# Comprehensive

> Comprehensive is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered compensation management platform that lets companies plan, communicate, and benchmark employee pay without spreadsheets. Founded in 2021 by Roger Lee and Teddy Sherrill, it combines real-time salary benchmarking data from thousands of tech companies with configurable pay-range management, pay-equity analytics, and HRIS integrations so HR and finance teams can run compensation cycles and make data-driven pay decisions in one place.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Roger Lee (Co-Founder & CEO), Teddy Sherrill (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~42 employees
- **Products:** Compensation Management, Benchmarking Data, Executive Compensation Survey, Pay Equity Analytics, AI Insights & Manager Coaching
- **Notable:** Raised a $6M seed round led by Inspired Capital with Floodgate and SV Angel., Built a free benchmarking dataset spanning 6,000+ U.S. tech companies, refreshed daily., Adopted by notable companies including Mercury, LaunchDarkly, Supercell, and the Linux Foundation.

## Products & services

- **Compensation Management** — Runs compensation review cycles, total rewards dashboards, and configurable pay-range management so HR, finance, and managers can plan and communicate pay without spreadsheets.
- **Benchmarking Data** — Free, daily-refreshed salary data sourced from 6,000+ U.S. tech companies, plus global market data via a Mercer partnership and Salary.com coverage of millions of employees.
- **Executive Compensation Survey** — Executive pay data drawn from 500+ VC-backed companies to help boards and leaders benchmark senior compensation.
- **Pay Equity Analytics** — Automated pay-gap highlighting, outlier detection rules, and role-based access controls to support fair pay and data-privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2 Type 2).
- **AI Insights & Manager Coaching** — AI-matched job benchmarking and personalized manager talking points to guide pay conversations and decisions.

## Achievements

- Raised a $6M seed round led by Inspired Capital with Floodgate and SV Angel.
- Built a free benchmarking dataset spanning 6,000+ U.S. tech companies, refreshed daily.
- Adopted by notable companies including Mercury, LaunchDarkly, Supercell, and the Linux Foundation.
- Recognized as a high performer in compensation management software (G2 badges).
- Founded by Roger Lee, also creator of Layoffs.fyi, which has catalogued hundreds of thousands of tech layoffs.

## Latest updates

- **2022-10** — TechCrunch profiles Comprehensive as a startup helping other startups figure out compensation.
- **2023-05** — New York Times profiles Roger Lee, who runs both Layoffs.fyi and Comprehensive.
- **2026-01** — Comprehensive publishes guides on the best compensation management software and benchmarking data sources for 2026.

## Links

- Website: https://www.comprehensive.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/comprehensiveio
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/comprehensiveio

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Last updated: 2026-06-29