Every week, we talk with senior HR and People Ops leaders who are trying to do the same thing: build a thoughtful people strategy and deliver great employee experiences. And almost every time, the same frustration comes up.
Their teams are completely bogged down in routine, manual work.
Not strategic work. Not high-impact work. Just the work that has to get done.
One VP of HR recently described an onboarding automation project she was working on. When I asked her about the strategy behind it, she paused, laughed, and said:
“There’s nothing strategic about it. It just has to get done — and my time gets caught up doing it.”
Another People Ops leader put it perfectly:
“This work is getting done in what I’d call intensely manual ways.”
If you’ve spent time in HR — especially working alongside technical teams — this probably sounds familiar. You sit in meeting after meeting, watching teams manually move data between systems, and eventually you feel yourself about to say the three forbidden words:
“Couldn’t you just make the data connect?”
And if you’ve ever said that out loud, you know what comes next: a flood of explanations about APIs, SFTP, OAuth, data transformations, protocols, and edge cases.
All true. All valid.
But still — this stuff should be wired together.
Every organization today runs on a complex ecosystem of tools:
Each one does its job well. The problem is everything between them.
That’s where Aragorn comes in.
Let’s imagine a fully wired HR ecosystem — with Aragorn acting as the connective tissue.
It has to start somewhere, so let’s start with recruiting.
Maybe you’re using Greenhouse, iCIMS, or another ATS. Aragorn connects directly to those systems, pulls the data via API, and represents it in your terminology — speaking your language, not the vendor’s.
Now that data is usable.
The first thing you probably want to do with candidate data? Push it into your core HR system.
Whether that’s UKG, Workday, ADP, Paycom, or something else, Aragorn automates that flow so new hires are created without manual entry.
No more spreadsheets. No more rekeying data. No more delays.
And while we’re at it, we can automate the notifications too — emails, calendar invites, task assignments — so everyone involved in onboarding knows exactly what to do and when.
Once the employee exists in your core HR system, the flywheel really starts turning.
Aragorn can:
Because we already know who the employee is, where they work, and what role they’re in, these workflows don’t need to be manual anymore.
Benefits integrations are notoriously complex. The files required for healthcare providers can be painful to manage — often forcing benefits teams to make decisions based on integration constraints instead of employee experience.
Aragorn handles that complexity for you.
The same goes for learning, performance, and other HR programs. Employee profiles can be created automatically, and valuable data from those systems can flow back into Aragorn.
Once everything is connected, why stop there?
Aragorn can package all of this data and send it to your analytics stack — whether that’s an internal data lake or platforms like Visier, Crunchr, or OneModel.
Clean data. Consistent definitions. No duct tape required.
If this all sounds powerful — and maybe a little intimidating — here’s the good news.
You don’t lose visibility.
Inside Aragorn, your team gets a clear dashboard showing:
And crucially, your HR team can diagnose and fix issues without being dependent on IT or consultants.
It’s clean. It’s simple. And it’s designed for People Ops teams, not engineers.
This is what a wired-up HR stack looks like. These aren’t theoretical diagrams — these are integrations running today for Aragorn customers.
If you’ve ever thought, “There has to be a better way”, there is.
HR will never be simple — but it doesn’t have to be this complicated.
Aragorn helps you automate the mundane, connect your systems, and free your team to focus on what humans do best.
