AI agents for human resources (HR)

Empower employees, managers and HR professionals with enterprise-ready AI agents that work seamlessly with your existing systems.

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Put the "human" back into HR with agentic AI

Today’s HR teams are navigating a perfect storm: rising employee expectations, global talent shortages and a growing skills gap. Fragmented systems, manual processes and shrinking budgets slow them down.

AI agents for HR help HR leaders rise to the challenge. These intelligent, autonomous agents handle real work across systems—so your team can focus on what matters most: building a high-performing, engaged workforce. 

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Get an agent up and running. Here's how: 1 Build, extend and customize without code

Build AI agents on our intuitive interface, no coding skills required. Preview, optimize for your specific HR workflows, and deploy rapidly.

2 Connect to applications

Use prebuilt tools to bridge the gap between agents and common enterprise applications. These tools connect seamlessly to over 80 leading enterprise apps.

3 Deploy to your preferred channels

Manage authentication centrally across several APIs and systems with enterprise-grade security controls.

Accelerate HR transformation with enterprise-ready, prebuilt AI agents

AI agents for HR automate complex HR tasks across systems—securely, intelligently and at scale. Grounded in your data, they deliver fast, natural interactions through a single conversational interface.

Employees, managers and HR professionals get what they need—without switching tools or waiting for help. Backed by IBM’s own HR transformation experience, these customizable AI agents plug into your existing stack and accelerate smarter, more human-centric HR across employee support, hiring, performance and learning—no rebuilds required.

Meet your agentic AI HR team

IBM watsonx Orchestrate® delivers a new generation of AI agents—built to think, act and adapt across the employee lifecycle.

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Answer HR questions, manage time-off requests, retrieve payslips, guide employees through benefits, onboarding and more. These agents reduce ticket volume, improve satisfaction and save thousands of hours annually.

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Automate job requisitions, candidate sourcing, resume screening, interview scheduling and offer generation. These agents help recruiters hire faster, smarter and more fairly—while keeping candidates engaged.

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Identify skill gaps, recommend personalized training and automate learning workflows. These agents foster a culture of continuous growth and help employees take charge of their careers.

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Support goal setting, enable continuous feedback and streamline annual appraisals. These agents help managers and employees stay aligned, engaged and focused on growth—all year round.

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Answer HR questions, manage time-off requests, retrieve payslips, guide employees through benefits, onboarding and more. These agents reduce ticket volume, improve satisfaction and save thousands of hours annually.

Illustration of a started chat with follow-up questions from an AI assistant.

Automate job requisitions, candidate sourcing, resume screening, interview scheduling and offer generation. These agents help recruiters hire faster, smarter and more fairly—while keeping candidates engaged.

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Identify skill gaps, recommend personalized training and automate learning workflows. These agents foster a culture of continuous growth and help employees take charge of their careers.

Illustration of a person taking care of digital business, with help from AI assistant

Support goal setting, enable continuous feedback and streamline annual appraisals. These agents help managers and employees stay aligned, engaged and focused on growth—all year round.

How AI agents deliver value in HR
Faster HR service, happier employees

Resolve requests instantly—no more waiting on emails or ticket queues.

Eliminate app toggling

Give employees one conversational interface to get things done. Eliminate switching between tools.

Consistent, compliant support 

Ensure that every interaction follows company policy and local regulations—automatically.

Smarter hiring, stronger teams

Speed up recruiting with AI that automates sourcing, screening and scheduling—while improving decision quality.

More time for strategic HR 

Free your team from repetitive tasks so they can focus on culture, engagement and growth.

Your existing tech stack, enhanced

Integrate with your HR, IT and business tools, maximizing ROI and reducing complexity.

Integrations for the HR professional

IBM watsonx Orchestrate empowers HR teams to launch AI agents that work with 80+ leading enterprise apps, tapping into a broad set of tools and HR systems that companies use every day.

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IBM HR integrates with watsonx Orchestrate

IBM HR enhanced AskHR’s generative AI and agentic automation capabilities with watsonx Orchestrate, delivering measurable, enterprise-wide impact.

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IBM has infused nearly a decade of HR-focused AI and automation experience into watsonx HR agents. Are you ready to transform your HR experience?

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*Disclaimer

Calculated prices are estimates provided for planning purposes only taking into account potential IBM discounts, and are not a formal offer from IBM or an IBM Business Partner. The estimation may reflect the total discounted price. Certain factors such as configuration, add-ons, or additional requirements will affect final price. IBM Business Partners set and provide their own IBM watsonx Orchestrate pricing, and neither IBM nor IBM Business Partners are bound by the provided estimate. The results shown are based on certain assumptions, including USD 6 per digital conversation and USD 8 per voice conversation in the US market. The results of this tool are provided for illustrative purposes only, to help you determine whether to consider IBM watsonx Orchestrate as a business solution. The results are not based on actual data or statistical modeling, and may not be accurate or applicable to you. Actual results will vary based on your particular business conditions, usage and configurations and environment, among other factors. Results from the calculator should not be relied upon, and are not a guarantee or commitment regarding any potential or actual financial results or other benefits you may achieve. Actual ROI and benefit will vary depending on individual client configurations and conditions.