The HR Portal backend is live: employees, leave, payroll, offboarding, and the HR Copilot are all in production. The system of record exists — the data is in one place.
What is not automated is the operator layer sitting on top of it. Payroll prep, recruitment coordination, onboarding steps, and the endless follow-up reminders still run through people and spreadsheets. Every payroll cycle, every hiring round, every new joiner requires a human to manually pull, compute, schedule, chase, and confirm.
That human is the bottleneck. It does not scale, it is error-prone, and it consumes the exact hours that should go to judgment work.
Each workstream captures the current manual process, the automation that replaces it, the systems it draws from, and a rough effort estimate (S / M / L).
Phased by impact and dependency. Payroll first — it is the heaviest recurring manual load and highest risk if wrong.
Highest-frequency, highest-risk manual work. Eliminates the spreadsheet cycle end to end.
Auto-screen, schedule, and document — collapse ~200-applicant rounds to interview + decision only. Includes offer/contract auto-gen.
One-click joiner and leaver workflows across all systems.
Ties it together — removes the reminder-and-relay human layer, founder gets a daily digest.