The company sees agents as expert collaborators with human employees.



Phenom launched a package of narrowly focused agents designed to tackle specific industry needs, job roles and use cases. The company said the agents will change how enterprises hire and develop employees by “collaborating” with HR teams. At the same time, Phenom launched a series of ontologies and an agent studio to facilitate creation of customized agentic solutions.

At a time when business strategies are dramatically changing and HR is under pressure to keep up, Phenom’s agents process enterprise data and apply complex reasoning to navigate business processes, make informed decisions and flag when human intervention is necessary.

“The future of AI is about collaboration — where machines unlock unprecedented efficiency and humans realize new levels of potential,” said Phenom co-founder and CEO Mahe Bayireddi. “This is how the world connects people with the right work and HR becomes more human.”


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A key to Phenom’s approach is its X+ Ontologies, company-specific ontologies that use enterprise data to enable the appropriate use of skills, tasks and work. The ontologies can identify areas of growth and attrition, model the financial impact of workforce decisions and identify opportunities for talent development, the company said.

By leveraging X+ Ontologies, X+ Agent Studio allows customers to deploy pre-built agents that don’t require set-up or custom development. The agents combine data and industry expertise to implement talent strategies. The studio includes a library of components designed to eliminate bottlenecks and drive efficiency, automation and augmentation.

Specific X+ Agents help users with hiring intelligence, automation, executive recruiting, coaching and onboarding and talent management, among other tasks.



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