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● B2B offer — HR & the employee journey

End-to-end HR: from the need expressed to the first day

Recruitment follows a long path: the need expressed, the vacancy posted, applications examined, interviews arranged, the arrival prepared. Your agent, connected to your applicant tracking system, keeps that path up to date, applies your objective criteria at every step and prepares the new joiner's onboarding programme. Hosted in France: candidates' data stays with you. Every decision about a person belongs to the recruiters and the managers.

Hosted in France Candidate data protected GDPR & AI Act: governed deployment Human oversight

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End-to-end HR · hosted in France
Where does our current recruitment stand?
Six recruitments tracked: stage reached, how long at that stage, next action planned.
For each, the applications examined against your objective criteria, with the wording in the file that supports them.
Two vacancies have been waiting on a recruiter's decision for several days: they are flagged.
🔗 Sourced · the applicant tracking system and each vacancy's criteria
Prepare the onboarding for the person starting Monday.
Onboarding programme put together from your standard template: access to request, equipment, first-week meetings, documents to hand over.
The requests are prepared for each department and put to you before sending.
✎ Action · programme prepared, sends approved by you
Local inference · no data outside the EU
Programmes hosted in France
Sovereign by designLocal inference or hosting in France
GDPR & AI Act: governed deploymentTraceability & human oversight
TurnkeyDesigned, installed and operated for you
The human resources department decidesThe agent prepares, never rules
✦ In brief

A Blue Lemon Agent end-to-end HR agent, connected to your applicant tracking system, keeps each recruitment's path up to date, applies your objective criteria while citing the wording in the file, and puts together the onboarding programme from your standard template. No decision about a person is automated. It runs on local inference or is hosted in France: candidates' data stays with you, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.

100%
hosted in France in the target architecture
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transfer outside the EU in the target architecture
6
HR uses ready to deploy
0
decision taken without human approval

These figures describe our offer, not results measured at a client. How large the gain is on your number of recruitments and arrivals per year is confirmed by a pilot.

The context

What does an AI agent bring to your recruitment and onboarding?

A smooth recruitment path and a well-prepared first week are what a new joiner remembers.

! The issue

A recruitment involves several steps and several departments, from the need expressed through to the arrival. Keeping that chain up to date and preparing the onboarding calls for constant coordination. The agent takes it on: tracking the path, applying the objective criteria with their source, and putting together the onboarding programme from your template.

Our answer

The human resources department sees the state of every recruitment and has onboarding programmes ready before the arrival. Interviewing, setting aside or hiring a candidate are decisions about people: the European AI Act classes recruitment among the high-risk uses, and those decisions stay with the recruiters and the managers. Local inference or an isolated resource hosted in France: candidates' data is entrusted to no third party.

The decisive point

Candidates' and new joiners' personal data: sovereignty & compliance

Applications and joining files concentrate personal data subject to strict retention periods. Here is how they are protected.

Local inference

The agent can run on a machine belonging to your organisation: no application and no employee data leaves the network.

Hosting in France

Otherwise, a dedicated and isolated resource hosted in France, under French law — your recruitment and your onboarding programmes: processing and access within the European Union targeted by the architecture.

Reduced extraterritorial exposure

For candidates' and new joiners' personal data, the architecture aims to reduce exposure to the Cloud Act and FISA 702; being located in France or in the European Union does not, on its own, guarantee immunity.

Isolated resource

No pooling: an environment strictly dedicated to your company and its HR processes.

Every assessment refers back to the file

The criteria applied refer back to the wording in the file that supports them; encryption, role-based access, logging and purging at the retention periods you set.

AI Act: governed deployment

The agent is strictly in support; no candidate is set aside or hired without a human decision; traceability and human oversight from end to end.

What depends on the architecture chosen These points are not general guarantees: they are settled deployment by deployment, in the quotation.

