We build payroll for teams that didn’t know they needed it.

We were running a three-person research lab and spending our Sundays on spreadsheets. The payroll tool we used charged us $80/month to write two checks. Onboarding a new hire took four days of PDFs, and the person we were onboarding had only agreed to a six-week project.

So we built this for ourselves first. One employee at a time. One week of timesheets at a time. We kept the bar dumb-simple: a payroll run you could finish between two meetings, an onboarding that a new hire could complete on their phone, a compliance log you would actually want an auditor to see.

Then our friends asked us to run theirs. Then their friends. We are a small team in Austin building for the kinds of teams we used to be — the two-person agency, the four-person lab, the owner who just made their first hire and does not yet know what an I-9 is.