FOR HR & PEOPLE OPS

Answer every policy question once

Benefits, leave, expenses, and onboarding questions answered instantly from your actual policies — with the source shown to the source document and privacy controls HR can stand behind.

Sound familiar?

The friction points every hr & people ops team knows

These are the recurring patterns we hear from hr & people ops leaders — and the ones BeforeQuery is built to remove.

01

The same 30 questions, every week, forever

PTO accrual, parental leave, expense limits, insurance enrollment — HR inboxes are a loop of questions the handbook already answers, and every reply is a small interruption.

02

Policies live in PDFs nobody opens

The handbook is a 90-page PDF on a drive somewhere. Employees ask a colleague instead, get a confidently wrong answer, and act on it.

03

Open enrollment and onboarding spikes bury the team

Twice a year, question volume triples for three weeks. New-hire cohorts each rediscover the same twenty questions in their first fortnight.

Capability 01

Ask HR in Slack or Teams

Employees ask in the tools they already use and get grounded answers from the current handbook, benefits guides, and policy pages — with a link to the authoritative document every time.
grounded answer · sources
answer

Priya’s Okta lockout can be cleared via self-serve MFA challenge — no IT intervention required. If MFA fails, escalate to IT on-call.

cited from
01
IT · Okta account lockout policy
runbook · updated 4d ago
02
HR · Emergency access procedure
policy · updated 2w ago
03
Ticket #48211 · priya · resolved
past ticket · similar match
Capability 02

Index the sources you already maintain

Upload policy PDFs directly or sync Notion, Confluence, SharePoint, and Google Drive. Update the policy once and every future answer reflects it.
approvals · pending 4
unlock okta account
priya.sharma · self-serve · read-only
denyapprove
refund $128.40
stripe · ord_A4b2c · manager approval
denyapprove
revoke prod IAM role
aws · role/analyst · step-up MFA
denyapprove
reset zoom SSO
kiran.mehta · self-serve
denyapprove
Capability 03

Privacy by design

PII in questions is masked before any LLM call, conversations stay isolated to your workspace, and SSO plus audit logs keep the deployment inside your identity and compliance perimeter.
context · priya.sharma
priyateamon-calloktagithubworkday
Capability 04

Spot the confusing policies

Gap analytics show which questions employees ask most and which the assistant could not answer well — a direct signal for which policies need a rewrite.
reports · this week
Auto-resolved
78.4%
+4.1 pt
Avg. loop time
11.4s
-2.1s
Approvals pending
12
-3
Coverage
94%
+1.2 pt
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Connected out of the box

Relevant sources for hr & people ops

SlackMicrosoft TeamsSharePointGoogle DriveNotionConfluenceFile uploads (PDF)
Enterprise-grade by default

The controls your security team is going to ask about

SOC 2 Type II
audited annually
GDPR
EU data residency
HIPAA-ready
BAA available
SSO / SAML
Okta · Entra · Google
SCIM 2.0
auto-provision
Audit log
every write, traceable
Bring your key
AES-256-GCM at rest
Bring your model
Anthropic · OpenAI · self-host
Zero training
your data stays yours
Rollback
every write reversible
TLS 1.3
in transit
99.9% uptime
SLA on Enterprise
FAQ

Frequently asked questions about hr & people ops

Can it handle sensitive questions appropriately?

The assistant answers policy questions from your indexed content and shows the source. Personal details in questions are masked before reaching the LLM, and for questions needing human judgment, the low-confidence fallback points employees to the right HR contact instead of improvising.

What if the answer differs by country or entity?

Source groups let you separate policies by region or entity and scope retrieval accordingly, so the leave-policy answer comes from the right jurisdiction's handbook.

Do employees need another login?

No. The Slack and Teams bots meet employees where they already are, and the internal Ask experience sits behind your existing SSO (SAML/OIDC).

How long does setup take?

Most teams are live the same day. Connect a source — a docs URL, GitHub repo, Notion workspace, or a file upload — and BeforeQuery crawls, normalizes, chunks, and embeds the content automatically. The website widget is a single script tag, and the Slack/Discord bots install in a few clicks.

Are answers backed by source paragraphs?

Yes. Every answer includes a structured sources list with the URL, title, and excerpt of each source used, so users can click through and verify any claim against the original document.

Is my content used to train AI models?

No. Your indexed content, semantic vectors, and conversations are isolated to your workspace and are only used to answer your own questions. Content is never shared across customers, and data is encrypted at rest and in transit.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. The Free plan includes 1 knowledge base and 100 AI questions per month — no credit card required. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial, and Enterprise plans add SSO, audit logs, and advanced governance features.

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