THE PRACTICE

Six instruments. One workspace.

Built for the daily reality of People & HR. Toby is not a chatbot in a wrapper, it is six purpose-built tools, each citation-bound, audit-logged, and trained on the corpus its work demands.

INSTRUMENT · I

Cases

Every Employee Relations matter, on the record from day one.

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Investigations, PIPs, complaints, accommodations, terminations, each one a first-class case with a generated case number, party roster, status workflow, and every action chained into a tamper-evident audit log. The defensible record your counsel asks for, automatically.

Why this matters
  • When the EEOC calls six months from now, you export the case file in one click.
  • Pattern detection surfaces repeat respondents before the fourth complaint becomes a lawsuit.
  • Status transitions (open → active → pending review → closed) audit-logged with actor + timestamp.
Use it for
  • 01Workplace investigations (harassment, misconduct, policy violations)
  • 02Performance improvement plans + progressive discipline
  • 03ADA / religious / lactation / leave accommodation requests
  • 04Complaint intake, even when the complaint never escalates
  • 05Terminations with release language, final pay, COBRA
What's actually built
  • 01Auto case numbering (ER-YYYY-NNNN), atomic under Postgres advisory locks
  • 02Complainant / respondent / witness / manager / investigator party roles
  • 03Legal-hold flag freezes closure until counsel releases it
  • 04Case-scoped audit ledger: every interview note, draft, status change, party addition
  • 05Watch list: anyone appearing as respondent in 2+ cases over 180 days surfaces on the Compliance Overview
INSTRUMENT · II

Counsel

An employment lawyer on call.

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Ask any question on employment law, policy, or HR practice. Toby answers with jurisdiction-specific context, conservative tone, and primary-source citations. Trained on US federal and state employment law plus the major international jurisdictions HR teams actually deal with.

Why this matters
  • Outside counsel time drops by 60–80% on routine questions.
  • Every assertion grounded in statute, regulation, or case law you can verify.
  • PII redacted inline before any text leaves your tenant.
Use it for
  • 01Quick answers on FMLA eligibility, ADA accommodation, final pay rules by state
  • 02Drafting language for a one-off situation (severance carve-out, accommodation denial, return-to-office mandate)
  • 03Multi-state risk analysis when you're hiring or laying off across jurisdictions
  • 04Sanity-checking a manager's plan before they take action
What's actually built
  • 01Cite-bound answers, every claim links to a statute, regulation, agency guidance, or case
  • 02US federal: FLSA, FMLA, ADA, Title VII, ADEA, NLRA, WARN, COBRA, PWFA, ERISA
  • 03All 50 state regimes for final pay, leave, non-competes, salary history, pay transparency
  • 04Confidence scoring with auto-escalation prompt when low
  • 05Inline PII redaction, names replaced with [employee], [manager], [VP] before inference
EXHIBIT · TRANSCRIPTCONFIDENCE 0.91
HRBP · BERLIN OFFICE

Notice period for terminating [Engineer] in Bavaria? 3-year tenure, performance grounds.

TOBY · MEMO

Under §622 BGB, statutory notice for 3-year tenure is one month to month-end.1 Performance-based dismissal additionally requires the BetrVG works-council consultation if applicable.2 Written termination must be in original form (§623 BGB), email is invalid.

1 Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch §622
2 Betriebsverfassungsgesetz §102
INSTRUMENT · III

Workflow

Production-ready documents, pre-reviewed.

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Generate PIPs, terminations, severance agreements, offer letters, handbook policies, accommodation memos. Each draft is auto-reviewed against federal employment law, the relevant state's specific requirements, and your company handbook before it ever lands in your inbox.

Why this matters
  • What took outside counsel five days now takes 90 seconds.
  • Critical / warning / suggestion findings surface with citations and recommended fixes, every time.
  • Three-layer legal review runs on every document, every time. No skipped reviews because someone was in a hurry.
Use it for
  • 01Severance agreements with OWBPA-compliant ADEA carve-outs (21/45 day, 7-day revocation)
  • 02PIPs paired with the case object so progressive discipline lives in one record
  • 03Termination letters with state-specific final-pay language baked in
  • 04Handbook policy drafts checked for NLRA + state non-compete enforceability
  • 05Accommodation responses with interactive-process documentation
What's actually built
  • 01Pre-built generators: PIP, termination, severance, offer letter, warning, handbook policy, accommodation memo, complaint response
  • 02Mandatory legal_review pass with server-side JSON schema validation, Toby refuses to mark a document compliant unless the verdict parses
  • 03Three-dimensional review: federal law, state law, company handbook (if uploaded)
  • 04Auto-attached to a case when generated from inside one
  • 05Every draft logged in the audit ledger as 'generated' with model + cost + duration
INSTRUMENT · IV

Vault

Every HR document, intelligently indexed.

