PENNY dashboard
An internal dashboard project for keeping financial operations visible and useful.
Indianapolis, IN
About
About Andy Zelt: Payroll, HR, and AI Operator
25-year payroll and HR operator. AI practitioner. Still building.
Founder and CEO of Axiom Human Resource Solutions. Twenty-five years inside payroll and HR — not advising from the outside, but doing the work. Now building the AI-powered version of what HR firms should look like. The rest of this page explains what that actually means.
25 Years in HR & PayrollUKG Ready PartnerAI PractitionerIndianapolis, IN
The AI Chapter
He went and learned it himself.
Most HR and payroll firm owners are not doing what Andy is doing with AI.
They're hiring someone to handle the AI stuff. Andy went and learned it himself. He has completed hundreds of hours of AI training — deep technical work in prompt engineering, agent orchestration, workflow automation, n8n, voice agents, and agentic systems.
He built the tools his own company runs on. Not as a side experiment — as the actual infrastructure Axiom operates on every day.
He runs AI agents that process invoices, pull insights from client tickets, analyze sales calls, and route content automatically. He did it himself because that's the only way he knows how to do anything.
What he actually learned
Prompt Engineering
Agent Orchestration
Workflow Automation
n8n
Voice Agents
Agentic Systems
AI agents Andy built and runs
Process invoices
Pull insights from client tickets
Analyze sales calls
Route content automatically
"Andy spent the last several years actually learning it — not delegating it, not attending a luncheon about it, but putting in the hours. These are the credentials. They matter because they represent a pattern: a 25-year operator who refuses to outsource his own expertise."
The public bet
He has made a public bet that he will own a robot by 2028. He is not joking.
His firm is a UKG Ready Preferred Partner and Authorized Reseller. For anything UKG Ready specific, see ukgreadyimplementation.com.
Church & Community
He Shows Up Here Too
The same instinct that built a 25-person company also shows up on Sunday mornings and in committee rooms. Community is just another word for accountability.
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Andy serves at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Indianapolis.
He has been on the Voters Representative Board for three years. Not an easy committee. He's still there.
Search Committees
Andy has served on multiple search committees — including the youth pastor search that brought Pastor Joe to the church.
He is currently active in the search for the Pastoral Associate. Serving on search committees is excellent training for running a business. Both require discernment, patience, and the ability to sit through a lot of meetings.
The Local Dispatch
Andy writes publicly about HR, AI, and whatever else is on his mind in The Local Dispatch.
Small-town newspaper style. Big ideas. No corporate tone.
Community shows up in the writing too — not just the committee rooms.
Why does this matter on a professional site?
Because people hire people, not resumes. He brings the same seriousness and follow-through to search committees and board seats that he does to payroll implementations and AI builds. That's the pattern.
The Rest of It
The stuff that doesn't fit on a credential card.
Not a bio section. Just honest notes on what Andy actually does when he's not building AI systems or running a 25-person company.
Basketball
Coaches Xander's basketball team. One of his favorite things. Results: mixed. Commitment: unwavering.
Purdue Football
Season ticket holder for 20+ years. Boiler Up. Shows up anyway.
Golf with Xander
He and Xander took up golf together. Xander is already better. It's early.
The Dogs
Two dogs — Huckleberry, an 11-year-old black lab mix, and Beau, a 13-year-old chocolate lab/Rottweiler mix, both have seen every version of this company.
Pool & Sun
Likes sitting in the sun and the pool with Xander. Not everything has to be optimized.
Always Learning
Spends most of his time working and learning, always looking at what's next. This is not a complaint.
Working Genius
Working Genius is Wonder + Invention, the Innovative Dreamer.
CliftonStrengths
CliftonStrengths: Restorative, Deliberative, Competition, Significance, Futuristic.
He coaches a basketball team, coaches himself on AI, and still takes meetings on his phone while standing in a field at a Purdue game that might be going sideways. He wouldn't have it any other way.
Education
1996 – 2000
B.S. Economics
Purdue University — Krannert School of Management
West Lafayette, Indiana. Boiler Up. Still shows up anyway.
The degree taught him how to think about systems and incentives. Twenty-five years of payroll and HR taught him everything else. He is still learning — that part has not changed.
The only institution that could make him love both economics and a 4–8 football season.
The Work
Operator. Founder. Still in it.
25 YearsIn payroll, HR & HCM
571Clients supported as of 2026
50–2,000Employees — typical client
IndianapolisIndiana-based, serving nationwide
Andy Zelt is the founder and CEO of Axiom Human Resource Solutions, a boutique UKG Ready Preferred Partner and Authorized Reseller based in Indianapolis, Indiana. He founded Axiom in 2011 after nearly 10 years in PEO benefits, 401(k), and operations, where he watched company leaders spend more time managing HR paperwork than running their businesses. He decided to fix that. Twenty-five years later, he's still fixing it — just with better tools. Axiom serves companies with 50 to 2,000 employees across healthcare, manufacturing, construction, and other industries. Typical client: 50 to 2,000 employees. The mission hasn't changed: help companies win with technology, backed by humans who care.
Visit Axiom Human Resource SolutionsIndustries Served
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The Mission
"Help companies win with technology, backed by humans who care."
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Founded June 2011
Axiom HRS · Indianapolis, Indiana
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Projects in the works
I learn by building.
These are not portfolio decorations. They are working projects, internal systems, and tools built to solve real operating problems.
Client draw calculator
A practical calculator for modeling client draw decisions and recovery paths.
Axiom Mission Control
An internal operating surface that keeps Axiom's work, systems, and priorities visible.
PRISM
A reviewed content and distribution system for turning research into useful editorial and social work.
Custom client API connections
Custom connections that let client systems exchange data with Axiom workflows.
Bloom
An agentic coaching tool for helping service reps reflect, prioritize, and improve their work.
The point is not to collect tools. It is to build better ways for people to do good work.
Leadership and community
Growth is a practice, not a slogan.
The work is shaped by systems, conversations, and a willingness to keep learning with other owners and leaders.
Results On Purpose
Results On Purpose is a business coaching and leadership system that helps companies plan, execute, create accountability, and focus on measurable results. Businesses use it to improve operations, develop leaders, increase profit, and gain more freedom.
Andy has used Results On Purpose for more than six years to drive growth and deepen leadership learning.
Visit Results On Purpose →Young Professionals Group
The YPG is a small group of six to eight small and medium-sized business owners led by Jeff Garrison. Every 90 days, the group meets for two days in a different U.S. city to collaborate, discuss hard issues, and develop ways to tackle them.
It is part peer group, part working session, and part reminder that other owners are dealing with their own version of the same problem.
Away from the desk
Andy enjoys playing pickleball and tennis. Not every useful idea arrives during a strategy meeting.
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Want to Talk About Payroll, HR, or AI?
Payroll, HR, AI, or why robots are coming by 2028 — I'm in.
I'm not hard to find. LinkedIn most days. No pitch, no funnel, no automated reply pretending to be me.
Still building