
Building an HR Agent for Employee Onboarding in Copilot Studio
Build an HR onboarding agent in Copilot Studio: answer benefits and leave questions, ground it on SharePoint policy docs, route PII-sensitive cases to humans, and publish to Teams.

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Founder & AI Product Leader
Yash Thakker is a Generative AI expert with over 12 years of experience in product leadership and technical strategy. As the founder of explainx.ai, he has taught over 300,000 learners and built AI platforms serving millions of users globally. He specializes in Agentic AI, Multimodal RAG, and the intersection of LLMs with consumer hardware.

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