What I got wrong about AI in HR - and what finally worked | AI in HR

Souleimen Ach · 2026-05-24T15:10:01.815946Z

I'm a HR professional and a tech-savy person and when I started building AI agents for our People function, I made every mistake:Picked a flashy platform that forced my team to leave Gmail. Adoption: 0%. Framed it as "save HR 20% time" instead of "remove entire categories of work." Treated chatbots and real agents as the same category. They're not. Tried to convince skeptics with demos instead of letting one early win do the talking.What finally worked:Pick the ONE workflow eating your team's weekBuild the agent inside the tool they already use — never a new platformSet the bar at "good enough to ship with 30 min review," not "perfect"Measure removed work, not added workLet early users sell the rest of the team. Don't pitch internally.We now have agents handling onboarding plans, JDs, performance scoring, and L&D kit production. Senior team's strategic output is up, not because they have more hours, but because their hours aren't fragmented anymore.Want to go deeper?🔗 See what we're building → aiydou.com 🎁 Test all 4 agents free (first 20 sign-ups, no credit card) → aiydou.gumroad.com/subscribe📅 Live training session — "Deploying AI agents in HR, end to end" → https://www.linkedin.com/events/7459682079761543168/What's the ONE workflow you'd kill first if you could?

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