  • The applicable location is that of the architecture set out in the quotation and verified before commissioning.
  • Local execution is announced only for the configuration explicitly described and accepted in the quotation.
  • The applicable isolation depends on the deployment mode set out in the quotation; no dedicated isolation is presumed.
  • Roles and permissions are configured and accepted for the identities and systems actually connected.
  • The events logged, their content, their retention period and who may access them are defined for the deployment chosen.
For recruitment to sensitive posts and confidential applications, SecNumCloud and reinforced hosting are options depending on your requirements. A single architecture is designed to answer both the GDPR and extraterritorial exposure. Designed for deployment in line with the GDPR and the AI Act, after the processing, roles and context-specific risks have been assessed.
Demonstration

See the agent at work

4 real situations, taken from those that come up most often. Pick one: the exchange unfolds as it would in your organisation.

A scripted demonstration. These exchanges show how the agent behaves — its sources, its refusals, what it leaves to your teams. Nothing is sent from this page, no model is queried here, and the matters named are fictional. That is precisely what we promise your data.
The behaviours shown here — monitoring, automation rules, routing and reminders — are configured with you during deployment, from your tools, your rules and your thresholds.
The architecture points named in these exchanges — location, local execution, isolation, encryption, role-based access, logging — are not a guarantee attached to the demonstration: they are those of the architecture set out in your quotation, and verified before commissioning.

End-to-end HR · hosted in France
Four flags this morning, and all concern the first day.
· Twenty-three arrivals of forty-one had no computer access on the day they arrived. Average time to obtain it: six days.
· Equipment was ordered after arrival in seventeen cases of forty-one. Average delivery time: eleven days.
· Fourteen arrivals had no three-month review, though your note of 08/09/2025 provides for one.
· Seven departures during the probation period over twelve months, five of them in the same department. I will not tell you why — I am coming to that. morning-watch_4-flags.pdf23 of 41 arrivals with no access on day one
⛓ Source · 41 arrivals over 12 months, access log, equipment orders, note of 08/09/2025
Five departures in the same department, and you will not say why?
No, and it is the most important refusal on this page — because it is the one I am asked to lift.
What I record: seven departures during probation over twelve months. Five are in the same department, which has 19 people.
What I could do: relate those five departures to that department's manager, their length of service, their workload, their appraisals. The correlation would be technically immediate and would look convincing.
Why I do not: the reason for a departure is in what the person said on leaving, and I do not have it. Five departures may come from a tight labour market, a post poorly described at hiring, hours, a badly served site, or a manager. A figure pointing at a person without having measured them is not an analysis: it is a presentable accusation.
What I supply instead: for the five, what was missing on arrival — access, equipment, three-month review — and what the advert promised compared with the job description. Process facts, checkable.
What I propose: that those five people be asked. The answer is with them, not with me. 7-departures_0-cause-attributed.pdfWhat was missing · never who is at fault
⛓ Source · 7 departures, arrivals log, published adverts, job descriptions
How did you spot all that? And who do you tell?
I watch, continuously, what you have opened to me: adverts, applications, arrival dates, access and equipment requests, your onboarding note, and the reviews provided for.
Routing follows the stage that can still act: a missing access goes to IT, five days before arrival — afterwards it is too late for the first day; unordered equipment to purchasing, ten days before; a three-month review not held to the manager, at D+75; a gap between advert and job description to the drafter, before publication.
With a chase: the day before each deadline, then on the day. Then a monthly summary: by stage of the journey, never by arrival and never by manager.

What this changes for the next arrivals: the 23 first days without access and the 17 pieces of equipment ordered too late come down to two dates missed by five and ten days — which are exactly the two chases I now set, and an arrival who finds desk, access and equipment on the morning of day one is an arrival who does not lose six days waiting. The 14 three-month reviews not held go back to the manager at D+75, while there is still time to hold them.
The access stays yours: opened by role, logged, withdrawn on a word, and applications do not leave the company — local inference or an isolated resource hosted in France.
The decision about a person belongs to the named recruiter and manager, and I hand it to them in minutes rather than weeks: the complete file, the advert's criteria applied one by one with the entry in the file that grounds each, the gap between advert and job description, and the process facts of the five departures. Tell me who decides, and the file is waiting, ready.
✎ Framework · no judgement passed, no cause attributed, no transition decided
Local inference · no data outside the EU

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Use cases

What does the agent actually do?

One agent, the whole employee journey. All these uses work in support, subject to your approval.

