For Australian employers
Meet your AI HR team
Six AI specialists — a recruiter, an HR manager, an HRIS lead, a compliance officer, a workplace-data analyst and a WHS & safety advisor — grounded in real Australian workplace law and your award rates. The capability of an HR department, for a fraction of one HR hire.
FairWork Mate is an independent commercial service — not affiliated with the Fair Work Ombudsman or the Fair Work Commission. General information only, not legal advice.
Six specialists, one team
Each one owns a part of the employer lifecycle — and they hand off to each other so nothing falls through the gap.
Scout
Recruiter
Fills the seat — sourced, benchmarked and advertised, without the agency fee.
- Benchmarks the pay off the real award minimum, not a guess, so the offer is legal and competitive
- Writes tailored Seek, Indeed and LinkedIn ads that match how candidates actually search
- Builds the position description and selection criteria from the role you describe
- Runs the hiring process — screening questions, interview guides and a defensible shortlist
Pulse
HR Manager
The people side — performance, conduct and the hard conversations, done by a fair process.
- Drafts performance improvement plans (PIPs), warning letters and meeting scripts
- Walks you through grievances, misconduct and difficult conversations step by step
- Writes and updates policies — code of conduct, leave, flexible work, workplace behaviour
- Keeps every action on a fair, defensible process so a decision holds up if it's challenged
Sync
HR Information Systems
The engine room — the HR tech, payroll and people data that make the rest run.
- Builds HRIS and payroll selection scorecards to compare platforms against your needs
- Gets you STP Phase 2 and Payday Super ready before the deadlines bite
- Audits your award configuration so the rates and rules in payroll are actually right
- Sets up record-keeping and people data that meets Fair Work retention obligations
Sentinel
Compliance Officer
The safety net — award coverage, entitlements and wage-theft risk, checked against real decisions.
- Confirms award coverage and classification so people are on the right rate and level
- Runs pay and entitlement compliance audits with a checklist you can act on
- Flags wage-theft and Payday Super exposure before it becomes a claim
- Grounds every answer in real Fair Work Commission and Federal Court decisions
Atlas
Workplace Data Analyst
Hard numbers on demand — benchmarks from FairWork Mate's proprietary Workplace Data Index.
- Benchmarks pay, casualisation and skills shortages against live national data
- Pulls enforcement penalties and insolvency signals from FWO and ASIC data
- Answers with figures and sources, not vibes — ready to drop into a board note
- Draws on FWO, ASIC, ABS and Jobs & Skills Australia datasets in one place
Beacon
WHS & Safety Advisor
Safety handled before the incident — duties, psychosocial risk and incident response, state by state.
- Builds your WHS gap assessment, incident response plan and psychosocial risk register
- Knows your state's actual rules — including Victoria's separate OHS regime — and your regulator's number
- Grounded in Australia's public WHS prosecutions record: where businesses like yours actually get hurt
- Walks officers through the six due-diligence limbs with an evidence file that stands up
How it works
Pick a specialist in the chat, ask in plain English, and they answer grounded in real Fair Work decisions and your award rates — then produce the actual document.
Pick a specialist
Choose Scout, Pulse, Sync, Sentinel, Atlas or Beacon in the chat, depending on whether you're hiring, managing people, choosing systems, checking compliance, benchmarking against live workplace data or getting safety right.
Ask in plain English
Describe the situation the way you'd tell a colleague. They answer grounded in real Fair Work decisions and your award rates — no legal jargon required.
Get the document
You don't just get advice — you get the actual PIP, warning letter, job ad, scorecard or audit checklist, ready to brand and use.
They work as a team. Scout hires someone, Sync gets them into payroll on the right award classification, Sentinel checks the rate is compliant, and Pulse manages them from there. Ask one specialist and they hand off to another when the question crosses into someone else’s patch.
Not a general-purpose AI assistant
Six specialists, grounded in the same three things
Every specialist above draws on the same foundation — this is what separates it from asking a general-purpose AI assistant the same question.
