Employee Handbook Builder

The only handbook builder with attorney-reviewed policy templates down to the city level, a live editor for full customization, and AI-powered branding from your website. Build it, distribute it, track it - all in one platform.

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Answer Questions. Get a Compliant Handbook.

Our guided wizard asks about your company - industry, states and cities you operate in, workforce setup, culture, and tone. Based on your answers, it recommends attorney-reviewed policy templates and flags which policies are legally required in your locations.

Categories include Tone of Voice & Culture, Terminology, Workforce & Operations, and State & Federal Policy. Toggle recommended policies on or off, preview each one, and build your handbook section by section.

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Edit Live. Brand Instantly.

Unlike competitors that hand you a static PDF, AirMason gives you a full visual editor. Rearrange pages, edit content, embed videos, and add interactive elements - all in real time.

Enter your company website and our AI-powered branding tool automatically pulls your colors, fonts, and logo to style your entire handbook. Insert section titles, reorder policies, add videos and images - or let our Creative Services team handle it for you.

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How It Works

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Answer a Few Questions

Tell us about your company - your industry, locations (down to the city), workforce size, culture, and tone. The wizard adapts to your answers.

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Get Your Policies

The builder recommends attorney-reviewed policy templates and flags which policies are legally required in your locations. Include recommended policies or add your own.

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Brand & Customize

Enter your website URL and our AI pulls your colors, fonts, and logo. Fine-tune everything in our live editor - add videos, images, and interactive elements.

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Publish & Stay Compliant

Distribute to employees, collect signatures, and let our compliance engine alert you when laws change. Update and republish with a single click.

What Sets AirMason Apart

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Attorney-Reviewed Policy Templates

Answer questions about your company - industry, locations, tone, culture - and the builder recommends attorney-reviewed policy templates tailored to your requirements. Customize everything in our live editor.

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City-Level Compliance

Go beyond state-level coverage. Our compliance engine tracks requirements down to the city and county level across all 50 states, so you never miss a local ordinance.

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AI Auto-Branding

Enter your website URL and our AI extracts your brand colors, fonts, and logo to automatically style your entire handbook. Your brand identity, applied in seconds.

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Live In-Editor Editing

Unlike competitors that generate a static document, AirMason gives you a full visual editor. Rearrange sections, embed videos, add images, and customize content - all in real time.

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HRIS & SSO Integrations

Connect with Workday, BambooHR, ADP, UKG, and more. Auto-sync employee lists and distribute handbooks to the right people automatically.

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E-Signatures & Analytics

Collect legally valid e-signatures, track who has read your handbook, monitor search terms employees use, and view completion rates - all from one dashboard.

Already Have a Handbook? Audit It First.

Our free Handbook Compliance Audit uses the same rule engine that powers the builder. Upload your existing handbook, and it checks every policy against current federal, state, and city requirements - then tells you exactly what's missing, outdated, or non-compliant.

Start with the audit, then use the builder to fill the gaps. Same compliance rules, seamless workflow.

Run a Free Handbook Audit →

How AirMason Compares

Other tools give you a document. AirMason gives you a complete platform.

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What Is an Employee Handbook Builder?

An employee handbook builder is a software tool that helps organizations create, manage, and distribute employee handbooks and workplace policy documents. Instead of wrestling with Word documents or static PDFs that quickly become outdated, a modern handbook builder lets you create interactive, digital handbooks that stay current with changing employment laws.

For HR professionals, the challenge isn't just creating a handbook - it's keeping it compliant. Employment laws change frequently at the federal, state, and even city level. A single missed update can expose your organization to significant legal risk. That's why leading HR teams are moving from manual handbook creation to automated platforms that monitor legal changes and notify you when action is needed.

Why Most Handbook Builders Fall Short

Most handbook generators on the market follow the same pattern: answer a questionnaire, get a Word document or PDF, and you're on your own from there. Tools like SHRM's Handbook Builder or Handbooks.io generate a one-time document based on your inputs, but they don't solve the ongoing challenges that HR teams actually face.

What happens when a new state law takes effect? How do you distribute the updated version to 500 employees? How do you know who's actually read the new policies? How do you collect acknowledgements? With traditional tools, the answer is usually a painful combination of email chains, spreadsheets, and manual follow-up.

