# I built an agentic AI assistant for HR Legal

> A custom AI agent that answers from HR Legal's own content and legal databases, renders rich HTML responses, and knows where you are on the site.

**Author:** Pelle Fredrikson
**Published:** 2026-06-29
**Tag:** AI

One of the things I'm most proud of in [HR Legal](/projects/hrlegal) is its AI
assistant — and it's a lot more than a chatbot bolted onto the side.

It's an **agentic AI wrapper** I built from scratch. Instead of just answering
from a single prompt, it reasons over the right sources before it responds:

- **Grounded in real data.** Answers are drawn from HR Legal's own content
  database *and* external legal databases, so responses stay trustworthy and
  well-sourced rather than made up.
- **Rich, interactive responses.** The assistant doesn't just return plain text
  — it blends **HTML elements directly into its answers**, so you get formatted,
  interactive content instead of a wall of paragraphs.
- **Context-aware on every page.** It tracks where you are on the site and uses
  that to interpret your question. Ask something while reading a specific article
  or course, and it answers in *that* context.

The result feels less like a search box and more like a knowledgeable colleague
who already knows which page you're on and which sources matter.

There's a lot more I want to do with it, but it's already one of the most fun and
genuinely useful things I've built. More on the platform itself on the
[HR Legal project page](/projects/hrlegal).

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