An Australian company, for Australian business
Run and managed from Australia, built around the Fair Work Act, the National Employment Standards and Australia's award system from day one — not a US tool with a local skin.
Australian data, combined into one AI
13,973 enterprise agreements, 2,369 Fair Work Commission and Federal Court decisions, 1,565 sections of workplace legislation, all 52 modern awards and WHS codes of practice — one tool, not six separate government websites.
Reviewed by Australian HR professionals
The awards, calculators and HR guidance behind FairWork Mate are reviewed and validated by Australian-based HR professionals — human expertise layered on top of the data, not a general-purpose AI assistant guessing at how Australian law is actually applied.
Corpus figures checked against live data 2026-07-29.
A whole HR function, for less than a day of consulting
The traditional way to get this work done is expensive and slow. The AI HR team is included in one monthly subscription.
A recruiter
A percentage of salary
Agencies typically charge a share of the first-year salary per placement. Scout benchmarks, writes the ads and runs the shortlist for the cost of your subscription.
An HR consultant
Billed by the hour
A PIP, a policy rewrite or a grievance process is hours on the clock. Pulse drafts them in minutes, on a defensible process, whenever you need them.
Your AI HR team
Included in business plans, from $99/mo
All six specialists, the AI advisor, award pay rates and branded exports in one subscription. Pro subscribers can try the team with two questions a month before upgrading.
Get the whole team
The full AI HR team comes with FairWork Mate for Business, Premium and Enterprise. On Pro, you get a teaser — two questions a month to try the team before you upgrade. See the pricing page for current plans and inclusions.
50% off first 3 months — first 100 signups. Then $99/mo, cancel anytime.
Or start with the advisor only — Pro, $29.99/mo. Upgrade any time.
Frequently asked questions
What can the AI HR team do?+
Six AI specialists cover the full employer lifecycle. Scout handles recruitment — job descriptions, pay benchmarking off the real award minimum, and Seek, Indeed and LinkedIn ads. Pulse handles the people side — performance improvement plans, warning letters, grievances, policies and difficult conversations. Sync handles HR systems — HRIS and payroll selection, STP Phase 2 and Payday Super readiness, and award-config auditing. Sentinel handles compliance — award coverage, classification, pay and entitlement audits, and wage-theft risk. Atlas is your data analyst — live benchmarks from FairWork Mate's proprietary Workplace Data Index: casualisation, insolvency, enforcement penalties, skills shortages and pay data drawn from FWO, ASIC, ABS and Jobs & Skills Australia. Beacon is your WHS & safety advisor — duties, incident response, psychosocial risk, SWMS and codes of practice, grounded in Australia's public WHS prosecutions record and every state regulator's actual rules. You pick the specialist in the chat, ask in plain English, and they answer and produce the actual document.
Is this legal advice?+
It's general information and drafting help, not legal, financial or industrial-relations advice. FairWork Mate is an independent commercial service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the Fair Work Ombudsman, the Fair Work Commission, or any Australian Government agency. Use what it gives you — and for a high-stakes or contested decision, confirm the specifics with a qualified professional before you act.
How much does it cost?+
The full AI HR team is included in every FairWork Mate business plan — from Business Solo at $99/mo (single seat) through Business ($249/mo, 3 seats), Premium and Enterprise. Pro subscribers can try the team with two questions a month before upgrading. See the pricing page for current plans and inclusions.
Can employees use it too?+
The AI HR team is built for employers — the people making hiring, performance and compliance decisions. Employees and workers are better served by the free FairWork Mate advisor and calculators, which answer workplace-rights questions from the worker's side. The employer team is framed and grounded for the employer's obligations.
How are the answers kept accurate?+
Every specialist is grounded in current Australian workplace law — the Fair Work Act, the National Employment Standards, Modern Award pay rates and real Fair Work Commission and Federal Court decisions, refreshed regularly. Instead of a generic answer, you get one anchored to your award rates and the relevant precedent, plus the document to go with it. Always verify the output against your specific award, agreement or contract before relying on it.