Included in your agent The 3 capabilities essential to this promise are included, at no extra cost.
From 785 € excl. VAT / month

Tracking the recruitments

Keeps the stage reached and the next action for every open vacancy.

Objective criteria applied

Applies your criteria and cites the wording in the file that supports them.

Onboarding programme

Puts together access, equipment, meetings and documents for the first week.

Controls and safeguards These 4 controls are built into the agent: they frame what it does, whatever plan you pick. They are not chosen and are not added to your order.
Human arbitration of conflicts and irreversible decisions Observability of costs, timescales, quality, failures and safe stop Preserve human validation, recourse and audit trail Protect HR data with fine-grained access and retention periods
What the agent must be connected to These 2 connections are required for the agent to work. They concern your information system and are scoped during the audit.
Register of authorised agents and interface contracts Integrate with the HR information system/ATS and measure quality, turnaround time and fairness
The gain

How much time can an HR team give back to people?

By taking on the tracking and the preparation, the effort shifts towards interviews and support. How large the gain is depends on your volume and remains to be confirmed by a pilot.

Tracking progress on the recruitments
Today · done by hand
Path kept up to date
Examining applications against the criteria
Today · done by hand
Criteria applied and sourced
Preparing an onboarding
Today · done by hand
Programme put together
Indicative figures, not contractual, to be confirmed by a pilot on your number of recruitments and arrivals per year. Interviewing, setting aside or hiring a candidate are decisions about people: they belong to the recruiters and the managers.
How it works

The stages of your AI agent project

1

Audit & scoping

15 minutes to target the use case with the best return.

2

Quote or direct sign-up

A catalogue offer is bought online; a specific need gets a costed quote.

3

Design

We design the agent and its guardrails.

4

Integration & testing

We connect your tools to the agent, which is itself hosted in France.

5

Rollout

Going live and training your team.

6

Operation

Continuous supervision and improvement.

Pricing

One package, one agent

An end-to-end HR agent (tracking, criteria, onboarding), installed and operated for you.

Agility

Setup + controlled subscription

8,970 € excl. VAT setup
then 785 € excl. VAT/month — you invest at installation and pay a reduced subscription. Ideal for keeping the cost under control over time.
  • Installation, configuration and training for your teams
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, a dedicated and isolated resource
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The simplest Serenity

All inclusive, no setup fee

1,280 € excl. VAT /month
all inclusive, immediate start. No upfront investment: a single subscription. Ideal for starting quickly and simply.
  • Setup included (installation, configuration, training)
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, managed end to end
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100% Sovereign

On site, you own it

12,995 € excl. VAT setup
then 1,001 € excl. VAT/month · + hardware from 2,491 € (one-off purchase, in addition) — a sovereign computer installed on your premises, maintained remotely. Models run locally, your data returned at the end of the contract. 36-month commitment.
  • Hardware installed on your premises (you own it)
  • French / European AI models run locally
  • Secure remote maintenance (Pro support included)
Order →
Not included in the packages: AI consumption (model tokens), re-invoiced at real cost with no margin, and tracked in real time in your client area. Maintenance and supervision subscription for an initial term of 12 months for the Agility package, 24 months for the Serenity package and 36 months for the 100% Sovereign package, renewable; support levels (SLA 72 h / 24 h / 4 h) optional. Bespoke development, additional integrations or exceptional volumes are quoted separately. Support Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Prices exclude VAT.
AI model: none of the AI models offered currently carries a fixed surcharge. When the selected model carries a cost, that cost is shown when you choose it, before you order, and re-invoiced at the cost incurred, with no mark-up; usage is billed at the publisher's price. Publishers' prices are published in US dollars: the amount re-invoiced is the amount in euros actually borne by Blue Lemon Agent on the publisher's invoice, at that invoice's exchange rate, with no commission or mark-up.
Included components and additional components Components included in the base offer: the Blue Lemon Agent software foundation, the AI models listed in the order journey, the standard channels (Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp Business, email, website chat, calendars, Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace, file storage, market VoIP telephony, professional social-media pages and accounts, Google Business Profile), hosting in France for the package chosen, backups, supervision, updates and support. If adapting the AI agent to your constraints, your needs or your requests requires other paid components — a third-party publisher's software licence, paid API access to one of your applications, hosting of health data, for which French law requires an HDS-certified host (art. L. 1111-8 of the French Public Health Code), SecNumCloud-qualified hosting, a speech synthesis service, particular hardware —, they are offered to you as an option or on quotation and re-invoiced at the cost incurred; nothing is committed without your written agreement. Where the artificial intelligence model you choose entails an additional cost, that cost is shown to you before you order and re-invoiced to you at the cost incurred, with no margin.
What to expect
Go-live 2 to 3 weeks
Agent designed, channels connected, team trained.
Steady state 4 to 7 weeks
After a few weeks of real use, once the agent's behaviour matches what you expect. Indicative estimate, adjusted to the options you keep. It is not a delivery commitment.
Our commitment

