Easor Palkka-apuri with Salaxy: AI-assisted payroll for entrepreneurs

An AI agent in Easor App calculates salaries from a plain-language request and leaves the approval to the entrepreneur. Salaxy brings the payroll intelligence, Quartal Harness runs the agents.

Easor and Salaxy have brought an AI payroll agent, the Palkka-apuri, into Easor App. With it, an entrepreneur runs payroll by saying in plain language what they need. The agent calculates the salaries, flags anything that needs attention, and leaves the final review and approval to the entrepreneur. Easor’s own announcement calls the agent Palkka-agentti.

Palkka-apuri was built together with Salaxy, the leading white label payroll platform in Finland. Salaxy owns the payroll intelligence: the agent, its prompts, tools and skills. The agent infrastructure underneath was implemented with Quartal Harness.

Background: branded payroll inside Easor App

Easor, a service of Easor Oyj, handles bookkeeping for small businesses. It also offers software tools and banking, payroll and other services. Easor App is an all-in-one package: easy software plus your own accountant at a fixed price. It works on phone and computer, and you can invoice, pay bills and deliver material wherever you are.

Easor customers already calculate and pay salaries directly in the Easor user interface. This works through Salaxy’s embedded, Easor-branded payroll software. Payments and bookkeeping flow into the Easor solution automatically. Otto-Pekka Huhtala, CEO of Easor Oyj, describes it as “cost-effective payroll for small businesses, integrated as part of our own web service.”

Palkka-apuri adds an AI agent on top of that payroll engine.

What Palkka-apuri does

  • Calculates payroll from a request. The user says what is needed, and the agent calculates the salaries. It takes the company’s and employees’ data into account automatically.
  • Knows the context. The agent can see the company’s payroll history and the employees’ employment details. It can also answer questions about payroll.
  • Catches problems before payday. Possible errors and things to check come up before salaries are paid, while they are still easy to fix. This improves payroll quality and lowers the risk of mistakes.
  • Keeps the entrepreneur in control. The agent can suggest changes, but it changes nothing without human approval. The entrepreneur reviews and approves.

In practice

  • “Calculate salaries for the company’s entrepreneurs.” The agent checks which owners are YEL entrepreneurs and calculates their salaries with default data. The salary calculation opens from a link for review and payment.
  • “Give me a summary of salaries paid this year.” The agent finds the data, summarises it and points out anything noteworthy. The conversation can continue from there.
  • “How does a phone benefit affect payroll?” The agent explains the benefit and helps add it to the next salary of an employee.

Privacy and security by design

  • The agent is technically isolated to work only with each company’s own data.
  • Data and conversations are not used to train AI models.
  • Nothing changes without human approval.
  • Data processed by the agent always stays in the EU, in line with data protection legislation.

These properties are what an agent harness is for. When one service runs AI agents for hundreds or thousands of customer companies, each agent must be scoped to the right company, must ask permission before it acts, and must leave an auditable trail.

Built on Quartal Harness

Quartal Harness is an AI agent harness for advisors (accountants, payroll, consultants) and SaaS software. It brings the core of Quartal Hub to the scale of hundreds of AI agents and thousands of customer companies with tens of thousands of users.

In the Easor case, the responsibilities split like this:

  • Salaxy provides the payroll business logic: the agent, its prompts, tools, skills and evaluations, and the payroll engine itself.
  • Quartal Harness provides the infrastructure: running and managing the agents, per-company data isolation, permission controls, persistent state, and messaging between agents and humans.
  • Easor brings the agent to its customers in Easor App, under its own brand.

The same building blocks can bring Palkka-apuri to any Salaxy white label payroll UI, as well as to Palkkaus.fi.

“Salaxy’s AI software combined with Easor’s products means concrete time savings for the entrepreneur.” — Jukka Kiiskinen, CEO, Salaxy

“The AI-assisted payroll agent takes payroll in Easor App to a new level and saves entrepreneurs’ time, so they can focus on what matters.” — Otto-Pekka Huhtala, CEO, Easor Oyj

What’s next

Palkka-apuri is in pilot use, and Easor customers can switch it on themselves. Easor and Salaxy have announced more:

  • Later this year, payroll can be automated so that the next salaries are ready for review without separate work.
  • Working with an accounting firm gets easier, because the agent prepares payroll in a form that both parties can review easily.
  • During 2026, the agent will take on larger and larger parts of the payroll process.

About the partners

  • Easor (Easor Oyj) offers bookkeeping, software and financial services for entrepreneurs. Its vision is a future where entrepreneurship is an attractive option for anyone.
  • Salaxy (Payroll Finland Ltd) is a Finnish company focused on payroll software. Its software is built on an open API and an agentic AI architecture. Salaxy supplies payroll software to financial management software, ERP applications and online banks, and is used to pay salaries for tens of thousands of companies.
  • Quartal (Quartal Accounting Software Oy) builds Quartal Hub and Quartal Harness, the infrastructure for running AI agents across financial management systems.

Sources: Easor: Easor mullistaa palkanlaskennan tekoälyllä, Salaxy: Branded Payroll for Easor. Quotes translated from Finnish.