Firstup AI is a suite of AI capabilities built into the Firstup workforce communications platform. It includes AI Search, AI Content Creator, AI Audience Builder, AI Insights, and AI Actions. Employees use it to find answers and complete tasks. Communicators use it to create content and target the right audiences. Leaders use it to understand what's working. Every capability is grounded in your company's verified content and operates within your existing enterprise security boundaries.

How does Firstup AI Search work?

Firstup AI Search gives employees direct answers in natural language, not links. It connects to systems like Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint, ADP, Concur, and UKG Pro and searches across all of them at once. Answers are personalized based on each employee's role, location, and permissions, so two people in different offices can ask the same question and get different, relevant answers. Follow-up questions carry full conversational context. Every response is grounded in your company's verified content and includes cited sources so users can verify where the information came from.

What can Firstup AI Actions do?

Firstup AI Actions turns natural language requests into completed tasks. Employees can submit PTO, file an expense report, or open an IT ticket without leaving Firstup. No extra logins, no system-hopping. It can move from answering a question ("What's my PTO balance?") to completing the action ("Submit PTO for Friday") in one conversation.

How is Firstup AI different from a chatbot?

Traditional chatbots follow scripted decision trees and return canned responses. Firstup AI understands natural language, searches across multiple enterprise systems simultaneously, and respects each employee's role and permissions. It remembers conversational context for follow-ups and delivers synthesized answers grounded in your company's verified content, not just links to documents. AI Actions goes further by completing actual tasks inside connected systems, moving beyond Q&A into real workflow execution.

Does Firstup AI replace our existing HR or IT systems?

No. Firstup AI connects to your existing systems through secure enterprise integrations. It sits on top of tools like Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint, ADP, Concur, and UKG Pro. Employees search and act across those systems from one place. Nothing gets replaced or migrated.

Does Firstup AI work with Microsoft Copilot and Teams?

Firstup AI Search works inside Microsoft Teams today. Integration with Microsoft Copilot is planned. Employees get Firstup-powered answers inside the Microsoft tools they already use. Copilot handles general productivity. Firstup focuses on internal company knowledge, HR systems, and employee-specific information.

Can Firstup AI reach frontline workers?

Yes, and this is where Firstup AI changes the game. Frontline workers typically don't have access to intranets, desktops, or the tools knowledge workers take for granted. Firstup AI Search gives them instant, natural-language answers to questions like "What's my PTO balance?" or "Where do I find the safety protocol for my location?" directly on mobile. No apps to download, no systems to log into. AI Content Creator helps communicators condense policy updates, leadership messages, and operational changes into scannable summaries built for mobile. And as AI Actions rolls out, deskless employees will be able to complete tasks like submitting time off or filing a ticket through conversation, without ever leaving Firstup.

How does Firstup AI personalize the experience for each employee?

Firstup AI uses employee profile data like title, role, location, department, and permissions to tailor every interaction. AI Search delivers answers specific to each person's context. AI Content Creator helps communicators target the right message to the right audience. AI Audience Builder lets you describe a segment in plain language and auto-generate targeting filters. The result is that every employee gets relevant information and can take action, whether they're in headquarters or on a warehouse floor.

Is Firstup AI available now or still in development?

Some capabilities are available today and others are coming soon. AI Search (cross-system search, contextual answers, conversational follow-ups) is available now. AI Content Creator (writing assistance, tone adjustment, headline generation, Comment Assist) is available now. AI Insights comment sentiment analysis is available now. AI Actions and AI Audience Builder are on the roadmap.

What AI features is Firstup building next?

Firstup has several planned capabilities on the roadmap. AI Actions will add task execution across connected enterprise systems. Submit PTO, file expenses, open tickets. AI Audience Builder will let communicators describe audiences in natural language and auto-generate targeting segments. AI Insights will expand with natural language analytics and automatic trend surfacing. Microsoft Copilot integration for AI Search is also planned.

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The assistant who always has the answer. The creative partner who’s always on. The strategist who watches the data so you don’t have to.

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See what Firstup AI can do

Ask a question, build an audience, summarize a policy, or complete a task—all through natural conversation, all within your secure environment.

AI Search

Firstup AI Search scans across your Firstup program and connected systems to deliver clear, natural-language answers instantly.

