here’s what we found:

Concentration was extreme. Roughly 10–15% of our employees were driving about 60% of total AI spend. One engineer was spending $50,000 a month.

Expensive defaults were the norm. The newest models were set to fast mode. That wasn’t because we made that decision internally but rather because nobody had ever looked into it and set best practices.

The productivity signal was real, but not linear. Engineers heavily using AI tools like Cursor were shipping more PRs, but the biggest productivity improvements came from initial adoption, not from spending more on frontier models.

Our engineering org needed to evolve. We saw which engineers were pushing the frontier of innovation with creative AI use cases, where those use cases stayed siloed instead of spreading org-wide, while identifying blockers to broader adoption.

The trajectory was unsustainable. We built a model to forecast costs and discovered that we were on a path to spend 40% of our R&D headcount budget on AI tokens. The following year, we’d approach 90%.

To help control costs, we went into every AI provider and set a standard dollar amount per tool per month cap. It wasn't a permanent solution, but it gave us time to get our strategy in place.

Building our AI infrastructure

We needed clear visibility into token consumption, by whom and on what models, and then connect those costs to business metrics like code quality and number of PRs merged.

Step 1: Getting all the data in one place

We used our Data Cloud infrastructure to pull AI spend directly from our vendors (such as Cursor, OpenAI, and Anthropic) directly into Rippling.

When external data like token consumption gets ingested into Rippling, our software identifies fields that reference users: email addresses, employee IDs, usernames, and display names. It joins them to the corresponding Rippling identity profile, so that business users don’t have to configure those joins themselves. For example, a GitHub user name (coder3) gets mapped to the employee’s work email ([email protected]).

With Rippling’s data ingestion and mapping capabilities, we centralized our AI spend and usage data and mapped it to our built-in org context. A GitHub pull request is not treated as a flow row. It’s a record connected to an employee and attributes such as their team, role, or department. That means business data becomes easier to analyze, easier to govern, and easier to act on.

Step 2: Building dashboards

Now, with our AI spend and usage data in Rippling, we used Rippling AI’s ability to autonomously design and render dashboards based on any question, without any SQL work.

We started building dashboards to view weekly AI spend over time, model usage by teams, spend vs. GitHub PRs, spend vs. code rework, and more across our engineering team.

We created a dashboard for engineering known as the AI Scorecard. It connects data across Cursor, OpenAI suite (Codex), and Claude suite (Code) to highlight four key metrics:

Adoption score (10 points): An employee’s rate of agentically prompting with a tool every day.

Usage score (10 points): An employee's depth of engagement with AI tools.

Productivity score (10 points): An employee’s output (PRs, lines of code).

Cycle time (10 points): How long do the PRs take to merge?

Efficiency score (7.5 points): Spend on AI vs. productivity.

All Rippling dashboards automatically obey the permissions inside of Rippling, so users can share dashboards scoped to each viewer. For example, an Engineering manager can see the dashboard as another manager can, but only scoped to their team.

Step 3: AI Gateway

Observing how much one person spends is only half the battle. Our team also needed a way to control it.

We built Rippling AI Gateway*: an internal routing layer that sits between our employees and approved models. All LLM traffic goes through it. This gives us one place to set and enforce spend limits and model access policies, route AI requests to the right models for the right job, and log every transaction.

It also means that we can implement new models without requiring the organization to retool their entire setup, implement routing logic, and keep security logs without vendor negotiations. Additionally, we can use our AI Gateway in our developer ecosystem to run agentic jobs and orchestrated workflows (such as Slackbots or JIRA ticket triage). Our tooling is no longer locked to any one vendor.

Step 4: AI captains

Then, we needed to fundamentally shift how we approached AI across the company, not just in R&D.

We stood up an AI Captains program. This is an internal team of Ripplers whose goal is to expand our use of AI intentionally in every Non-R&D org. They are the connective tissue between our company-wide AI direction and the day-to-day reality of each team. They help select the right tools for the right job, automate the highest value workflows, enable employees, and ensure that we link AI use cases to real ROI.

Each captain owns three things for their org:

Impact: Building and validating AI solutions for their org tied to real ROI.

Adoption: Enabling their org on the right AI tools.

Governance: Maintaining platform hygiene, monitoring usage, reviewing and approving skills, and serving as Tier 1 support for AI issues.

20 AI Captains were nominated from across Rippling, and the results were significant. For R&D, we went from a forecast of spending 40% of our headcount budget on tokens to 10 to 15%. That’s tens of millions of dollars a year. And productivity continued to climb because constraints made engineers smarter, not less capable. We saw the same for other teams.

When employees had unlimited spend, they defaulted to the most expensive models to avoid any cognitive load. When they had a budget, they actually learned the tools. They figured out which models were good at what, which configurations were most efficient, which harnesses gave them the best results. The constraint created the innovation.

AI Spend Console: One place to track, understand, and control your AI spend

This work led us to productize our approach so other companies can see, understand, and control their AI spend too. With AI Spend Console, CFOs and CTOs can get a clear view of AI spend, connect it to business outcomes, and, soon, govern the use of approved LLMs.

Rippling AI generates permissioned dashboards across your connected data. You can even ask follow-up questions in natural language to drill down into spend and usage patterns or customize charts, without any SQL work.

AI Spend Console allows you to:

Identify what’s driving AI spend. Break down costs by teams, roles, or departments.

Understand the value of spend. Map AI spend to business metrics like performance ratings or pull request volume, so you can flag inefficient use.

Control AI access and spend*. Enforce model access policies based on employee attributes, then automatically route AI requests to approved LLMs.

Starting today, you can try AI Spend Console for free with a 30 day trial. No Rippling subscription required.

A new era for AI token spend

AI isn’t just a line item. It's embedded in how every company works and how every product is built today. Just spending money on AI doesn’t mean anything. What matters is spending it intentionally.

Context is everything. Intentional spend starts with visibility. You need to see all your AI spend in one place, tied to the teams, roles, and departments driving it, and connected to the business outcomes it's producing. Without that org context, spend is just a number. Rippling AI Spend Console gives you all three.

We used it to go from zero visibility and a trajectory toward spending nearly half our R&D headcount budget on tokens, to a governed and measured AI program that’s making Rippling more productive than ever before.

If you’d like to try it out, you can get started here.

DISCLAIMER

Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.

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Deel

What's coming to Deel in August

Deel adds a broad wave of HR, payroll, benefits, and platform upgrades, including a native Oracle Fusion HCM integration, external e-signatures, a redesigned homepage and org chart, smarter AI-assisted workflows, and faster bulk actions across onboarding, goals, expenses, and reviews.

Deel HR

Improved AI experience in Deel Plugin

The Deel Plugin Slack app now runs on a more advanced conversational AI, replacing the older endpoint that powered it.

What this means for you:

Workers get sharper, more context-aware answers without leaving Slack, which should mean fewer people going around the plugin—or opening a support ticket—just to get a straight answer.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — the upgraded AI experience is live automatically.

