Startup HRIS

Employee records, lifecycle work, leave, and reviews in one governed workspace.

Startup HRIS gives People admins a system of record with role-based access: employees and managers see only what their role permits, lifecycle work is assigned rather than remembered, and payroll preparation produces reviewed exports for your payroll provider — calculation and payment stay outside the workspace.

Startup HRIS (human resources information system) gives People admins a governed employee system of record: authorized directory profiles, departments, document metadata, lifecycle checklists, time-off policies and requests, performance reviews, compensation history, reports, audit history, and controlled exports. Employees and managers see only the records and actions their roles permit.

Onboarding and offboarding stay visible as assigned workflow work rather than scattered reminders. Employees can complete their own tasks and access authorized document metadata, managers can act on direct-report work and leave approvals, and People admins retain the controls for employee maintenance, policy configuration, compensation changes, and irreversible offboarding confirmation.

Payroll preparation is a review workflow for period snapshots, adjustments, reconciliation exceptions, approvals, and native register artifacts. It does not calculate payroll, withhold taxes, file returns, or execute wage payments. A privacy-aware Slack assistant can answer in explicitly invited channels, while a daily reminder process keeps enrolled People Ops work moving.

• Employee records

  One authorized directory for the team

  People admins maintain employee and department records, while employees and managers see only authorized profiles. The directory keeps sensitive notes, document contents, and compensation values out of the list view and opens a scoped profile panel when a record is selected.

• Onboarding & offboarding

  Lifecycle work with owners and checkpoints

  Lifecycle workflows track onboarding and offboarding progress, assigned checklist work, and authorized actions. Irreversible offboarding actions require explicit People-admin confirmation, so the workflow stays auditable instead of silently completing a sensitive change.

• Requests & reviews

  Keep leave and performance work moving

  Employees submit time-off requests and access their assignments; managers decide requests for direct reports; People admins configure policies and administer the workflow. Performance review cycles let authorized participants submit written responses without exposing records beyond their role.

• Reports & payroll preparation

  Review the register before it leaves the workspace

  People admins can prepare payroll periods from reviewed inputs, inspect adjustments and reconciliation exceptions, approve the run, and create native register artifacts. Closed payroll runs are immutable; calculation, tax withholding, filings, and payment execution remain outside the workspace.

1. 1

   Record

   maintain authorized employee, department, document, and compensation records.

2. 2

   Route

   assign lifecycle, leave, review, and approval work to the right role.

3. 3

   Review

   surface exceptions, audit history, and payroll-preparation inputs before export.

4. 4

   Remind

   run daily People Ops reminders and answer invited Slack questions with privacy-aware access.

• Founder running People Ops on the side“Employee records are in a spreadsheet, offer letters are in email, and leave requests come in over Slack.”
• First People hire“I need one place to run onboarding, leave, and reviews without buying an enterprise HRIS.”
• Finance lead preparing payroll“Every pay period I rebuild the register from messages and spreadsheets before sending it to the payroll provider.”

1. 1

   Connect tools

   Connect personal Slack and Gmail integrations for the pilot when you want the People Ops assistant and connected-mail workflows available.

2. 2

   Describe your setup

   Configure employees, departments, roles, leave policies, lifecycle checklists, review cycles, compensation controls, and payroll-preparation rules in the workspace.

3. 3

   Run People Ops

   Operate directory, lifecycle, time-off, reviews, reports, payroll preparation, approvals, audit history, and daily reminders from governed pages.

• Ready on day one. Start from the template and connect your tools — nothing to install, no developer involved.
• Change it in chat. Add a field, rename a stage, wire up an alert: say it and the assistant reshapes the workspace.
• Part of your Company OS. It lives beside your knowledge base and every other tool you build on Luo.