Staffbase has unveiled Employee AI, establishing the foundation for the industry's first truly AI-native employee experience platform. This initiative redefines intranets and internal communications by integrating agentic AI, addressing common pitfalls in previous deployments such as lack of governance, generic outputs, and exclusion of frontline workers. Designed for enterprises across industries, it promises faster resolutions, personalized experiences, and impactful messaging to boost productivity and reduce attrition in SaaS-driven HR and IT environments.
Traditional AI rollouts in employee platforms have often faltered due to insufficient context, security gaps, and limited accessibility, leaving many workers underserved. Staffbase's Employee AI counters these issues with a comprehensive foundation, enabling organizations to harness AI for genuine transformation. By embedding agentic capabilities natively, the platform facilitates proactive assistance, ensuring communications resonate personally and drive alignment across diverse workforces. This aligns with Gartner-recognized standards for intranet solutions, positioning Staffbase as a leader in AI-enhanced SaaS for enterprise employee engagement.
Employee AI rests on a robust architecture: a trusted data and context layer that grounds AI in company-specific knowledge, a control layer for stringent governance and security to mitigate risks, and superior reach spanning apps, intranets, email, SMS, digital signage, and Microsoft 365 integrations. These elements ensure AI serves every employee—from frontline staff to executives—without exclusions, fostering an inclusive environment. In practice, this means enterprises can deploy AI confidently, reducing frustration and enhancing operational efficiency in IT-supported communication ecosystems.
In collaboration with key customers, Staffbase is rolling out features tailored to real-world needs. The native AI assistant, launching in Q4 2025, acts as a conversational partner that not only fields queries like project leads or PTO submissions but also guides task completion across channels, mobile-first with text and voice support. Hyper-personal podcasts, also Q4 2025, generate unique weekly episodes for each employee—scaling to 100,000 individualized versions for large firms—based on roles and activities. Looking ahead, agentic content governance in Q1 2026 will automate flagging of outdated or redundant information, while Q2 2026's prompt-based creation tools will allow admins to produce emails, templates, pages, and articles via simple inputs, with iterative refinement for polished outputs.
"AI is redefining the employee experience,” said Ramak Salamat, Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan for Staffbase. “Employees now expect communication that is timely, relevant, and personal, while also benefiting from the productivity gains AI delivers across the lifecycle. For leaders, this isn’t optional - it’s the next wave of transformation. The companies that embrace it will unlock more connected, more engaged, and more productive workforces, and ultimately separate themselves from those that fall behind."
With a commercial launch at VOICES 2026 and early access for select customers starting Fall 2025, Employee AI equips organizations to lead in employee-centric innovation. Trusted by over 2,000 clients including Adidas and DHL, Staffbase continues to set benchmarks for AI-native platforms that prioritize human-AI synergy, driving measurable improvements in engagement and business outcomes.
Staffbase is the first AI-native employee experience platform, revolutionising employee intranets and employee communication by unleashing the power of agentic AI. With more than 2,000 customers, Staffbase helps organisations such as Adidas, ALDI, DHL, Transdev and Yageo to inspire their people to achieve great things together. Staffbase connects companies with their employees through a branded employee app, intranet, email, SMS, digital signage, and Microsoft 365 integrations, all of which can be managed through a single platform and powered by an end-to-end AI foundation. Staffbase was named a leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Intranet Packaged Solutions.
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