Three months or twelve. Their totals, for the right period.

Start with the boundaries

“The last twelve months” can mean different periods if the current month is unfinished. Give the start and end months instead: October 2025 to September 2026, for example.

With Persyst’s Silae connector, Claude or ChatGPT finds the employee and reads their totals for the requested periods without changing payroll.

Two periods, two amounts

In this fictional example, employee 0042 has these totals:

The three months are included in the twelve: adding both lines would count part of payroll twice. These totals do not automatically form the basis of a compensation calculation.

What the assistant reads

1. It identifies the authorized payroll file and employee with list_silae_dossiers and list_silae_records.
2. It reads totals with read_silae_payroll, giving each period’s boundaries, from one to twelve inclusive months.
3. It presents every amount with its period and scope: the employee, across all employments in that file.
4. If a value is missing or the scope does not match your request, it flags this before comparing.

Access to totals is separate from reading payslip lines. The administrator grants it on the necessary payroll files (Silae setup).

Three requests to try

• “Give employee 0042’s gross pay total from January to September 2026, with the period boundaries.”
• “Show gross pay and taxable net pay separately for each of these two periods. Flag unavailable values.”
• “Before interpreting these totals, confirm whether they cover multiple employments in this payroll file.”

Need to find the right file first? Find the employee across authorized payroll files. To understand a specific change, compare their payslips across two months.