Petalo — The AI-native HR platform, built for your company

The problem

Buy rigid software, or build your own. Both leave the work on people.

Buy rigid SaaS

You adapt to the tool

Workday, SAP, Darwinbox lock your terminology and workflows. They store information, but never act on it. People still screen, chase and connect by hand.

Build in-house

An unsustainable burden

A cost and maintenance load most teams cannot carry. And even a custom build is still a rigid workflow that waits for humans to drive it.

Petalo

Your own, done for you

An engine that builds each company its own org-native HR platform, then runs, maintains and continuously upgrades it. Agents do the work.

Rigid software makes people do the connecting and chasing. Agentic AI does it continuously and never stops watching.

See it work

Watch the agents work, from hire to keep.

Two loops on one platform. People make every judgment call; the agents do everything in between.

Hiring: resignation to a signed offer

A role opens, candidates are sourced and screened against one scorecard, interviews are curated, and onboarding is orchestrated, watched end to end.

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Ramp and retention: one agent never stops watching

From day one, Petalo tracks each new hire's ramp against the curve, flags revenue-at-risk early, and surfaces the one action a manager should take, so a slow start is caught in week four, not at the ninety-day review.

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What Petalo does

Agents take the load. People keep the judgment.

65 AI agents run in production across 10 HR centres of excellence, absorbing the two lowest-judgment, highest-volume layers of HR.

The analyst layer

Analysis & reporting

CV screening and scoring against role rubrics
Pipeline and time-to-fill diagnostics
Workforce demand and gap analysis
Compensation benchmarking and pay-equity checks
Engagement analytics and executive people dashboards

The coordinator layer

Orchestration & program management

Cross-timezone interview scheduling and panel planning
Interview-guide and interviewer-briefing generation
Onboarding orchestration: 30-60-90, compliance and visa tracking
Offer-letter drafting and offboarding orchestration
24/7 multilingual first-line queries for candidates and employees

A human stays in the loop on every rejection, offer and outbound send. Petalo replaces the admin layer, not your HR leaders.

Why now

For the first time, bespoke is affordable.

The technology arrived

Agentic AI crossed from writing text to doing work, and inference costs collapsed. A platform can now feel fully custom to the buyer and cost like software to run.

The market is moving

Teams are abandoning rigid SaaS for in-house builds they cannot sustain. They are actively looking for a third option today, and the incumbents cannot pivot quickly.

The Gulf is ready

Global HR software fits the region worst, while Vision 2030 pours capital into local AI. The demand, the regulation and the funding are cresting together.

The cost case

An order of magnitude cheaper than the stack it replaces.

Traditional SaaS stack, blended~$18,000/mo

Petalo subscription$2,000/mo

One platform replaces a stack of point tools, at roughly a tenth of the blended cost, and does the analysis and coordination the stack cannot.

Founding team

A lean, technical team that ships.

Ashmita Bose

Founder

Built the entire 65-agent, 10-CoE Petalo platform single-handed, pairing deep HR domain knowledge with hands-on AI engineering.

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Swagato Sarkar

Co-Founder

Owns product direction, client discovery, and turning bespoke client needs into reusable platform capability.

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An Abu Dhabi-born, AI-native HR platform, built to export across the GCC and MENA.

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