Department · HR / People

Protect employee data while automating people operations

Let agents support employees without exposing sensitive workforce data or making unauthorized decisions.

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The problem

HR agents frequently need access to highly sensitive records: compensation, health information, performance reviews, immigration data, investigations, and organizational changes.

A general-purpose employee assistant may appropriately answer a benefits question while having no reason to view another employee’s salary or performance history. Permissions must change based on who is asking, whom the data concerns, and the purpose of the request.

Agentic Fabriq enforces those distinctions.

The stakes

Why this is hard today

  1. 01An assistant that answers benefits questions connects to the same HRIS that holds salaries, health data, and investigations.
  2. 02Whether a question is okay depends on who’s asking and about whom — a static role can’t express that.
  3. 03A manager’s helpful assistant is one vague request away from another team’s performance reviews.
  4. 04When automation changes someone’s pay or status, there’s often no record of who actually authorized it.
Capabilities

How Fabriq helps HR teams

Limit agents to the requesting employee’s own records where appropriate.A benefits question resolves against the asker’s own eligibility data — the agent never needs, or gets, anyone else’s file.
Apply manager, HR business partner, recruiter, and executive access rules.The agent’s reach mirrors the human role it serves, so a manager’s assistant sees a manager’s slice and nothing more.
Separate access to compensation, performance, benefits, and investigation data.Each sensitive category is its own scope; access to one implies nothing about the others.
Require approval before an agent changes employment status, compensation, or access.People-impacting changes always pause for an HR approver, no matter how routine the request appears.
Restrict recruiting agents to approved candidate and interviewer information.Coordination runs on the data the process needs, without exposing unrelated candidates or internal records.
Remove agent access when an employee, contractor, or recruiter relationship ends.Access follows the relationship and ends automatically, instead of sitting on someone’s cleanup list.
Record how sensitive personnel actions were initiated and approved.Every status, pay, or access change carries who asked, which agent acted, and who approved.
In practice

Example workflows

logged

An employee assistant that can answer benefits questions using the employee’s own eligibility data.

Scoping to the requester’s own record makes “what’s my coverage” safe to automate at scale.

scope: scoped access

A recruiting agent that coordinates interviews but cannot reveal unrelated candidate records.

Scheduling data flows freely while other candidates’ records stay outside the agent’s scope.

approval: human approval

An onboarding agent that provisions approved resources based on role.

Provisioning follows the role’s approved resource list, with anything privileged escalating to IT or HR.

logged

A manager assistant that can draft performance feedback but cannot access another team’s reviews.

Drafting uses the manager’s own team data; another team’s reviews are simply unreachable.

Business value

Better employee service and HR productivity without turning a conversational interface into unrestricted access to workforce data.

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