Gusto
TeamShift with Gusto: AI help for the people work around payroll
Gusto runs payroll, benefits, and HR records well. What eats an owner's week is the work that feeds it: reading applications, scheduling interviews, chasing a new hire's paperwork, and checking timesheets before payroll runs. TeamShift's People worker connects to Gusto and your inbox and calendar to handle that prep. It screens applicants against your must-haves, books interviews, tracks onboarding documents, and flags timesheet gaps before the pay run. Finance matches payroll totals in QuickBooks. Running payroll and changing pay stay with you. You choose in Company Brain what the team may read.
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Gusto: the short answers
What can AI do with Gusto?
AI can help prepare everything that feeds payroll and HR in Gusto: screening applicants, scheduling interviews, collecting onboarding documents, checking timesheets for missing or unusual hours, and reconciling payroll in QuickBooks. Gusto's own assistant, Gus, answers payroll and HR questions and can take some actions after you confirm. TeamShift does the work around it in email, calendar, and accounting.
How is TeamShift different from Gus, Gusto's AI assistant?
Gus is built into Gusto and handles questions about running payroll, benefits, and compliance terms, and for quick in-app changes you confirm. TeamShift's People worker works outside Gusto too: reading applicant emails, booking interviews on your calendar, chasing missing I-9 or W-9 paperwork, and checking hours before payroll. Ask Gus your Gusto questions. Hand TeamShift the hiring and onboarding job.
Will TeamShift run payroll or change pay rates?
No. Running payroll, changing pay, and approving time off stay with you. TeamShift prepares the inputs, flags problems such as a missing timesheet or overtime that looks wrong, and drafts messages to employees for your approval. It does not give legal or tax advice. Employment law questions belong with your accountant or an HR professional.
Who does what
The jobs your team takes
Finance worker
- Matches Gusto payroll totals to QuickBooks after each run and flags any difference for your bookkeeper.
People worker
- Screens incoming applications against your must-haves and drafts replies to the shortlist and the decline list.
- Schedules interviews on your calendar and sends confirmations after you approve the times.
- Tracks each new hire's onboarding in Gusto and drafts emails for your OK asking for missing documents and direct-deposit details.
- Checks timesheets before each payroll for missing days, unusual overtime, or hours on a closed job, and lists them for you.
- Collects W-9s and insurance certificates from contractors before their first payment.
Stays with you
What never runs without you
- Running payroll and approving pay changes
- Hiring and firing decisions
- Employment law, classification, and tax questions with a qualified professional
- Messages to employees and applicants
Anything that sends, pays, publishes, or deletes waits for your OK, and every step is recorded. How approval works.
By the numbers
The numbers behind it
- Gus, Gusto's AI assistant: Gusto's assistant Gus answers payroll, benefits, and HR questions and can take actions such as approving PTO, asking the owner to confirm changes before they are made.
Sources: CPA Practice Advisor, Gusto introduces Gus AI assistant.
FAQ
Questions owners ask
Can TeamShift see salaries in Gusto?
Only if you allow it in Company Brain. Many owners limit the People worker to onboarding and time data.
Does it help with contractor classification?
It collects contractor paperwork. Whether someone is an employee or contractor is a legal call for you and your advisor.
Does it work if I use another payroll provider?
TeamShift lists Gusto among the apps it works with. Ask us before you start if you use a different provider.
How much does it cost?
Creating a workspace is free. Work is billed by usage at 3x compute cost, quoted with a maximum before it starts.
Pricing
Pay by usage, not per seat
Creating your workspace is free. The work your team runs is billed at 3x its compute cost, quoted with a maximum before it starts. No subscription, no seats, no per-job products. See pricing.