AI Actions

Firstup AI Actions connects to your enterprise systems so employees can complete tasks conversationally, without leaving Firstup.

AI Content Creator

Firstup AI Content Creator handles the production work, from copy to tone adjustments, so you stay in control.

AI Audience Builder

Firstup AI Audience Builder translates your natural language description into a precise segment, ready to target.

AI Insights

Firstup AI Insights answers campaign performance and sentiment questions in plain language, no report-building required.

Less time on manual process

Boost in engagement rates

Reduction in digital noise

AI Search

The coworker who always has the answer

Imagine an assistant who's read every recent document, knows every current policy, and remembers where everything lives. Can search across Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint, UKG Pro, and every system your organization runs on. That's Firstup AI Search. Employees ask questions in their own words and get the actual answer. Instantly. Tailored to their role. Need to check a PTO balance or find an expense status? Done. Follow-up question? It remembers the conversation. It also works where your employees work, searching inside Microsoft Copilot and Teams.

AI Actions (coming soon)

Your personal productivity assistant

Every HR question, every IT request, every expense report—it all lives in a different system. What if every employee had their own personal assistant who knew exactly where to go and could turn any request into a completed action? Submit PTO in ADP, submit an expense in Concur, open a ticket in ServiceNow, all without ever leaving Firstup. That's Firstup AI Actions. Employees stay focused on the work that matters. The business gets a more productive, self-sufficient workforce.

AI Content Creator

Your always-on creative partner

Great communication takes time you probably don't have. What if you had an assistant who could draft and generate copy, headlines and subject lines, find the right tone, summarize the long version, keep your asset library in order, and help your employees sound their best when they comment? That’s Firstup AI Content Creator. You stay in control. Your Firstup AI teammate handles the production.

AI Audience Builder (coming soon)

Build audiences as fast as you can describe them

Every employee doesn't need every message. But figuring out exactly who needs what shouldn't take longer than creating the content itself. Imagine a partner who already knew your workforce inside and out and could build the perfect segment the moment you described it? That's Firstup AI Audience Builder. You define the intent. Firstup AI handles the complex targeting.

AI Insights

Your own personal data strategist, always analyzing

Leadership wants to know if it's working. Your team wants to know what to do next. But pulling reports and digging through dashboards takes time you'd rather spend actually improving things. What if you had an analyst at your desk who could answer any question, read the room on employee sentiment, and flag what needs your attention before you even ask? That's Firstup AI Insights. Less reporting. More knowing.

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Core tenets

Enterprise-grade AI built for the workforce you already trust us to reach

Firstup AI runs on the same secure, compliant infrastructure that Fortune 500 companies rely on every day. Your data stays private, your content stays grounded, and your team stays in control.

Human oversight and control

Firstup AI is built to augment and amplify human potential and unlock greater organizational impact, not replace human judgment. Our AI enhances expertise and accelerates decisions while preserving human authority and accountability. AI output is reviewable, editable, and subject to human approval.

Privacy and data protection

AI at Firstup operates strictly within your enterprise security and data boundaries. We enforce real-time permissions, strong encryption, secure integrations, and tenant isolation by design. Customer data is never used to train external models and is retained only as necessary to deliver contracted services. Access is governed by purpose limitation and least-privilege principles to protect information at every stage.

Governance and accountability

Trustworthy AI requires disciplined oversight and measurable safeguards. Firstup embeds enforceable policies, continuous monitoring, auditability, and rigorous accuracy controls, including hallucination mitigation and retrieval grounding best practices. Our systems are designed to align with organizational policies and regulatory requirements, delivering reliable and compliant outcomes at scale.

Transparency and explainability

AI should never operate as a black box. Firstup makes clear when and how AI is used, what data it relies on, and what influence it has on outcomes. From visible AI-assisted content to explainable search results and administrative insight into AI activity, our systems are designed to be understandable, traceable, and open to scrutiny, building trust through clarity.

Continuous improvement and measurable performance

Enterprise AI is not static. Firstup continuously evaluates system performance, incorporates customer feedback, and updates models responsibly to improve accuracy, relevance, and reliability over time. We apply structured evaluation standards, monitor performance metrics, and refine safeguards as models evolve. Our commitment is not only to innovation, but to sustained, measurable excellence.

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