HRIS

Global hours-worked time off accrual

Admins managing hourly and salaried workers can now accrue time off based on actual hours worked in any country, not just the US—Deel Payroll and HR teams get automated, compliant accruals for the UK, Australia, and Netherlands with country-specific rules.

What this means for you:

You can expand hourly workforces into these markets without building your own accrual logic or risking a compliance miss on country-specific rules.

How you can prepare:

When creating a time off policy, choose Time Tracking or the Shifts Open API as your hours source and follow the in-product guidance. Note that sending non-shift data (like time off) through the Shifts API may affect accrual accuracy.

Teammate time-off overlap visibility

Workers requesting time off and managers approving it can now see which teammates are already off during the same dates, in both the Deel app and Slack — with admins defining how a "team" is determined.

What this means for you:

Managers stop approving time off blind and finding out about a coverage clash after the fact—the overlap is visible before they approve.

How you can prepare:

Admins can define what counts as a "team" and toggle time off visibility per policy in Time Off settings.

AI-powered org chart edits

HR and org admins can now manage worker relations, org structure, and seniority through AI-powered prompts, directing an AI agent to make bulk edits across the org chart instead of updating records one by one.

What this means for you:

Large-scale reorgs that used to mean editing dozens of records individually can now be described in a prompt and applied in bulk.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available.

Engage

Instant feedback from Slack

All workers can now give and receive feedback directly in Slack, and it's captured in Engage instead of getting lost in a thread or an email.

What this means for you:

Peer recognition and feedback become visible in the moment and automatically feed into review cycles and check-ins later, instead of disappearing the day it was given.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available.

Bulk goal editing via CSV

Admins and managers can now edit multiple goals at once via CSV — select goals, export them, update fields offline, and re-upload to apply changes in bulk instead of editing every goal one by one.

What this means for you:

Updating goals at scale during goal-setting season goes from a manual slog to a single export-edit-reupload pass, with built-in validation catching errors before they land.

How you can prepare:

No action needed — this rolls out in phases. Once live, select goals, export to CSV, edit offline, and re-upload to apply updates.

AI goal suggestions

Anyone creating a goal in Engage can now select "Create with AI" and turn a few lines of context into a fully structured goal draft — complete with rationale, urgency, importance, and recommended subgoals.

What this means for you:

New hires and first-time goal-setters get a guided starting point instead of a blank page, so goal quality and alignment don't depend on how practiced someone already is at writing goals.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available.

Configurable review cycle timelines

Admins can now set start and end dates for each review cycle phase on a timezone-aware calendar view, with timelines editable right up until launch.

What this means for you:

Clearer deadlines and preview windows mean fewer confused participants and fewer late submissions for your People team to chase down after the fact.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available.

Talent

Email conversations available in Talent

Clients and Talent Partners can now communicate directly through email while every conversation stays logged in Deel, routed through a job-specific masked email address.

What this means for you:

Teams get to stay in their inbox without losing visibilityq—replies are automatically logged and everyone stays aligned on where a job request stands.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — when a job request is created, an intro email connects Clients and Talent Partners automatically, with replies logged in the "Email Conversation" tab of the Job Request.

Deel Benefits

Native mobile benefits management

Employees enrolled in benefits across EOR, Deel Payroll, and PEO can now see coverage, costs, documents, and manage beneficiaries right from the Deel mobile app — capabilities that used to require a desktop.

What this means for you:

Employees no longer need to log in on web to check a claim or update a beneficiary—the full benefits experience now travels with them, which should mean fewer "how do I find my plan documents" tickets to your HR team.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — enrolled employees can open the Deel mobile app and tap the Benefits widget on the Finance/home screen to explore coverage now.

Benefits enrollment notifications and reminders

Employees get proactive reminders when an enrollment window opens and a mandatory confirmation once their enrollment lands, while clients get status summaries, QLE approve/reject notifications, and the ability to nudge stragglers.

What this means for you:

Fewer missed enrollments and QLE deadlines mean fewer downstream benefits gaps for your HR team to clean up after the fact.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — notifications run automatically, and clients can also trigger ad-hoc reminders to specific employees during an active window.

Deel Payroll

Oracle Fusion HCM integration

Clients using Oracle Fusion as their HRIS platform now get a native integration with Deel Payroll, eliminating double-keyed data and cutting down on manual entry errors.

What this means for you:

Payroll teams get one less manual data-entry step and one less place for errors to creep in between Oracle and Deel.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this integration is automatically available.

Redesigned mass edit upload flow

Payroll admins can now upload payroll inputs through a guided four-step flow that supports both CSV and XLSX, auto-checks the data, and surfaces contextual, issue-by-issue errors instead of one generic failure message.

What this means for you:

Your team fixes problems inline before anything is submitted, rather than starting the whole upload over after a vague rejection — so submissions succeed the first time.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available. Learn more at help.letsdeel.com/payroll-submission-mass-edit.

Single source of truth for compensation data

HR admins and payroll operations now see one unified compensation UI across all worker types on Contract Detail pages, instead of fragmented views per worker type.

What this means for you:

Less time reconciling comp data across different screens, and fewer opportunities for the same number to get entered two different ways.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available.

Unified mass onboarding experience

Admins onboarding multiple Deel Payroll workers can now use Deel's unified Mass Import Framework, bringing AI-assisted CSV mapping, optional field selection, and a real-time import dashboard to Deel Payroll—the same experience already available for other worker types

What this means for you:

Bulk onboarding for Deel Payroll workers finally matches the smoother experience your team may already know from other worker types, with AI doing the CSV-mapping guesswork.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this becomes available automatically once your Deel Payroll onboarding migrates to the new framework.

Employer of Record

Self-serve Expense Card withdrawals

EOR clients using Expense Cards can now reclaim unused funds themselves—a self-serve withdrawal flow moves both allocated and unallocated balances back into General Funds.

What this means for you:

Finance teams get direct control over idle Expense Card balances instead of needing to go through support to get funds back.

How you can prepare:

To withdraw funds, navigate to your Expense Card wallet and move unused balances back to General Funds.

Automated expense reconciliation

Employees and Finance teams can now rely on automated expense reconciliation — Deel matches card expenses to transaction statements as source documents, clearing stuck draft expenses and closing reconciliation gaps without manual intervention.

What this means for you:

Finance no longer has to manually chase down and match card expenses to statements — draft expenses that used to get stuck now resolve on their own.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — card expenses now reconcile using transaction statements automatically.

Contractor

Enable extension flow for COR contracts

Contractor clients and contractors can now extend Contractor of Record (COR) contracts directly in Deel, instead of coordinating renewals manually off-platform.

What this means for you:

Renewals stay inside Deel's compliance guardrails end to end, so contractors keep working without a gap and your team avoids the manual paperwork chase that used to come with every extension.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — the extension flow is available automatically for COR contracts.

Deel IT

CrowdStrike and asset tracker serial matching

IT and Security teams can now see CrowdStrike and Deel's asset tracker records linked automatically by serial number, with endpoint protection health showing alongside each asset.

