Every HR team in Southeast Asia knows the drill.

A new financial year approaches. Someone opens a spreadsheet. Someone else pulls up the MOM gazette. A third person cross-references the HRDF circular for Malaysia — then realises Selangor and Kuala Lumpur have different royal holidays. Then Indonesia's BPJS PP 36/2021 circular needs checking. Then India. Then the Philippines.

Three days later, 76 public holidays have been manually entered, half-reviewed, and quietly hoped to be correct.

One wrong date means a payroll miscalculation. A leave entitlement error. A compliance failure that surfaces months later during an audit.

This is the hidden tax of multi-market HR operations — and until now, every platform made you pay it.

What We Built

naise.app is built on a principle we call Native AI Connection: AI embedded at the data layer, not bolted onto the interface. That distinction matters more than it sounds.

Most HR platforms offer AI as a chatbot. It answers questions. It summarises policies. It tells you what to do. Then you go do it yourself.

Native AI Connection is different. When you give it a task, it executes — reading statutory sources, writing records, logging every action — and nothing commits until you approve it.

We wanted to show exactly what that looks like in practice. So we ran it live.

The Demo

One prompt. Five markets. Zero manual work.

"Set up public holiday calendars for all 5 of our markets — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Philippines. Use statutory gazette sources only. Nothing commits until I approve."

The AI pulled statutory calendars from the MOM gazette, HRDF circular, BPJS PP 36/2021, DOLE memo 2026-002, and India Labour codes. It identified 76 gazetted public holidays, drafted the full configuration, and surfaced it for review — all before a single record was written.

One approval. Eight minutes total.

76 holidays across 5 markets, correctly configured, with an immutable audit trail and 7-year retention. Work that traditionally takes an HR team 2–3 days.

Why This Is Different

The gap isn't speed. It's trust.

Every action Native AI Connection takes is logged, attributed, and reversible before approval. You're not handing control to an AI — you're delegating execution while retaining authority. The AI reads the gazette so you don't have to. It writes the records so your team doesn't. But it never commits without a human in the loop.

That's the model. AI that acts, not just answers.

What's Next

The same capability that configured public holidays in 8 minutes is the same capability that will handle payroll linkages, leave policy variations, and statutory compliance updates — across every market you operate in.

We're just getting started.

Configured 5 Country Public Holidays in 8 Mins