# roothr.ai

> The most powerful AI HR assistant for UK employers: run payroll, check UKVI compliance, shortlist applicants and answer people questions by asking in plain English. roothr.ai is the AI assistant layer on top of Root HR (roothr.co.uk), UK HR, payroll and UKVI sponsor compliance software. A named person approves every action.

roothr.ai is made by Root HR Ltd, Basildon, United Kingdom. It works on a business's existing Root HR account, data and permissions. It is in early access for Root HR customers.

Key facts:
- Product type: AI HR assistant / AI agent for HR, payroll, UK immigration (UKVI) compliance and recruitment
- Audience: UK employers, HR managers, finance and payroll leads, sponsor licence holders, small and medium businesses
- Interaction: plain English chat; the assistant prepares work, the person approves
- Data: live Root HR employee records, payroll, rota, leave, documents; UK hosted; ISO 27001; ICO registered; GDPR aligned
- Pricing: early access, contact info@roothr.co.uk

## Vision and mission
- 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.

## Product
- [Home](https://roothr.ai/): what you can ask, how it works, FAQ and early access
- [What you can ask](https://roothr.ai/#ask): example prompts for payroll, compliance, reporting, recruitment, people and leave
- [How it works](https://roothr.ai/#how): ask, it works, you approve
- [Vision and mission](https://roothr.ai/#vision): Small teams, running large organisations.
- [Early access](https://roothr.ai/#early-access): request access for a Root HR team

## Research
- [Roothr Lab](https://roothr.ai/research/): thesis, principles, six research programmes and the plan for small teams running big operations with AI

## Blog
- [Introducing roothr.ai: HR admin as a conversation](https://roothr.ai/blog/introducing-roothr-ai/): Why we are putting an assistant on top of Root HR, what it can do on day one, and the rule we will not break: a person approves every action.
- [Can AI run payroll? What it should and should not do](https://roothr.ai/blog/can-ai-run-payroll/): A practical line between the parts of payroll an assistant can do well today and the parts that must stay with a person.
- [Five sponsor compliance questions to ask your HR system every week](https://roothr.ai/blog/sponsor-compliance-questions-to-ask-weekly/): If you hold a sponsor licence, these are the questions that catch problems before UKVI does. Each one is a single sentence in roothr.ai.
- [Why roothr.ai is built on Root HR, not beside it](https://roothr.ai/blog/built-on-root-hr-not-beside-it/): An assistant is only as trustworthy as the data it reads. Ours reads one system, respects its permissions and shows its sources.

## Company
- [Root HR](https://roothr.co.uk): the HR, payroll and UKVI compliance platform roothr.ai runs on
- [Book a walkthrough](https://calendly.com/roothr/30min)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/roothr-uk/)
- Contact: info@roothr.co.uk, +44 1268 261181, 1T Southgate House, Basildon SS14 1BN, United Kingdom

## Optional
- [Full text for LLMs](https://roothr.ai/llms-full.txt): every page and post in one file
- [Sitemap](https://roothr.ai/sitemap.xml)