What this means for you:

No more manually cross-referencing two separate device lists to check whether a laptop is protected—the two systems now speak to each other.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this is automatically available for clients with CrowdStrike EPP connected through Deel IT.

Self-serve guided MDM onboarding

IT admins can now set up their MDM environment end to end directly in Deel IT, with guidance that adapts to whether they're a new or existing JumpCloud user.

What this means for you:

You can go from purchase to a fully active MDM setup without waiting on a CSM or Deel IT handoff.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — new and existing Deel IT clients can start the guided flow now.

Guided self-serve IAM onboarding

IT admins at growing companies can now set up identity and access management on their own, walk through a 4-step flow that connects their IdP, syncs users, enables a policy, and submits a first request—with a built-in assistant on hand.

What this means for you:

Smaller IT teams can stand up IAM without needing hands-on help from Deel, shortening the time between signing up and actually being protected.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — new IT admins land on the guided Overview page automatically at first login.

Deel Mobility

Visa eligibility tool

Anyone can now describe a business trip or relocation and get a personalized visa recommendation powered by Deel's immigration expertise—and open a case with Deel's immigration experts and lawyers if they want to move forward.

What this means for you:

You get an instant read on visa feasibility, including minimum salary, education, experience, and duration requirements, before committing time to a hire or relocation.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this is automatically available.

Deel Platform

External document e-signatures

Admins can now send documents out for signature to anyone outside their organization — vendors, clients, legal reps, off-platform contractors — with recipients verifying by one-time code and signing without needing a Deel account.

What this means for you:

Your entire document workflow and audit trail stays in one place even when the signer has never touched Deel, instead of splitting across email and a separate e-signature tool.

How you can prepare:

Open Custom Documents, choose "Send externally," upload a PDF or select a template, place your fields, and enter the recipient's name and email.

New landing page with modular elements

Clients and workers now land on a redesigned homepage that highlights exactly what action is required from them, instead of a generic dashboard.

What this means for you:

Less time hunting for what needs your attention today — the landing page now tells you directly.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available.

Inline minimum wage guidance

Clients creating contracts now see the applicable statutory minimum wage inline as they enter compensation values, instead of finding out later at payroll or audit.

What this means for you:

Compliance guidance shows up exactly when a pay decision is being made, so your team can catch an underpayment before it becomes a payroll correction or an audit finding.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this guidance is automatically available in the contract creation flow.

Total rewards portal for everyone

Every worker on Deel now gets a Compensation details page showing their total cash breakdown, year-over-year progression, and comp history—a view previously limited to Compensation Management customers—and managers and admins can view reports' compensation through permission-scoped access.

What this means for you:

Pay conversations have one shared, contextual source of truth instead of workers and managers piecing information together from scattered profile tabs.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — the baseline Compensation details page is automatically available to all workers. Admins using Job Architecture can enable JA visibility from the new standalone configuration entry point.

Unified AI automation canvas

HR Directors and workforce ops teams can now build automations that combine deterministic logic, AI agents, and human approval steps on one canvas—workflows can pause for manager sign-off, invoke AI agents mid-process, and survive service restarts.

What this means for you:

Processes that used to need a separate workflow tool and a separate AI agent platform can now live in one place, with nothing lost if a multi-day process gets interrupted partway through.

How you can prepare:

Explore Agentic Workflows to build your first automation in under 30 minutes — your existing workflows keep running unchanged, no migration required.

AI-suggested folder templates

Admins can now let an AI agent scan document folders across employee profiles, spot recurring patterns, and suggest folder templates to standardize — admins stay in control, reviewing each suggestion before accepting, editing, or dismissing it.

What this means for you:

You get consistent document organization across profiles without manually auditing and rebuilding folder structures one by one.

How you can prepare:

When you're ready, review your AI-suggested templates in Documents Settings and accept, edit, or dismiss each one.

Enhanced expense review experience

Reviewers and line managers can now investigate and resolve expense issues faster with contextual drawers for issues, activity, and policy, AI-guided resolution, and a redesigned detail view.

What this means for you:

Approvals move faster because reviewers see the full context—issue, activity, and policy—in one place instead of digging across multiple screens.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available. Learn more at help.letsdeel.com/expenses-review.

Conditional approval policies

Admins can now define amount-based rules for expense approval, so high-value expenses are automatically routed to the correct approver.

What this means for you:

High-value expenses stop relying on someone manually remembering to reroute them—the right approver sees them from the start, cutting compliance risk.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available.

Faster, modernized org chart

HR managers and admins get a redesigned org chart with much faster load times, a modern interface, and new view types, with backend improvements laying the groundwork for upcoming interactive features.

What this means for you:

A large org chart that used to lag now loads quickly, and the new view types make it easier to actually navigate your structure day to day.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — explore your updated org chart directly in the Deel Platform.

Enhanced org chart visibility settings

Organization admins and HR managers can now customize org chart visibility at the entity and group level, not just company-wide.

What this means for you:

Clients get the granularity to reflect complex structures accurately, instead of forcing every entity into the same visibility rules.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available.

Time Tracking widget

Workers, managers, and clients can now see a Time Tracking widget right on the Worker Profile page, showing submission deadlines, approved hours, and pending approvals at a glance.

What this means for you:

You get the status of hours and approvals without leaving the profile you're already looking at, instead of switching over to a separate time tracking tab.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available.

Quick actions on worker profile

Users viewing a worker profile now get quick actions that are clearly visible, prioritized, and expandable when they need more options.

What this means for you:

The most relevant action for a given worker is right there instead of buried in a menu, so common tasks take fewer clicks.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — this improvement is automatically available.

AI-powered form prefill from documents

Workers filling out a form can now upload an existing PDF and let Deel extract the data to pre-populate the form automatically, with each value flagged by confidence for the worker to review before submitting.

What this means for you:

Workers spend less time retyping information Deel can already read off a document, while staying the final check on anything that gets submitted.

How you can prepare:

No setup needed — workers can choose to upload a PDF when completing a fillable form. Check the guide at help.letsdeel.com for details.
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Rippling

Introducing Rippling Procurement: Buy what your team needs 5x faster without overpaying

Rippling launches Rippling Procurement, an AI procurement platform that speeds up buying, centralizes spend visibility, flags waste before money leaves, and uses AI agents to handle intake, contracts, vendor security, purchasing, and renewals.
Today, we’re launching Rippling Procurement, an AI procurement platform that allows businesses to buy everything they need, from software to professional services, up to 5x faster while maximizing savings and minimizing risk on every purchase.

Employees get what they need faster, and Finance stays in control of every dollar.

Rippling Procurement at a glance

One real-time view of all spend. Cards, bills, expenses, contracts, HR, IT live in one place, each dollar tied to the person, department, and business context behind it.

Wasteful spend gets caught before it happens. Duplicate vendors, invoice mismatches, and costly renewals are flagged before money leaves the business.

AI agents run procurement for you. Intake, legal review, vendor security, purchasing, and renewals are assisted by agents, reducing manual admin work by up to 90%. Use our prebuilt agents or build your own.

Workflows that are always up to date. Approvals route automatically from the roles, departments, and live org chart already in Rippling.

