What AI changes in HR, before it becomes consensus.
Comp's read on AI-Native HR: one original thesis per edition, with the stance we'd defend in a room full of skeptics. For the CHROs, CEOs and founders who decide what AI does inside the company.
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Issue 02 · July 13, 2026
What AI actually changes about hiring
The recruiting funnel gets faster, but that's the least interesting part. When sourcing and screening cost almost nothing, the bottleneck becomes judgment and the whole pipeline reorganizes. The thesis applied to talent acquisition.
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Issue 01 · June 22, 2026
AI changes what HR is made of
When intelligence becomes cheap and continuous, four constraints that defined HR for decades dissolve. The thesis that opens the Memo.
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What you get
Five sections, one read.
Every edition is built so you leave with something you can apply.
The edition's thesis, signed by Chris Gerlach, co-founder and CEO of Comp. He talks to CHROs and people on the AI frontier every week, and brings here the patterns he sees before the market does.
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AI changes what HR is made of
Who it's for
Written for those at the decision's edge.
You want HR leading AI adoption.
Every edition gives you your own thesis to take to the board, with the vocabulary of someone already in the field.
You're betting on AI across the whole business. In HR, it shows up first.
The read to see this shift before your competitors and decide where AI comes in.
You run People at a fast-growing company.
Perspective to stay ahead of the AI curve in your day-to-day, at the level of whoever decides team and budget.
Most HR AI initiatives we see in the field are producing sophisticated execution and stagnant quality.
