Reviews & Comparisons
Hands-on, evidence-based evaluations of HR technology. We rank on fit and merit, rather than on who pays the most.
Can 70 Years of I-O Psychology Make Agents More Productive?
HR-tech vendors have borrowed personnel vocabulary for AI agents: job descriptions, onboarding, performance reviews, decommissioning. The method underneath those words has not made the trip. What is missing, and what I-O psychology already knows how to supply.
What Selection Research Says About Giving AI Agents a Personality
Persona prompts were tested against no persona at all, and the difference was nothing. The personnel selection literature reached a similar place about personality decades ago, and it points somewhere more useful.
Why a Seventy Year Old Technique Could Be the Key to Unlocking the Next Stage of AI Automation
Getting AI to do real work depends on writing down what your best people know. Industrial-organisational psychology has been solving that problem since the 1950s, and those methods apply directly to the problem AI teams now have.
Why the Price of AI Is Rising Instead of Falling, and What That Does to Workforce Plans
Three things landed within days of each other this month. Read together, they undercut an assumption most workforce plans depend on.
Why Most Work Platforms Still Cannot Let AI Agents Do Real Work
Most work software advertises AI. Very little of it can let an agent operate across the tools people use to get work done. What leaders should ask for, and what builders still have to ship.
The Best Payroll Software for Small Business in 2026
We compared the leading SMB payroll platforms on cost, setup time, tax compliance and how well they scale. Here is what held up.
Gusto vs. Deel (2026): Which Should Run Your Payroll?
These two get compared constantly, but they are built for different companies. Where each one wins, and how to pick without re-platforming later.