Finding clear, reliable answers at work has never been more important - or more challenging. With the rapid growth of AI tools, many people professionals are rightly cautious about what information they can trust.
CIPD Buddy is an exclusive member benefit designed to help you get quick, answers from trusted, up-to-date CIPD content from our knowledge hub, using a large language model. Unlike general AI tools, Buddy doesn’t rely on outdated or unverified information from across the internet. Instead, it draws directly on CIPD knowledge content to support you in your studies, your role, and your professional development.
CIPD Buddy is the only chat agent with access to current CIPD content, including key guidance across employment law and the knowledge hub. While public AI tools stopped accessing CIPD content when gating was introduced in 2024, Buddy continues to use this trusted source material to generate clear, conversational answers to your HR questions.
Since launch in 2024, more than 30,000 questions have been asked through CIPD Buddy, with overwhelmingly positive feedback from members. Over the past year, work has been focused on improving answer quality and reliability using a test suite of answers, grounding AI Buddy in the latest CIPD knowledge content and ensuring sources of the answers are fully referenced.
CIPD Buddy is available to all UK members. Whether you’re checking guidance, exploring best practice or sense-checking an issue, Buddy can help you get started quickly.
CIPD Buddy focuses on CIPD knowledge content, helping you edge ahead with clear, reliable answers grounded in trusted sources, while supporting - not replacing - your professional expertise.
If you’re a CIPD member, you already have access. Simply log in start asking questions.
Try CIPD Buddy nowCIPD Buddy is made available for general information and educational purposes only. The information and content generated does not constitute legal, regulatory or other professional advice. Whilst CIPD Buddy has been trained to draw directly on CIPD knowledge resources, the tool can occasionally produce inaccuracies and CIPD does not warrant or represent that AI-assisted content is accurate, complete or error-free. Members remain solely responsible for how they interpret and apply any information obtained from the tool. Please refer to our Legal Disclaimer and Terms of Use.
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