AI-assisted HR workflow advisory · Chicago
I help HR teams fix the work behind hiring, policy, performance, and workforce decisions. AI may gather, compare, draft, and route. A person still needs to see the evidence and own what happens next.
From the test record
The earlier review and owner stayed with the first record. I changed how the workflow recognizes the same issue, then added a repeatable test. A clean audit trail attached to the wrong case is still wrong.
Read what failed and what changedIndependent mention: AI for HR Community described the OpenClaw workflow work in a public session announcement.
The same expected behaviors held across the local test suite.
The workflow found every item in a small source set I had already checked by hand.
The prototype completed 240 requests without a failure during a five-minute test.
Ways I can help
Bring the workflow that keeps reopening or collecting side spreadsheets. We will diagnose it, redesign it, or review the pilot that is already running.
For one HR workflow that is slow, painful, or collecting workarounds.
I map the decisions, data, handoffs, and risks—then tell you where AI belongs, where it does not, and what to fix first.
See this serviceFor a workflow worth redesigning once the real problem is clear.
We define the approved inputs, AI tasks, human decisions, controls, outputs, and measures the team will use.
See this serviceFor an AI-assisted HR pilot that is running—or close enough to test honestly.
I review quality, corrections, time saved, failure modes, prohibited uses, and whether the workflow should scale, change, or stop.
See this serviceI do not build tools that make employment decisions. If a prototype is going anywhere near real company data or production, the client’s technology, security, privacy, and legal owners need to be in the room.
AI in HR · HR Mission Control
Someone still has to understand the update, decide what it means, give the work an owner, and make sure it gets finished. HR Mission Control is the private R&D environment and reference architecture I built to keep those steps together. It is not an all-in-one HR product. I publish non-sensitive notes about what I tested and what broke.
Things I tested, read, or got wrong.
A plain-English guide to tokens, models, context, reasoning, and how to control AI costs without stopping useful experimentation.
AI is removing HR tasks, but the larger shift is pulling HR closer to workflow design: what AI prepares, what a person owns, and whether the new process works.
An HR AI pilot should measure source quality, corrections, failure modes, stop conditions, prohibited uses, reviewer effort, and elapsed time.
Before I recommend anything
People usually arrive with a proposed solution. It may be a tool, a policy, or a meeting. These questions help me find the job underneath the request before we spend time fixing the wrong thing.
Use the printable workflow worksheetWhat is happening, who is dealing with it, and why does it matter now?
A useful process supports the person responsible for the call. It does not hide or replace them.
What meeting, decision, document, or task should be easier when we are done?
We test with realistic examples, look for failure points, and decide whether to keep going.
About Mike
Usually there is a deadline, incomplete information, competing interests, and a leader who still needs an answer. I spent 16 years in HR, including 10 as an HRBP and 4.5 inside a high-growth fintech as it scaled and went public.
I started building HR Mission Control because I wanted to see whether AI could take repetitive work out of an HR process without taking over the HR decision. I used public and made-up test data, found bugs, and documented the boundaries.
Before we talk
Bring me one consequential HR workflow that is slow, scattered, or already using AI without enough control. I can diagnose the current workflow, redesign it, or review a pilot before anyone decides to scale it.
No. I still do HR consulting and coaching. AI-assisted workflow design is the specialty, and sometimes the right answer is a better manual process or a difficult conversation. If AI does not earn its place in the answer, I will say so.
A small prototype for one specific job, tested with realistic examples and documented well enough for someone else to understand. It is the first version of the work, with clear limits. A company-wide system is a different job.
You tell me what is going on, what you have tried, and what would make the conversation useful. I will ask questions, give you an honest read, and suggest a next step. If I am not the right person, I will say so.
Start here
Bring the situation you keep reopening, the handoff that keeps breaking, or the idea you have not been able to explain clearly yet. We will figure out whether there is useful work to do. No pitch deck needed.
Email me or book a time Please do not send sensitive employee information.