About Deputy

Deputy is a workforce management platform focused on shift-based industries including retail, hospitality, healthcare, and food service. It enables managers to build and publish employee schedules, track time and attendance, manage leave, and maintain labor law compliance. Mobile apps allow employees to clock in/out, swap shifts, and communicate with teams. An optional HR add-on (US, UK, Australia) covers document storage and onboarding workflows.

AI Agent Use Cases

- Drag-and-drop employee scheduling with demand-based staffing suggestions

- GPS-enabled time and attendance tracking via mobile

- Labor law compliance alerts and award interpretation (Australia/UK)

- Payroll integrations with ADP, Xero, QuickBooks, and others

- Shift swap and open shift broadcasting for employees

- Optional HR add-on for onboarding, documents, and compliance

Available Actions

These are the specific actions that AI agents can perform with this tool

Create Employee

7 inputs

Creates a new employee record in Deputy with provided personal and employment details

Inputs

firstName

First name of the employee

lastName

Last name of the employee

locationId

The identifier of a location

dob

The date of birth of the employee. Example: `1971-01-01`

startDate

The date that the employee started employment. Example: `1971-01-01`

phone

Phone number of the employee

rate

The hourly rate of the employee

Create Location

5 inputs

Creates a new location entity within Deputy to organize workforce and scheduling by site.

Inputs

name

The name of the workplace

address

The address of the workplace

parentCompanyId

The identifier of the parent company

timezone

The timezone of the workplace. Example: `Australia/Sydney`

notes

Notes about the location

Start Shift

2 inputs

Initiates a work shift for a designated employee by clocking them in within Deputy.

Inputs

locationId

The identifier of a location

employeeId

The identifier of an employee