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Workleap enhances talent management platform with Gen AI and MongoDB

Learn how Workleap improved its talent management platform with gen AI–based search and data analysis features on MongoDB Atlas.

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The Challenge

Workleap wanted to extend the capabilities of its suite of products and better connect its products’ data with the latest technology. To achieve this, Workleap needed a scalable, fully integrated vector search solution.

Our Solution

Workleap built an AI-powered talent management platform in a short timeframe using the hybrid search capabilities of MongoDB Atlas to boost data analysis and help improve the employee experience.

Outcome

  • Developed AI-powered proof of concept in just a few days
  • Enhanced data retrieval and analysis using gen AI
  • Streamlined workflows for managers
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Industry

Computer Software & Technology

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Product

MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB Atlas Search

MongoDB Vector Search

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Use Case

Gen AI

Analytics

Modernization

THE CHALLENGE

Enhancing the employee experience with data-driven decisions

Montreal-based Workleap builds smart, simple software that helps HR and IT teams drive impact. The Workleap Platform is an AI-powered HR solution that helps managers build high-performing teams and keep employees engaged. Trusted by over 20,000 companies, Workleap’s solutions simplify operations and foster a stronger workplace culture.

Workleap has been using MongoDB since the company’s earliest days. It began using Atlas as its foundational database after migrating away from an SQL solution in 2014. “We love to focus on software development and customer interaction, not the hosting side of things,” said Guillaume Roy, co-founder and chief product officer at Workleap.

In 2024, the company wanted to extend the capabilities of its suite of products and better connect its products’ data with the latest technology. “We decided to go all in on AI,” said Roy. Workleap initiated an organization-wide shift to implement AI capabilities and retrieval-augmented generation using MongoDB Atlas.

To achieve this, Workleap needed a scalable vector search solution, but it didn’t want to piece together multiple third-party tools for vector search, full-text search, and filtering. After comparing providers, it chose MongoDB Atlas to support its enterprise needs with powerful AI-ready search tools.

The result is Workleap AI, a new add-on that brings AI-powered features to all Workleap’s existing products and connects them so that customers can automate workloads and improve experiences. With Workleap AI built into the products that they already use, Workleap customers can chat with a virtual assistant, complete performance reviews, search for information across connected apps and business systems, and more. “We adapted our product line for the future using AI, and that’s where MongoDB technology helped us,” said Roy. Now, Workleap is able to better serve the people and businesses that depend on it.

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“When you’re innovating, you need to make decisions fast. On MongoDB, we were able to jump very quickly into implementing AI.”
Guillaume Roy
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Workleap

OUR SOLUTION

Delivering actionable insights quickly and automating data analysis with AI on MongoDB

Workleap launched a proof of concept of Workleap AI in just a few days. Because the company’s data was already on MongoDB Atlas, it was simple to connect it to the new AI-powered tools using Atlas Search and Vector Search. “When you’re innovating, you need to make decisions fast,” said Roy. “On MongoDB, we were able to jump very quickly into implementing AI and bring Workleap AI to production.” 

The company utilizes hybrid search, which combines precise text search with semantic search, to generate unified results from across the company’s tools that power the AI capabilities. With this capability, Workleap AI understands the exact words in a user’s query as well as the meaning behind them. It provides vector embeddings to the data pipelines for its enhanced data retrieval of documents, calendar information, audio recordings, and more using MongoDB Atlas Vector Search. It also uses Atlas Search for fast, efficient relevance-based data retrieval. This hybrid approach means that Workleap AI can quickly retrieve all the necessary information from multiple Workleap products to provide detailed responses and analyses to users.

For example, a customer using Officevibe — Workleap’s team engagement platform for custom surveys, real-time feedback, and actionable insights — can use Workleap AI to perform deep data analysis on their team’s engagement. Instead of simply charting current team data on a graph, Workleap AI also looks at the metrics underlying the chart and the survey questions that team members answered to produce those metrics.

It can search through and analyze the responses to custom team surveys that are stored in Atlas, querying them to provide insightful data based on the qualitative and quantitative information. “With Officevibe, this is powerful because there’s a lot of information for a person to try to get a big picture,” said Roy. “In moments, Workleap AI helps you analyze all that data and act on it.” For example, when a manager asks about team morale, the system can find relevant survey responses, feedback comments, and engagement metrics across all Workleap tools — even if they don't specifically use the word “morale.”

In the past, a team’s manager had to look through all the data manually. Workleap AI uses the data in MongoDB Atlas to do a comprehensive analysis and recommends actions for managers based on the results. “With Workleap AI, the manager can just click on the report and have a full digest of what’s going on with their team, what they should change or continue to do, and they can act on those results quickly,” said Roy.

Customers also use Workleap AI to assist with performance reviews, which involve large amounts of performance and engagement data from multiple sources stored in MongoDB Atlas. “I’ve never heard anyone saying that they love doing performance reviews,” said Roy. “Workleap AI can look at everything an employee has worked on and surface data points about them.”

Overall, both small and large teams have increased their productivity by using Workleap AI. “AI is very good at removing administrative burden from a manager’s shoulders,” said Roy. “Workleap AI helps managers spend better time with their team to help them grow and focus on what’s really important,” said Roy.

 

OUTCOME

Helping companies improve their culture with rich data insights

With MongoDB Atlas’s support for gen AI capabilities, Workleap has found opportunities to innovate and provide a richer customer experience and help teams improve their work. “What AI is good at is helping professionals make better decisions and automate them,” said Roy. “With AI, if you have a good source of data, you can automate decision-making, which is the holy grail.”

And by using MongoDB Atlas to power its gen AI solutions, the company is positioned well for the changing landscape of technology. “We’ve built Workleap AI as a foundational piece of this company’s future,” said Roy. “We’ve been around for 19 years, and we’re looking toward the next 20.”

The company wants to stay agile and avoid rigid workflows as it plans to continue innovating and evolving. “MongoDB technology helps us learn and develop fast,” said Roy. “The goal is not to have a rigid system. The goal is to use technology to learn as quickly as we can and prepare for the future.”

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“We adapted our product line for the future using AI, and that’s where MongoDB technology helped us.”
Guillaume Roy
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Workleap

To learn more about how Workleap is leveraging MongoDB to build enterprise-grade, AI-powered apps with MongoDB, check out their 2025 MongoDB.local Toronto breakout sessions.

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