Kumo provides an agentic operating system for HR, combining a full HR platform with an AI agent that can autonomously execute tasks like reading CVs, auditing leave liability, and running multi-entity payroll. The platform is priced from $7 per employee per month, with AI actions drawing from a prepaid credit wallet, and includes features like confirm gates for sensitive actions and a full audit trail.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
HR teams often juggle multiple disconnected tools—spreadsheets, standalone HRIS platforms, and payroll systems—leading to fragmented data, manual processes, and a lack of a single source of truth. This is especially challenging for global teams managing contractors and entities across multiple countries, where compliance and payroll complexity multiply. Existing solutions are either too basic (like BambooHR) or too heavy (like Workday), leaving a gap for scalable, modern infrastructure.
Solution
Kumo is a full HR platform with an integrated agentic AI colleague, Kumo HR Agent 2.0, that can perform tasks a human HR employee would. The agent reads CVs, contracts, and policies, interacts with live tool results, and continues working through multi-step missions. Users can ask for tasks in plain language, and the agent plans, executes, and pauses for confirmation on sensitive actions, while maintaining a full audit log. The platform covers leave, expenses, payroll, hiring, performance, and onboarding, and is designed to be used manually or via the AI agent, with a focus on operational efficiency.
Target Audience
Primary customers are HR leaders at mid-sized to large companies (50-2,000+ employees) who have outgrown basic HRIS tools but find enterprise systems too complex, as well as global teams hiring across borders and AI-forward operators seeking to automate HR workflows.
Features
- Agentic AI that plans, executes, and continues multi-step HR missions, with confirm gates for sensitive actions and a full audit trail
- Unified platform covering leave, expenses, payroll, hiring, performance, onboarding, and policies, with localised support for 180+ countries
- Credit-based AI usage model with prepaid credits, allowing for predictable costs and admin-controlled budgets
- API and SDK for embedding Kumo into existing applications, with REST endpoints and MCP support for connecting external agents
- Role-based permissions and approval chains that apply to all AI actions, ensuring security and compliance
- Real-time reporting and analytics, including leave liability audits and payroll variance flags