Who It's For — ChordHR

Who It's For

Built for the stage between
too simple and too complex.

The 50–500 person company that has outgrown spreadsheets in the same year it became too busy to run a six-month implementation.

The gap in between.

You've become too complex for point tools. You're not large enough for Workday. Most of the market is built for one end or the other. ChordHR is built for the gap in between — where the spreadsheets have already broken down and the enterprise rollout would take longer than the problem costs.

50–500
Employees
Too complex for spreadsheets. Too lean for a six-month enterprise rollout. This is the exact stage ChordHR is built for.
1–5
HR Professionals
A small team owning the entire employee lifecycle — hiring, attendance, leave, payroll, and exits — all at once, from one console.
<7 weeks
To Go Live
Same-day provisioning. Full module catalogue seeded on signup. No implementation project, no waiting on a consultant.

The right tool for every role.

ChordHR works for the HR team that runs it, the managers who rely on it, and the employees who use it every day.

Not the smallest option. Not the largest.
The one built for where you actually are.

A direct comparison across the dimensions that break down at this stage.

Capability
Option A
Spreadsheets & point tools
Option B
Generic SMB HR suites
Full module coverage
Gaps plugged with spreadsheets — no single source of truth
Core modules only; edges fall back to manual
Biometric sync, statutory payroll, assets, and all 12 request types in one system
Biometric hardware sync
Manual CSV export from the device, imported by hand
Hardware is out of scope — not supported
Native sync via our own device agent — no CSV, no nightly batch
Unified approval engine
Approvals happen in chat; no record exists
Workflow limited to leave requests only
One routing model across all request types — leave, OT, advances, resignations
Auditable leave ledger
A balance in a cell — no trace of how it got there
Balance visible; event history missing
Append-only ledger — every number traces back to the transaction that created it
Attendance → payroll
Exported, pasted, reconciled by hand each month
Two separate modules with a manual sync step
No export step — attendance and payroll share one data layer
Time to go live
Immediate setup, zero coverage
Days to weeks; consultant or implementation fee often required
Same-day provisioning; full module catalogue seeded on signup
Statutory payroll
Tax slabs, EOBI, gratuity — all in spreadsheets
Not configured for local statutory requirements
Effective-dated salary structures, local tax config, EOBI, gratuity, final settlement
Role-scoped access
Everyone sees everything, or access is all-or-nothing
Basic roles; limited granularity
Default-deny, schema-isolated — each role sees only what it is authorised to see

The questions we hear the most.

The complexity that makes ChordHR necessary starts well before the 100th employee. At 50 people with one HR manager, the absence of connected systems costs hours every month — in manual reconciliation, disputed balances, and approval chains that only exist in chat. The 50-person company is exactly who this is built for.

There is no implementation project. Tenant provisioning is same-day, the full module catalogue is seeded on signup, and your plan controls what gets switched on. The time cost is configuration, not deployment.

Self-service adoption is the design brief, not a feature. If employees do not use the system, HR does not save time — so the product is built to be picked up without training. Leave requests, balance checks, payslip downloads — three taps on a phone. No manual, no onboarding session required.