CompenBot: An AI-powered Assistant for Compensation Decisions
About This Tool
CompenBot is a conversation assistant that helps both managers and employees prepare for merit, bonus, and promotion conversations. Built in ChatGPT and grounded in real-world compensation logic, it walks users through the key factors that drive pay decisions—performance, budget, market value, time-in-role, and internal equity—so they can enter these conversations informed, prepared, and confident.
The tool is for managers; it serves as a just-in-time coach—clarifying reasoning, surfacing risks, and offering clear language to explain decisions.
Why It Matters
Compensation decisions are some of the most sensitive and high-impact moments in a manager’s year. When they go wrong—or even just lack context—they can erode trust, increase attrition, and cause equity gaps to widen. Support fair, confident compensation decisions with a just-in-time compensation tutor.
How It Works
- Launch the GPT: Click here
- Describe your situation: Share the decision you're preparing for
- Clarify key factors: Reflect on logic like market data and internal equity
- Get structured guidance: Receive support for reasoning and messaging
- Practice your delivery: Role play or draft your message using suggested language
- Download the guide: Recreate or adapt the experience for internal use using this guide
The Foundation of CompenBot
CompenBot is grounded in the real-world logic managers and compensation teams use to make and explain pay decisions. It’s not just a chatbot—it’s a structured conversation partner built on decades of compensation experience.
Its foundation includes:
- Performance-based pay principles used in most merit and bonus processes
- Internal equity logic, helping surface inconsistencies across peers or roles
- Market benchmarking awareness, without requiring live comp data
- Promotion readiness and time-in-role considerations commonly used in career frameworks
- Language coaching to help managers explain decisions with fairness and clarity
CompenBot was trained to reflect how experienced managers and HR professionals reason through tough calls—and to help others do the same.
Create Your Own Version
The assistant can be replicated in other platforms like Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini for organizations that don’t use ChatGPT. The downloadable guide includes everything needed to recreate or adapt the experience—no technical expertise required.
What’s in the guide:
- Step-by-step instructions to recreate CompenBot in ChatGPT or another AI platform
- Pre-filled content for all fields in the GPT creation process
- Coaching prompts and decision logic used in compensation planning
- Privacy guidance and alternative setup options for Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini
Privacy and Access
Using this GPT does not require a paid subscription.
Users concerned about data privacy can:
- Turn off chat history in ChatGPT: Settings → Data Controls
- Use temporary chat (for paid users) to avoid saving session data
- Replicate the assistant internally using approved enterprise tools using the Create Your Own CompenBot Guide
All conversations are private by default and are not visible to others.
This customizable GPT was developed collaboratively by members of the AI in L&D working group, a sub-group of the AI Exchange. Special thanks to member Markus McKay-Fleisch for holding the pen on the first draft and subsequent edits.
