PolicyWard
A cited employee-policy answer desk for companies without an HR department, with approved source hierarchy, high-risk abstention, accountable escalation, exact answer receipts, correction, and destination readback.
Companies under 50 employees often route handbook, leave, expense, conduct, and workplace questions to a founder or operations generalist. A generic cited-answer tool can retrieve policy text, but HR answers depend on employee context, policy version, effective date, jurisdiction, benefit plan, manager authority, and legal escalation. Research confirms a live enforcement product and a self-serve cited-answer product, but neither matches the liability-first answer-ledger niche. PolicyWard cites the exact approved source and refuses high-risk or conflicting questions. Its signed record proves which answer version the system produced; it is not a liability shield, proof the employee read it, legal advice, or evidence that the answer was correct.
The founder, operations lead, office manager, finance lead, or people-operations generalist at a sub-50-headcount company without a dedicated HR department.
The source confirms an August 2, 2026 disclosure date relevant to some AI interactions, subject to applicability review.
A founder or operations generalist in a sub-50 company has a clear recurring pain and limited HR capacity.
Cited retrieval is established; the gap is disciplined policy operations rather than newly possible technology.
The small-company buyer and policy workflow are concrete, cited-answer economics are validated, and the abstention plus receipt mechanism is specific.
Two related interfaces were unverified, employment rules vary, the cited legal service in the invention did not exist, human escalation remains essential, and no structural incumbent barrier is evidenced.
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