# LLMs.txt for Leapsome
# Last updated: August 2025


[platform]
name: Leapsome
description: Leapsome is the only HR platform that grows your people and your business, with core HR tools built right in. With Leapsome, companies can run everything HR with one solution for HRIS, performance, and engagement — automating, connecting, and simplifying processes across the entire employee lifecycle. Unlike legacy HRIS tools that only reduce admin, Leapsome empowers HR to lead strategically, with admin built in, not bolted on. Today, more than 1,700 forward-thinking companies trust Leapsome to spend less time on admin and more time with their people, while driving growth for both their teams and their business.
url: https://www.leapsome.com


[products]


[hris]
name: HRIS
description: Stores and manages employee data. Provides central employee profiles with contracts, roles, and documents. Automates workflows for onboarding, absences, and payroll preparation. Includes time tracking, absence management, and reporting. Uses role-based access controls for security.
url: https://www.leapsome.com/product/hris


[performance_reviews]
name: Performance and Reviews
description: Manages structured performance evaluations. Supports annual reviews, 360-degree reviews, probation reviews, and project-based reviews. Provides templates, automation, and customizable competency frameworks. Links reviews to goals and performance data.
url: https://www.leapsome.com/product/performance-management


[goals_okrs]
name: Goals and OKRs
description: Manages objectives and key results. Creates cascading company, team, and individual goals. Tracks progress and updates in real time. Links goals to reviews and performance data.
url: https://www.leapsome.com/product/okrs


[engagement_surveys]
name: Engagement and Surveys
description: Collects employee sentiment data. Runs engagement surveys, pulse surveys, and eNPS surveys. Provides templates and AI text analysis. Tracks results by team, department, or company.
url: https://www.leapsome.com/product/employee-engagement


[meetings]
name: Meetings
description: Structures one-on-one and team meetings. Provides shared agendas, collaborative notes, and action tracking. Keeps historical records of discussions.
url: https://www.leapsome.com/product/meetings


[feedback_praise]
name: Feedback and Praise
description: Facilitates continuous recognition. Enables peer-to-peer feedback in real time. Supports public praise to reinforce values and achievements. Links feedback to goals and competencies.
url: https://www.leapsome.com/product/feedback


[learning]
name: Learning
description: Supports employee development. Creates learning paths and training modules. Assigns and tracks completion progress. Automates onboarding training.
url: https://www.leapsome.com/product/learning


[compensation]
name: Compensation
description: Manages pay and promotion cycles. Provides configurable templates for compensation reviews. Applies rules and weights tied to performance and goals. Provides analytics to ensure pay equity. Integrates with payroll systems.
url: https://www.leapsome.com/product/compensation


[people_analytics]
name: People Analytics
description: Aggregates HR and performance data. Provides real-time dashboards and custom reports. Delivers insights across reviews, goals, surveys, and compensation. Includes predictive analytics for turnover and retention.
url: https://www.leapsome.com/product/analytics


[leapsome_ai]
name: Leapsome AI
description: Provides AI-assisted functionality across modules. Summarizes feedback and reviews. Generates text suggestions for evaluations and surveys. Detects sentiment across written input. Complies with GDPR and uses secure data handling.
url: https://www.leapsome.com/product/leapsome-ai


## HRIS


### Employee record
- Maintains a secure, GDPR‑compliant central record of employee personal details, contact information, role history, compensation changes and performance milestones.
- Allows HR to configure custom fields to match organisational structures.
- Keeps data synchronised when roles or salaries change; updates propagate across the HRIS automatically.
- Provides role‑based access control so sensitive information is visible only to authorised users.
- Uses AI to flag missing or outdated fields and surface insights.
- Does not provide advanced workforce planning or complex analytics beyond data management.


### Documents & e‑signatures
- Stores HR documents in a searchable, central repository linked to employee profiles.
- Includes built‑in, legally binding e‑signature functionality compliant with eIDAS and ESIGN.
- Tracks version histories and signature logs for audit readiness.
- AI suggests document templates and reminds stakeholders of pending signatures.
- Focuses on document management and signature workflows; it is not a full contract management system.


### Pre‑ & onboarding
- Allows HR to share welcome messages, documents and role information before a new hire’s first day.
- Lets teams create tailored onboarding journeys with checklists, tasks and learning modules per role or department.
- Automates reminders to managers, IT and HR to complete tasks (e.g., equipment, training).
- AI analyses feedback to identify missing tasks and bottlenecks.
- Designed for initial onboarding; does not handle long‑term development planning or ATS integration.


