Clear Ground gives people managers expert HR guidance at the moment they need it most: before a difficult conversation, during a performance process, or when navigating conflict.
Clear Ground provides custom safety and expertise architecture that an LLM does not. Clear Ground is built by senior HR professionals with decades of real experience. All responses route through our custom safety protocols, our custom scenarios and templates, and our custom leadership development framework. Clear Ground is Australian made and owned by real HR professionals.
What Clear Ground does
One product, four modes of support, all grounded in Australian employment law.
Describe your situation and Clear Ground walks you through the right process step by step, checking prerequisites, flagging risks, and coaching you at every stage.
"I have an employee who's been underperforming for three months..."
Practise difficult conversations before you have them. Clear Ground plays the employee (cooperative, defensive, emotional, or adversarial) and gives you structured coaching feedback.
"Let's rehearse the PIP meeting with a defensive persona..."
Generate customised HR documents including PIPs, warning letters, show cause letters, and grievance responses, with guidance notes and legislative references built in.
"Draft a first written warning for repeated tardiness..."
When an employee discloses a mental health difficulty, Clear Ground coaches you through a supportive first response grounded in the ALGEE mental health first aid framework.
"My employee told me they've been struggling with anxiety..."
Integrated HR tools
Beyond guidance and coaching, Clear Ground includes powerful self-serve tools that handle the operational side of people management.
Generate a professional, compliant employee handbook tailored to your Australian business. Select the policies you need, and Clear Ground drafts them grounded in Fair Work Act requirements.
A step-by-step guide to hiring and onboarding in Australia. Checklists, compliance notes, and AI-drafted position descriptions, job ads, and interview questions at every stage.
Identify the applicable Modern Award for a role and check current minimum pay rates from the Fair Work Commission. Walk through a guided wizard by industry and role type.
Build compliant employment contracts with AI assistance. Select the employment type, fill in the details, and download a professionally drafted contract ready for review.
Our signature feature
Every manager dreads at least one conversation. The PIP meeting. The redundancy notification. The hygiene conversation. Clear Ground lets you rehearse it first, with a realistic AI employee who pushes back, gets emotional, or cooperates, depending on what you need to prepare for.
After the rehearsal, you get structured coaching feedback across five dimensions: content completeness, tone and empathy, legal compliance, clarity, and adaptability. Then you can try again.
Built for Australia
Safe by design
Every interaction is classified into a zone. The agent guides where it can, assists with human review where it should, and escalates where it must, with the manager always in control.
The agent acts autonomously with confidence.
Explaining processes, providing checklists, coaching on conversation skills, answering NES questions
The agent drafts documents for human review before use.
Warning letters, PIPs, show cause letters, grievance responses, all marked DRAFT until an HR professional reviews
The agent coaches, then recommends specialist input.
Harassment allegations, mental health crises, termination decisions, legal advice. The manager decides whether to escalate
Trust & security
Clear Ground pseudonymises all personal information before it reaches the AI model. "Sarah Johnson" becomes "[PERSON-1]." The AI provides guidance on the situation without ever knowing who's involved.
Names, emails, phone numbers, and employee IDs stripped before AI processing
The AI provider does not store or train on your conversations
All persistent data stored in Sydney infrastructure
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit
Full conversation logging for compliance and quality
Connect with your existing identity provider
Who it's for
First time handling performance, feedback, or conflict, and wanting to get it right from the start.
Familiar with HR processes but needing current legislative guidance and quality assurance on documentation.
Supporting multiple managers at scale, using Clear Ground for consistency, templates, and coaching support.
Managing through other managers, needing risk assessment and board-level confidence that processes are sound.
Join the Clear Ground Pilot Programme. No cost, full access from day one.