Boston Dynamics builds advanced robots, including Spot, the agile, four-legged mobile robot deployed for global industrial inspections, and Stretch, designed for warehouse case-handling. These machines existed only in research labs until recently. In 2019, the company made the shift from R&D organization to global commercial enterprise, and the people side of the business had to scale just as fast as the product side.
Boston Dynamics already operates across nine countries through G-P's Workday-integrated Global Employment Platform and employer of record (EOR) solution. As that international footprint grew, so did the complexity of staying current on employment regulations across multiple jurisdictions. G-P Gia became the team's way to keep pace.
The time sink behind global HR compliance
Before Gia, a compliance question could consume an afternoon. What pay equity requirements applied in a specific state or country. What benefits were legally mandated versus customary. Whether a policy written six months ago still reflected current local law. The process meant combing through documentation, cross-referencing sources, sometimes pulling in outside legal counsel — for questions that ultimately came down to a paragraph of actionable guidance.
The team had tried other general-purpose AI tools, but the results were inconsistent. The responses sounded confident, but they weren't always reliable on the jurisdiction-specific details that matter in employment law. General AI could generate an answer, the challenge was knowing whether it was right for a specific jurisdiction.
"We used to spend hours combing through all sorts of documentation," said Eduardo Ramos, Sr. Staff Total Rewards Analyst at Boston Dynamics. "Now, we get concise answers from a quick prompt. Gia has become the de facto first step for me."
How Gia powers HR workflows beyond compliance lookups
Boston Dynamics didn't slot Gia in as a supplemental tool. They made it the default starting point across HR workflows, which turned out to mean a lot more than compliance lookups.
Unlike general-purpose AI tools, every Gia response draws on G-P-verified legal sources — referenced more than 1,000 times by the Boston Dynamics team alone.
That distinction matters when the answer determines whether a policy is compliant. And Gia doesn't just surface external statutory law. It pulls in Boston Dynamics' own internal documentation at the same time — things like internal mobility policies and rehire conditions — so the team gets answers that reflect both what the law requires and what Boston Dynamics' own standards require, in a single query.
When a new office opens, the team uses Gia to build onboarding checklists and policy documentation that meet local requirements. Employee investigations get run through Gia to make sure nothing falls through the cracks. Day-to-day document work, HR templates, dashboards: tasks that used to mean significant back-and-forth with legal and HR specialists now move faster.
"Working with Gia to edit processes and policies has been incredible," said Mollie Stearns, People Operations Specialist at Boston Dynamics.
For the legal team, the impact has been just as direct.
"I’m very excited about the current and future capabilities Gia is introducing to the legal and compliance sectors," said Kelly Peterson, Assistant General Counsel at Boston Dynamics. "The tool enables me to stay current on updates while ensuring our company policies and procedures remain compliant, helping us maintain a best-in-class framework. Additionally, leveraging Gia has resulted in significant cost savings compared to using outside counsel."
Faster compliance, lower legal costs, more confidence
Compliance research that used to take hours now takes seconds. Between December 2025 and May 2026, the Boston Dynamics team has run more than 600 Gia queries across 235 separate conversations — a signal that it has become a daily operational habit rather than a tool people try once and move on from. Outside counsel costs for routine inquiries have come down meaningfully. The team makes faster calls on new market entry and has more confidence that policies stay current as regulations shift.
"G-P plays a helpful role in maintaining Boston Dynamics' position as the global leader in mobile robotics," said Ramos. "If we did not have G-P, we would simply not be as competitive as we are today."
The next frontier for the team is proactive regulatory monitoring — getting ahead of policy changes rather than reacting to them — and expanded support for visa-related questions as Boston Dynamics continues growing globally.
"Don't wait," Ramos concluded. "If you do, you're just losing out on the opportunity to drive your business goals forward."
AI-driven HR compliance by the numbers
- Compliance research time: hours → seconds per query
- Reduced outside counsel costs for routine inquiries
- Significant cost savings compared to outside counsel
- More accurate results than general-purpose AI for HR and employment law
- Compliance framework maintained across 9 countries and growing
- Faster decisions on new market entry and workforce planning