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title: "How to build an AI assistant for employee onboarding"
description: "Gather the documents new starters actually need, such as handbooks, policies, setup guides and team contacts, and have one owner keep them current. The assistant answers only from those approved documents, links to the source for each answer, and says when it does not know. Questions about pay, health, performance or anything personal go to HR or the manager, and unanswered questions are reviewed weekly to fill gaps in the documents."
url: https://lidvizion.ai/answers/how-to-build-an-employee-onboarding-assistant/
site: Lid Vizion
index: https://lidvizion.ai/llms.txt
---

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# How can a company use AI to help new employees find answers in their first weeks?

Gather the documents new starters actually need, such as handbooks, policies, setup guides and team contacts, and have one owner keep them current. The assistant answers only from those approved documents, links to the source for each answer, and says when it does not know. Questions about pay, health, performance or anything personal go to HR or the manager, and unanswered questions are reviewed weekly to fill gaps in the documents.

## What this means in practice

- Collect the documents new starters need and give them one owner.
- Answer only from approved documents and link the source.
- Say clearly when the answer is not in the documents.
- Send pay, health, performance and personal questions to people.
- Review unanswered questions weekly and update the documents.

## How Lid Vizion approaches it

We start with the business decision and operating context, define ownership and measurable milestones, then use configuration, integrations, automation, or custom software only where each earns its place.

## See it as a workflow

- [Employee onboarding assistant](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/employee-onboarding-assistant/): Give new hires a clear first-weeks checklist and an assistant that answers onboarding questions from approved handbooks, with HR handling anything personal.

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