Procurement is broken, but doesn't have to be

For most small and mid-sized businesses, slow procurement is treated as an unavoidable cost of doing business. Purchase requests disappear into email threads. Approvals sit in someone's inbox for two weeks. Employees give up and find workarounds. And Finance has no visibility until an invoice lands on their desk.

Eventually, companies hire a dedicated procurement person and implement a point solution for procurement. But even then, the core problems don't go away. They just become slightly easier to manage.

That is because traditional procurement software sits beside your finance and HRIS stack, leaving data siloed. No single system knows what's already been bought on a card, billed directly, or expensed by someone else. Renewals slip through the cracks, and by the time Finance notices you've bought the same thing twice, the money's already out the door.

With Rippling, all of that goes away.

Rippling unifies Procurement with the rest of your back-office stack (HR, IT, and Finance), giving you a single, real-time view of total spend across cards, bills, expenses, and vendor contracts, all tied directly to the people and departments behind it.

That unified foundation doesn't just give Finance better visibility; it gives Rippling AI the context to help you automate procurement.

Because your employee roles, departments, and live org chart already exist in Rippling, you can easily design custom approval workflows based on criteria such as department, seniority, risk level, vendor type, and more out of the box.

This same foundation empowers Rippling AI to not just answer questions about procurement. It actually runs procurement.

We built a team of specialized agents that help work every request in parallel, catching issues a human wouldn't see until much later, if at all.

Meet your team of AI agents

Intake Assistant. Takes the first pass on every purchase request, checking that the requester provided enough detail, that it aligns with the attached documents, and that the business case is clear.

Contract Reviewer. Reviews every contract attached to a purchase request for common red flags, such as auto-renewal clauses and logical inconsistencies, and flags them to the requester and legal reviewers before anyone signs.

Vendor Security. The agent reviews every new vendor’s website against the request details to verify how they manage data and whether onboarding them carries risk.

Buyer Assistant. Generates purchase orders, matches them to your invoices and receipts, and checks them against past POs and bill payments to ensure they're coded correctly, so every dollar is accounted for.

Renewal Manager. Flags upcoming renewals 30, 60, and 90 days before the notice window closes, and surfaces the vendor's full history: past contracts, payments, SSO logins, allotted seats. That way, you know exactly what you're paying for and whether you still need it.

Together, they help automate up to 90% of the manual admin work in procurement.

Those agents come ready to use on day one. But because every business buys differently, Rippling AI is yours to direct.

You can build and customize your own agents to automate your process exactly how your team buys. Because it already holds every piece of data behind a purchase, there's almost nothing they can’t assist with.

The result? Procurement cycles are measured in days, not months.

One customer, Signalwire, reduced procurement approval times by 50%.

Our Agents stop wasteful spend before it happens

The value of AI in procurement isn't just accelerating your buying cycle. It's eliminating unnecessary spend before money ever leaves the business.

Companies rarely lose money due to a single catastrophic mistake. It leaks away quietly in the small decisions no one has time to review: an invoice that's higher than expected, a forgotten software subscription, a duplicate vendor, or a purchase that could have been avoided entirely.

Rippling Procurement catches these before they become costs. When your Anthropic bill starts climbing faster than you budgeted for, Rippling AI spots the drift early and flags it, so you catch the overage while you can still act on it instead of finding it at month-end.

Requests flow through Rippling before any money is committed, giving Finance visibility before it’s too late. Someone requests a new design tool? Set up Rippling AI to point them to the Figma seats you already own before adding another vendor.

Every purchase is evaluated before it's approved and every invoice is validated before it's paid.

That's the difference between buying faster and buying smarter. Rippling does both.

Unrivaled spend visibility, so you’re always in control

Buying smarter starts with seeing everything. Most tools show you what's being spent and who's spending it, but not the context behind the purchase: whether software is actually being used, who relies on it, how it connects across the business, or if another team already has the same tool.

In Rippling, no purchase stands alone. Because procurement already lives alongside your HR, IT, and finance data, every dollar is connected to the person, department, cost center, contract, approval, and system access behind it.

That unified data layer gives Rippling something other platforms don't – context.

Rippling connects every dollar to the people and business activity behind it, giving teams the full picture needed to make smarter buying decisions.

That means Rippling can uncover opportunities other platforms miss:

Renew software based on actual usage Which software contracts are up for renewal, and how many assigned users logged in through SSO in the last 30, 60, or 90 days?

Identify unmanaged vendor spend Which vendors are we paying even though there's no active contract, purchase request, or approved PO?

Consolidate overlapping vendors Which departments have the most active contracts for the same use case, and where are we paying for overlapping vendors?

Reduce renewal risk and unnecessary costs Which contracts are expiring soon, which include termination-for-convenience clauses, and how much could we save by exiting specific vendors?

Fix procurement bottlenecks Which departments have the longest procurement cycles, and which approval steps are slowing down purchases?

And with Rippling Data Cloud, that picture can extend to the external systems your business still relies on. Procurement can connect vendor spend to operational data – such as engineering activity on GitHub or the direct mail impact on sales in Salesforce – so Finance can evaluate vendors based on actual business impact, not just spend.

The result is procurement that understands the full context behind every purchase. Instead of reacting to spend after the fact, Finance can make faster, smarter decisions before money leaves the business, helping teams buy what they need without overpaying.

Eliminate procurement surprises today

If you've been waiting for a procurement solution that lets you buy what your team needs faster without overpaying, the wait is over. Rippling Procurement is available today.

Request a demo or learn more to get started.

DISCLAIMER

Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.
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Rippling

Introducing AI-Powered Benefits Administration in Rippling

Rippling introduces AI-powered Benefits Administration to automate dependent verification, carrier coverage updates, Flex claims checks, and plan guidance, helping employees get answers faster while reducing manual HR work across benefits processes.

Benefits administration is one of the most time-consuming parts of running HR

Every time an employee adds a family member, someone has to confirm they qualify. Every time an insurance company sends back coverage decisions, someone has to go through that file and update every record. And when employees have questions about their plans or make a mistake on a spending account claim, they go to HR and wait.
Today we are introducing AI-powered Benefits Administration, built directly into Rippling to handle benefits work using the employee, plan, and dependent data already in the system.

Verify dependents before coverage takes effect

When an employee gets married, has a child, or enters a domestic partnership, they can add that family member to their health plan. But not every dependent automatically qualifies. Companies have policies that determine who is eligible for coverage, and verifying that someone meets those requirements is how companies make sure they are not paying for coverage they should not be.
For most companies, that verification falls entirely on the admin. Every document, every request, reviewed by hand.
With Rippling AI, that review happens automatically. Rippling AI reads the documents the employee uploads, confirms the relationship, and approves coverage if the relationship is confirmed. If it cannot confirm the relationship, the benefits administrator gets a notification to review the request before coverage is approved. Coverage goes to the people who actually qualify, and the company stops paying for the ones who do not.

