FILE № DHR-2026-001
Dialogue HR
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Run every investigation remotely, start to finish.

Dialogue HR handles disciplinary, grievance, and gross misconduct cases end to end. AI-tailored investigation questions aligned to your policy. Legally robust outcome letters that prevent tribunal cases. Built for multi-site retail.

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Before
Case DHR-0447Handwritten

spoke to J re shift on 14th, said phone was broke or sumthing, not sure if true, need to check with S maybe, didn't get full story tbh will chase up later

StatusInconsistent
After
Case DHR-0448Speech-to-text

Employee stated the store phone line was unreachable on the morning of the 14th, so contact was attempted via the team group chat instead. Manager confirmed no message was received. Statement logged, follow-up scheduled with a witness.

StatusSigned & closed
The cost of inconsistency

Multi-site retail is bleeding money on investigations that don't hold up.

£600+
average cost of a single investigation: manager travel, time & admin per store visit
650
unfair dismissal cases awarded compensation in 2023–24
£8.9m
paid out in compensation for those cases alone, before legal fees
£13,749
average award per case, on top of legal defence costs

A handful of managers travel constantly to handle every case. Approaches vary from site to site. Notes are handwritten and easy to challenge. When a case reaches tribunal, inconsistent process is what breaks it, and the bill covers legal fees, lost management time, weeks of disruption, and brand damage that doesn't show up on any invoice.

Source: Ministry of Justice employment tribunal statistics, 2023–24
How Dialogue HR works

One process. Every manager. Every site.

01

Start the session, from any store

Any manager can open a case and begin remotely, from a phone, tablet, laptop, or any device. No travel, no specialist required.

02

Participants join remotely

Manager, employee, and any witnesses join the same session from wherever they are.

03

Live transcript captures every word

Speech-to-text records the interview accurately as it happens. No handwritten notes.

04

AI-tailored questions, built on your policy

Each investigation follows questions generated from your own company policy, so every manager asks the right thing, every time.

05

All parties sign, digitally

Everyone signs off in the platform. Nothing printed, nothing misplaced.

06

Outcome letter generated once the case concludes

Investigation, disciplinary hearing, and any appeal each run as their own session, all under the same case file. Once the case reaches its conclusion, a legally robust outcome letter is generated automatically and sent straight to HR.

£8.9m+
in annual compensation costs is the kind of exposure consistent, well-documented investigations are built to prevent.
Prevented
Inside a session

This is what a live investigation looks like.

Every question, every answer, transcribed in real time, so nothing depends on a manager's handwriting or memory.

Dialogue HR · Session #GM-2291
Live transcript
CURRENT QUESTION
Can you talk me through why you were unable to contact the store before your shift on the 14th?
MANAGER · J. MENSAH
EMPLOYEE · S. ORTIZ

"After fifteen years in retail, I've seen the real cost of messy investigations: the travel, the delays, the tribunal losses, the brand damage. Dialogue HR solves what I've watched break businesses."

Founder, Dialogue HR. Built by someone who knows retail inside out.
GDPR

Fully GDPR compliant across every stage of the investigation process.

RETENTION

Zero data retention policy: sensitive case data is removed once a case is signed off.

ACCESS

Role-based permissions, so people only ever see what their role requires.

BUILT FOR

Multi-site retail: the sector this was designed around from day one.

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