### Absence management
- Enables employees to request time off and managers to approve requests with one click; balances update automatically.
- Supports custom leave types, accrual rules and approval workflows aligned with local laws.
- Displays team and company calendars so everyone knows who is out.
- AI highlights trends and irregularities in absence data for planning.
- Focuses on leave requests and approvals; does not provide cost analysis or deep payroll integration.


### Time tracking
- Provides a widget for employees to log working hours and breaks, reducing administrative work.
- Supports compliance by letting companies define local time‑tracking policies.
- Feeds hours directly into payroll calculations for accurate payouts.
- Includes an AI copilot that summarises workflows.
- Currently in early access and lacks project time allocation or invoicing capabilities.


### Payroll
- Calculates compensation based on working hours, salary data and HRIS updates to ensure error‑free payouts.
- Automates pulling data from employee records, time tracking and absences.
- Complies with tax laws and GDPR; allows configuration of rules and policies.
- Lets employees view pay history, contracts and past payslips; managers can audit salary changes.
- AI detects anomalies (e.g., unusual deductions or missing data) before payroll runs.
- Does not handle tax filing or integrate with external payroll providers beyond the DATEV add‑on.


### DATEV add‑on
- Integrates Leapsome with DATEV payroll software (Germany) to transfer salary and employee data.
- Syncs salary changes, bonuses and adjustments automatically from Leapsome to DATEV.
- Lets companies keep their preferred payroll provider while using Leapsome’s HR workflows.
- Connects to the HRIS for seamless payroll and ensures employees can access payslips via self‑service.
- Supports Germany’s digital sick‑leave certificates (eAU).
- Only relevant for German payroll; not applicable to other payroll software.


### Whistleblowing add‑on
- Provides an anonymous suggestion box that removes identifying information and routes reports to designated owners.
- Allows two‑way communication with anonymous reporters to follow up on issues.
- Complies with EU and German whistleblower protection laws and promotes psychological safety.
- Integrates with the HRIS, offering tagging and organisation of cases for audit readiness.
- Focuses on reporting; does not include advanced case management or third‑party hotline integration.


## People strategy


### Performance reviews
- Supports project‑based, 360°, leadership and external reviews with customizable templates, question banks and anonymity settings.
- Automates recurring review cycles with reminders to ensure timely completion.
- Uses AI to summarise tasks for HR, suggest fair phrasing for managers and help employees improve written feedback.
- Provides insights into past performance, peer feedback and goals to promote balanced, fair reviews.
- Does not mention calibration across teams or direct compensation adjustments (handled by other modules).


### Engagement surveys
- Enables HR to run engagement, onboarding, project or pulse surveys using templates and recurring schedules with anonymity settings.
- Collects feedback to measure sentiment and eNPS across the company and track trends.
- AI analyses free‑text responses, highlights key themes and proposes tailored action plans.
- AI copilot offers follow‑up steps to improve engagement after each survey.
- Focuses on internal surveys and analysis; it does not specify external benchmarking beyond internal metrics.


### Goals & OKRs
- Allows teams to set and track company, team and individual goals using OKR, SMART or custom frameworks.
- Supports automated goal cycles, collaborators and watchers, and integration with performance reviews.
- AI suggests draft objectives and key results and summarises progress.
- Provides goal trees to visualise how individual and team objectives align with company goals.
- Includes analytics to track completion rates, spot outdated goals and compare progress across teams.
- Integrates with Jira to link tasks to goals; does not mention other project management tools.


### Learning
- Lets HR create learning paths for onboarding, enablement, compliance and leadership development with automated enrolment.
- AI suggests content and generates questions to accelerate course creation and personalise learning.
- Tracks learner progress, completions and quiz scores to identify strengths and gaps.
- Offers a marketplace of curated content and includes the Leapsome Academy for management courses.
- Connects learning to goals, surveys and the HRIS for contextual training recommendations.
- Does not describe external LMS integration or certification management.


