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Alliant Insurance Services Welcomes Liana Schindler to Employee Benefits Group

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Schindler will help employers strengthen engagement, improve efficiencies, and align benefits strategies with business goals Alliant Insurance Services  announces that Liana Schindler has joined the company as Senior Vice President within its Employee Benefits Group. She will partner with employers to develop strategic workforce and benefits solutions that support organizational growth, strengthen employee engagement, and enhance operational efficiencies. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “Liana brings a unique combination of employee benefits, human capital management, and business development experience to our team,” said Kevin Overbey, President, Alliant Employee Benefits. “She has a proven ability to build strong relationships, identify opportunities, and deliver meaningful results to a diverse array of clients.” With 15 years of experience spanning HCM technology consulting, employee be...
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uRecruits Launches 2.0 With 7 Connected Hiring Capabilities and Recruiter-Controlled AI Agents

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Recruit smarter: AI assists, humans decide. The recruiter-first platform connects sourcing, Talent CRM, assessments, screening, offers, and analytics on one candidate record, with no automated candidate advancement, rejection, or hiring decisions. uRecruits announced the launch of uRecruits 2.0, a recruiter-first AI hiring platform built to bring the hiring process into one connected workflow. Instead of moving between disconnected tools, recruiting teams can manage jobs, candidates, assessments, screening, scheduling, offers, background workflows, and analytics from a single candidate record. uRecruits 2.0 also introduces uR Agent, an AI layer that helps recruiters reduce manual work while keeping every candidate decision in human hands. uRecruits does not automatically advance, reject, or hire candidates. AI assists with workflow steps, recommendations, scoring, coordination, and reminders, but recruiters remain responsible for every hiring decision. “Recruiting teams need ...
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Syndio Acquires Embrace.ai

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Acquisition brings on technical leadership and expertise to accelerate Syndio’s Decision Intelligence for Pay platform Syndio , the Decision Intelligence for Pay company, announced the acquisition of Embrace.ai, an agentic AI company built to deploy AI-driven automation across business workflows. The full Embrace.ai team, led by founders and enterprise software veterans Derek Butts and Seth Halpern, will join Syndio’s product and go-to-market organization. The acquisition bolsters the Syndio team with deep experience across enterprise human capital management (HCM), large-scale software platforms, and AI-native product development. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI Syndio’s AI-powered Decision Intelligence for Pay platform is already helping global enterprises analyze, govern, and improve pay decisions at scale. The Embrace.ai team joins Syndio at a pivotal moment. Syndio’s AI-po...
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Prodoscore Launches MCP Connector, Bringing Workforce Intelligence Into Enterprise AI Workflows

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New Offering Allows Enterprise AI Assistants to Analyze Workforce Intelligence Alongside CRM, Project, Financial and Operational Data As organizations of all sizes increasingly adopt AI assistants to handle routine tasks, workforce intelligence remains one of the last major data sources isolated from business decision-making. Prodoscore , a leading provider of employee productivity and data intelligence software, announced the launch of the Prodoscore MCP server, enabling enterprise AI assistants to query workforce intelligence alongside data from any connected business tool and surface answers that no single platform could provide on its own. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI Prodoscore’s MCP Connector is built on Model Context Protocol, an open standard for AI-to-tool connectivity, supported by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Once connected, AI assistants including Claude, ChatGPT...
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The Hidden P&L: Why Workforce Decisions Are Financial Decisions

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Three forces are reshaping the cost of talent. Critical skills are becoming scarce faster than organizations can build them. Automation is eliminating roles faster than workers can retrain. And the competition for high-demand talent is now global and permanent. The financial consequences are real: lost revenue from vacant roles, ballooning replacement costs, and delayed delivery across every function. But none of these show up as a line item in workforce plans. Workforce decisions sit outside the P&L statement and are measured in HR metrics that finance cannot act on. This gap is costing organizations more than they know. Closing it starts with one change: HR and finance working from the same metrics. Translating Talent into Value The measurement infrastructure most HR functions inherited was built for a different era. It tracks headcount and attrition. It does not describe cost, risk, or value. This creates a “linguistic gap”: HR speaks in operational activity, whil...
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LumApps Launches the AI Employee Hub to Accelerate AI Adoption

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LumApps AI is the new AI Employee Hub where people and agents work together, turning AI investment into everyday adoption LumApps announced the launch of LumApps AI, the AI Employee Hub, designed to bring AI to every employee across businesses and industries. LumApps AI delivers a complete portfolio of new employee services and agents that cover everyday business tasks and workflows, giving every organization a clear path from AI investment to workforce-wide adoption. The new AI Employee Hub allows end-to-end discovery, creation and orchestration of the digital workforce across any system and agent. Tackling the AI Adoption Challenge Organizations face a massive AI adoption problem today. AI is being added to tools, but the technology is not designed for the people using them. For many organizations, AI access has expanded faster than true adoption, particularly among frontline employees who remain largely excluded from AI initiatives altogether. Worldwide AI spending will hit $2.5...
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Appcast Recognized as a Strategic Challenger in the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition

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Europe’s leading HR industry analyst recognizes Appcast’s sustained innovation, programmatic technology leadership, and growing enterprise impact across the region Appcast , the global leader in recruitment media and technology, has been recognized as a Strategic Challenger in the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid for Talent Acquisition. This recognition marks the fourth consecutive year that Appcast has been featured on the grid, highlighting its consistency in driving measurable hiring outcomes for complex, enterprise-scale organizations. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “We are incredibly proud to be named a Strategic Challenger and to be recognized by Fosway Group for the fourth year running.” – Roy Jacques, Managing Director for U.K. and EMEA at Appcast The Fosway 9-Grid is a prominent five-dimensional market analysis model designed to understand the relative position of solutions...
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