Apply carrier coverage decisions in bulk

When an employee enrolls in voluntary coverage like life or disability insurance, the carrier needs to approve their coverage before the policy takes effect. Once the carrier sends back its decisions, someone has to go through that file and update every record in Rippling.
During open enrollment, that file can have hundreds of rows. Each one has to be matched to the right employee, their coverage updated, their paycheck adjusted, and a notification sent. It is repetitive work, and it has to happen quickly before the new plan year begins.
Now, with Rippling AI, the admin uploads the file and Rippling AI does the rest. It matches each decision to the right employee, updates their coverage, adjusts their deductions, and notifies them of the outcome - automatically. What used to take hours of manual reconciliation now takes minutes.

Submit Flex claims correctly, every time

When an employee submits a Flex spending account claim with missing or incorrect information, they find out days later when it comes back rejected. By then they have to start over, and HR often gets pulled in to help sort it out.
Now when an employee has a Flex spending account expense, they upload a receipt to Rippling. Rippling AI reads the receipt, fills in the claim form, and flags anything that would cause the claim to be rejected before the employee hits submit.
Employees stop finding out about claim errors days after they submitted. HR stops fielding the questions and follow-ups that come after a denial.

Help employees pick a plan with confidence

Choosing a health plan is one of the most consequential financial decisions an employee makes, but employees rarely have enough information to make it well. Premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket maximums form a confusing maze, and the result is a flood of questions to HR.
Now employees can pull up their plan options side by side in Rippling AI and see what each plan would actually cost them for things like a doctor visit, urgent care, or a prescription. If they want to understand how their costs might change with a life event like getting married or having a child, they can ask Rippling AI directly and get an accurate answer the moment they need it, without HR having to step in.

Built on the data that benefits administration already runs on

Most benefits tools only manage benefits. Rippling is a single system for an employee's HR, payroll, and benefits data, so their dependents, their paycheck, and their plan elections all live in the same place. Because that data is already connected, Rippling AI can act on it accurately without anyone having to move data between systems or do the work by hand.

DISCLAIMER

Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.
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Rippling

Rippling IT: The only unified platform to manage all IT needs securely

Rippling launches Rippling IT, a unified platform for identity, access, device management, and inventory that helps lean IT teams automate onboarding, offboarding, and zero trust security from one system. It also works with existing HRIS and IdP tools.
IT admins have a challenging job

You have to keep your company secure in a constantly changing threat environment, while also making sure employees can easily access the devices, apps, and tools they need to do work without a hassle.

Most IT leaders rely on 7+ solutions to do this work, but each only solves one piece of the puzzle. Plus, these tools can be expensive and difficult to manage. This leaves you filling in gaps with tedious manual tasks, making it difficult to apply advanced security approaches like zero trust.

We firmly believe you don’t need a large team, massive budget, or multiple tools to scale your IT program. You deserve a unified system, with all the features you need, minus the complexity.

That’s why we built Rippling IT from scratch, to empower solo IT admins and lean IT teams to securely manage identity, access, devices, and physical device logistics, all from one platform.

End-to-end IT management

Rippling has understood the value of supporting IT professionals from day one. We’ve used our own IT solutions to efficiently grow to almost 4,000 employees with a very small IT team; shipping laptops, configuring devices, provisioning accounts, and securing offboarding. Running IT this way has helped us grow at a record pace while keeping our IT team agile.

With Rippling IT, you can manage the full user and device lifecycle end-to-end. It includes:

Identity & Access Management: Easily implement SSO, MFA, conditional access policies, role-based access controls, and more, based on hundreds of real-time user and device attributes. Plus, eliminate time-consuming admin work like third-party group management in integrated applications, provisioning during on/offboarding, and more.

Mobile Device Management: Manage and secure all of your endpoints with our unified, cross-OS MDM for laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Enforce user-driven security policies, automate device monitoring, implement zero-touch enrollment for best-in-class endpoint protection, and more.

Inventory Management: Automate manual tasks around device logistics globally with the ability to order, ship, retrieve, and store devices through Rippling—right from your desk. This helps avoid messy supply closets, missing devices, and last minute trips to Best Buy or FedEx.

All three solutions are powered by Rippling’s shared platform capabilities including a custom workflow builder, dynamic policies, permission profiles and membership lists, powerful analytics, audit-ready reports, and more.

These make it easy to configure Rippling exactly how you want, and everything works together seamlessly. You can be up and running out-of-the-box on day one.

Rippling IT works with your existing HRIS

One of the most common misconceptions about Rippling IT is that you need to be a Rippling HR or Payroll customer to use it. You don’t. Rippling IT can be used as a standalone product—covering identity, app access, device management, inventory, and lifecycle automation—while keeping your existing HR architecture exactly where it is.

Rippling IT integrates with BambooHR, Workday, ADP, Paylocity, Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra, and Okta as your source of truth. Rippling ingests employee data from whatever system you already use and turns that context into downstream IT automation: provisioning accounts, assigning apps, enrolling devices, enforcing policies, and removing access when people leave.

This matters because HRIS migrations are not quick projects. They involve data cleanup, payroll complexity, benefits changes, and months of cross-functional coordination. IT teams don’t have to wait for a migration to start solving urgent problems around app access, device management, or offboarding gaps. With Rippling IT Standalone, you can modernize IT without touching HR first.

Bolster security and streamline IT processes from one platform

This integrated approach to IT management is designed to streamline IT operations and strengthen security using best practices powered by default policies.

Automate the entire lifecycle

Because Rippling IT is a unified platform, it takes just a few clicks to layer in advanced security controls and implement frameworks like zero trust—without spending months configuring systems to work together. Because Rippling makes it easy to precisely target security policies based on user attributes, you can strengthen security without hindering employee productivity. The right users will always have the right level of access to company resources at the right time.

Let’s take a look at the classic example of onboarding and offboarding with Judy, a new sales hire.

Streamlined onboarding: Judy has accepted her offer! Once she is added to Rippling and her start date is scheduled, a series of events are set into motion.

Devices and accessories are ordered from the Rippling store (an authorized reseller) and shipped straight to Judy’s home or new office.

At a specific date and time, Judy’s accounts are created and access is granted based on attributes like her role (Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, Salesforce).

SSO is enabled and Judy is given access to a password manager.

Judy is automatically enrolled in cybersecurity training and is asked to review relevant security policies.

Secure offboarding: To avoid the stress and security risks associated with offboarding, Rippling IT automates every step of the process—down to device retrieval and storage.

Judy’s device is locked and wiped and her shared Google documents, inbox, and calendar are automatically transferred to her manager or other party.

Judy loses access to all apps and accounts.

SSO is disabled and the groups she was in have been updated (Slack channels, Google distribution lists, etc.).

Rippling sends a return box with a prepaid shipping label for swift device return.

Judy’s device is sent to a secure warehouse to be cleaned, tested, and either stored or configured for the next new hire.

Layer advanced security controls in a few clicks

Because Rippling IT is a unified platform, it takes just a few clicks to layer in advanced security controls and implement frameworks like zero trust—without spending months configuring systems to work together. Because Rippling makes it easy to precisely target security policies based on user attributes, you can strengthen security without hindering employee productivity. The right users will always have the right level of access to company resources at the right time.

