Is this useful for a small business without an HR team?

That is where it helps most. When the founder or office manager onboards someone twice a year, steps get forgotten. The agent keeps the checklist, writes the emails, books the meetings and reminds you of the dates, so every new hire gets the same good first week.

Can it handle several new hires at once?

Yes. It keeps a tracker with one row per person and stage, and the weekly check covers everyone. Tell it what differs by role, such as equipment or training, and it builds that into each checklist.

Will it remember how we onboard people?

Yes. Your welcome email, the people every new hire should meet and the documents they need are kept in the agent’s memory, so the second onboarding starts from your process instead of a blank page.

People role

AI HR Onboarding

An AI HR assistant that runs new-hire onboarding: the checklist, welcome emails, first-week schedule, 30-60-90 plan and every deadline in between.

Tell it who is joining, in what role and on what date, and it prepares everything a good onboarding needs: a pre-boarding checklist with owners and due dates, the welcome email and first-day schedule, introductions to the people the new hire should meet, a 30-60-90 day plan with the manager, and reminders for the deadlines that matter, such as paperwork and benefits enrolment. Then it checks in on schedule so problems surface in week three, not month six.

Things you could ask for

Written the way you would actually say them. The agent plans the steps itself.

“Sara joins as our marketing manager on 1 December. Build her onboarding checklist in Notion, with an owner and a due date for every item from offer acceptance to the end of week one.”
“Draft Sara’s welcome email for the Friday before she starts: what time to arrive, who she will meet, what to bring and what her first week looks like.”
“Put Sara’s first-week meetings on the calendar: a welcome with me, a session with each person on the team, and a check-in with her manager every Friday for the first month.”
“Write a 30-60-90 day plan for a new account manager, with goals for each stage that the manager can agree with them in week one.”
“Every Monday, check the onboarding tracker in Google Sheets and email me anything overdue, any new hire whose paperwork is not complete and any benefits deadline in the next two weeks.”

What you get back

An onboarding pack per new hire: a checklist in Notion or Google Sheets with owners and dates, welcome and introduction emails as drafts, first-week meetings on the calendar, a 30-60-90 day plan in Google Docs, a manager’s guide for the first month, and a weekly list of what is overdue.

Tools it works with

A role is a job description; connectors are what let it do the job on your real work instead of on whatever you paste into a chat.

GmailAn agent that reads your inbox, drafts the replies and sends what you approve.Google CalendarAn agent that reads your calendar and acts on what it finds there.NotionGive an agent your Notion workspace as working memory.Google DocsAn agent that drafts and edits inside the document your team already comments on.Google SheetsLet an agent read, write and reason over your spreadsheets.OutlookAn agent that works through your Outlook inbox and writes the replies.

Where it is the wrong tool

It is not an HR system or payroll. It does not store employee records, run payroll, enrol anyone in benefits or verify identity documents; it keeps the process moving in the tools you already use.
Employment law differs by country and state. It reminds you of common deadlines, but which forms are required, and when, must be checked against the law where the person works.
Personal information is sensitive. Connect only what onboarding needs, keep salary and health details out of shared documents, and handle accommodation requests yourself.
Emails to the new hire start as drafts, so the first message they receive from the company is one a person has read.

Starting an agent with this role

1Create a Burrak account — any plan works, and your first week is $1.
2In the Marketplace, open the Roles tab, find HR Onboarding and choose “Start an agent as HR Onboarding”. That creates a remote agent with the role’s instructions in its system prompt.
3Connect the tools it needs — Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Outlook — from Connectors.
4Give it a brief. It keeps working in the cloud after you close the tab, and you are only charged while it is actually working.

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The HR Onboarding role, in practice

Is this useful for a small business without an HR team?: That is where it helps most. When the founder or office manager onboards someone twice a year, steps get forgotten. The agent keeps the checklist, writes the emails, books the meetings and reminds you of the dates, so every new hire gets the same good first week.
Can it handle several new hires at once?: Yes. It keeps a tracker with one row per person and stage, and the weekly check covers everyone. Tell it what differs by role, such as equipment or training, and it builds that into each checklist.
Will it remember how we onboard people?: Yes. Your welcome email, the people every new hire should meet and the documents they need are kept in the agent’s memory, so the second onboarding starts from your process instead of a blank page.

In the docs

Tasks & workflowsRead the docs →Persistent memoryRead the docs →

Capability reference

Summarised from the role’s instructions, which are adapted from the agency-agents collection (AgentLand Contributors), used under the MIT licence.

Pre-boarding checklists, document collection and welcome communication
Day-one orientation and first-week integration schedules
30-60-90 day plans with milestones and manager check-ins
Compliance and benefits-enrolment deadline tracking
Manager onboarding guides and proactive check-ins

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