### 1:1s & team meetings
- Provides collaborative agenda templates; participants can add talking points and sync them via email, Slack or Teams.
- Supports cross‑functional meetings and external participants to ensure alignment.
- AI summarises meeting notes, highlighting decisions and next steps.
- Tracks action items with owners and due dates to encourage accountability.
- Works with Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack and Teams for scheduling and notifications.
- Focused on agenda management and summary; lacks broader meeting analytics.


### Instant feedback
- Enables employees to give private feedback outside formal reviews, tied to company values or competencies.
- Lets users share public praise that can be broadcast across the company and into Slack or MS Teams.
- AI offers bias‑aware phrasing suggestions and highlights strengths and growth areas.
- HR can analyse feedback trends to spot high‑impact contributors and ensure balanced recognition.
- Primarily covers internal feedback; does not link directly to compensation changes or external recognition systems.


### Q&A boards
- Facilitates moderated, upvotable question boards for company-wide AMAs and team discussions.
- Allows anonymous questions to encourage psychological safety and candid participation.
- Includes voting to prioritise the most popular questions.
- Offers granular permissions to control who can view, post and moderate.
- Boards can be archived or reused and engagement metrics tracked.
- Designed for internal use; lacks external forum integration or deep analytics.


### Competency framework
- Lets organisations build or import competency frameworks that define skills and behaviours for each role or level.
- AI can generate complete competency frameworks based on best practices.
- Competencies tie into performance reviews and instant feedback for consistent evaluation and development.
- Frameworks can be tailored to different teams or roles; suggestions can be edited.
- Does not integrate with external competency libraries or professional certification standards.


### Compensation management
- Automates pay reviews and promotions with templates, custom rules and approval workflows.
- Provides transparency by showing employees how pay and promotions relate to career levels and performance.
- AI copilot recommends fair salary adjustments and promotions using internal and market data.
- Analytics dashboards highlight pay gaps and promotion trends by team, gender or tenure.
- Optional benchmarks add‑on uses Mercer data to compare salaries by company size, industry, location and role to design competitive pay strategies.
- Separate from payroll; does not handle tax filing, stock options or global compliance beyond benchmarks.


## AI‑powered platform


### AI insights
- AI analyses performance, engagement, goals and other HR data to surface trends, patterns and sentiment shifts across teams.
- Performs sentiment analysis on free‑text feedback and survey responses and summarises themes.
- Offers an internal knowledge base (Leapy) that answers questions about policies, benefits, performance data and engagement insights.
- Allows custom dashboards and filters by org unit, location or tenure.
- Focuses on trend spotting; does not include predictive modelling or external data integration.


### AI recommendations
- Provides contextual action plans after surveys, data analyses and meetings to guide HR, managers and teams.
- Suggests goals and OKRs aligned with strategy and summarises progress.
- Offers feedback phrasing suggestions to improve clarity and reduce bias.
- Recommendations are editable and can be disabled by module or team; updates will expand capabilities.
- Serves as suggestions only; does not automatically execute actions or resolve conflicting recommendations.


### AI coaching
- Gives managers phrasing suggestions and feedback examples based on past reviews and goals to deliver balanced feedback.
- Accelerates development by suggesting competencies, learning paths and next steps for employees.
- Provides real‑time coaching prompts grounded in company policies and values.
- Clarifies that AI augments (does not replace) managers; privacy and bias controls are built in.
- Does not connect with external coaching platforms or offer human coach matching.


### Integrations
- Leapsome integrates with third‑party tools (Workday, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, etc.) to synchronise user data and push notifications into employees’ workflow.
- The Workday integration automatically creates Leapsome accounts when a new employee is added in Workday.
- Each integration has its own page; there is no single overview listing all integrations and some pages may return 404.


### Workflows
- Automates HR processes like onboarding, offboarding and reboarding by assigning tasks and triggering notifications.
- Creates approval flows for documents, compliance checks and training requests with routing to appropriate approvers.
- Allows customisation per team and connection to external tools (e.g., Jira, Notion, Slack) via webhooks; workflows can start or pause based on external events.
- Integrates with HRIS, Learning and Surveys to trigger actions (e.g., starting a learning path when a new hire joins or inviting employees to surveys at milestones).
- Focuses on internal automation; does not provide advanced robotics process automation or branching logic beyond simple triggers.