Here is a high level view of advanced security measures available with Rippling IT:

Streamlined setup: Customize and deploy protocols like device trust in minutes, not weeks, thanks to Rippling’s natively built IAM and MDM solutions.

Layered security: Easily implement SSO, role-based access controls, role-based MFA requirements, password federation, and other custom policies to enforce least privilege.

Precise targeting: Roll out precise security requirements and conditional access rules based on any combination of user and device attributes. As users join, transition, or leave, these dynamic membership lists will automatically update.

Consistent compliance: Meet compliance standards like SOC 2, GDPR, and more with audit-ready reports.

Endpoint security: Rippling has partnered with SentinelOne to provide zero-touch, built-in endpoint protection for threat detection and mitigation.

Cross-OS device management: Easily enforce strong password policies, automated patch management, OS updates, device encryption, and more, to ensure user devices are secure—no matter their operating system.

A deep dive into device trust

Rippling’s platform makes it easier for you to strengthen security at any stage of your company’s growth. Let’s take device trust, a key component of zero trust. Device trust ensures that users are only accessing critical infrastructure from secure, managed devices. However, this can be difficult to implement because you need to configure disconnected IAM and MDM solutions (or even multiple MDMs) to stay in sync, plus the challenge of distributing certificates to devices. It can take weeks, or months, for even mature IT teams to put in place.

With Rippling, it only takes minutes. Our natively unified IAM and MDM work in tandem from the start, and Rippling acts as the certificate authority—so you have zero maintenance costs. You can easily define rules using user attributes to target device trust. For example, you could say all engineers accessing Jira, AWS, and Github have to use a managed device, otherwise access will be denied.

You can also layer on additional conditional rules, like blocking access if a user has traveled a large distance at an impossible velocity, or if they sign in from an unauthorized IP address.

But device trust is just one example of how Rippling’s unified IT platform makes it possible to quickly layer in SSO, role-based access controls, zero touch installation for endpoint protection, password federation, dynamic MFA policies, and more—all of which strengthen your company’s security at any scale.

Less IT busy work and time spent worrying about security

Companies of all sizes use Rippling IT to grow their business securely and manage IT in a way that best meets their needs.

Longevity Consulting, a professional services firm of about 70 employees, used Rippling IT to clean up a SOC 2 audit and eliminate an onboarding process that once took a week. “We probably turned four or five negative findings from our SOC audit into positives just by moving to Rippling. It was that simple,” says Andy Phelps, CTO at Longevity Consulting. “I’ve gone from a week’s worth of work to 10 minutes. I can push a button, add the people in, and the laptops automatically get ordered, shipped, delivered, access granted.”

Sandbox VR, a 600-person immersive entertainment company with locations worldwide, uses Rippling IT to automate device management and app provisioning across its distributed workforce. “We’re always trying to move quickly, and time is money. Without Rippling centralizing IT and HR, I’d be spending up to a full extra day on new hires, just on provisioning app access alone,” says Shannon Saunders, Manager of People Ops at Sandbox VR.

Go-Forth Pest Control, a 315-person company, manages 26 service locations and 300 devices with a lean IT function that once spent 20–30 hours a week on access and device issues. With Rippling IT, that’s down to five. “What used to be a 10–15 person scramble across spreadsheets and apps is now largely automated in Rippling—from account creation to app access—so onboarding actually happens on time without us herding cats,” says Josh Baker, Process Improvement Director at Go-Forth Pest Control.

How Rippling IT compares to point solutions

There are strong products in every corner of IT, but then you’re looking for a point solution and hopefully you are able to integrate the platforms. Rippling IT doesn’t try to win on any single capability in isolation. It is the combined nature of Rippling IT that differentiates it from other solutions on the market, especially with the ability to integrate your HCM data no matter what platform you are using. So, the real question most IT teams face isn’t whether my point solution handles identity well, but it’s whether their identity layer responds automatically when an employee’s role changes, whether their MDM knows to lock a device when someone is offboarded, and whether any of that happens without a manual trigger or a runbook someone has to remember to run. Point solutions leave that connective work to IT.

For teams already invested in specific tools, Rippling can also integrate alongside existing infrastructure rather than replace it. The right starting point depends on where the biggest operational gaps are.

Get started with better IT management today

You have the option to connect Rippling IT to your existing external HRIS/IdP, or you can use the full power of Rippling and combine our IT and HR solutions for maximum impact.

Unifying your HRIS and IdP creates a single source of truth for real-time employee data, enabling IT and HR to work in lockstep. A single source of truth for employee data makes it easy to navigate the entire employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between together.

Sign up for a free trial or request a live tour to see how any part of your business can run better with Rippling, whether you start with our IT, HCM, or Payroll solutions.

Schedule a demo with Rippling IT today
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Deel

Introducing the Deel App for Claude

Deel adds a native Claude app that answers global work questions from real compliance and payroll data, and lets customers act on contracts, PTO, pay, onboarding, and worker data directly in chat.
The Deel app is now on Claude, providing real answers about global work and the power to act on them, right in the chat.

Your team is already asking AI about global work. The problem isn't which AI, it's what the AI knows.

"What does it cost to hire a full-time engineer in Brazil?"

"What's the notice period for terminating an employee in France?"

"Should I hire through EOR or set up a local entity in Singapore?"

"How do benefits packages compare across Southeast Asia?"

The answers are rarely right and may contain outdated figures or lack real compliance data. It’s guesswork where verified intelligence should be—because the data isn't there.

The AI isn't the problem. The data behind it is. So we brought Deel’s global compliance expertise to your favorite AI platforms. Grounded in $22B+ in annual payroll, seven years of real workforce transactions, and thousands of regulatory data points from 150+ countries, Deel’s knowledge is now a native integration away in Claude, joining our ChatGPT integration.

Anyone can plan—no Deel account needed.

Ask anything about global work and get answers from real data, not training figures. Supported topics include hiring costs across countries (EOR vs. entity, contractor vs. full-time), compliance and classification rules, take-home pay or total employer cost, local norms for remote work, benefits, and equity.

Deel clients accelerate from planning to action.

Connect your Deel account and act without leaving the chat — permissions and approval flows follow your existing setup. Start contracts, approve PTO and off-cycle pay, track onboarding, and look up worker data in seconds.

Built on MCP, ready to grow.

The Deel app uses the Model Context Protocol, an open standard that connects any AI assistant to real systems through user permissions. Deel does exactly what your permissions allow: read-only when you're researching, write-enabled when you're authenticated, with every action tied to your session. As AI advances, Deel will be there — new capabilities, new surfaces, new ways to work.

Your data stays yours.

Your data is never used to train AI models. Use two clear modes: without a login—explore questions without Deel data access. Connected account—anything that touches your data requires authentication, and the app passes only what the request needs, scoped to your permissions. Learn more at trust.deel.com.

AI is only as good as its data. Deel answers from the data we run: real payroll and compliance across 150+ countries.

