We built the HR tool we always needed
SimpleHR was born from frustration — too many hours lost to spreadsheets, manual approvals, and disconnected tools. We knew there was a smarter way.
A real problem, lived firsthand
Every growing company hits the same wall: the team doubles, but the HR processes don't scale. What worked at 10 people breaks at 30. Hiring takes weeks of back-and-forth emails. Leave tracking lives in a shared spreadsheet. Payroll is a monthly fire drill.
Our founder Sajith Vijesekara watched this play out across multiple companies he worked with. Smart teams were spending 40% of their time on HR admin instead of the work that actually moved the needle.
So in 2024, he set out to build the solution he always wished existed — an AI-native HR platform that thinks, automates, and gets out of the way.
- Manual leave tracking in sheets
- Recruitment taking 3–6 weeks
- Payroll errors every cycle
- Zero visibility into team data
- AI handles screening in minutes
- Automated payroll, zero errors
- Real-time HR analytics
- Agents running 24/7
HR is broken for small teams
Enterprise HR software is too complex and too expensive. Manual processes don't scale. Growing teams are caught in the middle.
Time drain
HR managers at 50-person companies spend an average of 14 hours per week on purely administrative tasks that add zero strategic value.
Hidden cost
A single bad hire costs between 30–150% of annual salary. Manual, gut-feel recruitment is the biggest driver of that risk.
No visibility
Most small businesses operate HR completely blind — no dashboards, no trend data, no early warning when engagement or performance dips.
Intelligent automation
AI agents handle repetitive tasks — scheduling, screening, reminders, approvals — continuously and without error, freeing your team for strategic work.
Smarter hiring
Machine learning surfaces the right candidates faster, reduces unconscious bias, and predicts cultural fit — making every hire more confident.
Predictive insights
Instead of reacting to problems, AI spots patterns early — flagging burnout risk, performance drops, or retention risks before they become costly.
Always-on HR
Your HR system doesn't sleep. AI agents handle employee requests, process leave, and generate payroll 24/7, even across time zones.
AI isn't replacing HR — it's amplifying it
The future of HR isn't about eliminating the human element. It's about removing the friction so people professionals can focus on what only humans can do: build culture, develop talent, and lead with empathy.
"The best HR teams of the next decade will spend 80% of their time on people, and let AI handle the rest."
Make world-class HR accessible to every team on earth
Fortune 500 companies have had AI-powered HR for years. We believe a 15-person startup deserves the same. SimpleHR democratises intelligent HR — so that great people operations isn't a luxury, it's a baseline.
Accessible
Priced for startups and SMBs, not enterprise budgets.
Intelligent
AI-native from day one — not bolted on as an afterthought.
Human-first
Technology should serve people, never the other way around.
Built by someone who felt the pain
Sajith is an entrepreneur and AI enthusiast who saw firsthand how broken HR processes were draining growing teams. He built SimpleHR to give every startup access to the intelligent automation that was previously only available to large enterprises — so people professionals can spend less time on admin and more time on people.
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