Human-centred AI automation
Design automation around what people need to do well — not only around what software can execute.
EQUITAI · OPEN INITIATIVE
AI-Automated CV Building
and Job Applications
EquitAI is an open initiative for AI-automated CV building and job applications — helping people tailor resumes, track applications, and move through hiring with clarity, while keeping human judgement at the centre.
THE FOCUS
Automation shouldn't just remove work.
It should redesign work around what humans do best.
EquitAI sits at the intersection of AI, automation, human-centred design, responsible AI and inclusion. We explore how organisations and practitioners can redesign workflows with AI — while keeping judgement, accountability and opportunity with people.
The initiative began in the GRAILS 2025 programme at Elisava (Barcelona School of Design and Engineering), and continues as an open space for practical experiments rather than finished products or consultancy claims.
Workflow reinvention
Question the current process before accelerating it. Redesign work, then decide what to automate.
Responsible AI & oversight
Keep human judgement where it matters: decisions, accountability, and meaningful review.
Inclusion & accessibility
Ask who a redesigned workflow might exclude — by language, digital confidence, career path, or access.
Practical experimentation
Prototype, evaluate, and share what we learn. Prefer measurable experiments over AI hype.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Built for people redesigning
work with AI — carefully.
EquitAI is for AI transformation, product, innovation and responsible-AI practitioners who want automation that improves outcomes without erasing human agency — and for anyone affected by how those systems are designed.
What should AI automate — and what should it only augment?
Where must humans remain in control?
Who could be excluded by a redesigned workflow?
How can AI-supported work stay understandable and accessible?
How do we measure whether automation improves experience and outcome?
What guardrails and oversight are needed?
EXPERIMENTS
Practical cases that test
human-centred automation.
EquitAI advances through concrete experiments. Each case explores a redesign question — what to automate, what to augment, and where people stay in control.
Case 01 · Live experiment
Inclusive Job Application AI
How can AI help people communicate skills and experience that don't fit conventional recruitment patterns?
This experiment grew from exploring barriers faced by migrant women and people with non-standard career paths. It investigates AI-supported job applications and skills representation — keeping agency with the applicant rather than replacing their judgement.
The live application tool is the working prototype for this case: tailor CVs and cover letters, track applications, and examine how AI can support — not overwrite — human storytelling.
Case 02 · Planned
Human-Centred Workflow Automation
How can workplace workflows be redesigned with AI while keeping appropriate human judgement and oversight?
A future case for exploring how an existing workplace process could be redesigned with AI — without claiming production systems or completed outcomes.
- Current workflow & friction
- Automation vs augmentation decisions
- Human-in-the-loop points & AI agents
- Guardrails, risks and oversight
- Accessibility and inclusion checks
- Prototype, evaluation and measurable impact
Structure ready · work not yet published
ORIGINS
From recruitment barriers
to broader workflow design.
EquitAI began by examining how conventional recruitment systems under-represent skills and career paths that do not fit a standard template — including barriers faced by migrant and refugee women.
That work continues as Case 01. The initiative now expands the same human-centred question to workplace automation more broadly: how to redesign processes with AI while keeping people, judgement and opportunity at the centre.
OPEN BY DESIGN
Research and prototypes —
shared as we learn.
EquitAI is an open initiative, not a commercial automation consultancy. We publish experiments, questions and design reasoning so others can examine, adapt and challenge the work.
Responsible by default
EquitAI treats privacy, transparency, and human oversight as design requirements — not afterthoughts.
Human judgement stays in the loop
We explore where automation helps, and where people must remain accountable for decisions and outcomes.
Inclusion as a design criterion
Accessibility, language, digital confidence, and non-standard career histories shape how workflows are evaluated.
GET INVOLVED
Explore, critique, or collaborate.
Whether you work on AI transformation, responsible AI, product design, or workflow change — we welcome conversation about experiments, methods and hard questions. Get in touch to collaborate or learn more.