HR software for teams without an HR team.
When HR is one person's second job, the platform has to do the parts that would otherwise need a specialist.
Capabilities
What matters at this size
Setup in a day, not a quarter
Import your existing records, set the payroll schedule and start. No implementation project and no consultant.
Compliance you have not memorised
Local leave entitlements, notice periods and payroll rules applied by the platform rather than looked up each time.
One person can run it
Onboarding, payroll preparation and reporting handled by the agent, with approval kept with you.
Priced per seat
You pay for the people you have, and it grows with you rather than requiring a tier change at an arbitrary threshold.
How it fits together
When HR is somebody's second job
Under fifty people, HR is usually an office manager, a founder or a finance lead who inherited it. They are not short of competence. They are short of hours and of the specialist knowledge that only comes from doing this full time.
- Setup
- Compliance you have not memorised
- Room to grow
By company size
One admin, no HR department
That is precisely the gap an agent closes, because the knowledge-heavy parts are the ones it can carry.
By the numbers
What it looks like in practice
The structures that matter later, multiple entities, departments, approval chains, are present from the start even if you do not use them yet. Growing into them does not mean migrating again.
1 day
Typical time to first payroll
0
Consultants or implementation projects
Built in
Local rules you have not memorised
Per seat
Grows with you, no tier jumps
In practice
What the first month looks like
Setup at this size is import and configuration rather than an implementation project.
Import your records
Employees from a spreadsheet, validated before anything is committed, so problems surface during import rather than in the first payroll run.
Set the pay schedule
Frequency, period and pay day, which is most of what payroll needs to know before it can assemble a run.
Configure leave
Accrual, carry-over and the public holidays for your location, so balances are right from the start rather than corrected later.
Run payroll in review
The first run assembled and reviewed before anything is paid, which is where most configuration mistakes surface harmlessly.
Hand employees self service
Payslips and balances available directly, which removes most of the inbound questions before they start.
Compared
What changes as you pass fifty
The structures below matter little at twenty and a great deal at eighty.
FAQ
Common questions
What if we have no HR experience at all?
That is the common case at this size. The platform applies the local rules and Tio answers the questions a specialist would otherwise be asked, which is why setup does not require knowing them in advance.
How long does setup take?
Most companies at this size are running within a business day, because the work is importing records and setting a schedule rather than configuring a system.
Do we need an HR person to use it?
No. It is built for the case where nobody's full-time job is HR, which is why the agent handles the specialist work rather than assuming you already know it.
See it running on your own data.
We will show the module working against records that look like yours, not a generic demo.
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Medium Business (51 to 300)
The size where spreadsheets stop working, the first HR hires arrive, and multi-entity payroll…
Onboarding
A paperless flow the new hire completes before day one. Contract, documents, payroll details…
Payroll
Assembled from live records, checked against local rules, approved once.