Haiilo is an AI intranet and employee app with comms, analytics and employee advocacy built in. ChangeEngine creates People programs, triggers them from your HRIS, sends them to the email, chat and SMS tools employees already use, and builds an AI employee hub in minutes. Here’s why People teams choose ChangeEngine, with every Haiilo fact checked against its own website.
Book a demoGet started freeFor People and HR teams, ChangeEngine is the stronger choice. Your HRIS triggers onboarding, promotions and anniversaries automatically, one prompt produces the email, poster and manager guide, and every message lands in Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Slack or SMS. Employee Hub AI gives people a branded front door in about five minutes, with no logins. Teams save ~20 hours per new hire. Haiilo fits if employee advocacy on social is a priority.
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If you’re comparing these two, you’re deciding where employee communication should live and who does the work. ChangeEngine pulls ahead for People teams: it creates the content, triggers it from your HRIS, delivers it where people already are, and builds the hub too.
Haiilo starts with an intranet and app that employees open. ChangeEngine starts with your HRIS and sends People programs to the tools employees already use. We checked every Haiilo fact below against haiilo.com on October 26, 2026.
Haiilo facts checked against its own website on October 26, 2026. ChangeEngine facts from changeengine.com on the same date.
Five things teams switch for, shown in the product. No new app for employees, and nothing that needs an IT project to launch.
Write the message once. ChangeEngine sends it to Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Slack, SharePoint and SMS, and employees never log in to anything new.
A new hire, a promotion or open enrollment triggers the right messages automatically, branched by role, team or location.
The AI Content Studio turns one prompt into an on-brand email, manager guide, poster, infographic or video script.
Open, click, view and action rates by team, location and channel, ready to export for leadership.
Employee Hub AI builds an on-brand employee hub from your domain. Change it in plain English, then add it to Teams or SharePoint.
With ChangeEngine, they don’t. Each message lands in Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Slack, SharePoint or SMS, and employees never log in to ChangeEngine. When people need a front door, Employee Hub AI builds a branded employee hub from your domain in about five minutes, with no IT ticket. You edit it in plain English, and it works as a Teams tab or a SharePoint web part, so you get a hub without an intranet project.
Haiilo is built around a destination. Its intranet and mobile app bring news, documents, communities and a people directory into one place, and its comms tools publish from there to email, SMS, push notifications, Teams, Slack and digital signage. It’s a full digital workplace, and it’s built for employees to come to it.
ChangeEngine, by a wide margin for People teams. Its AI Content Studio turns one prompt into an on-brand email, manager guide, poster, infographic or video script, with your fonts, colors and logos locked in and 5,000+ templates to start from. The announcement, the breakroom poster and the manager talking points come from one brief. One HR generalist does the work of a design and comms team.
Haiilo’s AI assistant, AVA, and its AI writing assistant draft, rewrite, summarize and translate posts and generate images. That helps you publish to the intranet faster. It’s built around posts, not the full kit a People program needs.
That’s the core of ChangeEngine. The Employee Journey Builder starts from HRIS events. A new hire, a promotion or a work anniversary triggers the right messages automatically, branched by role, team or location and sent across email, Teams, Slack and SMS. ChangeEngine connects to 75+ HRIS platforms, including Workday, BambooHR and UKG, and teams save ~20 hours per new hire.
Haiilo connects to HR systems such as Workday, SAP SF, Personio and BambooHR, and targets posts by role, location, department, team or language. Its campaigns run on scheduling, deadlines and approvals, and haiilo.com doesn’t describe journeys that trigger automatically from HRIS events like a new hire or a promotion.
Because it does the work, not just the publishing. ChangeEngine plans, writes, targets and sends your People programs, and Employee Hub AI gives each program its own section and apps, with answers grounded in your own handbook and policies, in the languages your people speak. Post to the hub, then push to Slack, Teams, Outlook, Gmail, SMS and WhatsApp. With the ChangeEngine MCP, you can plan and schedule comms from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
Engagement Analytics shows open, click, view and action rates by team, location and segment, ready to export for leadership, and the hub has analytics for every tile. If you want employees sharing company content on their own social networks from the same platform, Haiilo covers that.
Less than you’d think. Decide what stays: if you keep documents and policies in SharePoint, ChangeEngine pushes the important updates to it and to every other channel, and Employee Hub AI stands up your front door from your domain. Then connect your HRIS so segments and triggers come from the system you already run.
Time the move to your Haiilo renewal and any big send coming up, like open enrollment. You create branded content from day one, and most teams launch the full platform in under two weeks. Your security review has a ready pack in the ChangeEngine Trust Center: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, SSO and US, EU or Canadian data residency.
ChangeEngine is a ‘force multiplier’ for our small internal comms team. The platform is super easy to use, and everything looks professional and on brand.
I can finally organize all our programs and visualize moments and communications in a single platform, and give visibility to the C-suite.
Over 40 campaigns personalized by location and role. Engagement is up and Slack channels are buzzing.
No rip-and-replace project. Keep the tools that work, connect the data you have, and start with the program that matters most this quarter.
Start read-only with Workday, ADP, BambooHR, UKG or any of 75+ HRIS platforms. Segments and triggers come from the system you already run.
Fonts, colors and logos load once. Plan, write and schedule from the AI Content Studio, or from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot with the ChangeEngine MCP.
Send your first program across email, chat and SMS. Most teams launch the full platform in under two weeks, timed around their renewal date.
After launch
Most vendors hand over software and move on. Your ChangeEngine team stays accountable for whether people read, click and use what you ship.
Your services team
Design, video, swag, data and engineering experts work inside your account, so programs keep landing long after launch.
Yes. ChangeEngine sends designed, HRIS-triggered People programs to email, Teams, Slack, SharePoint and SMS, and Employee Hub AI builds an AI employee hub from your domain as the intranet front door, with one section per program, answers grounded in your own policies and no employee logins.
Yes, through Employee Hub AI. A People team builds a branded employee hub from its domain in about five minutes, edits it in plain English, and runs it as a Teams tab or a SharePoint web part. Every post can go out to Slack, Teams, Outlook, Gmail, SMS and WhatsApp too, so employees don’t have to visit to stay informed.
You can create branded content in ChangeEngine from day one, and most teams launch the full platform in under two weeks. Employees don’t install anything, because messages arrive in the email, chat and SMS tools they already use. haiilo.com doesn’t publish a Haiilo setup timeline.
Haiilo quotes its intranet plans based on your organization’s size, setup and features, and lists employee advocacy from $15 per seat per month. ChangeEngine sells modular packages, priced on request, so you pay only for the parts you need and add more as your programs grow.
Every competitor fact on these pages is checked against that company’s own website.
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Teams using ChangeEngine save ~20 hours per new hire. Book a demo to see onboarding, recognition or your next big rollout sent across email, Teams, Slack and SMS.
ChangeEngine is employee communication software for People, HR and internal comms teams. It turns one message into email, Slack, Teams, SMS and print, triggers programs like onboarding from your HRIS, and shows you what landed.
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