HiBob and The Josh Bersin Company Launch Galileo® Powered Workforce Intelligence in Bob
Galileo® in Bob combines 25 years of trusted HR expertise with Bob's trusted people context intelligence to bring
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New York, US & London, UK, Sept. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HiBob, the people platform for the modern world of work and The Josh Bersin Company, the world’s most trusted global research and advisory firm focused on human resources, corporate learning, talent management, and HR technology today announce the next step toward organizational intelligence with the launch of Galileo® powered AI agents in Bob.
Organizations don’t need another AI assistant, they need trusted expertise embedded where work happens. As AI reshapes the workplace, HR leaders, managers, and employees need practical guidance in the flow of work, not disconnected tools or generic AI responses that quickly become outdated. By embedding Galileo’s external HR expertise into Bob’s understanding of an organization’s people, structures, workflows and priorities, the integration brings contextual intelligence into the flow of work helping make the organization smarter, not simply its HR technology.
“Most organizations don’t have an AI problem. They have an intelligence problem. The challenge isn’t generating more information. It’s helping leaders make better decisions with the information they already have. Workforce transformation requires organizations to connect people, payroll, performance, and planning in a way that turns insight into action. That’s why we’ve embedded Galileo’s expertise directly into Bob AI,” said Ronni Zehavi, CEO and Co-founder of HiBob.
Zehavi concludes: “By combining trusted expertise with workforce intelligence, we’re helping organizations build the operating system they need for the AI era, one that elevates human decision-making rather than replacing it.”
From AI Potential to Practical Impact
While AI adoption is accelerating across every industry, many organizations are struggling to convert experimentation into measurable business value. The challenge is no longer access to AI. It is access to contextual intelligence that most helps leaders understand the signals and insights provided by AI and translate them into better decision-making.
This is where the market is heading. Organizations need AI embedded within the manager’s daily workflow and where workforce decisions are made, not disconnected tools that sit alongside them.
HiBob is building agents that incorporate Galileo® context into answers when relevant to a user’s question. The initial agents, expected to be adopted by hundreds of customers by the end of 2026, and into the first quarter of 2027 are designed to support:
- Job architecture – structuring roles and skills with industry-aligned frameworks
- Compensation – guiding fair, competitive, and data-informed pay decisions
- Performance management – improving evaluation quality and consistency
Bob combines each organization’s unique people data with HiBob’s technical expertise and 25 years of research and insight from The Josh Bersin Company. By understanding roles, performance, workflows and priorities, it provides leaders and managers with reliable, evidence-based intelligence in the flow of work helping them make better decisions in the moment and respond more intelligently to change.
The Next Frontier: Organizational Intelligence
For years, organizations have invested in systems of record and systems of engagement. The next generation of organizations will be built on systems of intelligence that connect people, payroll, performance, planning, and business priorities in one place.
Organizational Intelligence enables leaders to move from hindsight to foresight, helping them anticipate workforce challenges, make better decisions, and act with greater confidence.
Josh Bersin, global industry analyst and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, added: “For AI to truly transform HR, it must be grounded in expertise and delivered in the flow of work. The partnership between Galileo and Bob brings decades of HR knowledge directly into the hands of practitioners and managers when they need it most while empowering teams to make more human-centered decisions every day.”
Availability
The Galileo Inside Bob agents will be available in Q3 2026; full GA 2027.
For more information visit Meet Galileo In Bob.
NOTES TO EDITORS
Use cases available on request
About HiBob
HiBob is the people platform for the modern world of work. Its award-winning solution, Bob, connects HR, payroll, and finance in a single solution, providing organizations with a trusted foundation for managing their people and operations. Building on this foundation of verified workforce data, HiBob delivers organizational intelligence directly into the systems where work happens, serving as critical infrastructure for the AI-powered enterprise that bridges the gap between people and agents.
Engineered for modern organizational dynamics, HiBob empowers leaders to gain deep visibility into their people and capabilities, identify skill gaps, strategize workforce planning, and foster clear accountability. Today, thousands of mid-sized and enterprise organizations across more than 170 countries rely on HiBob to build more agile, high-performing cultures.
To learn more, visit www.hibob.com.
About The Josh Bersin Company
The Josh Bersin Company is the world’s most trusted human capital advisors, providing research-based insights on talent, leadership, and organizational performance.
Unlike traditional consultancies, we capture our integrated models, research, and guidance in a structured, scalable knowledge base—Galileo®—making trusted advice and decades of expertise accessible to anyone, anywhere, in real time.
With a dedicated team constantly tracking market change, testing ideas, and applying a unique business lens, we help over a million HR and business leaders address their most pressing people challenges—aligning work, knowledge, and skills for maximum impact. For more information, visit joshbersin.com.
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