One AI assistant. Every acquired company's HR knowledge. One place to ask.
A PE-backed study abroad provider had acquired multiple companies, each with its own HR systems, policies, and tribal knowledge. We consolidated everything into SharePoint and built a generative AI assistant that answers people ops questions across the entire enterprise.
Overview
Impact, measured in results
AI assistant deployed across every acquired company
Consolidated from scattered systems across multiple acquisitions
New acquisitions onboarded into the same knowledge layer
One of the nation's largest private equity-backed study abroad program providers, formed through serial acquisition. Multiple companies operating under one umbrella, each with its own systems, policies, and institutional knowledge.
Why AppStream
We had HR information scattered across every company we'd acquired. Now any employee can ask a question and get the right answer, sourced from the actual policy. It scales every time we do another deal.
Ryan Sylvester
CIO, CEA CAPA
Consolidate everything. Then put AI on top.
We started by mapping the people operations landscape across every acquired entity. Where documentation lived, what formats it was in, what questions employees were actually asking, and which sources they were using or failing to find.
We deployed an enterprise SharePoint system as the single repository, organized by function and policy area. All people ops documentation from every acquired company — SOPs, benefits, policies, procedures — migrated, structured, and indexed for AI retrieval.
Then we built the generative AI assistant on top of it. Employees ask natural language questions about HR, benefits, policies, or procedures and get answers grounded in the company's actual documentation. Not generic responses. Sourced, verifiable answers from indexed content. And when the next acquisition closes, their docs get added to the same knowledge layer.
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Summary
Provided services
Our team
Justin Tannenbaum
Solutions Architect
Lukasz Chmielowski
Lead Engineer
Taylor Larson
Product Manager
Ernesto Quispe
Product Design
Tech stack
Turn acquisition sprawl into AI-powered access
If your portfolio companies have fragmented knowledge across systems and acquisitions, we've built the playbook to consolidate and deploy AI on top.
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