The autonomous workforce OS · CHE live · 2026

Leaders lead.
Your best people stay.

PeopleAura is the autonomous workforce OS. Agents handle every administrative interaction — onboarding, reviews, policies, equipment, retention — so your HR manager stops juggling tabs and your leaders stop losing the people they cannot afford to lose.

Built ingest-first, with agent-built connectors for your stack, deployed in four weeks. No unified-API resellers. We build the capability we sell.

Hire
Offer signed
Onboard
Day-1 ready
Equip
Tools + access
Coach
1:1s + reviews
Develop
Skills + assessments
Retain
Stay-interviews + signals
Celebrate
Right-seat moments
Exit
Graceful pathway
Autonomous, not assistive
Ingest-first
Agent-built connectors
4-week deployment
The Problem

HR is still run on twelve tabs and a sticky note.

Your HR manager juggles Paycom, Employee Navigator, your benefits broker portal, your training platform, your assessment vendor, your file shares, and a folder of PDFs nobody reads. Your leaders find out their best people are leaving from their resignation email.

01

Your best people leave before you see it coming

Departure signals exist for months — disengagement, missed 1:1s, withdrawn pulse responses. Nobody is reading them.

02

Leaders spend half their week on admin instead of leading

Onboarding handoffs, performance writeups, policy chase-downs, exit interviews. The leadership tax is invisible — and enormous.

03

HR runs on a tab economy

Twelve systems. None of them talk. The HR manager is the integration layer.

04

Compliance trails reality

Acknowledgments unsigned, accommodations undocumented, terminations under-evidenced. Audit risk grows quietly.

05

Frontline employees are second-class users

Most HR software is built for the office. Crews, drivers, technicians, and field leads get a portal they never log into.

06

Field leaders lack real-time crew health

Equipment status, certifications expiring, who is on the truck today — buried across phones, spreadsheets, and memory.

This is not a software gap. It is a workforce-operating-system gap.

Market Gap

Most HR software serves the back office. Very little serves the work.

CategoryWhat it does wellWhere it breaksServes firstWhere PeopleAura fits
Compound HR platforms
Rippling, Paycom, ADP
Payroll, benefits, compliance coreCluttered UX, mobile-thin, chatbot-only AI, zero vertical opinionOffice-first HR teams in horizontal SaaS companiesThe autonomous workforce layer ON TOP of the system of record
Engagement & performance tools
Lattice, 15Five, Culture Amp
Surveys, review cycles, OKR trackingNo HRIS core; flight-risk is reporting, not actionEngagement-budget ownersPredictive Retain Engine + autonomous intervention
Field-services / frontline platforms
Sona, Crew, Workyard
Mobile-first frontline toolingNarrow utility; no people-ops surface; no agent autonomyFrontline ops teamsWorkforce OS that includes the frontline as a first-class user
Assessment + coaching tools
DISC, StrengthsFinder, Gallup, PI
Behavioral dataOne-shot reports that go in a drawerL&D buyersMulti-assessment ingestion that becomes operational signal

PeopleAura does not ask you to throw away Paycom or your assessment library. It absorbs them, makes them legible, and builds the autonomous layer on top.

Architecture

A simple workforce OS. A far larger operating system for people-ops.

Layer 01

Ingest + Record

Every employee, every signal, on one record.

  • One unified person record
  • Multi-tenant by design
  • Native connectors per stack
  • File upload as universal fallback
  • Behavioral data ingest
  • Industry templates
  • Audit-event-native
  • Spanish by default
  • Mobile-first surfaces
Layer 02

Agent Workforce OS

Agents do the blocking and tackling. Humans approve what matters.

  • Autonomous onboarding + offboarding
  • Reviews drafted, you sign off
  • Policy + acknowledgment workflows
  • Stay conversations on cadence
  • Risk signals routed to leaders
  • Equipment + fleet workflows
  • Compliance posture, always on
  • Human gates on the work that matters
Layer 03

Retain Engine + Industry Infrastructure

The people-ops infrastructure operators deserve.

  • Predictive retention
  • Structured exit pathways
  • Recognition that lands
  • Vertical agent depth
  • Multi-entity rollup
  • Compliance Observatory
  • Compounding integration library
  • SOC 2 audit posture

Most companies buy point solutions. PeopleAura compounds into infrastructure.

Experience

Simple in the field. Rigorous in the system.

Crew chief — mobileOnline

Today's crew — 3 people

  • Marcos Rivera
    Truck 4
    Ready
  • Devin Park
    Truck 2
    Offsite
  • Sara Klein
    Office
    Remote
Clock inEquipmentRecognition

A crew chief should understand PeopleAura in three taps. If it is not lighter than the group text, it fails.

Tanika — Retain EngineThis week
8
Risk signals to read
12
Stay conversations
94%
Policy acks current
3
Reviews awaiting you
5
Recognition moments
2
Exits in motion

The HR manager does not need more noise. The HR manager needs a system that says who is leaving, what would change their mind, and what only you can do about it.

Departure prediction — routedRouted

Field Tech #4 — risk surfaced

  • 1
    Engagement signal
    Trending down for four weeks
  • 2
    Stay conversation
    Logged. Drivers identified.
  • 3
    Routed lever
    One change only you can make
  • 4
    Field Manager (you)
    Decision pending
  • Awaiting
    1 decision · 1 conversation · 1 outcome

One person. One signal. One conversation. One outcome.

Deployment

From signed contract to live workforce OS in four weeks.

