Employee Onboarding & Client Staffing
A new consultant starts Monday and needs to be staffed on a live client engagement. Onboarding today spans HR, IT, legal, and resourcing — four departments that don't share a system, so steps get missed.
The Goal
What you'd actually type to Dendr AI
Natural-language input
“Onboard new consultant Jane Doe starting Monday and staff her on Project Atlas.”
The Ecosystem
Agents & MCP servers orchestrated
HR / HRIS
Workday
Illustrative vendor
Creates the employee record, benefits, and payroll setup.
IT provisioning
ServiceNow
Illustrative vendor
Opens the laptop and system-access provisioning ticket.
E-signature
Adobe Sign
Illustrative vendor
Sends the offer letter, NDA, and consultant agreement.
Resourcing
Salesforce (PSA)
Illustrative vendor
Assigns the new hire to the client engagement and timesheet.
Collaboration
Slack
Illustrative vendor
Adds the new hire to team and client channels with a welcome message.
Communication
Graph / SMTP MCP
Sends the welcome email and notifies the engagement manager.
How It Works
How the Dynamic Planner builds the chain
The Intent Engine structures the goal above into an intent graph. The Dynamic Planner grounds each step against the live Agent Capability Graph and assembles the coordination path at request time — no one pre-authored this exact sequence.
Send the offer letter, NDA, and any client-specific agreements via Adobe Sign.
On countersignature, create the employee record in Workday (HR, benefits, payroll).
Once the Workday record is confirmed active, open the IT provisioning ticket in ServiceNow — not before.
Assign the new hire to Project Atlas and initialize timesheet access in Salesforce PSA.
Add the new hire to the relevant Slack team and client channels with a welcome message.
Email the engagement manager and new hire with a day-one summary and schedule.
Semantic Routing in Action
The right agent, every time
hr.employee.create matches Workday exactly, never a generic people-data agent registered for reporting only.
document.esignature.send matches Adobe Sign; a generic document-generation agent with overlapping tags is filtered out by domain.
project.staffing.assign is grounded to the Salesforce PSA capability specifically — not the base CRM object — via the professional-services domain tag.
Approve Once. Use Anytime.
Chain-level authorization, reused on every run
- People Ops approves the “standard consultant onboarding” chain once, tagged
hr.onboarding.consultant— covering paperwork, HR creation, IT provisioning, staffing, and welcome comms. - Every new hire that matches the pattern runs the same authorized chain with new employee and project parameters — no repeated sign-off from four department heads per hire.
- A different hire type (e.g., a full-time employee instead of a consultant) is modeled as its own tagged pattern, approved separately.
Dynamic Replanning & Resilience
What happens when reality doesn't match the happy path
The chain is dependency-aware: IT provisioning deliberately waits on Workday confirmation, so an account is never created for someone who isn't yet an active employee of record.
If Adobe Sign countersignature is delayed past the start date, the planner holds downstream HR/IT/staffing steps and notifies the engagement manager rather than silently proceeding.
Business Outcome
What the firm gets
Onboarding that used to take days of cross-department follow-up completes in hours.
No missed steps — IT access, staffing, and payroll are structurally sequenced, not manually remembered.
One consistent, auditable onboarding record per hire, across every department involved.
Related
The matched pair
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Workday, ServiceNow, Adobe Sign, Salesforce, and Slack are referenced above as illustrative, recognizable examples of the enterprise systems Dendr AI can orchestrate through A2A, MCP, vendor adapters, or OpenAPI manifests. These are reference architectures, not case studies of named customers, and do not imply a partnership, integration certification, or endorsement by those vendors.