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Meet AMI — your AI agent stack.

AMI runs interviews, processes payslips, drafts documents and analyses reports inside your Sense tenant. Not a chatbot — a team of agents.

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AMI conducts the first-round interview.

Inside the Sense ATS, AMI screens candidates, scores against your role criteria, and feeds the result back into the pipeline.

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Workflows named for UK HR.

Not generic templates. Fit Note After 7 Days, Buy/Sell Holidays, Flexi Time, TOIL Cycle Carryover — UK-specific and switch-on-ready.

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Six AI agents working on your HR.

Counsel is the new AMI agent. Reads your live contracts, policies and roster — then answers in three seconds. Replaces the £16-per-employee advice line. Coming in 8 weeks.

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The only HR system that builds its own location hardware.

Sense Badge with Lone Worker and SOS apps. Sense Gateway for indoor presence. Fire roll-call in one tap. Nobody else does this.

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TrustID powers right-to-work.

UKVI-compatible IDVT checks built into the ATS and onboarding flow. Audit-ready evidence. Sponsorship licence reporting on Elite.

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UK HR software comparison

Sense HR vs PeopleHR.

Comparing Access PeopleHR with Sense HR? PeopleHR is a long-running UK HR software for small businesses. Sense HR is the modern UK HR software with T&A, work patterns, AI agents and workflow automation included — without the legacy feel.

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2026 Updated
Public pricing Based on public pricing and feature lists
UK HR Reviewed by UK HR specialists
Sense HR vs PeopleHR.
At a glance

Who is each product best for?

Sense HR

UK teams from 50 to 1,000+ employees. Businesses ready to leave a dated HR product behind. Companies with office + frontline staff in one platform. Buyers who want T&A, work patterns and clocking included. HR teams that want AI agents (AMI, Sense Automate) baked in. Free implementation, free PeopleHR migration, free UK training.

PeopleHR

UK small businesses (1–100 staff) on a tight budget. Long-standing PeopleHR customers happy with their setup. Office-led businesses with minimal frontline requirement. Teams comfortable with a more traditional UI. Organisations already inside the Access ecosystem. Buyers who don't need AI or workflow automation.

Sense HR vs PeopleHR — feature by feature.

Based on publicly available product information as of 2026. Features change — we recommend confirming directly with each vendor.

When to choose which

If you're shopping a PeopleHR alternative, here's the honest take.

Choose Sense HR if — You want modern UK HR software, not a legacy one.

Most teams moving off PeopleHR are doing it for the same reasons: dated UI, modules that stack up in price, and a product that hasn't kept up with how HR runs today. Sense HR is what those teams move to. Your users complain about the look-and-feel of your current HR. You want T&A, work patterns and clocking included in the base price. You want AI agents doing real HR work, not bolt-on chatbots. You're scaling past PeopleHR's comfort zone. You have any kind of frontline, field or shift-based workforce. You want a free, hands-on UK migration off PeopleHR.

Stay on PeopleHR if — It still works for what you actually need.

PeopleHR isn't a bad product — it's a well-established core-HR tool for small UK businesses. If you're happy with the UI and your needs are stable, switching isn't urgent. You're under ~100 employees and growth is steady. Your workforce is entirely office-based. You don't need T&A, work patterns, AI or workflow automation. You're already inside the Access ecosystem. Switching cost outweighs the upgrade for now. The legacy UI is fine for your team.

FAQs

Common questions on the PeopleHR comparison.

Why do customers leave PeopleHR for Sense HR?+
Most often three reasons: the UI feels dated to their staff, they're stacking too many PeopleHR add-ons to get the features they need, and they've outgrown what PeopleHR does for shift / frontline workforces.
Can Sense HR migrate my data from Access PeopleHR?+
Yes. PeopleHR migration is included free in our implementation. We pull employee records, leave balances, documents and historic data out of PeopleHR and load them into Sense. A UK implementation specialist runs it end-to-end — typical go-live is 2–4 weeks.
How does Sense HR pricing compare with PeopleHR?+
PeopleHR is published from around £4 PEPM at the lowest tier, with key modules — recruitment, expenses, performance, training, time — priced separately on top. Sense HR is from £2 PEPM with HR, T&A, ATS and workflow automation in the base. Implementation, migration and training are free.
Does Sense HR cover time & attendance better than PeopleHR?+
Yes. PeopleHR's T&A is a separately licensed module with basic timesheets and no hardware clock support. Sense HR ships hardware clocks (Sense Clock, Anviz FacePass, Anviz C2 Pro), GPS-verified mobile clock-in and full shift scheduling in the base price.
How does AI in Sense HR compare with PeopleHR?+
PeopleHR doesn't currently offer functional AI agents. Sense HR ships four: AMI (conversational HR assistant), AMI (AI recruiter that screens and ranks candidates), Sense Automate (attendance AI that finds cover for no-shows) and a AMI Payroll agent.
Is Sense HR a good fit for frontline workforces?+
Yes — this is a core strength. Cleaning, security, catering, care, retail, healthcare and field-based teams all run on Sense HR. Multi-site work patterns, hardware clocks and geofenced mobile clock-in were built for exactly this. PeopleHR is not designed for these workforces.
Will my team find Sense easier to use than PeopleHR?+
Almost always, yes. Sense HR was built ground-up for how people use software today — mobile-first, fast, with consistent interactions. The most common feedback from teams switching off PeopleHR is that adoption goes up because people actually want to use it.

A modern UK HR software to replace PeopleHR.

Free PeopleHR migration. Free implementation. Free UK training. T&A included. AI included. From £2 per employee per month.

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