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[Global] Strada and Syndio launch ai-driven pay transparency solution. The international workforce management firm Strada has announced a strategic collaboration with Syndio, an AI Decision Intelligence for Pay specialist. Their new pay transparency solution combines service with advanced technology infrastructure to help organisations meet evolving pay transparency requirements and embed fairness across the workforce. It reportedly unites Strada's global, platform-agnostic advisory framework, proven delivery model, and ongoing professional services with Syndio's technology, including its AI-native solution, Syndi, which delivers real-time pay recommendations within everyday collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams and Slack. "The best solutions address multiple challenges at once," Maria Colacurcio - CEO of Syndio - said. "Together with Strada, we're helping HR leaders move beyond the old trade-offs: pay competitively or maintain equity, ensure compliance or drive innovation. Our AI-powered technology foundation, combined with Strada's expertise, makes it possible to achieve all of these simultaneously." As the EU Pay Transparency Directive deadline approaches in 2026, multinational organisations face increasing pressure to remain compliant and modernise their compensation practices. Through their collaboration, Strada and Syndio say they aim to offer a comprehensive solution that addresses these priorities and bridges the gap between compliance readiness and long-term strategic transformation. "Pay transparency is one of the most significant cultural and regulatory shifts in modern employment," Frank Leistner - SVP of Global Partnerships at Strada - said. "Our collaboration with Syndio brings together the best of both worlds: Syndio's enterprise-grade technology platform and Strada's expertise in organisational structure, process, and change. It's a holistic solution that helps HR leaders move beyond compliance to drive cultural transformation while embedding fairness and accountability across their workforce."

Syndio launches Syndi: the AI solution that wins talent without breaking budgets or sacrificing fairness. News provided by. Syndi delivers AI-guided pay recommendations embedded where teams work to help them win top talent while managing costs and protecting internal equity at scale. SEATTLE, Oct. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Syndio, the leader in Decision Intelligence for Pay, today announced the first release of Syndi, its AI-native solution that helps companies make compensation decisions that win talent, control costs, and protect internal equity. Built on nearly a decade of proprietary compensation data, Syndi delivers precise, explainable recommendations embedded in Microsoft Teams, Slack, and applicant-tracking systems (ATS) where teams already work. Every day, leaders make millions of pay decisions in silos, relying on outdated benchmarks that lose top talent or chasing real-time external rates without understanding the internal equity impact or true cost. The result: companies lose top talent to competitors who move faster with better intelligence, alienate high performers with inconsistent pay, and waste budget on reactive offers that create new inequities. Syndi replaces this fragmentation and chaos with real-time guidance that integrates market data, pay policies, and workforce signals - enabling teams to move faster with greater precision, compete effectively, and maintain fairness simultaneously. Syndio is currently working with select enterprise design partners, including TD SYNNEX, a leading global distributor and solutions aggregator for the IT ecosystem. "Syndio's Syndi solution embeds intelligence across the business so decisions are fast, fair, and instantly informed by the right data," said Hywel Jones, VP of Total Rewards at TD SYNNEX. "It's a real-time coach that augments human judgment to reward performance, optimize spend, and protect pay equity." Syndi: Built for how teams actually work Delivered through Microsoft Teams, Slack, and ATS integrations, Syndi provides precise, explainable guidance without disrupting workflow. Key benefits include: * Precise: Uphold your pay philosophy with AI comp agents trained on your policies. * Instant: Deliver explainable recommendations directly in workflow. * Competitive: Tailor offers in real time to win talent at exactly the right price. No guesswork, no overspending. * Retention-focused: Reduce attrition with pay decisions that are defensible and fair. * Actionable: Enable efficient coordination across HR and Finance. Syndi is AI native, developed through nearly a decade of compensation expertise, gained from helping hundreds of organizations analyze pay for over 10 million employees across industries, roles, and markets. Syndi's agentic architecture combines adaptive AI that learns from patterns and context with deterministic rules that enforce your pay philosophy, ensuring recommendations are precise, competitive, and compliant. Its network of expert compensation agents connects through the Decision Graph(TM), a proprietary system that acts as a living map, constantly learning from every interaction to guide decisions with greater intelligence and context. Unlike market-data-first solutions, Syndi's architecture integrates market intelligence with your internal pay policies and workforce context, ensuring every pay recommendation balances competitiveness, equity, and cost. The result is transparent, explainable guidance that enhances human judgment and builds confidence across the organization. "Syndi turns compensation from a guessing game into a measurable advantage," said Maria Colacurcio, CEO of Syndio. "In today's market, companies face an impossible choice: pay competitively and risk internal inequity, or play it safe and lose talent. Syndi solves this by optimizing competitiveness, fairness, and cost, simultaneously. When companies get pay right, everything changes: performance improves, culture strengthens, and trust grows." With Syndi, Syndio launches Decision Intelligence for Pay - a new category that solves what compensation leaders have long struggled with: how to compete for talent, maintain fairness, and control spending simultaneously. Syndi connects external market intelligence with internal pay policies and workforce context, making this three-way optimization possible for the first time. The initial release of Syndi helps companies make new hire offers faster and more accurately, while balancing competitive market rates with internal equity and budgets. Future releases will extend Syndi across every employee pay moment, from promotions and transfers to merit cycles and workforce planning, embedding Decision Intelligence throughout the entire employee lifecycle. Syndi builds on Syndio's foundation helping hundreds of global organizations achieve pay equity at scale. That expertise now powers a new era where every compensation decision is guided by transparent and responsible AI. Learn more about Syndi and request a demo at https://synd.io/syndi. About Syndio Syndio is the industry pioneer in Decision Intelligence for Pay. Built on nearly a decade of proprietary compensation insights, Syndio helps global organizations make smarter pay decisions that win talent while protecting internal equity and controlling costs. Using Syndi, the company's first AI-native solution, teams get precise, instant pay recommendations embedded in their workflows. More than 350 leading companies rely on Syndio's solutions to guide compensation decisions for over 10 million employees across 100 countries. Learn more at https://synd.io. SOURCE Syndio