HR done
in a snap.
Run payroll. Check compliance. Shortlist applicants. Ask in plain English and roothr.ai does the work from your live HR data, then waits for your approval.
September payroll is prepared for 24 staff. Three changes since August need a look before I submit.
- New starter: Amina R. — first pay pro-rated from 14 Sep
- Salary change: Jack A. — £32,000 → £34,500
- SSP: Priya S. — 4 qualifying days
- ISO 27001 · ICO registered
- UK hosted and UK processed
- Your data is never used to train third-party models
- A named person approves every action
Hire an agent
Eight agents. One for each part of the month.
An HR agent, a payroll agent, a compliance agent and five more. Each supports the person who owns that job, so the same team gets more done. All eight are in every plan.
HR agent
People operations
Keeps every employee record, contract, probation and policy up to date, and chases what is missing.
Payroll agent
Monthly pay run
Builds the run from live records, explains every change since last month and waits for your approval.
Compliance agent
Employment compliance
Checks pay, hours, holiday, contracts and training against the rules, and keeps the evidence.
Immigration agent
Sponsor licence and right to work
Watches right to work dates, sponsored workers and reporting windows, and drafts what UKVI needs.
Accounting agent
Payroll bookkeeping
Turns each approved run into the journal, the liabilities and the cost report your accountant expects.
GDPR agent
Employee data protection
Runs retention, subject access requests and access reviews on the employee data you hold.
Recruitment agent
Hiring
Screens applicants against the role, books interviews and drafts the offer, with right to work checked first.
Rota agent
Shifts, leave and cover
Builds the rota, checks leave against minimum cover and finds the cheapest way to fill a gap.
What you can ask
If it lives in your HR, you can ask for it.
“Run October payroll and show me anything that changed since last month.”
Payroll“Which sponsored workers have a right to work check due in the next 60 days?”
Compliance“Has anything happened this month that I need to report to UKVI?”
Reporting“Shortlist care assistant applicants who already have the right to work.”
Recruitment“Draft an offer letter for the care assistant role at £24,500, starting 3 November.”
People“Approve Tom's leave request if it doesn't leave the Friday shift short.”
LeavePayroll
Payroll you approve, not assemble.
roothr.ai gathers hours, absences, starters, leavers and salary changes from your live records, prepares the run and explains every difference from last month in plain English. You read, question and approve.
- Pro-rata, SSP and SMP worked out and shown
- Every change since the last run listed with its reason
- FPS and payslips produced on approval
Compliance
Ask if you are compliant. Get a real answer.
It checks sponsored workers against your sponsor duties, right to work dates, CoS end dates and reporting deadlines, then tells you exactly who needs what and by when.
- Sponsor licence, RTW and CoS checked in one question
- Reportable changes flagged inside the 10 working day window
- Audit snapshot exported whenever UKVI asks
Recruitment
Hire with the checks already done.
Ask for a shortlist and get candidates ranked against the role, with right to work status checked before anyone is invited in. Offer letters and onboarding start from the same conversation.
- Applicants screened against your role criteria
- Right to work verified before interview, not after offer
- Offer letter, contract and onboarding tasks created on approval
HR
Every answer comes from your live data.
Nothing is guessed. roothr.ai reads the employee records, rotas, leave and documents that live in your own account, and it shows you where each answer came from.
- One record per person, used by payroll, compliance and hiring
- Role permissions respected, so people only see what they should
- UK-hosted, ISO 27001 and GDPR aligned
One application
Six parts of the job. No second system.
AI assistant
Ask for the outcome. The assistant does the work and waits for approval.
Payroll management
A full UK payroll run, prepared and explained before you approve it.
HR and people
Records, contracts, leave, rotas and onboarding in one employee file.
UKVI compliance
Sponsor duties, right to work and reporting windows watched daily.
Recruitment
Shortlists ranked against the role, with right to work checked first.
Control and security
Approval on every action, a full audit trail and UK hosting.
Why teams switch
For finance and payroll leads
Payroll stops being a week of spreadsheets. You ask for the run, read the changes and approve it, usually before the kettle boils.
For sponsor licence holders
“Are we compliant?” finally has a straight answer, with the names, dates and duties behind it, ready to hand to an auditor.
For HR managers
Requests, reminders and letters that used to eat the afternoon get drafted, sent and chased for you, and you stay in charge of every send.
How it works
Three steps. You keep the last one.
- 1
Ask
Type the job the way you would say it to a colleague. Payroll, compliance, leave, letters, reports.
- 2
It works
roothr.ai reads the relevant records, does the calculation or the check, and shows its working.
- 3
You approve
Nothing is paid, sent or filed until a named person clicks approve. Every action is logged.
Vision and mission
Small teams, running large organisations.
Vision
Our vision is to enable small teams to manage and grow large organisations through one connected, intelligent ecosystem. By unifying people, operations, technology, data, services and compliance, Root HR creates a single foundation for greater visibility, control and efficiency across the entire organisation.
Mission
Our mission is to bring together people, payroll, compliance, operations, technology, hardware and trusted partner services into one intelligent, data-driven platform. We help organisations automate routine work, improve decision-making, maintain continuous visibility and compliance, and manage their entire workforce and operations with greater control and efficiency.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Is roothr.ai a complete system or an add-on?+
A complete system. Employee records, payroll, immigration compliance and hiring all live in roothr.ai, and the assistant works across them. There is nothing else you have to buy to run a month.
Do we have to leave the HR system we use now?+
Only if you want to. roothr.ai runs on its own, and it also works alongside partner platforms such as Root HR, so a team already running there can connect instead of migrating. We will move your records either way.
Does it actually run payroll on its own?+
It prepares the run, explains the changes and produces the payslips and HMRC submission, but a named person approves every payroll. Nothing is paid or filed without that approval.
What data does it see?+
Only what the person asking is allowed to see. A line manager gets their team; a director gets the company. Answers show their source so you can check them.
Where is the data processed?+
In the UK. We are ISO 27001 certified, ICO registered and GDPR aligned, and prompts and answers are not used to train third-party models.
What does it cost?+
Plans start at £39.99 a month for up to 10 people, £149.99 for up to 50 and £349.99 for up to 100, with every feature in every plan. More than a hundred people is priced with you.
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