It’s a challenging time to be a Total Rewards leader.
Jobs are changing. Skills are evolving. Global pay equity requirements are growing. And teams across the business are being asked to do more with less: land the right talent, stay fair and competitive, and manage ever tighter budgets.
But the way pay decisions are made hasn’t kept up. Recruiters, pressured to quickly secure talent, veer to the top of the pay range. Retention bonuses for top talent often arrive too late, failing to prevent employees from leaving. Companies spend 1% or more of their total compensation budgets — upwards of $3M for some enterprises — closing unlawful pay gaps, only to have them creep back with ongoing, everyday pay decisions.
At a time when every dollar counts, companies need a smarter way to make compensation decisions.
That’s why Syndio is building Intelligent Pay™.
A smarter way to make pay decisions
Intelligent Pay is Syndio’s new AI-native solution with fairness at its core, designed to support faster, more strategic offer decisions. It recommends ideal total compensation packages based on the individual, the market, and your internal goals so you can avoid overspending, reduce attrition risk, and maintain fairness from the start.
This solution builds on years of Syndio experience bringing more confidence and clarity to pay decisions. With Intelligent Pay, we’ve taken everything we’ve learned from helping the world’s leading companies close gaps and stay compliant to create something entirely new: a more adaptive and data-driven approach to compensation that supports better decision making in the moment.
Intelligent Pay gives you:
- Precise, tailored compensation recommendations informed by real-time data and internal context;
- Built-in fairness, with guardrails for pay equity, peer alignment, and compression;
- A conversational experience that decision makers interact with to gather and share insights; and
- A system that learns and adapts over time, using your hiring and retention outcomes to continuously improve recommendations.
This system creates a new type of data from hundreds of decision makers across your organization: decision intelligence. By capturing not only decisions and outcomes, but also why decisions diverge from recommendations, companies can fine tune compensation models, instantly learn about emergent skills, and build smarter ways to evaluate talent.
This is a new approach to compensation decision making that balances a complex set of interconnected goals: to help your organization save money while staying competitive, maintain equity to avoid costly remediation down the line, and more easily hire and retain the right talent.
Built for how Total Rewards teams actually work
Compensation decisions rarely happen in isolation. They involve recruiters, managers, HR business partners, and finance, each with their own concerns and priorities.
Intelligent Pay solves this complexity. By surfacing important considerations, such as how one salary will impact internal equity and budgets, Intelligent Pay accelerates decision making, helping teams quickly align and speak the same language when it’s time to make an offer. Instead of chasing down data in the moment or retroactively fixing pay issues later, you’re supported with the right guidance at the right time.
Fairness at the core
There’s a lot of noise around AI for compensation. What makes Syndio different is our proven track record and unwavering focus on fair pay. We pioneered the solutions trusted by over 350 multinational enterprises to comply with global fair pay regulations, ensure pay equity, and communicate confidently.
Resolving pay disparities was just the beginning. We developed Pay Finder™, our first-of-its-kind recommendation engine, to prevent inequities. Hundreds of compensation managers, HR partners, and recruiters rely daily on Pay Finder for clear, policy-aligned pay guidance that stops pay equity issues before they start.
Intelligent Pay builds on this foundation, delivering deeper insights tailored to your top priorities: optimizing talent spend, improving hiring and retention, and avoiding costly pay corrections.
AI you can trust
Intelligent Pay is designed with the same principles and rigor as Syndi, our expert AI now embedded in Global Pay Reports.
Syndi delivers transparent, cited answers, aligns with GDPR and the EU AI Act, is secured by SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls, and is continuously audited for bias — all under an “expert-in-the-loop” model where seasoned legal and pay equity professionals oversee every response. Customers praise the clarity and nuance the AI provides. For one customer, Syndi replaced a 10-page legal memo with a single actionable answer, demonstrating robust, real-world impact.
Building on the success of our expert AI, Intelligent Pay takes Syndio’s proven, responsible architecture beyond compliance guidance into real-time pay recommendations. It’s a natural next step in Syndio’s journey to deliver smarter, fairer pay decisions at scale — and a major leap forward for Total Rewards teams leveraging purpose-built, responsible AI to streamline decision making and improve the bottom line.
See Intelligent Pay for yourself
We’re working with early partners to further shape the experience of Intelligent Pay and we’d love to show you what’s next. Request a private preview today.
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