Introducing roothr.ai: HR admin as a conversation

Most HR software is a very large form. You click into the payroll module, click into September, click into each employee, and the software faithfully records what you typed. It is accurate and it is slow, and the slowness lands on the same two or three people every month.

roothr.ai is our attempt to remove the clicking. It holds your people, payroll, compliance and hiring in one place and lets you ask for the outcome instead of driving the interface. You type “run payroll for September” and it prepares the run. You type “are we compliant?” and it checks your sponsored workers against your duties and tells you who needs what.

What it does on day one

• Payroll preparation. Gathers hours, absences, starters, leavers and salary changes, prepares the run and lists every change since last month with its reason.
• Compliance checks. Right to work dates, CoS end dates, sponsor duties and reportable changes, answered by name and date.
• People questions. Who is off, who is on probation, who has not signed their contract, and what is due this week.
• Drafting and chasing. Letters, reminders and messages from your templates, sent only when you say so.

The rule we will not break

Nothing is paid, sent or filed without a named person approving it. roothr.ai prepares, explains and waits. That is not a limitation we plan to remove later. Payroll and immigration compliance are areas where a wrong action costs real money and real people their jobs, so the human stays on the last step.

Who it is for

UK employers who carry the whole job on two or three desks: payroll on the last Friday, a sponsor licence that has to stay intact, hiring that never quite stops. roothr.ai holds all of it, so there is no second system to keep in step. Teams already running on our partner platform, Root HR, can connect their records instead of moving them.

Plans start at £39.99 a month, and we will set the first month up with you.