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Ciphr wants to give HR its working day back
A holiday calculation that swallowed months became an afternoon’s work. Behind Ciphr’s pitch to Britain’s mid-sized employers is a practical bet: connect the records, then give people fewer things to chase.
The Spreadsheet Was the First Thing to Break: How HR Acuity Turned Workplace Complaints Into Enterprise Intelligence
Most companies can count employees, payroll and vacation days. HR Acuity built a business around the thing they could not count cleanly: what happens after someone says something went wrong at work.
ADP
Founded to hand-process payroll for a handful of New Jersey firms, ADP now quietly moves the paychecks of one in six American workers - and it hasn't missed a quarterly earnings increase since 1961.
Nestor
Nestor is an AI-powered, skills-based talent management platform - a self-described People Intelligence Platform - that helps HR leaders, managers, and employees map, activate, and deploy the skills inside an organization. Built around a market library of 20,000+ skills and an AI companion, Nestor connects performance management, employee engagement, and career development so companies can spot skill gaps, run an internal talent marketplace, and make workforce decisions based on capability rather than job titles.
Paismo
Paismo is a people-first, AI-powered HR and payroll platform built for small and mid-sized businesses in emerging markets. Founded in 2022 by University of Pennsylvania alumni Rebecka Zavaleta and Usama Mahmud, it combines core HR, time and attendance, leave, performance management and automated payroll into one cloud system - with localized features designed from the ground up for markets that legacy HR software has long ignored. Backed by a $1.5M seed haul led by Indus Valley Capital, Paismo now spans the US, UAE, Pakistan, Mexico and Ethiopia, and has layered on Employer of Record services and a one-click payroll partnership with easypaisa.
Time Doctor
Time Doctor is a bootstrapped workforce-analytics and time-tracking platform built for remote, hybrid, and distributed teams. Launched in 2012 by Rob Rawson and Liam Martin, it gives managers real-time visibility into how work happens - tracking time, app and website usage, productivity trends, and workload balance - while pairing the data with AI-supported insights. Used by 280,000+ people across 30+ countries and integrating with 60+ tools, Time Doctor turns activity data into fairer policies, better workload decisions, and burnout prevention.
CPOHQ + Knoetic AI
CPOHQ + Knoetic AI is a New York-based company building an AI-powered 'second brain' for Chief People Officers. It pairs a people analytics platform that integrates with 60+ HR systems - surfacing insights on attrition, DEI, performance, compensation and headcount - with CPOHQ, a private community of 2,000+ Chief People Officers and CHROs. Founded in 2020 by Joseph Quan (originally as Twine Labs), the company combines hard workforce data with the collective judgment of top people leaders so HR executives can make faster, more strategic decisions.
Scott Morello
Scott Morello is VP of HR Business Insights for Activision Blizzard King at Microsoft, a role he stepped into in October 2023 after building the people analytics function at Activision Blizzard. Before corporate life, he was a marine ecologist - his PhD from UMass Boston studied species interactions in Gulf of Maine intertidal zones. That pivot from counting mussels to measuring workforces defines his unusual edge: he brings the precision of population ecology to questions about how organizations actually behave.