The best software solutions in Switzerland were celebrated at the Zurich Convention Centre on 19 November 2024. Particularly radiant: the start-up Apriko was a double winner with a gold medal in the Business Solutions category and a silver medal in the Cloud Native Solutions category.
Have you ever wondered what payrolling or payroll actually involves? And do you already know Try & Hire? The answer is not so simple because the term “payrolling” is used for 2 different services.
PayrollGlossary, personnel and customer data are the most sensitive things a personnel service provider has. That is why, at Apriko, control is not an instruction to the AI but a fixed part of the software. Permissions, checks, logging and pseudonymisation apply to every request, whether in the Assistant, through an agent or via the MCP interface.
Wages, supplements and deductions are correct to the last cent. That is why every change made by the AI goes through four steps. The AI turns your question or a document into a concrete change. Apriko runs it against the business rules without saving anything. You see in advance what would happen. If a suggestion doesn’t fit the rules, Apriko asks back and explains why. Nothing is carried out until you confirm. Every action is logged just like your own entries, with person, time and every single change.
✓ 1 Suggestion
✓ 2 Check
✓ 3 Confirmation
✓ 4 Log
Questions, reports and document searches run without confirmation. Nothing is changed. Every change shows you a preview first. You confirm. You release individual processes for automatic execution. The confirmation step falls away, the check remains. That way, the level of automation grows at your pace, one process at a time.
✓ Look up without confirmation
✓ Change with preview
✓ Automatic once released
The AI works with your login and cannot do anything you are not allowed to do by hand. A branch manager gets different answers from an administrator, because Apriko enforces the permissions, not the AI.
The same applies to the Assistant, every agent and external AI tools.
Before a request reaches an AI model, Apriko pseudonymises the personal data. The model works with placeholders; Apriko only puts the real values back in on your side. Apriko replaces names, AHV numbers, addresses and bank details with placeholders. Only what the request needs goes to the model, and only for that one request. You choose for each agent which AI model works and where it runs.
✓ Pseudonymised
✓ Only what is needed
✓ Model selectable per agent
At Apriko, we strive for a high degree of automation of customer processes, a fast market launch, and continuous improvement of our software. To ensure this in a demanding domain and complex software architecture, precise planning and consistent implementation from the outset are essential.
Apriko was developed as a microservice application to meet the increasing requirements of modern enterprise applications. This architecture approach provides the agility, scalability, and maintainability required by today’s software systems. It has proven its worth with major software companies such as LinkedIn, Spotify, and Netflix.
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