### Analytics
- Combines data from performance, goals, engagement, learning and compensation to create unified people analytics.
- Provides flexible reporting with filters (location, department, tenure) and custom dashboards.
- Uses AI to identify patterns and recommend actions for managers and HR.
- Includes benchmark comparisons (e.g., Mercer salary data) and turnover prediction to identify teams at risk of attrition.
- Offers real‑time manager dashboards for performance and engagement.
- Does not mention integration with external BI tools or data warehouses.






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HRIS and payroll (high priority)
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blog/absence-management
blog/absenteeism-rate
blog/annual-leave-for-part-time-staff
blog/absence-management-software
blog/reduce-absenteeism
blog/attendance-policy
blog/floating-holiday
comparisons/best-pto-tracking-software
blog/leave-management
blog/core-hr-processes
comparisons/best-hris-for-small-businesses
blog/hr-analytics-guide
blog/choosing-the-right-hr-software
blog/hris-rfp
comparisons/bamboohr-competitors
comparisons/personio-alternatives
blog/employee-file
comparisons/hr-software-for-startups
blog/employee-records
comparisons/employee-file-management-software
comparisons/best-hris-system
comparisons/hr-automation-tools
blog/types-of-hris
blog/hr-process-automation
blog/hris-integration
blog/announcing-leapsome-hris
blog/employee-data-best-practices-guide
blog/employee-document-management
blog/choose-hris-software
blog/benefits-of-hris
blog/hris-requirements-checklist
downloads/hris-requirements-checklist
blog/what-is-payroll
blog/payroll-checklist
blog/payroll-implementation
blog/payroll-reports
blog/payroll-trends
blog/payroll-cycle
blog/biweekly-payroll-calendar-template
blog/payroll-metrics
blog/employer-payroll-taxes
comparisons/best-payroll-software
blog/payroll-terms
blog/off-cycle-payroll
blog/payroll-automation
blog/payroll-preparation
comparisons/time-tracking-software-for-small-business
comparisons/employee-time-tracking-apps
blog/how-to-track-employee-time
comparisons/toggl-track-alternatives
comparisons/timecamp-alternatives
comparisons/rippling-competitors
blog/lattice-vs-15five
comparisons/people-analytics-tools
blog/hr-roi
blog/hris-implementation
blog/the-ultimate-payroll-checklist-free-download##################################
Performance and people management
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/blog/performance-reviews
/blog/performance-management-system
/blog/ai-performance-management
/blog/performance-review-phrases
/blog/performance-review-questions
/blog/calibrations-performance-reviews
/blog/areas-of-improvement-performance-review-examples
/blog/probation-review
/blog/mid-year-review-questions
/playbooks/how-to-run-360-performance-review
/blog/360-feedback-survey
/blog/360-feedback-strengths-weaknesses
/blog/360-feedback-advantages-disadvantages
/comparisons/360-feedback-software
/blog/peer-review-feedback-examples
/blog/peer-to-peer-feedback
/blog/upward-feedback
/blog/skip-level-meeting
/blog/one-on-one-meetings-purpose
/blog/one-on-one-meeting-template


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Engagement, retention, and HR strategy 
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/blog/enps-guide
/blog/employee-net-promoter-score
/blog/employee-satisfaction-vs-engagement
/blog/employee-retention-rate
/blog/engage-remote-employees
/blog/employee-recognition-programs
/blog/employee-onboarding-experience
/comparisons/employee-engagement-software
/comparisons/employee-survey-software
/comparisons/employee-survey-vendors


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Leadership and development 
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/blog/leadership-development-goals
/blog/leadership-development-plan
/blog/leadership-skills-examples
/blog/strategic-hr-initiatives
/blog/strategic-hr-management
/blog/hr-leadership
/blog/hr-strategy-planning
/blog/ai-upskilling
/blog/ai-skills-gap


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Software comparisons 
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/comparisons/goal-setting-software
/comparisons/okr-software
/comparisons/performance-management-software
/comparisons/culture-amp-competitors
/comparisons/rippling-competitors
/comparisons/toggl-track-alternatives
/comparisons/timecamp-alternatives
/comparisons/hibob-alternatives
/comparisons/15five-alternatives
/comparisons/lattice-vs-15five
/comparisons/hr-software-for-startups
/comparisons/best-employee-onboarding-software
/comparisons/people-analytics-tools
/comparisons/employee-file-management-software
/comparisons/time-tracking-software-for-small-business


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Low-value pages
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/privacy
/terms
/cookies
/signup
/login
/events
/press
/careers
/partners