Field notes on AI in HR, shadow AI governance, and building HRPulsar in the open.
We tested Jev, a new decision model from TypeSafe, against Claude on three tasks from our product. The first is tagging the steps of a business process with the capabilities they need. The second is telling the…
This week a post appeared on Hacker News: “Ask HN: How to break Claude Code addiction?”. The author is a professional developer who works remotely. By the end of the day he stops reading the code the agent writes and…
Scaling a business in the digital environment? Research indicates that a substantial majority of human resources professionals, approximately 70%, identify hiring as their most significant operational concern. Data from…
One onboarding checklist development path for everyone. That's how most companies still hire. Then they wonder why retention is a problem. What's changed? Well, the newer HR systems, the HRIS platforms, they’ve started…
Your hiring data is personal. Names, emails, job history, assessment results - people trust you with that, which means you're responsible for it. We get questions about this a lot: "Where does my data live? Who can see…
Our demo stopped working last Sunday morning.We found out only on Tuesday. What happened? Someone tried to sign up for a demo, got "Something went wrong. A server error occurred". We were building other features and…
Every founder asks: which HR tool should we use? The answer is always "it depends." But depends on what? Price BambooHR Gusto HR Pulsar $4-13/employee/month. Setup fees & implementation $6-19/employee/month. All-in…
The big one this release: recruiting that talks to the rest of the platform. Vacancies now inherit competences from your grade matrix instead of starting from a blank job description. Plus per-indicator calibration in…
When CEO asks a reasonable question: “How AI-capable is our team?” HR exports a spreadsheet. Columns appear: Department Role Seniority “Uses AI” — Yes/No Which is approximately as informative as evaluating engineering…
Your manager says: “Our team already uses AI.” Good start. But then you ask what that actually means. Usually the answer collapses immediately. One employee occasionally rewrites emails with ChatGPT. Another runs…
Most HR software assumes a surprisingly simple model of work. Employees exist Managers approve things Competencies live in dropdowns Org charts remain relatively stable Workflows are mostly human That model is already…
A Head of People opens the dashboard. Sees 214 employees. Asks a simple question: “Which AI tools are people actually using to do their work?” Silence. Not because the company has no AI adoption. The opposite. There’s…
