The new way to make smart pay decisions — every time, at every level
Businesses sit on unprecedented amounts of data, yet using that data to make efficient and effective decisions remains a challenge.
Relying only on humans to wrangle fragmented sources, quickly align with other teams, and remove discretion from their decision making introduces costs and risk for your business. Decision Intelligence for Pay bridges this gap.
By bringing real-time context to every pay decision, Decision Intelligence for Pay helps companies make the right pay decisions, every time, so they can move fast, win talent, reduce attrition, and control costs.
What is Decision Intelligence?
Decision intelligence refers to solutions that make decision logic clear, embed it in the flow of work, and improve it with feedback. They guide people to deliver consistent, policy-aligned decisions and empower the organization to continuously learn and improve based on the outcome of every decision.
Gartner predicts that by 2027, half of all business decisions “will be augmented or automated by AI agents using decision intelligence.”
Decision Intelligence addresses the hidden cost of pay decisions
Companies make hundreds of thousands of compensation decisions every year, but struggle to maintain consistency and stay within budget, leading to overspend, inequity, and attrition.
- Decision slowdown: Recruiters need to land candidates fast, but the process for making a new hire offer averages ~72 hours, causing companies to lose candidates to competitive offers.
- Hidden attrition risk: Companies only discover high performers are underpaid when they resign or get a competitive offer — and replacing them costs, on average, over 33% of their salary.
- Eroding fairness: Every compensation change opens the door to equity erosion, peer misalignment, or compression risk, increasing the need for annual remediation, which can cost ~1% of payroll.
- Salary drift: With pressure to fill vacant roles, offers may come in a few percentage points high (18–20% above midpoint), creating significant overspend.
AI-powered Decision Intelligence is uniquely positioned to address these challenges by bringing together siloed data and arming decision makers with clear guidance and context to make the right compensation decision in the moment.
Decision Intelligence for Pay
Let’s take a look at how Decision Intelligence for Pay platforms work.
1) Synthesizes data from a variety of sources to guide pay decisions
Decision Intelligence for Pay platforms leverage the power of AI agents and deep domain expertise to deliver specific guidance on fair, competitive, and efficient compensation — right at the moment of decision. This can be for new hire offers, pay adjustments at time of promotion, and any other employee pay decision.
2) Fosters collaboration and speeds up decisions
The most effective way to drive impact is to get accurate, credible insights, right where decisions are made. By embedding Decision Intelligence for Pay directly into tools where people already work — such as Microsoft Teams and Slack — organizations connect people and teams with the data and context they need to instantly align and act on a decision.
3) Constantly improves decisions and outcomes
Decision Intelligence for Pay records every decision and monitors outcomes based on what’s most important to an organization: their compensation philosophy, competitive market intelligence, and talent. It continuously learns and improves from how past pay decisions impact performance and business results, reinforcing the right learning and the right outcomes for more precision and impact over time.
Syndio is Decision Intelligence for Pay
Syndi, built on Syndio’s Decision Intelligence for Pay platform, is an AI-native pay expert that guides precise, consistent compensation decisions you can trust.
Syndi integrates with a wide range of data: internal and external, structured and unstructured. This includes data inputs from HRIS, Payroll, and Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), your own unique compensation philosophy, and external data, including benchmarks and real-time market trends.
It reinforces your company strategy and upholds your compensation philosophy.
Syndi’s AI agents act like a team of always-on comp specialists, guiding pay recommendations in the flow of work. It delivers guidance with relevant context, so users can better understand the “why” behind the recommendation and make better decisions they can easily explain.
Using Decision Intelligence for Pay transforms compensation from a system of record to a system of action, helping companies win talent, maintain fairness, and control costs, all at once.
Decision Intelligence in action: Syndi recommends precise new hire offers
Take, for example, new hire offers. For many companies, decisions are made in silos, without the data and insight to balance competing priorities:
- Talent Acquisition needs to win top talent but they lack the real-time data to move fast and be competitive without overspending. So they lose candidates and employees.
- Compensation leaders need pay to be fair, consistent, and within budget to match the policies and ranges they’ve set, but decisions lack rich insight and guidance in the moment. So they’re stuck with inconsistencies they have to pay for later.
- Finance leaders must responsibly allocate budget amidst changing talent strategies and economic uncertainty, but budgets get maxed out way ahead of plan. So costs escalate without outcomes.
Syndi gives HR and Finance teams what they’ve always needed but never had: real-time guidance they can trust so they can stay aligned and move fast, together. When a recruiter is ready to make an offer to a candidate, they can call on Syndi right from the systems they’re already working in.
Syndi uses conversational AI to provide a precise total compensation offer based on a host of factors, weighted to the organization’s specific comp philosophy and goals:
- The salary range for the role
- The latest competitive market data for the role
- The position in range based on the candidate’s experience and skill set in alignment with the compensation philosophy
- The internal pay equity/fairness of employees in similar roles and the most-recent hires
As Syndi learns the exact salaries needed to land talent, the recommendations get smarter and more precise over time.
New hire offers are just one example, and just the start. Syndi will scale to all employee pay decisions, including promotions, internal transfers, merit cycles, spot bonuses, retention offers, and more.
Syndio’s decision intelligence architecture
Syndio’s Decision Intelligence for Pay platform consists of four core elements:
- Data foundation that integrates with your systems of record. Syndi offers precise recommendations to the humans making decisions. Every decision is seamlessly routed back to your systems of record and trains your proprietary model to reinforce the right learning.
- Expert compensation agents that continuously learn from your organization’s compensation philosophy, market data, and workforce signals to deliver precise recommendations.
- Orchestration agent with deep contextual understanding of compensation decisions. It can deliver a precise, explainable recommendation in seconds.
- A living map of every pay moment that over time will analyze every recommendation and conversation, surfacing relationships between decisions and outcomes in a way that was previously inaccessible to humans.
Decision Intelligence for Pay enables a powerful feedback loop that turns your policies into instant guidance and drives insights for the entire organization, at every level.
Learn more about Decision Intelligence for Pay
Ready to transform how you make pay decisions? Decision Intelligence for Pay helps companies meet a complex set of interconnected goals: to stay competitive by landing and retaining the right talent, maintain fairness to avoid costly remediation down the line, and build trust with pay decisions that drive performance from the inside out.
