Leapsome unveils AI built on the deepest people data foundation in HR

People are every company's biggest cost and its biggest lever, yet most companies run that side of the business on their worst data. HR information sits in one system, performance data in another, and hiring history disappears the moment a candidate signs an offer. Ask AI a question about your workforce, and it can only answer from the slice of data it happens to see.

Today, we're closing that gap. With the launch of Leapsome Recruiting, Leapsome becomes the only HR platform that brings every stage of the employee journey into one connected people data foundation: recruiting, onboarding, core HR, performance, engagement, learning, and compensation. On top of that foundation, we're rolling out AI-generated workflows, AI-generated dashboards, and MCP connectivity, so the AI in Leapsome can finally do the work that scattered tools never could.

The problem with fragmented HR data

Traditional HR platforms were built to consolidate paperwork, not to power decisions. They're admin-first, and their reporting rarely goes beyond the obvious. Standalone applicant tracking systems have the opposite problem: they capture a rich picture of a candidate, then forget everything the moment that person becomes an employee. And the AI assistants bolted onto both are only as good as the data they're given, which in most HR tech stacks is thin, disconnected, and out of date.

The result is a familiar pattern for HR leaders: reporting that takes days to assemble, culture risks that go unnoticed until they show up in attrition, and talent decisions made on instinct rather than evidence.

Leapsome takes a different approach. Instead of layering AI on top of fragmented systems, we connected the systems first, so the AI has a full picture deep enough to raise the impact of every employee.

A people data foundation that spans the full employee lifecycle

With Leapsome Recruiting now in early access, hiring becomes the starting point of an employee's data history instead of a separate system that gets discarded after the offer letter. From there, that same record carries through onboarding, goals, performance reviews, engagement surveys, learning, and compensation, all inside one platform.

That depth changes what AI can do. A single engagement score or a single performance rating is just a data point. Connected to hiring source, onboarding speed, goal progress, and manager feedback over time, it becomes a signal AI can use to inform decisions, predict outcomes, and recommend action, not just report on what already happened.

"We're taking a bolder view of what AI makes possible in HR. Every HR platform on the market can bolt AI onto what they already have. We reimagine how HR can drive business and people success, and that's what makes the AI worth having, helping you build the team you urgently need to win," said Jenny Podewils, co-founder and co-CEO of Leapsome. "Most AI in HR is answering questions with half the picture. Leapsome is powering the most impact-centric AI today, with Leapsome AI agents and vibe-coded workflows that put core HR and talent programs on autopilot, and MCP connectivity that makes a company’s most valuable asset, its people data, deliver even more. Built on top of the deepest people data foundation in HR, Leapsome can propel your business and people forward."

What's new in the Leapsome platform this quarter

Leapsome Recruiting (ATS early access)

Leapsome Recruiting connects hiring directly to everything that happens after someone joins. Recruiting data flows straight into onboarding, goals, and performance, so the people who make hiring decisions can see how those decisions play out, and future hiring gets sharper as a result. Leapsome Recruiting is available now in early access. Join the waitlist.

AI-generated workflows

Build automations across the entire employee lifecycle by describing what you need. Onboarding programs, learning paths built from your own company documents, and other talent processes that used to require a specialist team to design and maintain now run themselves, generated from a prompt and ready to launch.

AI-generated competency frameworks

Leapsome AI builds draft competency frameworks from the data of your actual top performers, not a generic template. That means the bar for every role reflects what drives impact at your company, and HR teams get a usable starting point instead of a blank page.

AI-powered learning

Learning paths are now AI-generated and personalized to each employee, and they can trigger automatically at key moments, like right after a review is completed. Development stops being a static course library and starts responding to what's happening in someone's performance and goals.

AI-generated dashboards

Describe what you want to understand, and Leapsome builds a board-ready dashboard in seconds, drawing on the full picture from recruiting through compensation. Later this quarter, that same natural-language approach extends to fully custom dashboards you build by describing them in plain language.

MCP connectivity

MCP support lets you bring external data into Leapsome to make the people data foundation even richer, or push Leapsome data out to other systems to get more value from it. Either direction, your people data becomes more useful the more it connects.

Leapsome AI Agents

Five agents now extend a lean HR team's reach: Development Coach, Culture Advisor, Data Analyst, PeopleOps Partner, and HR Helpdesk. Every agent is EU-hosted, explainable, and built with human oversight by default, so HR teams gain capacity without giving up control.

Why this matters for CEOs and CFOs

For finance leaders, this is a consolidation decision that pays off twice. Replacing redundant point solutions with one platform reduces line items on its own. Connecting and deepening the underlying people data at the same time increases the return on whatever AI investment comes next. Leadership can build board-ready people reporting from a prompt in seconds and start making talent decisions with the same rigor they already bring to financial ones.

For CEOs building AI-native organizations, a deeper data foundation makes HR a more central partner rather than a slower one. It gives leadership a way to increase the value of every employee backed by data, not just a program to point to.

"HR teams have been told to be more data-driven with less data than any other function in the business. That changes when recruiting, performance, and development finally sit in one place instead of three systems that don't talk to each other," said Jessica Zwaan, VP People Strategy and Operations and author of Built for People. "The best people teams run like product teams: evidence-based, iterative, and accountable to metrics that matter. Using the Leapsome AI toolset on our deep data foundation gives me insights and capabilities far beyond what other HR tools have traditionally been capable of: an HR tech stack that feels comparable to those commercial teams work with. This is the kind of visibility other functions have had for years, and HR is finally getting it."

Built for security and compliance from the ground up

Running AI on a company's most sensitive data only works if the platform underneath it is secure. Leapsome is EU AI Act compliant, ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, and EU-hosted. More than 2,000 organizations already run their talent strategy on Leapsome, from lean SMB teams to AI-first companies like Notion.

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