Get started

Open your Claude app, go to Connectors, and search for "Deel."

Ask anything about global work, no Deel login needed. If you're a Deel customer, Claude can prompt you to connect your account so you can take action too.
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Paylocity

Introducing Paylocity Ignite AI

Paylocity introduces Ignite AI, an embedded platform experience that adds automation, insights, and guided actions across HR, Finance, and IT. It brings AI agents, smarter recruiting, pay and time error checks, faster finance workflows, and the Ignite AI Hub for visibility and control.
Today, we're excited to announce Ignite AI, the next evolution of AI at Paylocity. It’s embedded throughout the platform, bringing data, insights, and automation into the moments where decisions are made and work gets done. For teams across HR, Finance, and IT, that means less time chasing information, correcting errors, and building reports — and more time focused on employees and strategy.

What we consistently hear from clients and business leaders is a desire for practical outcomes, clear direction, and technology that makes teams more efficient without creating more work. With Ignite AI, we go beyond telling you what’s happening to actually doing something about it.

“It actually feels like I have another team member supporting me. Manual processes are a time suck, and Ignite AI turns things that would be a 5 to 10 minute process into a 30-second question or resolves them on its own.”

Genevieve Gonnigan, VP of HR & People and Culture at Lincoln Park Zoo

Purpose-built agents that give you time back in your day

Our agents automate repetitive tasks and catch errors proactively across processes like recruiting, pay, and time — freeing you for the work that needs your expertise and judgment.

Smarter recruiting and hiring

Match candidates with specific role needs and requirements for review.

Surface existing leads who may be a fit for new roles to re-engage faster.

Extract relevant skills and experiences from resumes for easier screening.

Automate candidate engagement and interview scheduling to hire efficiently.

More automation across pay & time

Resolve time errors and corrections before they impact payroll.

Proactively address employee data errors and gaps.

See payroll shifts and trends so you can take action.

Smoother processes for finance & employees

Capture expenses from receipts and populate reports quickly and accurately.

Auto-fill procurement requests and automate collaboration for faster approvals.

Fill invoice data into current bill form and match to the correct purchase order.

Powerful answers and analysis for everyday business questions

Get instant answers and powerful insights without the legwork. You can delegate questions from employees, last-minute report requests, data questions, and just about anything else you can think of. And you get clear context and direct links to source data behind every answer if you want to dig deeper.

Ask and answer just about any question—including company policies, IRS regulations, Department of Labor rules, and Paylocity product questions.

Stop building reports, and turn data analysis into a conversation.

Dig deeper with follow up questions, and get summaries, tables, and graphs.

Take action by initiating workflows right from chat

A higher standard of visibility and control

Your ability to see, understand, and control how AI operates inside the platform is essential. That's why we're introducing the Ignite AI Hub, a central place to manage AI in Paylocity so you can use and scale it with confidence.

Measure actual business impact and productivity gains from AI.

Control which agents are active and who has access.

Monitor usage and adoption across teams and new opportunities for automation.

Built on trust

Across every part of the platform, we have the highest bar for data privacy, transparency, ethics, and security. Everyone sees only what their role and permissions allow, and every answer links back to source data, so you can always verify the work.

“The way Paylocity is weaving AI across the platform is better than anything I’ve seen in other systems. I’m so excited by the momentum I’m seeing and to be part of shaping it.”

Ryan Zimmerman, VP of Human Resources at POLYWOOD

Get started with Ignite AI

The vision behind Ignite AI is simple: make a real impact on your business and your day-to-day work. It builds on our purpose of helping HR, Finance, and IT execute better every day — and we're expanding it fast, with new experiences that feel natural, focus on high-value processes, and improve over time. Best of all, our clients are building it right alongside us.

If you’re not yet a Paylocity client, start the conversation to learn more about Ignite AI and the difference of our ONE platform for HR, Finance, and IT.

If you are, reach out to your Paylocity team opens in a new tab to be among the first to get new Ignite AI capabilities as soon as they’re available.
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Employment Hero

Week 29, 2026 | Release notes

Employment Hero releases a wide July update with Hero AI upgrades for sentiment insights, report and workflow creation, plus smarter HR, rostering, onboarding, recruitment, payroll, and OpenAPI tools that streamline admin work and automate more day-to-day tasks.
AI

Hero AI can now surface happiness survey scores, response rates, trends, and comment themes, helping admins, owners, and permitted managers understand employee sentiment faster while protecting anonymity in low-response surveys and in-progress survey periods. (Released: 16 July 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Automations

HR admins can now set dynamic audience rules for chat channels using groups, locations, or worksites, so the right employees are added automatically as organisational data changes. (Released: 14 July 2026, Employment Unlimited + Chat add-on customers)

Users can now ask Hero AI to build custom reports in plain language, with AI recommending the right modules and fields, checking for existing reports first, and pre-populating the report builder in one click. (Released: 13 July 2026, Premium, Platinum, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited, and HR Elite plans)

Workflow users can now describe a process in plain English and have AI generate a workflow with triggers, conditions, and actions, making workflow creation much faster for admins who do not know workflow logic in detail. (Released: 14 July 2026, Global workflow users)

Core HR

Contractor profiles now display assigned policies and their status, making it easier for admins to review contractor compliance information without leaving the file. (Released: 16 July 2026, All plans)

Admins can now edit uploaded contractor documents and view document details in a way that better matches the employee file experience. (Released: 16 July 2026, All organisations)

People List search now supports worker code, helping teams find employees more quickly and combine that search with other filters. (Released: 16 July 2026, All regions)

HR admins can now create and issue documents that only require recipient signatures in Doc Studio, simplifying document workflows where an employer signature is not needed. (Released: 14 July 2026, Global, Doc Studio only, Engage, Elite and Unlimited)

HR Rostering & Timesheets

Roster managers now see clearer public holiday indicators across roster and timesheet views, helping reduce the risk of scheduling shifts on public holidays by mistake. (Released: 15 July 2026, Organisations using advanced rostering)

HeroAI chat can now help employees and managers complete common timesheet tasks, such as copying timesheets, checking variances, reviewing overtime, sending reminders, and jumping to approvals or reports without leaving the chat. (Released: 14 July 2026, Employees and managers with Hero AI chat access)

Hero Time Clock now makes facial recognition enrolment easier by letting employees enrol directly at the kiosk, while giving admins better visibility of enrolment status and tools to send reminder emails. (Released: 15 July 2026, Unlimited, Unlimited Lite, Plus, and organisations with the T&A add-on)

Rostering Management now updates overnight shift end dates automatically when a shift runs past midnight, and success notifications on roster and timesheet pages can now be dismissed when no longer needed. (Released: 14 July 2026, Organisations using advanced rostering)

ITOps & Security

Returning users invited to a new organisation can now sign in with their existing credentials and have onboarding details securely prefilled from prior records, reducing friction and preventing accidental password overrides. (Released: 15 July 2026, Existing account holders invited to join an organisation)

Company feed permissions now support location and worksite scopes, giving admins more precise control over who can post to selected audiences. (Released: 14 July 2026, Demo, Platinum, Unlimited, Elite plans, all regions)

