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Alli Direct: your APS data + your AI tool, together.
With the Alli Direct MCP service, you get full platform coverage with 100+ tools as resources to answer your simple and complex questions.
How it Works
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An administrator enables Alli Direct in APS. Nothing new to install and nothing new to secure.
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Add Alli in your MCP-capable assistant. Your access mirrors the permissions you already have in APS.
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Simply ask questions in everyday language to get fast, reliable insights. No special coding or complex queries required.
- Turn it on
- Connect AI tool
Ask your questions!
Nothing to worry about
Alli can't write, edit, or delete a record — through APS or through your AI tool. Connecting it doesn't open a new way for something to change by accident.
No new access to manage
The connector doesn't grant anything new. If someone can't see it in APS today, they can't see it through their AI tool either.
100+ tools at your disposal
The Alli MCP server has full platform coverage with over 100 tools as resources to answer simple and complex questions.
A connector that analyzes. Not one that looks things up.
Your payroll data next to everything else
Inside APS, Alli only sees APS. Connect her to your own AI tool, and your payroll numbers sit right next to whatever else you're working on — a budget file, a board deck, an email thread you're already drafting. One question can span both, without you copying a number from one screen to another.
Same Alli, same answers
The intelligence lives in APS, not in whichever AI tool you're asking from. Ask through Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot, and you get the same answer, built from the same live data, every time.
No new login, no new habit
Whatever your team already has open becomes the place they ask. No new app to learn, no new password to remember — just the tool they're already using, now able to answer payroll and HR questions too.
Ask the question you'd normally give up on
Want to know which locations are trending toward overtime this pay period? Need to summarize headcount changes for a board deck you're writing? Curious about what turnover cost last quarter, by department? Go ahead, ask.
Real Success Stories from Our Clients
“I'm in Alli 10 to 20 times a week — mostly pulling employee data for benefits enrollment, demographics, and government reporting. What used to take me a full day of pulling and massaging data now takes a few seconds. And there was virtually no learning curve — if you've used any other AI assistant, you already know how to use Alli. My advice to any APS client who hasn't tried it: use it right away. The more you use it, the better it gets.”
Thousands of businesses have saved millions of hours with APS.
98%
CSAT Score
75
Net Promoter Score
See Why Alli Direct Stands Alone.
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Alli by APS
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ADP
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Paycom
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Paylocity
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First-Party AI Connector
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yes
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no
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no
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no
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Claude Access
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yes
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no
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no
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no
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ChatGPT Access
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yes
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no
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no
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no
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Gemini Access
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yes
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no
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no
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no
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Microsoft Copilot Access
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yes
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no
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no
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no
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Comparison based on publicly available vendor documentation and product pages as of September 2026. ADP, Paycom, and Paylocity currently have no first-party, customer-facing MCP connector; third-party wrappers referenced above are not built or endorsed by the vendor.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kinds of questions can I ask with Alli Direct?
Ask the questions you’d normally give up on:
- “Which locations are trending toward overtime this pay period?”
- “What did turnover cost us last quarter, by department?”
- “Summarize headcount changes for the board deck I’m writing.”
Will Alli Direct make up answers?
No, the Alli MCP server has full platform coverage with over 100 tools as resources to answer simple and complex questions. Every answer still comes from a query run against your live data, in-app or through Alli Direct. What changes outside of the APS platform is who writes the sentence around that data — your AI assistant, not Alli’s own wording rules.
Can Alli Direct make changes to our payroll?
No. There’s no write path in the underlying service. This holds everywhere Alli runs.
Which users can see what data?
Only what your APS account is already allowed to see, and only for modules your company has purchased. Alli Direct doesn’t loosen anything — it just reaches it from a different place.
Can our employees use Alli Direct?
No. Alli Direct is for users with Payroll Administrator access only. Employees using self service can’t open it, in-app or through a connector.
Can we connect it to the AI assistant we already use?
If that assistant offers connectors via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), yes — through a one-time authorization with your APS credentials. Connector options include Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and more.
Is it safe to connect an AI assistant to our payroll data?
Yes. Alli Direct is read-only everywhere — there’s no write path in the underlying service — and every question still checks the modules and companies your APS account is already allowed to see. Connecting your assistant doesn’t loosen anything.
What is the Model Context Protocol?
It’s an open standard for connecting an AI assistant to an outside system — the same standard a growing number of assistants already use to connect to other business software. If yours speaks it, it can speak to APS too.
Can our CFO or finance team use Alli Direct?
If your CFO, controller, or finance lead holds Payroll Administrator access in APS, yes — Alli Direct works the same way for them as for anyone else with that role.
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