The employee record, kept.

Role, manager, start date, documents and requests on one record per person, beside the deals and tickets they own. Kept current by the agent, changed only with approval.

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Reminders

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

Imports from Gusto, Rippling, BambooHR or a spreadsheet.

One record per person

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 spreadsheet that became the HRIS

Most small companies' HRIS is a spreadsheet with a tab per year and a folder of PDFs. It works until someone leaves, a manager changes, or an auditor asks who approved what. Here each person is a record with its history: who changed the role, who approved the leave, which documents were signed and when, and which customers, deals and approvals that person owns in the rest of the company.

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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

RUN-2200

Rewrite the onboarding mail sequence

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RUN-2211

Renewal quote for Acme, send held

Salesforce

Priya approves

RUN-926

Renewal outreach, nine accounts

Salesforce

Gmail

RUN-2088

Weekly briefing into the Library

Slack

RUN-924

Reconcile Stripe against the tickets

Stripe

RUN-1882

Tag the inbox by account

Outlook

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Pull usage for the at-risk accounts

4 steps

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Answer the RFP security section

Confluence

RUN-2187

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

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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

Holds the record

Role, manager, department, start date, documents, emergency contact, requests. Every change logged with who made it and who approved it.

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

Links it to the work

The same person owns accounts in Sales, clears approvals in Finance and answers in Support. One record, one set of permissions.

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Renewals

9 inside 30 days · 7 drafted, 2 held

Brightline$14kDrafted

Kestrel$9kSent

Halcyon$6kHeld

What is an HRIS for a small business?

An HRIS is the system of record for employees: who they are, what they do, who they report to, what they are paid, what they have signed. The vendors who rank, ADP, Gusto, Rippling, BambooHR, Deel, are payroll or payroll-adjacent, because for them the employee record exists so the payroll run can read it.

How the HRIS is kept

Import

From your payroll provider or a spreadsheet. Fields map to the employee record; documents attach.

Set field permissions

Who may see compensation, documents and contact details, by role.

Changes are proposed

The agent proposes a role or manager change from an email or a request; the named approver applies it.

Leavers are one change

A status change on the record revokes what the person held across the company and files the offboarding tasks.

Export when asked

A signed export for your accountant, auditor or payroll provider.

HRIS for small business, compared

Payroll-first systems of record and Daciel's employee record inside the company record. Compared on what each owns, how changes are controlled, 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
Deel	Companies hiring across countries that need EOR, contractors and global payroll	Global payroll, EOR, contractor management, HRIS	Approval flows on expenses, time off and contracts	Free HRIS tier; EOR and payroll per worker per month, published
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 fields, your permissions

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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.

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.

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

Field-level permissionsCompensation and documents visible only to the roles you name

Every change has an approverRole, manager and status changes are held for the named person

Exports are signedA bulk export of people data is an approval, not a button

Safe for employee data. Reads of sensitive fields are logged, changes wait for the named approver, and the record leaves only through an export you sign.

How permissions work

Questions people ask before buying

Is Daciel a full HRIS?

It is the employee system of record without payroll, benefits or tax filings. For most small businesses that already have a payroll provider, that is the half they were missing.

Can employees see their own record?

Yes, the fields you allow, and they can submit time-off requests and update contact details, which are held for approval where you require it.

How is compensation data protected?

Field-level permissions restrict it to the roles you name, and every read of a restricted field is logged.

Can we import from Gusto or BambooHR?

Yes, by export and import today, with a live connection reading the provider's records where the connector exists.

What does it cost?

Contact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.

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