How AirMason Is Different: Build, Distribute, Track, Update

AirMason is a full-lifecycle platform that doesn't stop at creation. The builder wizard recommends attorney-reviewed policy templates based on your company's locations - down to the city and county level - then you customize everything in a live visual editor and brand it instantly using our AI branding tool that pulls your company's colors, fonts, and logo from your website.

But here's where most platforms end and AirMason keeps going. Once published, your handbook integrates with your HRIS (Workday, BambooHR, ADP, UKG, and more) to automatically invite the right employees. AirMason sends signature reminders, tracks who has read and signed, and gives you real-time analytics on engagement - all from a single dashboard.

And when laws change, our automated compliance engine alerts you with attorney-reviewed updated language ready to publish. Update, republish, and recollect signatures with a single click. No more manual tracking, no more compliance gaps.

Start With an Audit, Build With Confidence

Already have a handbook? Our free Handbook Compliance Audit tool uses the same rule engine that powers the builder. It analyzes your existing handbook against current employment laws at the federal, state, and city level, then tells you exactly what's missing or outdated. From there, the builder helps you create the policies you need - with content that's already compliant for your specific locations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Start by answering a few questions about your company - your industry, the states and cities you operate in, your tone and culture, and your workforce setup. Based on your answers, the builder recommends attorney-reviewed policy templates that are required by law in your locations, plus additional recommended policies. From there, you customize everything in our live editor, use AI to brand it with your company identity, and publish.

Three things set AirMason apart. First, our compliance engine provides attorney-reviewed policy templates down to the city and county level - not just state - so you get the most granular coverage available. Second, unlike tools that hand you a static Word or PDF file, AirMason gives you a live editor where you can customize, rearrange, and update your handbook anytime. Third, our AI branding tool automatically pulls your company's colors, fonts, and logo from your website to brand your handbook instantly. No other platform offers all three.

All policy templates in the builder are attorney-reviewed and HR-approved - not AI-generated. Our legal team drafts and maintains every template to ensure accuracy and compliance. AI is used to help you customize and brand your handbook (pulling your company colors, fonts, and logo from your website), but the underlying policy content is always human-vetted by legal professionals.

Absolutely. You can upload your existing handbook and run it through our free Handbook Audit tool at airmason.com/handbook-audit, which uses the same compliance rule engine as the builder. The audit identifies what's missing, outdated, or non-compliant - then the builder helps you fix it. You can also upload directly into the platform for our Design and Copywriting teams to modernize.

AirMason's compliance engine monitors employment law changes at the federal, state, county, and city level across all 50 states. When a law changes in any of your locations, you receive a notification with attorney-reviewed updated language ready to publish. This is the same rule engine that powers the builder's policy recommendations, so your handbook is built compliant from day one and stays that way.

When you enter your company website URL, our AI automatically extracts your brand colors, fonts, and logo to apply them across your entire handbook. You can fine-tune everything in the editor, but most companies find the auto-generated branding is ready to use immediately. It saves hours of manual design work and ensures your handbook matches your brand identity.

This is where AirMason really separates from competitors. Once your handbook is ready, it integrates with your HRIS (Workday, BambooHR, ADP, UKG, etc.) to automatically distribute it to the right employees. AirMason sends signature reminders, tracks who has read and signed, and gives you real-time analytics on engagement - all from a single dashboard. Other tools just hand you a file and leave you to figure out distribution yourself.

AirMason plans start at $999 per year for startups with up to 99 employees, with pricing that scales based on your organization's size and needs. Every plan includes full platform access, the handbook builder, onboarding support, HRIS and SSO integrations, and unlimited document creation. A free trial is available so you can explore the platform before committing.

They use the same compliance rule engine. The Handbook Audit (free at airmason.com/handbook-audit) analyzes your existing handbook and tells you what's missing or non-compliant. The Handbook Builder creates a new handbook from scratch, recommending attorney-reviewed policy templates based on your company's locations and requirements. Many customers start with the audit, then use the builder to fix what's missing.

Yes - the handbook builder is live and available to all AirMason customers. It's currently in beta as we continue to add features and refine the experience based on customer feedback, but it's fully functional and already being used by companies to build compliant handbooks from scratch.

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