People & HR

AI is already in your hiring process. Can you show where?

AI is already in your hiring process. Can you show where?

Recruiting and screening tools, staff using AI nobody approved, candidate data in public models. Connecticut now requires AI-linked layoffs to be disclosed, and employee notice rules arrive October 1, 2027.

Recruiting and screening tools, staff using AI nobody approved, candidate data in public models. Connecticut now requires AI-linked layoffs to be disclosed, and employee notice rules arrive October 1, 2027.

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Protect and notify

Stop sensitive data before it reaches a model. Tell the people who need to know.

Stop sensitive data before it reaches a model. Tell the people who need to know.

Sensitive data stays out of prompts

Set what must never go into AI, like candidate records, salaries or employee files. Crystil stops the prompt before any model sees it and tells the employee why.

HR and legal hear about it first

When a prompt is stopped, HR and legal are alerted with who, when and which tool, so a policy breach becomes a conversation and leaves a record for audits.

How AI is really used

See which teams use AI, with which tools, and how that changes month to month, so your AI policy rests on what really happens and the board gets evidence.

The Brief

Reading for you

Reading for you

46.9% of enterprises ran over budget on AI

· The Futurum Group

46.9% of enterprises reported running over budget on AI, against 31.8% approximately in line with budget and only 5.6% below plan

Only 17.2% of over-budget organizations pause or reduce the AI initiative

· Techstrong.ai

Among enterprises over budget on AI, only 17.2% pause or reduce the AI initiative itself, while 48% request additional budget and 43% absorb the overrun and settle it later

61% cut external contractors and consultants to fund AI overruns

· Techstrong.ai

Organizations over budget on AI fund the gap by cutting elsewhere: 61% reduce external contractors and consultants, 60% cut IT support and helpdesk, 58% cut software and application development, and 23% reallocate from a non-IT business unit budget

10% have no formal AI budget and 5.6% do not know where their AI spend stands

· The Futurum Group

10% of enterprises have no formal AI budget to measure spending against and a further 5.6% do not know where their AI spending stands, meaning roughly one in six cannot say whether they are over or under budget

US$795 billion of 2026 hyperscaler capex rising to nearly US$1.08 trillion in 2027

· Reuters (via Investing.com)

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Oracle are expected to spend a combined US$795 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, rising to nearly US$1.08 trillion in 2027, against total AI spending of nearly US$800 billion in 2026

42% would expand existing AI workloads if token prices fell 25% or more

· CIO Dive

42% of surveyed executives said they would expand existing AI workloads if token prices fell 25% or more, while only about 10% of workloads need advanced frontier-level reasoning

Your playbook

The People and HR AI playbook

Ten questions to ask before someone else does.

The 2-minute check

Ten questions. Every "I don't know" is a finding.

[ 1 ]

Can you name every recruiting or screening tool your team uses that has AI switched on?

[ 2 ]

Do you know whether candidate data is sent to any public AI model?

[ 3 ]

Would you know if a manager used AI to draft a performance review or a termination?

[ 4 ]

Is there an approved list of AI tools employees are allowed to use?

[ 5 ]

Could you show how AI touched a hiring decision if a candidate asked?

[ 6 ]

Do you know what your AI features and tools cost last month, in dollars?

[ 7 ]

Have you had a surprise AI bill or usage spike in the last six months?

[ 8 ]

Does the AI spend number on your dashboard tie to your actual provider invoices?

[ 9 ]

If a team, an app or a customer account went over budget today, would anything alert you?

[ 10 ]

Is AI cost showing up in your board decks, security questionnaires or diligence requests yet?