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What is Ask AI?

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Written by Adrian Quinn

Ask AI is built into RemotePass so your HR and finance teams can ask questions about their own data and get instant answers — and now take action on it too. It also taps into RemotePass's built-in knowledge base, covering payroll and compliance across 150+ countries, so the answers you need are always a question away.

What is Ask AI?

Ask AI lets you ask questions about your RemotePass data in any language and get answers back in seconds. Whether you need a headcount breakdown by country, a list of contractors with expiring agreements, or a summary of time-off balances. You can ask it directly, in your own words, in any language.

Ask AI can now act on your data too — amending a contract, approving a pending payment, or updating an approval flow — without you leaving the conversation. It asks before it changes anything, unless you've told it not to for that specific action. See [Ask AI write actions — and how to control them] for how permissions work.

It is built for the questions HR and finance teams ask every day, and designed to fit into your existing workflow rather than replace it.

What can you ask?

Ask AI works across two sources: your live RemotePass data and a built-in compliance knowledge base covering 150+ countries.

Your RemotePass data

  • Headcount and workforce composition by country or department

  • Contract status and upcoming renewals

  • Time off balances and leave history

  • Payroll spend by department, country, or period

  • Expense data and top submitters

  • What-if scenarios — for example, the cost of adding EOR employees in a new market

Compliance knowledge base

Ask AI draws from a knowledge base covering employment rules for 150+ countries built by RemotePass's own payroll and legal teams. This includes notice periods, statutory benefits, EOR requirements, and tax obligations. It is not scraped from public sources.

Examples:

  • "What are the EOR rules for hiring in Nigeria?"

  • "What is the notice period requirement in Brazil?"

  • "What are the statutory benefits for an employee in Egypt?"

What can you get Ask AI to do?

Beyond answering questions, Ask AI can take 13 kinds of action directly in RemotePass. Every action is covered by a permission you control — Ask AI asks first by default, and you decide, tool by tool, whether it should keep asking, always go ahead, or never touch that action at all.

Contracts

  • Create a contract — set up a new contract (fixed, PAYG, milestone, or EOR employment)

  • Update a contract — change fields on a contract that hasn't been signed yet

  • Amend a signed contract — make a change to an active, already-signed contract

  • Archive a contract — archive or unarchive a contract

Approval flows

  • Create an approval flow — set up a new approval flow with named approvers and steps

  • Update an approval flow — rename a flow, add or remove approvers, or change its settings

  • Delete an approval flow — remove an approval flow entirely

Payments and review items

  • Approve or decline payments — decide on a pending payment

  • Approve or decline items pending review — decide on a pending time-off request, expense claim, or invoice

AI agent instructions

  • Add an AI agent instruction — add a new plain-language rule to your Time Off, Expenses, or Payroll Agent

  • Update an AI agent instruction — edit an existing instruction on one of your agents

  • Delete an AI agent instruction — remove an instruction from one of your agents

  • Switch an AI agent off — pause an agent so it stops handling requests automatically; matching requests come to you instead, as they did before the agent was on

How it works

Ask AI reads your live RemotePass data. Results reflect what is in the platform right now. Your role-based access applies — Ask AI can only surface data, and take action on data, your account has permission to see and touch.

For compliance questions, Ask AI draws from the RemotePass knowledge base — not from public web sources. Every compliance answer is grounded in the same knowledge base that underpins EOR delivery across 150+ countries.

When your question returns structured data, Ask AI presents it as a table directly in the panel. Where relevant, it links you to the corresponding report in RemotePass with the correct filters already applied, so you can work with the data further from there.

Data privacy

Ask AI only pulls data from your own RemotePass account. Your data is never used to train AI models, never aggregated across accounts, and never sold. RemotePass is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant.

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