HR that lives with the business.

The directory, hiring, onboarding and time-off requests on the same record as your customers, deals and invoices. The agent drafts and schedules; a manager approves.

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Projects

Recent

Renewals at risk

Board pack, October

Supplier terms review

Churn post mortem

Which accounts are at risk this month, and draft the outreach.

Worked for 41s · 6 steps · $0.12

Read9 accounts renewing

Read14 open tickets

Comparedusage against the last two quarters

Drafted7 messages, held 2 for a person

Nine accounts renew inside 30 days and three of them are the ones to worry about. Their ticket volume is up while usage is falling, which is the pattern that preceded every churn last quarter.

Salesforce

Zendesk2 sources, permission aware

Message Daciel

Works beside Gusto, Rippling or your payroll provider.

Every person, one record

Library

Everything the work produced, with who owns it and who can read it.

AllDocumentsSheetsFrom runs

Renewal brief, Acme

Document · Priya · Deal team

Q3 pipeline review

Sheet · Marcus · Sales

Supplier terms summary

Document · Ana · Private

Churn post mortem

Document · Marcus · Everyone

Board pack, October

Deck · Priya · Leadership

Access review

Sheet · Tom · Admins

Turn the renewal brief into an email to the deal team

Renewal brief, Acme

Chat

One composer, on every surface.

Vendor reviews

Q3 onboarding

Support desk

Website rebuild

Everything the renewal touched: the thread it started in, the artifacts it produced, and who is allowed to see them.

148 artifacts

Keep

Acme renewal

Payroll migration

Hiring: sales

Said once, kept for good

Any answer becomes an artifact, with an owner and a permission.

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Google Drive

Notion

Salesforce

HubSpot

Zendesk

Jira

GitHub

Linear

Stripe

Zoom

Asana

Airtable

Dropbox

Box

Confluence

Intercom

Google Calendar

Monday

ClickUp

Figma

DocuSign

Trello

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Connected from day one

The systems you already run, readable in one place.

Runs this week

RunOutcome and traceWhat it producedCost

1Renewal outreachApprovedRead the nine accounts renewing this quarter in Salesforce, compared each one's usage against the last two quarters, drafted seven messages and held two back for a person. 41s, 6 steps, $0.12...7 draftsTotal$0.12Model$0.09Tools$0.03

2Invoice chaseHeldMatched fourteen overdue invoices in Stripe against the support thread for each account, then stopped before sending: two of them are in an open dispute and the policy says a person decides...14 invoicesTotal$0.08Model$0.06Tools$0.02

3Monday briefingApprovedPulled every run from the last seven days, grouped them by workspace, and wrote the briefing into the Library with the trace attached to each claim so any line can be opened...1 briefingTotal$0.21Model$0.17Tools$0.04

4Access reviewApprovedListed every connection holding a write scope, checked each against the role that owns it, and flagged three that now outlive the person who created them. Nothing was revoked without asking...3 flaggedTotal$0.05Model$0.04Tools$0.01

Runs

Every step, every tool call, every cost, and who approved it.

The HR system a 30-person company needs

A thirty-person company does not need an HR department's software. It needs to know who works here and who they report to, to hire without losing candidates in an inbox, to onboard without a checklist on paper, and to answer a time-off request the same day. Daciel's People section does those four, over the same records the rest of the business runs on, and refuses in words the payroll it does not do.

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Chase the 14 overdue invoices

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Summarise every ticket Acme opened

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Check which renewals slipped a quarter

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Rewrite the onboarding mail sequence

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Renewal quote for Acme, send held

Salesforce

Priya approves

RUN-926

Renewal outreach, nine accounts

Salesforce

Gmail

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Weekly briefing into the Library

Slack

RUN-924

Reconcile Stripe against the tickets

Stripe

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Tag the inbox by account

Outlook

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Pull usage for the at-risk accounts

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Answer the RFP security section

Confluence

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Flag connections holding write scope

Waiting on Priya6 steps

Done48+⋯

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Monday briefing, written and filed

Library$0.21

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Churn post mortem for Q3

$0.14

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Board pack pulled together

$0.31

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Access review, three flagged

Approved$0.05

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Supplier terms summarised

Thread in #renewals

Marcus Hale9:12 AM

Acme wants a renewal quote. Their contract is up in three weeks.

Ana Duarte9:12 AM

Ticket volume has climbed every month this quarter. Read that before we price it.

Marcus Hale9:13 AM

So someone pulls usage, open tickets and the last two invoices. Three systems.

