On 1 January 2025, Australia made wage theft a crime.
Yellow Canary tells an employer they have a problem. iHR fixes it. This is a working demonstration of the hybrid AI + rules engine that lets you do both — audit every pay run against Australian Modern Awards, flag the underpayments, and prove the maths.
Begin the walkthroughPenalties now reach 10 years' imprisonment and $7.825M fines. Demand is acute — adoption is in its infancy. Early movers with credible brands win.
Source: iHR market research, June 2026 · Fair Work Ombudsman 2024–25.
The market leader stops at "you have a problem." iHR's moat is the entire lifecycle — and that's what no competitor can replicate.
A technology platform.
Then it stops. Full stop.
A deterministic rules engine for the top Awards — 100% auditable, zero hallucination — running in parallel with an AI/RAG engine for Enterprise Agreements, edge cases and new countries. A validation layer reconciles them and escalates disagreement to a human.
Award rules hand-coded as tested logic. The source of truth for AU, today.
Cross-checks both engines. Agreement → trusted. Disagreement → human review. Confidence compounds over time until AI can lead.
Retrieves the exact clause, reasons over it, computes the rate. Scales to anything.
A faithful preview running on synthetic data — one hospital, twelve nurses, the Nurses Award 2020. Production needs 122 Awards benchmarked to 95%+ accuracy on live payroll. That gap is the build.
The pretty report is the easy part. Correctness lives in retrieval, date-versioning and the legal knowledge base. Two of the hard parts, made tangible.
Naïve keyword search misses clauses that don't share words. Hybrid retrieval finds the right one, date-aware, with a citation and a confidence score.
Type a question, or pick one above. The engine retrieves over the Nurses Award knowledge base.
Every retrieval is date-stamped. Use last year's rate and the audit is wrong — and indefensible.
Same audit power as the leader — plus the things only a 25-year consultancy can do.
Underpayments typically run 1–3% of headcount cost. Move the slider to model a client's annual exposure — and the recoverable value the engine surfaces.
Illustrative. Penalty ceiling is the greater of fixed maxima or 3× the underpayment.
Milestone-based, with go/no-go checkpoints. You see working software at Week 4, validation results at Week 6, and an end-to-end audit on real data at Week 8.
Exactly the breakdown Jacqui asked for — discovery, rules engine, RAG, AI engine, dashboard MVP, testing. Milestone-linked payments. Figures finalised on the kickoff call.
AUD, ex-GST. Milestone-based schedule. A fixed-price POC de-risks the production decision — you commit to the build only after Week 8 proves the accuracy.
Before the kickoff call. The full set is in the brief — these are the ones that decide feasibility.
NEXT STEP
Book the kickoff call. We'll align scope, confirm the phased figures, and start the data-feasibility sprint — on track for a working POC by August.