Start with what happened
Get the situation, the people involved, and what has already been tried on the table.
Mike Winkler · Chicago
This is where I publish the method, the builds, and the mistakes behind my AI in HR work. The specialty is narrow: auditable workflows for decisions a person still owns. I still start with the same unglamorous questions: What happened? Who has to decide? Who owns the next move?

I have 16 years of HR experience, including 10 years as an HRBP. Four and a half of those years were inside a high-growth fintech as it scaled and went public. I have worked through fast growth, shifting priorities, demanding leaders, and decisions that still have to hold up after the meeting ends.
A recommendation can sound finished in the meeting and fall apart on Monday when a manager asks who owns the next step or what evidence supports it. I pay attention to that part in consulting and coaching.
I also build. A source can surface an update and the work can still vanish somewhere between review, ownership, and closeout. I created HR Mission Control to test that handoff. It is my private R&D environment and reference architecture: a working example I test with public and made-up data. It is not an all-in-one HR product or product suite. I show what broke and label the difference between a working prototype and a finished company system.
I use OpenClaw for workflows that have to keep running, and ChatGPT, Codex, and Claude Code to build and review them. I pay attention to the handoffs. A worker that fails halfway through can leave a clean screen and unfinished work.
Get the situation, the people involved, and what has already been tried on the table.
End with a decision, a conversation to have, or something the team can put to use.
AI can organize, draft, compare, and flag. A qualified person owns employment decisions.
Start with a conversation
Bring the workflow that keeps reopening, the approval nobody can reconstruct, or the pilot that looked better in the demo. We will start there. No deck required.
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