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Startup HRISEmployee 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.
- Three roles — Employee, Manager, People Admin — with scoped access to records
- Irreversible offboarding actions require explicit People-admin confirmation
- Payroll preparation and controlled exports only; no calculation, withholding, or payments
Built by Luo · Updated Aug 24, 2026
Connects to your accountsBuilt for People teams at growing startups
“Employee records are in a spreadsheet, offer letters are in email, and leave requests come in over Slack.”
“I need one place to run onboarding, leave, and reviews without buying an enterprise HRIS.”
“Every pay period I rebuild the register from messages and spreadsheets before sending it to the payroll provider.”
From scattered records to a governed system
A Luo solutionReady to run, and built to be changed.
Startup HRIS is a Luo workspace, not a locked app. It works the moment you connect your accounts — and when your process differs, you tell the assistant and it reshapes the pages, fields, rules, and automations for you.
Ready on day one
Start from the template and connect your tools; there is nothing to install and no developer or migration involved.
Change it in chat
Add a field, rename a stage, change a rule, wire up an alert — say it, and the assistant rebuilds the workspace around it.
Part of your Company OS
It lives in your Luo workspace next to your knowledge base and every other tool you build there — your data, your accounts, one assistant across all of it. What is Luo? →
What's inside.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Up and running in three steps.
Connect tools
Connect personal Slack and Gmail integrations for the pilot when you want the People Ops assistant and connected-mail workflows available.
Describe your setup
Configure employees, departments, roles, leave policies, lifecycle checklists, review cycles, compensation controls, and payroll-preparation rules in the workspace.
Run People Ops
Operate directory, lifecycle, time-off, reviews, reports, payroll preparation, approvals, audit history, and daily reminders from governed pages.
Common questions.
If something isn't covered here, the assistant inside the workspace can answer it — and change whatever you want changed.
- Maintained by
- Luo
- Category
- People Operations
- Roles
- Employee, Manager, People Admin
- System of record
- Native People Operations records and Luo file storage
- Automation
- Daily reminders + invited Slack assistant
- Payroll boundary
- Preparation and controlled exports only
Does it run payroll?
No. It prepares payroll: period snapshots, adjustments, reconciliation exceptions, approvals, and native register artifacts you export to your payroll provider. Calculation, tax withholding, filings, and wage payments stay with that provider.
Who can see compensation?
People admins. Employees and managers see only the records and actions their role permits; compensation values, sensitive notes, and document contents are excluded from the directory list.
Can an offboarding be completed by accident?
No. Irreversible offboarding actions require explicit People-admin confirmation and are recorded in the audit history.
How does the Slack assistant handle privacy?
It answers only in channels it has been explicitly invited to, with the same role-based access as the workspace, so it doesn't disclose records a person couldn't open themselves.
Can we adapt the policies and checklists?
Yes. Leave policies, lifecycle checklists, review cycles, and payroll-preparation rules are configured in the workspace, and the assistant can change how any of them work.
A calmer People Ops system for growing teams.Start with the records and workflows you actually need.
Keep sensitive decisions governed, exports controlled, and payroll execution with your dedicated provider.
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