Digital Onboarding

HR admins and owners can now choose whether onboarding custom fields are completed by the employee, the employer, or both, helping keep sensitive or organisation-managed information in the right hands during onboarding. (Released: 16 July 2026, Global)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

OpenAPI now supports approving and declining form responses programmatically, helping teams action response workflows without relying on manual steps in the platform. (Released: 13 July 2026)

OpenAPI now supports creating, updating, and deleting forms programmatically, giving integration teams end-to-end form management outside the UI. (Released: 15 July 2026)

OpenAPI now supports publishing draft forms, assigning forms, closing active forms, and archiving forms through lifecycle action endpoints. (Released: 14 July 2026)

OpenAPI now supports creating, updating, deleting goals, and uploading attachments, helping teams manage OKR workflows from external strategy and planning tools. (Released: 13 July 2026)

OpenAPI now supports creating, updating, and deleting key results under goals, helping integration teams manage OKR milestones programmatically. (Released: 13 July 2026)

OpenAPI now supports key result archive management and status updates, enabling programmatic progress check-ins and lifecycle control. (Released: 16 July 2026)

OpenAPI now supports real-time webhook events for goals and key results, allowing integrations to react immediately when records are created, updated, or deleted. (Released: 15 July 2026)

OAuth 2.0 authorisation code flows are now more secure with PKCE support, updated documentation, and stronger credential handling rules for token requests. (Released: 16 July 2026)

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

Integration partners can now write employee custom field values through the public API, helping complete onboarding end-to-end without manual UI data entry. (Released: 14 July 2026, Global)

Payroll

Payroll admins can now filter pay run employee lists by one or more tags, reducing manual cross-checking during pay run review. (Released: 15 July 2026, Payroll Admins, Restricted Access Users)

Performance Management

Review period statuses on the web now correctly show as Ended when a review can no longer be actioned, with ended reviews opening in view-only mode for clearer status parity with mobile. (Released: 13 July 2026, Global, Premium, Platinum, Plus, Unlimited, Engage, Elite)

Platform Experience

Timesheets Management and Expenses Management now show the most common row actions directly in each table row, with remaining actions grouped in an overflow menu to reduce clutter and make frequent actions easier to reach. (Released: 16 July 2026, Starting with Timesheets Management and Expenses Management)

Platform Experience / Mobile

Employees can now long-press a colleague’s avatar or name in chat to open a compact profile preview showing details like job title, location, and local time, making it easier to understand who they are messaging without leaving the conversation. (Released: 13 July 2026, HR users)

Recruitment

Recruiters and hiring managers can now send candidates a self-scheduling interview link with real-time attendee availability, helping interviews get booked faster with fewer scheduling conflicts. (Released: 13 July 2026, Recruiters and hiring managers)

Hiring managers can now see contextual pipeline banners highlighting qualified Employment Hero candidates and quickly invite them to AI video interviews using free monthly credits. (Released: 16 July 2026, Recruiters and Hiring Managers)

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Paylocity

What’s New Blog | June 2026

Paylocity releases June 2026 updates across Performance, Employee Voice, Expense Management, and Marketplace, adding multiple approvers for review workflows, survey reminders, custom field entry in card expense reports, and side-by-side integration comparison.

June 2026 releases: Multiple approvers for reviews, Employee Voice reminders, and more.

In June, Paylocity released enhancements to performance reviews, Employee Voice, expense reporting, and Marketplace – making it easier to drive accountability, capture valuable feedback, improve data accuracy, and find the right solutions for your business.

Performance

Customize review approvals

Include multiple approvers in performance review workflows to align with company policies and provide the appropriate level of organizational oversight. This added flexibility helps ensure a more consistent, fair, and high-quality review process while supporting better decision-making and accountability.

Employee Voice

Drive greater employee engagement

Increase survey launch rate and make the most of employee feedback with proactive reminders to help encourage survey setup and launch. These enable you to gather valuable insights into employee sentiment and engagement, increase survey adoption, improve readiness, and help unlock greater value from Employee Voice through richer employee engagement data and insights.

Expense Management

Improve expense reporting accuracy

Add custom field values directly within physical card expense reports to ensure all required information is captured at the point of entry. With the ability to enter custom field details within the report, organizations can improve data precision, support compliance requirements, and drive more consistent reporting for better visibility and decision making.

Marketplace

Compare integrations with confidence

Compare integrations side by side in Marketplace to quickly evaluate pricing, features, and ratings in a single view. This streamlined experience makes it easier to discover, assess, and select the right integration for your business.

If you’re already a Paylocity client, visit the Product Training Catalog, or PEAK for more details:

Performance: Multiple Approvers

Employee Voice: Engagement Survey Nudges

Marketplace: Marketplace Integration Comparison

Want to learn more about these releases? Navigate to the Help Menu>What's New to find what is new for each product area!

Level up employee performance

Help your employees reach their full potential with modern performance management tools. From goal setting to personalized reviews and ongoing feedback, our solutions enable transparent, two-way communication and encourage employees to take ownership of their growth. Employees expect continuous development and support — give it to them with Performance Management from Paylocity.
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HR and People Ops Release Notes

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Latest HR and People Ops Updates

Week 33, 2026 | Release notes

AI

Automations

Core HR

HR Rostering & Timesheets

ITOps & Security

OpenAPI & Developer Experience

Payroll

Performance Management

Platform Experience

Recruitment

Rostering & Timesheets

From unchecked AI spend to complete control: How Rippling built AI Spend Console

AI Spend Console

AI token spend was growing 80% MoM

First, we did a “go and see”

Building our AI infrastructure

Step 1: Getting all the data in one place

Step 2: Building dashboards

Step 3: AI Gateway

Step 4: AI captains

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What's coming to Deel in August

Deel HR

Improved AI experience in Deel Plugin

HRIS

Global hours-worked time off accrual

Teammate time-off overlap visibility

AI-powered org chart edits

Engage

Instant feedback from Slack

Bulk goal editing via CSV

AI goal suggestions

Configurable review cycle timelines

Talent

Email conversations available in Talent

Deel Benefits

Native mobile benefits management

Benefits enrollment notifications and reminders

Deel Payroll

Oracle Fusion HCM integration

Redesigned mass edit upload flow

Single source of truth for compensation data

Unified mass onboarding experience

Employer of Record

Self-serve Expense Card withdrawals

Automated expense reconciliation

Contractor

Enable extension flow for COR contracts

Deel IT

CrowdStrike and asset tracker serial matching

Self-serve guided MDM onboarding

Guided self-serve IAM onboarding

Deel Mobility

Visa eligibility tool

Deel Platform

External document e-signatures

New landing page with modular elements

Inline minimum wage guidance

Total rewards portal for everyone

Unified AI automation canvas

AI-suggested folder templates

Enhanced expense review experience

Conditional approval policies

Faster, modernized org chart

Enhanced org chart visibility settings

Time Tracking widget

Quick actions on worker profile

AI-powered form prefill from documents

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