  1. 01Week 1

    Discover

    An agent crew scans your stack — payroll, benefits, field tools, assessments, training, file shares. We map every system, every PII surface, every quirk. You get a deployment plan with named connectors and named risks.

  2. 02Week 2

    Build

    We build your connectors. Not a unified-API rental — actual native integrations to your actual stack, written by orchestrated agents and reviewed by humans. We instantiate your industry template (construction-residential, trades, field-services, or custom).

    • Native connectors built for your stack
    • Industry template applied
    • Behavioral data ingested
    • Tenant isolation verified
    • Audit + compliance posture validated
  3. 03Week 3

    Validate

    Full sync, dry-run with sample personas, override rules tested. Your HR manager and one frontline lead pressure-test the workflow before any employee sees it.

  4. 04Week 4

    Go live

    SSO provisioned, mobile PWAs published, employees onboarded with Day-1 readiness. Stay-interview agent wakes up. Retain Engine begins watching.

  5. 05Always

    Compound

    Each new signal makes the next decision better. Each new vertical template strengthens the next deployment. The library of agent-built connectors becomes the moat.

Important

PeopleAura automates onboarding, reviews, policies, retention signals, and the workforce admin that consumes leadership bandwidth. Compensation, terminations, accommodations, and any change with legal or financial weight remain human-gated by design.

Why Now

The workforce OS moment.

Retention is the operating advantage

Replacement cost is rising, talent is scarcer, and the cost of losing your best person now exceeds the cost of running an entire HR function.

Frontline workers are the underserved majority

80% of the workforce works on their feet. 80% of HR software was built for office workers. The gap is the opportunity.

AI is finally useful — if governed

For drafting reviews, conducting stay-interviews, surfacing flight risk, and stitching connectors. Not for autonomous compensation, termination, or accommodation decisions. Every action audited, every high-risk move human-gated.

Operators want fewer systems, not more

The next generation of HR software absorbs incumbents. It does not add another tab to the toolbar.

The winners in workforce software will not be the loudest. They will be the ones that give leaders their week back and give the best people a reason to stay.

Pilot

Built in production, with operators.

Phase 0

Validation

  • Tanika 1-1s and HR magic-wand sessions
  • Live audit of CHE's nine-system tab economy
  • Lock the wedge around lived pain, not assumptions
Phase 1

Design Partner #1 — CHE (live)

  • 68 employees, 4 divisions, multi-entity
  • Construction-residential industry template
  • Live in production, on commercial-equivalent terms
  • Retain Engine in deployment
Phase 2

Design Partners #2–5

  • Two construction (residential + commercial) to harden the vertical
  • One adjacent field service (HVAC, plumbing, or landscape)
  • One multi-entity operator with 100–500 EE
  • Each gets agent-built connectors for their actual stack
Phase 3

Vertical expansion

  • Trades (HVAC / Plumbing / Electrical) via parent-child templates
  • Field services (cleaning, pest, landscape)
  • Manufacturing, healthcare, restaurants — Y2+
  • Distribution partnerships
Best early-fit customer

Design Partner Profile

  • 50–500 employees, mostly frontline
  • Multi-system stack (Paycom or ADP + benefits broker + assessments + training + file share)
  • Acute leadership-time pain or recent retention loss
  • Multi-entity or multi-location complexity
  • An HR manager (Tanika archetype) who would test on day one
  • Willing to be a named reference inside their vertical
How we measure pilot proof

Success Metrics

  • Live in production within 4 weeks of contract
  • >80% active usage by HR + leadership
  • >60% mobile activation across frontline employees
  • First Retain Engine intervention within 60 days
  • First graceful-exit pathway within 90 days
  • Clear signal on willingness-to-pay at the next tier
Business

A wedge that lands on day one. A platform that compounds.

Tier 01

Starter

File-upload core + audit-event-native + policy library + acknowledgments. For teams that want the audit posture and the leverage without the integration depth yet.

Tier 02

Connected

Starter + agent-built native connectors for your stack + multi-assessment ingestion + adaptive onboarding + industry template. The flagship deployment.

Tier 03

Operator

Connected + the full Retain Engine + custom agent libraries + priority enhancement queue. For operators where retention is the bet.

Future revenue layers
  • Vertical agent depth (construction, trades, field services, manufacturing)
  • Compliance Observatory
  • Multi-entity rollup for portfolio operators
  • Distribution partnerships
  • Certified-agent marketplace

The wedge lands through retention. The business compounds through workforce infrastructure.

Defensibility

From a single deployment to industry infrastructure.

  1. 01
    Frontline + leadership adoption
  2. 02
    Ingest-first data foundation
  3. 03
    Connector library per customer, owned by us
  4. 04
    Behavioral signal as operational data
  5. 05
    Retention as the core, not a module
  6. 06
    Vertical depth and templates
  7. 07
    Compounding integration surface
  8. 08
    Durable workforce-OS moat

PeopleAura gets stronger as more workforces flow through it. Not because of vanity metrics. Because every retained employee, every agent-built connector, and every industry template makes the next deployment faster, sharper, and harder to copy.

Mission

Make leadership lighter. Make staying easier.

The people who run the work — and the people who do the work — both deserve infrastructure that respects their time. Most HR software was built to satisfy compliance teams and busy executives. We are building for the HR manager who has been doing the job of twelve systems by herself, and for the leader who cannot afford to lose one more good person to bad admin.

Our north star is simple. Leaders should lead. The best people should stay. Everything we build is in service of those two outcomes.

We are not building software to admire the problem. We are building a workforce operating system that returns time, clarity, and dignity to the people closest to the work.

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