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Crew AI

Run HR and payroll with a prompt.

Crew AI is your HR and payroll co-pilot. Say what you want in your team's language and Crew turns it into action. Payroll, leave, hires, reports, all on demand, with you in the loop on every approval.

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  • Free to start
  • Transparent pricing
  • Built for modern teams
  • AI-native by default
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At a glance

What does Crew AI do?

Crew AI is the natural-language assistant built into Crew's HR and payroll platform. You type or speak a request, such as running payroll, approving leave, or onboarding a new hire, in English or 30+ other languages, and Crew prepares the action across the right modules for your review. Nothing irreversible runs without your approval, and every action is logged with an undo window.

Key facts

Who it’s for
Business owners, HR leads, and managers at small and medium-sized businesses who want HR and payroll done without menus and forms.
Pricing
Free to start, then priced in USD per employee per month.
  • Solopreneur: Free forever
  • Small Business: $6 per employee, per month
  • Mid-Market: Custom volume pricing
Platforms
Web app, plus iOS and Android mobile apps for employees and managers.
Core capabilities
  • Natural-language commands across every Crew module
  • English and 30+ languages, including mixed-language prompts
  • Real-time insights on attrition, payroll cost, and attendance
  • Approval rules that keep you in control
  • Action history with one-click undo
Works with
Crew payroll, Crew HR analytics, Crew leave management, Crew HR, all on the same Crew employee profile.
Last updated

  • USDnative

    pricing, payslips, statutory deductions

  • Promptfirst

    run workflows in plain English or your language

  • Freeto start

    pay per employee per month when ready

Feature

Natural-language commands across every module

Type what you need. No menus, no forms. Crew turns 'run April payroll' or 'onboard Asma as Senior Engineer' into a structured action across the right modules. The same prompt bar works for payroll, HR, time, leave, performance, recruitment, analytics, and benefits.

  • Set up in minutes, not weeks
  • Connected to the rest of Crew on one employee profile
  • Works on web, iOS, and Android
Product preview of Crew AI: Natural-language commands across every module
Product preview of Crew AI: Real-time AI insights

Built for SMBs

Real-time AI insights

Crew watches your people data and surfaces the things that matter (attrition spikes, payroll cost drift, attendance anomalies, retention wins) before you'd think to look. Each insight comes with the underlying data and a one-click follow-up question.

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Everything Crew AI does for you.

  • Multilingual prompts (English and 30+ languages)

    Type in English or any of 30+ supported languages, or mix them in the same sentence. Crew understands the request however you phrase it. Voice input works on mobile.

  • Smart approvals that keep you in control

    Set rules once: auto-approve leave under 2 days, hold any payroll change above $200 for review, escalate after 24 hours. Crew handles the routine; you get pinged only on what actually needs you.

  • Action history and one-click undo

    Every Crew action is logged with the prompt, the data, and your approval. Made a mistake? Tap undo within the rollback window and it's reversed across every affected module, including payroll, leave, and notifications.

  • Privacy-first: your data stays yours

    Crew AI runs on your team's data inside Crew, with role-based access enforced at every prompt. No training on your private data, no sending sensitive employee info to public LLM providers. Audit log shows every prompt and action.

Try it

What can you ask Crew?

Anything you'd normally do across 5 dashboards, 3 spreadsheets, and a WhatsApp group. A few examples teams use every day:

  • "Run April payroll for the Austin office"
  • "Onboard Asma as Senior Engineer, salary $72k, starts Monday"
  • "Approve Hira's leave for next week"
  • "Show me sales overtime for last quarter"
  • "Send payslips to everyone whose run completed yesterday"
  • "Flag any new hires missing their ID documents"
  • "Compare health plan quotes from our shortlisted insurers"
  • "Show me everyone whose attendance was under 80% this week"

Not just another chatbot

Crew AI vs a generic chatbot.

Most AI chatbots can talk about your business. Crew AI does things in your business. Here's the difference:

  • Chatbot: gives you a guess

    Crew AI sees your real payroll, employee, and time data, so the answer is grounded in your actual numbers, not a hallucination.

  • Chatbot: tells you what to do

    Crew AI prepares the action with full audit trail. You review and approve in one click instead of filling out a form.

  • Chatbot: works in isolation

    Crew AI runs across payroll, HR, time, leave, performance, and benefits at once, the same modules your team already uses.

  • Chatbot: forgets your context

    Crew AI remembers your salary structures, approval workflows, leave policies, and the way your business runs. Less typing each time.

Team-first

Built for the way real teams talk.

Most AI tools assume you're typing in clean English. Crew AI handles how business owners actually communicate.

  • English and 30+ languages, all natively supported
  • Knows the operational context: social security, pension contributions, tax authority filings, banks, biometric devices, and job boards
  • Reliable currency math with no conversion or rounding errors
  • Mixed-language prompts work fine, so type whatever comes naturally
  • Trained on real SMB workflows, not Silicon Valley enterprise patterns
  • Voice input for owners on the go (mobile only)

How it works

How does Crew AI work?

  1. Step 1: Type or speak what you need

    Use English or any of 30+ supported languages, whichever is natural. Crew AI understands context, names, dates, and amounts the way real teams actually talk.

  2. Step 2: Crew prepares the action

    You see a structured plan: what Crew is about to do, who's affected, and the numbers. No black-box magic. Edit anything before you approve.

  3. Step 3: Approve once, Crew runs it

    One tap and Crew executes across payroll, HR, time, leave, and benefits. Every action is logged with your approval and an undo window.

Saved over 80 hours a year

“Payroll used to take at least one full day per month. We’re able to run payroll bi-weekly now, which takes us less than an hour each month.”

Syed Ali Rizvi

Founder, alphathree.co

Frequently asked

Crew AI questions, answered.

What is Crew AI?

Crew AI is the natural-language assistant built into Crew. Instead of clicking through menus, you tell Crew what you want (run payroll, approve leave, onboard a new hire, generate a report) and Crew prepares the action for your review and approval. It works across every Crew module.

What languages does Crew AI understand?

English and 30+ other languages are all natively supported. You can mix languages in the same sentence. Voice input is available on the Crew mobile app.

What can I actually ask it to do?

Anything you'd do manually in Crew, plus questions across your data. Common prompts: run payroll, onboard a new hire, approve or decline leave, generate a payslip, look up an employee, compare benefit plans, ask why a metric changed, schedule interviews, or send reminders. If a Crew module supports it, Crew AI can do it.

Is my company data used to train Crew's AI?

No. Crew AI uses your data to answer your questions and prepare actions inside your account, but your private payroll, employee, and salary data is never used to train the underlying models. Audit logs record every prompt and action.

What if Crew AI makes a mistake?

Crew AI never executes irreversible actions without your explicit approval. You see the structured plan before anything happens. If something does slip through, every action has an undo window that rolls it back across all affected modules in one click.

Does Crew AI work without setup?

Yes. As soon as your Crew account has data (employees, salary structures, attendance), Crew AI works. The more you use it, the better it learns your team's specific patterns, such as common adjustments, approval flows, and language preferences.

How is this different from ChatGPT or other AI chatbots?

ChatGPT can talk about HR. Crew AI does HR. It's connected to your real payroll, employee, time, and leave data, runs actions inside Crew (not just gives advice), respects your approval workflows, and keeps your data private. It's a co-pilot built into the system, not a separate chat window.

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