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Notes on payroll, compliance and building an assistant you can trust.
Product · 22 September 2026 · 4 min read
Introducing roothr.ai: HR admin as a conversation
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.
Payroll · 6 min read
Can AI run payroll? What it should and should not do
A practical line between the parts of payroll an assistant can do well today and the parts that must stay with a person.
Compliance · 5 min read
Five sponsor compliance questions to ask your HR system every week
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.
Engineering · 4 min read
Why roothr.ai is 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.