Four guarantees that matter to your recruitment

Candidates' data stays with youLocal inference or an isolated resource hosted in France; no application entrusted to a third party, no data used to train a model.
Data in France, under French lawCandidates' and new joiners' personal data: minimisation and location in France, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.
The human resources department keeps the decisionThe agent produces tracked recruitments and prepared onboarding, which can be checked and altered; no approval is automated.
Human oversight & traceabilityOn your number of recruitments and arrivals per year: systematic logging and tracking, in line with the AI Act.
Frequently asked questions

Your questions, our answers

Does the agent decide on a hire?
No, under no circumstances. It applies your objective criteria and cites the wording in the file that supports them. Recruitment is a high-risk use within the meaning of the European AI Act: the decisions stay human.
Does it connect to our applicant tracking system?
Yes, to the common tools on the market. The scope of the connection is settled at the design stage.
What does the onboarding programme cover?
What your standard template provides for: access to request, equipment, first-week meetings, documents to hand over. The requests to departments are prepared and approved before they go out.
How long are applications kept?
For the periods you set, with automatic purging at the deadline, in line with the GDPR.
Is bidders' data protected?
Yes. The agent is hosted in France, on local inference or an isolated resource, with the deployment objective of processing and access operated within the European Union and an architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity. That data is not used to train a third-party model.
How long does it take to deploy this agent?
A few months as a rule, depending on the volume of recruitment and how deep the connection with your applicant tracking system goes, after a free audit then phases of design, integration and testing.
Which criteria and which data does the agent use?
The ones you approve, and nothing else. Every criterion is tied to a written requirement of the role, versioned and visible to candidate and recruiter alike; every finding cites the passage of the file that supports it. A criterion with no supporting document stays marked unknown: the agent never fills the gap with an assumption.
Does the agent analyse faces, voices, emotions or personality?
No, and that is not caution on our part: Article 5 of the European AI Act prohibits inferring emotions in the workplace. The agent works from verifiable facts in the file — experience, qualifications, documents provided, stated availability — and tells you where each one comes from.
What does it pass from recruitment to onboarding, and to the manager?
The commitments made and the tasks to be done, dated and tied to their owner. Interview appraisals stay in the recruitment file: the manager gets what is needed to welcome the new joiner, and the agent records who received what.
Can it sign an offer, change pay or trigger a payroll run?
It prepares everything and hands it to you ready: the offer in your own templates, the applicable clauses, the documents to gather, the payroll request already filled in and checked. Signature and payment run on a written mandate from the delegated signatory — capped, dated and withdrawable in one word; without that mandate the agent stops at the prepared document.
How does it handle internal mobility, disability and accommodation requests?
An accommodation request follows a separate route, open only to authorised people, and never joins the assessment file. For mobility, the agent sets proven skills against the requirements of the internal role, quantifies the gap and proposes the training that closes it; the application belongs to the person and the decision to the manager.
How do you test fairness, drift and human intervention?
Through aggregate measures, never individual ones: time and drop-off per stage, share of criteria proven by a document, share of decisions that went through a person, accommodation requests handled within the deadline. Every gap opens as a file to investigate, with the rule version that applied. Our own controls replay thirteen sabotages of the engine at each delivery: if a safeguard has been removed, the delivery is refused.
Let's talk

Let's size up the potential in your recruitment

15 minutes to frame your processes and your applicant tracking system — hosted in France, supervised, with no commitment.