Savo at Workday Rising 2026
Savo × Mercer · Mercer's AI Innovation Partner
What do your people know that your systems don't?
AI agents can only act on what has been captured, and most of what your people know never makes it into a field. A Signal Event™ interview from Savo gets it out in about 10 minutes, on their own time. Every finding ties back to what each person said.
In Las Vegas Oct 12 to 15? Book 20 minutes with us at the Mercer booth.
Savo™ is Mercer's AI Innovation Partner.
Mercer runs its AI-enabled projects in four steps. Savo is the first one: the conversations that find out what people know before anything gets configured.
How Mercer uses Savo
The project starts with what people actually said.
Mercer uses Savo in its client engagements. The Discover step runs as Signal Event interviews: everyone the work affects gets about 10 minutes to say what they know, and the report that comes back is what the rest of the project is built on.
Agents work from what's in the system. Your people know more than that.
Everything an agent can do rests on structured data: the fields, scores, and records in your HR systems. That is a narrow slice of what an organization knows, and often a dated one. The rest lives in people's heads.
What's captured.
The fields and records in your systems. Structured and searchable, and a thin slice of what your organization actually knows.
What isn't.
Why a score moved, and what people would fix. What they already do with AI, and what worries them about it. None of it fits a dropdown.
Why it stayed that way.
You couldn't measure it at scale. Interviews and focus groups reach a few dozen people and take weeks to set up.
A Signal Event interview is how the rest gets captured: a real conversation with everyone you invite, about 10 minutes each, turned into evidence that your leaders, and your agents, can act on.
Pick the question your people can answer.
Employee engagement
You ran the survey. Now get the why. Scores tell you what moved. A Signal Event interview tells you why, in your people's own words, and what they would fix. Run it after your survey to explain the score, or run it as the survey. How the follow-up works
AI transformation
Before the rollout, find out what people think. What your people already do with AI, what they fear about it, and where they would start. A readiness baseline before the plan, so the plan fits the people.
New leader listening and 30-60-90 check-ins
What new leaders and new hires need, while there is still time to act. One short conversation at day 30, 60, and 90. What's working, what's unclear, what would help. The same questions each time, so you can see what changed.
Also running on Savo: strategy alignment, 360 reviews, and the question you bring to the booth.
How a Signal Event interview works
Pick the question you need answered.
Build the conversation in Savo Event Studio™.
Send one link to the people you want to hear from.
Read the Savo Insights™ report. Every finding is traced to the words behind it.
Act on it, and tell people what you did.
TRY IT YOURSELF
Build a conversation, start to finish
What you'll know after
your first study
Which parts of your story hold up, and which were informed guesses.
Why a score moved, in the words of the people who moved it.
The fixes your people propose, if you ask them.
Every finding traced back to what people actually said.
Scale, rigor, depth. Most methods give you two.
Surveys give you scale and rigor. Interviews and focus groups give you depth and rigor, for a few dozen people at a time. AI-facilitated interviews are designed to give you all three. Your team can now understand what your survey findings mean and know, with confidence, what to do next.
Engagement survey
Scale: yes
Rigor: yes
Depth: limited
Interviews and focus groups
Scale: limited
Rigor: yes
Depth: yes
Savo AI-moderated interviews
Scale: yes
Rigor: yes
Depth: yes
Run your first Signal Event interview on us.
A $50 Savo credit, about 100 interview minutes. Enough to hear from 10 people on one question. Tell us what's top of mind and we'll send the credit to your work email.
Want to talk it through first? Chuck and Wendy are at the Mercer booth during Rising. Ask for 20 minutes when the credit email arrives, or come find us.
8%
Only 8% of employees strongly agree their organization takes action on surveys.
Source: Gallup, So You Administered an Employee Engagement Survey. Now What?
Follow-up work has to cost less than the survey it explains. Savo runs at $0.50 a minute, about $5 per person on average.
SOC 2 Type II compliant. Our founders built at Workday, Aon, and SAP before Savo.
For the people on the hook for what comes next
HR and people leaders who run the engagement survey and own the "now what," people analytics and I-O teams who get asked to explain the score, and anyone being asked to lead AI change in their company.
Before you start
No. Run a Signal Event interview after your survey to explain the score, or run it as the survey. Either way you keep the numbers and add the why.
It works alongside the survey you already run, and with whatever engagement model you use.
Yes, responses are confidential in Confidential mode.
Fill in the form above and we send the credit to your work email. It covers about 100 interview minutes.
No. Savo is an independent platform and Mercer's AI Innovation Partner. Mercer uses Savo in its client engagements, and you can use it directly.
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