A missing payment election is a wonderfully dull thing. Until payday. Then it becomes the only thing that matters to the person waiting for their money. It is also one of the problems TopBloc’s AuditPro is designed to catch. Here, in miniature, is the company’s proposition: enterprise software earns its keep through thousands of small details, and some of those details deserve better than another spreadsheet.
- TopBloc implements and supports Workday for HR, finance, planning, and payroll.
- It pairs fixed-time, fixed-price deployments with tools that automate repetitive work.
- ASGN bought it for $340 million in March 2025. Today it operates as Everforth TopBloc.
Buying Workday gives an organization a platform. Making that platform reflect its jobs, benefit plans, financial structures, and pay practices is another undertaking. TopBloc works in that gap. Its customers are medium and large enterprises whose internal teams still have a business to run while their systems change.
The price changes the work
TopBloc’s fixed-time, fixed-price pitch matters because it puts a boundary around a project that can otherwise feel elastic. The commercial logic is straightforward: when the fee is fixed, finishing a repeatable task efficiently becomes valuable to the provider. That is an interpretation of the model, rather than a claim that every contract produces the same result.
The firm’s services cover Workday deployment, integrations, testing, change management, and training, followed by application support and payroll services. Its expertise runs across Human Capital Management, Financial Management, and Adaptive Planning. Workday supplies the software; TopBloc supplies the people and methods needed to put it to use.
That breadth has identifiable people behind it. Chief Implementation Officer John Xue specializes in financial services and asset management. Senior Vice President Chelsea McCabe leads delivery and founded the change management practice. These biographies point to work that survives automation: coordinating a complicated project, understanding a business process, and helping employees use the resulting system.
A recipe, not a blank sheet
Consider the company’s SmartLoader. Moving information out of a legacy system involves extraction, conversion, checking, and importing. SmartLoader automates work along that route, including populating workbooks and preparing data for review. The appeal is easy to understand if you have ever copied the same column twice and wondered which version was right.
Then comes the Recipe tenant, a starting environment with configurations for business processes such as HR, finance, and procurement. SmartBundles add reusable setups for particular needs, including benefits, time and absence, and security. TopBloc advertises more than 75 setups across different countries, products, and industries.
These are practical forms of institutional memory. A consultant learns something useful on one project; a reusable configuration makes that learning available on the next. The company says SmartBundles can prepare suitable deployments for go-live in as few as nine weeks, compared with up to 16 weeks in its stated traditional preparation example. Treat that as a conditional product claim, rather than an average project duration.
Give the next project a head start.
- 01MoveSmartLoader
Data conversion - 02ConfigureSmartBundles
Reusable setups - 03CheckAuditPro
Payroll review
Friday still comes around
A launch is a milestone. Payroll is a recurring appointment. AuditPro’s dashboard runs more than 20 audits, including checks for missing pay groups, missing payment elections, duplicate pay codes, and material changes between paychecks. Teams can review exceptions, share notes, and return information to Workday. The tool is included in TopBloc’s payroll managed services packages.
That recurring work helps explain the wider business. TopBloc offers help desk support, application management, additional deployment phases, and optimization. Customers can seek assistance with payroll processing or outsource it. Partnerships with ADP, CloudPay, and OneSource Virtual extend the surrounding services. A company can need help long after the implementation team has celebrated its finish.
The customer names make the breadth tangible. Dave & Buster’s began its Workday transition in 2022 and appears in a joint customer webinar. Cambria’s HR leader discussed the manufacturer’s journey from deployment to support in a September 2023 webinar. AvidXchange and Trupanion also appear in TopBloc’s customer materials. Different businesses, with the same unglamorous requirement that their systems keep working.
The advisory practice starts further upstream, with an evaluation of an organization’s finance and HR systems. It looks at business processes, areas for improvement, and the path toward a different setup. That gives buyers a way to discuss the work before deployment begins. The question is which processes deserve changing, as well as which records need moving.
The specialist gets a bigger address book
Founded in 2016, TopBloc attracted a significant minority investment from BV Investment Partners in February 2020. The investment announcement emphasized faster implementation and lower cost. Five years later, the buyer was a much larger technology services company.
“TopBloc is obsessed with innovation and customer satisfaction.”
Christopher Skinner / co-founder & CEO, 2020
ASGN completed the acquisition on March 4, 2025, for $340 million, paid 90 percent in cash and 10 percent in equity. At announcement, it forecast approximately $150 million in TopBloc revenue for 2025, with growth above 20 percent. That number was a forecast. The acquisition bought an established delivery operation and an entry into the Workday ecosystem.
Skinner’s stated attraction to ASGN was access to its client base. For the buyer, TopBloc added enterprise platform capabilities it could offer existing customers. TopBloc received Workday’s 2025 Business Impact Partner of the Year award and later announced Leader rankings in all four categories of ISG’s U.S. Workday study. Its current Everforth branding places that specialist practice inside the renamed parent.
Keeping that knowledge available also requires keeping people. TopBloc’s careers page emphasizes collaboration and continuing education, including access to learning tools. It describes employee-led resource groups, wellness stipends, volunteer opportunities, and team lunches. These are the employer’s descriptions of its culture. They offer a glimpse of the organization supporting all those reusable configurations: a service business still depends on experienced colleagues.
Steal the method, respect the mess
The useful lesson extends beyond Workday: find the task your experts repeat, capture the knowledge, and build a tool around it. TopBloc still competes with other Workday partners, including Deloitte, Accenture, and Kainos. Reusable configurations give buyers something concrete to examine alongside experience, staffing, and scope.
There is a practical limit to the shortcut. A configuration must fit the business; data needs review; integrations and employee adoption still need attention. Those are buying considerations, not reported TopBloc failures. Before signing, ask what is included, which decisions your team must make, and who handles the next payroll. Friday has a habit of arriving on schedule.