Priya Raman9:14 AM

And most of an afternoon. Hand it over and hold the send until one of us reads it.

Marcus Hale9:14 AM

@Daciel draft the Acme renewal from usage and tickets, hold the send

Two things it does on day one

Keeps the directory

Every employee a record with role, manager, start date and documents, linked to the deals, tickets and approvals they own elsewhere in the company.

Get started

Conversations

7 open · 4 answered without a person

Acme CoWhere is invoice 4417?Agent

NorthwindRefund for the duplicate seatAgent

StarlightCan we move the renewal date?Held

MeridianAPI keys stopped workingWaiting

BrightlineInvoice address is wrongAgent

KestrelDo you support SSO?Agent

HalcyonExport stopped at 10k rowsWaiting

Handles the requests

Time-off requests, onboarding tasks and candidate steps are held for the named manager and cleared from the same approval queue as everything else.

See onboarding

Renewals

9 inside 30 days · 7 drafted, 2 held

Brightline$14kDrafted

Kestrel$9kSent

Halcyon$6kHeld

What HR software for a small business should do

The search is held by Gusto, ADP, Zoho People, Paycom and BambooHR, and by listicles ranking them. All of them start from payroll: the employee record exists so someone can be paid, and HR features grow around it. For a company of five to two hundred that already has a payroll provider, buying a second payroll to get a directory is the wrong shape.

How People works

Import or add the team

From a spreadsheet or your payroll provider. Each person gets a record with role, manager and start date.

Set who approves

Time-off requests and offers go to the named manager; you set the exceptions.

Hire from a pipeline

Candidates are records with stages. The agent drafts replies, schedules interviews and holds the offer for approval.

Onboard from a checklist

Tasks assigned to the hire, the manager and IT, each ticked on the record, each overdue one chased by the agent.

Requests in the queue

A time-off request is held for the manager and cleared from the approval queue, then filed on the person.

HR software for small business, compared

Payroll-first HR suites and Daciel's People section over the company record. Compared on what each owns, how a manager stays in control, and the price.

	Best for	Channels	How a person stays in control	Published pricing
Gusto	Small businesses that need payroll first and HR around it	Payroll, benefits, hiring and onboarding, time tracking	Manager approvals on time off and time tracking	Monthly base plus per person per month, published by tier
Rippling	Companies of 25 to 1,000 that want HR, IT and finance on one employee record, with payroll	HRIS, payroll, benefits, device management, spend; app marketplace	Policy engine and approval chains configured by an admin	Per employee per month, quoted; base platform fee plus modules
BambooHR	Small and mid-size HR teams that want an HRIS with an ATS and onboarding	Employee records, ATS, onboarding, time off, performance; payroll add-on	Approval workflows on requests, configured per company	Per employee per month, quoted; Core and Pro packages
Zoho CRM	Teams already inside the Zoho suite	Email, telephony and social inside Zoho	Approval rules on records, configured by an admin	Per user per month by edition; Zoho One bundle about $37 a user
Dacielthis site	Businesses of 5 to 200 people that want the directory, hiring, onboarding and time-off requests on the same record as the rest of the company	Directory, candidates, onboarding tasks and time-off requests as records; the agent drafts, schedules and files	Offers, onboarding steps and time-off requests are held for the named manager; payroll and tax filings are refused, not faked	Contact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.

Competitor pricing as published on each vendor's site, read 2026-08-19. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the row says so.

Your policies, your approvers

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Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

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Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

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ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Daciel

ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Connects to

Manager approval on every requestTime off, offers and onboarding steps wait for the named person

Permissions per recordWho may read a person's record is a rule, not a default

Payroll refused in wordsFilings and tax tables are not a screen here; connect the provider that does them

Safe for people data. Employee records carry the strictest permissions in the product, every change is logged with its approver, and payroll is refused rather than faked.

How permissions work

Questions people ask before buying

Does Daciel run payroll?

No. It does not run payroll, file taxes or administer benefits, and the screen says so. Connect Gusto, Rippling or your provider and keep it for that.

What does the People section include?

A directory, a hiring pipeline, onboarding checklists and time-off requests, each a ledger over the employee record, with the agent drafting and a manager approving.

How are time-off balances handled?

A request is held for the manager and filed on the person. Balance and accrual policies live with your payroll provider today.

Who can see employee records?

Only the people your permissions name. Employee records carry the strictest default permissions in the product, and every read of a sensitive field is logged.

What does it cost?

Contact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.

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