Humaans

Just back from Transform in Las Vegas. 🇺🇸 Spent three days talking to many senior HR & People leaders. Here's what I took away. 🔹 AI isn't a topic anymore. It's the new operating context. Not a single person I spoke to isn't actively building an AI strategy for their People function. And they have full top-down support to do it. 🔹 HR operators are questioning their entire stack. HR has historically been one of the most risk-averse buying functions. The majority of leaders I spoke to are re-evaluating everything from the ground up. The alternative is becoming obsolete. The sharpest operators are moving fast. 🔹 Everyone is both building and buying. Building to experiment, learn, understand what's possible. Buying where it gets serious: sensitive data, compliance, complex workflows, craft. I don't see a world where companies vibe-code their own HR solutions and ship them to employees without real product design behind the experience. The winners will do both, but know where the line is. 🔹 AI fatigue is real. Every vendor is bolting on AI features inside their own system. People teams are drowning in new interfaces and new ways of working across every tool they use. This is exactly why Athena's approach resonated so strongly. One orchestration layer. One entry point through Slack or Teams. Not 15 different AI features scattered across 15 different products for people to learn. 🔹 Nobody has answers. And they know it. There's no social proof yet. No playbook. No company that's figured this out and can be copied. People leaders are more open than I've ever seen them to being guided, educated, partnered with. The vendors who show up as thought partners and not just sellers will win this cycle. 🔹 The efficiency mandate is real, even if nobody says it out loud. Most People leaders driving AI initiatives have headcount efficiency behind it. Either cutting roles or not adding them. Few are saying it publicly, but privately, that's the conversation. 🔹 This is existential for a lot of companies. Software, professional services, across the board. Business moats are being questioned. Velocity is increasing and not slowing down. Companies are rethinking them org model entirely. And they're doing it fast because they don't have a choice. Everyone is trying to make sense of something they don't yet fully understand and moving quickly, even without perfect clarity, to figure it out. This was the most energising conference I've been to in years. Excited to support teams navigating this shift. Thank you to the many incredible people who stopped by the Humaans booth and shared their time, their challenges, and their thinking with us. It means the world. See you next year, Vegas. 🎲

We are just 2 days away from PX Live | London 🥳 A lot of work goes in to making days like this possible, not least from everyone at SapienX who are relentless in pursuit of creating experiences of meaning and connection 🫶 The truth is, we would not be able to put these kinds of experience together if it wasn't for the wonderful sponsors and partners who are as committed to supporting the progressive People and HR community as we are 🙏🏻 So, we want to say a huge thank you to our Headline sponsor: Humaans 💜 Giovanni Luperti and the whole team at Humaans have been incredible in their support of SapienX and our PX series, we are very proud of our partnership 🫶 Thanks also to HowNow 🧠 our partner sponsor Georgia Inwood and team have been great to work with and have provided some of the funkiest swag 👀 Great product, great people, great swag 🥳 And to our feature sponsor Huggg 🎁 We have been working with Lewis Quick and the Huggg team for a few months now. PX Live is the latest activation of our partnership, we love what Huggg stand for; thoughtful recognition over transactional gifting 😍 Everyone at SapienX is a deeply grateful for partners like these who are committed to supporting People teams in designing and building a better experience of work, for all 🫶

Just came off stage at Transform. Thirty minutes on AI goes fast. Come find us at booth 0518 if you want to dig in.

We’re live at Transform in Las Vegas with Humaans - booth 0518. Come find us if you want to see what happens when you give HR teams an AI agents to scale their impact! Athena is running live demos all day today and tomorrow. No slideware. No “coming soon.” Just an AI agent that lives in Slack & Teams, connects to your existing HR stack, and handles the work your People team shouldn’t be spending time on. Booth 0518. Come say hi. #Transform2025 #HRTech #Humaans #Athena