Mike Winkler · Chicago

I have spent 16 years in HR solving problems that do not arrive neatly packaged.

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?

Mike Winkler, HR advisor, HRBP coach, and workflow builder

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.

01

Start with what happened

Get the situation, the people involved, and what has already been tried on the table.

02

Name the next move

End with a decision, a conversation to have, or something the team can put to use.

03

Keep the tool out of the decision

AI can organize, draft, compare, and flag. A qualified person owns employment decisions.

Start with a conversation

Tell me what is getting in the way.

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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