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Upload offer letters, severance agreements, NDAs, handbooks. Toby reads everything, surfaces conflicts, missing language, and risks. Bulk-analyze thousands of documents to find every NDA that may not survive McLaren Macomb, every handbook policy that contradicts a new state law.

Why this matters
  • Find the 23 outdated NDAs across 800 employees in 90 seconds.
  • When laws change, Toby tells you which of your existing documents are now non-compliant.
  • Restricted documents enforce role-based visibility at the database, not just the UI.
Use it for
  • 01Post-acquisition document harmonization (target company's NDAs, handbooks)
  • 02Annual handbook review against current state law
  • 03NLRB McLaren Macomb compliance sweep across existing severance + confidentiality agreements
  • 04Finding every offer letter with a non-compete in a state that just banned them
What's actually built
  • 01Bulk analysis across thousands of documents in a single workflow
  • 02Conflict detection between policies, contracts, and handbooks
  • 03Per-document retention rules per US/EU jurisdiction
  • 04Restricted flag: only admins + compliance officers can read (RLS-enforced)
  • 05PII flagging at ingest, documents containing SSN, DOB, comp data are marked
INSTRUMENT · V

Ledger

Employment law, beautifully organized.

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Reference articles on FLSA, FMLA, ADA, Title VII, ADEA, plus 50-state tables for final pay, at-will exceptions, non-compete enforceability, sick leave, salary history bans, pay transparency. Cited to primary sources. Updated as laws change.

Why this matters
  • Stop tabbing between five state DOL websites. Everything in one place, cited.
  • Federal floor vs. state requirement comparison on every topic.
  • Plaintiff-friendly states (CA, NY, MA, NJ) get dedicated treatment.
Use it for
  • 01Onboarding a new HRBP, give them the Ledger as their reference library
  • 02Pre-acquisition jurisdictional risk analysis
  • 03Annual compliance training prep
  • 04Quick sanity check before authorizing a one-off decision
What's actually built
  • 01In-depth articles with key takeaways + primary source links
  • 02State-by-state comparison tables, filterable by state and topic
  • 03Federal vs. state floor analysis built into every article
  • 04Versioned content with change-tracking, see what changed when laws updated
  • 05Risk flags on high-litigation topics (non-compete, mandatory arbitration, NDA confidentiality)
INSTRUMENT · VI

Intelligence

What changed since yesterday, and what it means for you.

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A regulatory feed that classifies every new EEOC bulletin, NLRB decision, and state DOL update, pushed to your inbox only when it touches your jurisdiction or your handbook. Plus the tamper-evident audit ledger that proves what you did and when.

Why this matters
  • You don't read 50 state DOL websites. Toby reads them and tells you what matters.
  • Pattern detection across cases shows you the second complaint about a manager, not the fourth.
  • Audit ledger is hash-chained: any tampering is detectable. Real signature, real chain.
Use it for
  • 01Quarterly compliance posture review (one place, every signal)
  • 02Litigation-readiness: prove the trail of every action taken on a case
  • 03Subpoena response: export a customer's audit log as signed CSV / JSON in seconds
  • 04Internal investigations into staffing patterns ("why are we seeing 3 PIPs from one manager?")
What's actually built
  • 01Daily regulatory-updates feed: agency bulletin → Claude classification → per-tenant notification fanout to matching jurisdictions
  • 02Pattern detection: repeat-respondent watch list with severity tiers (Watch / Elevated)
  • 03Append-only audit_events: UPDATE and DELETE revoked at the database role level
  • 04SHA-256 hash chain over canonical event JSON; prev_event_hash links every row
  • 05Standalone verifier (`npm run audit:verify -- <orgId>`) confirms chain integrity end-to-end
  • 06Audit export as CSV or signed JSON, with a chain-integrity footer
CONNECT TO WHERE YOU WORK

Integrations.

Connect Toby to your existing HRIS, document store, and messaging. Tokens are encrypted at rest; only workspace admins can connect or disconnect.

Communication
  • Slack, case updates, watch-list alerts, regulatory-feed digests.
  • Microsoft Teams, same notifications, your Teams channels. Multi-tenant.
Documents
  • Google Workspace, pull handbooks and policies from Drive into Vault.
  • DocuSign, Workflow drafts → envelopes; signed copies back to Vault and the case ledger.
HRIS
  • BambooHR, employee directory sync. Mid-market SMB.
  • Rippling, directory + manager chain via Rippling API.
  • Workday, workers via Integration System User. Tenant-scoped.
  • Gusto, payroll-driven directory for SMB. Final-pay timing automated.
ATS
  • Greenhouse, candidates, jobs, hiring-team users. Read-only.
  • Lever, opportunities, users, postings. Pre-offer case context.
  • Ashby, candidates, jobs, interview feedback, users.
On the roadmap

SAML SSO · SCIM directory sync · custom REST/webhook API for Enterprise. Tell us what else you need in your demo.

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