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Run people ops as if you had a team of ten
Contracts, time off, attendance, and payroll, sorted the moment they happen. One platform for the teams scaling fastest.
Northwind
Trusted by fast growing teams
Meridian
Lumina
Verdant
Quanta
Foundry
Atlas
People agents
Set it up once.
Run forever.
Automate employee lifecycle work (onboarding, probation, and payroll handoff) as no code, autonomous agent workflows.
Employee lifecycle
Onboarding, probation, and offboarding run end to end as no code workflows. Every step of the journey, handled.
Payroll handoff
Approved leave, hours, and deductions packaged for your provider every cycle. No manual reconciliation.
People assistant
Employees ask about policies, time off, and contracts, grounded in your company handbook, not generic AI.
Build an employee onboarding experience for new hires
Onboarding plan
Generate contract
Region aware template, prefilled
Request eSignatures
Envelope sent to new hire and manager
Send welcome message
A Slack DM with day one logistics
Build onboarding tasks
Buddy paired, accounts provisioned
DH
Daniel Hayes · Q1
Reasoning
Daniel consistently shipped ahead of plan in Q1, leading the auth migration end to end and pairing closely with new hires across the platform team. Calibration suggests strong technical impact.
Sources
Northwind requested peer feedback
Asked Hannah about cross team comms
Performance
Continuous performance,
not annual surprises
Performance reviews and feedback grounded in real data, not memory.
Automate structure and schedule
Reviews run on your cadence, at hire, after probation, mid year. Northwind launches each round and chases responses.
Data from any source
MCP pulls signals from the tools your team already uses, so reviews reflect what happened, not what people remembered.
Agentic review
Agents draft reviews from feedback, flag biases, and surface edge cases for calibration.
Why teams switch
More of the work,
in less of the time
Two things change when Northwind runs people ops: how much it handles without anyone asking, and how long whatever is left actually takes.
Share of people ops handled end to end
Across onboarding, leave, attendance, documents and pre payroll, for teams of 30 to 300.
Anything Northwind cannot finish is routed to a person with the full thread and record already attached.
The queue, one at a time
Requests surface in order, get handled, and the next one moves into place.
Everything people ops,
in one place
Every feature sits in one continuous frame, so the product reads as a single surface.
Time off
Thu 27 to Fri 28 Mar
Approved
Mon 14 Apr
Pending
19 of 28 days
Remaining
Auto approved
UK policy
Wed 7 May
Approved
2 days carried
From 2025
Bank holiday
Booked
Fri 30 May
Pending
Time off
Regional entitlements, public holidays and carryover applied without anyone checking a policy.
Documents and eSign
Employment contract
Signed
Right to work
Verified
NDA
Awaiting
Offer letter
Signed
Pension form
Filed
Equipment policy
Signed
Handbook v4
Acknowledged
P45
Received
Documents and eSign
Contracts drafted, sent for signature and filed, without leaving the thread.
Pre payroll reporting
Hours
1,284
Leave taken
42 days
New starters
6
Leavers
2
Bonuses
8,400
Expenses
1,190
Variance
2.4% up
Report
Ready to send
Pre payroll reporting
Every change of the cycle packaged for your provider, ready to send.
Ask out loud,
Northwind does the rest
Speak or type in plain English. Northwind books the leave, sends the contract and updates the record, then tells you it is done.
Why Northwind
Everything people ops,
in a single place
Every record, request, and approval lives on a single surface, and Northwind keeps them in sync, so nothing quietly drifts out of date.
#
onboarding
Slack
Priya Anand
9:24 AM
@Northwind start onboarding for Jane Doe, Engineering, starts Mar 18
Northwind
App
9:24 AM
On it, onboarding plan ready for Jane Doe.
Drafted UK employment contract
Provisioned Slack + Google Workspace
Scheduled day one orientation
Paired an onboarding buddy
#
time off
Slack
Marcus Reed
2:08 PM
@Northwind I need Thursday and Friday off next week
Northwind
App
2:08 PM
Approved, you're all set.
2 days booked: Thu to Fri, Mar 27 to 28
Auto approved, matches your team policy
19 of 28 days remaining this year
Calendar + pre payroll updated
How it works
Meets your team
where they already work
Book leave, log hours, or pull up a policy without ever leaving Slack, Claude, or any MCP host. The answer comes to your team, no extra tab required.
Built in compliance
Global compliance,
zero workarounds
Regional leave, contracts, and pay rules ship built in, not bolted on. Ask about any team in any country and get an answer that’s already right.
#
people ops
Slack
Sara Lund
11:02 AM
@Northwind how much annual leave does our Berlin team get?
Northwind
App
11:02 AM
Germany leave, applied to your Berlin team:
30 days Urlaub, above the 20 day statutory floor
Carryover allowed through Mar 31
Berlin public holidays tracked per state
Synced to contracts & pre payroll
Security
Built for teams
that answer to auditors
People data is the most sensitive data you hold. Northwind treats it that way.
ISO 27001
Independently certified to international security management standards.
GDPR
Compliant by design, with data processing agreements ready to sign.
Field level permissions
Control who sees what, down to the individual field on a record.
EU data residency
Your data stored and processed entirely inside the European Union.
Pricing
Pricing that grows
with your team
Start free, then move up when the automation is doing real work for you.
Free
£0 /mo /user
Free forever
Up to 10 people
Best for smaller teams who want to get people ops out of spreadsheets.
Key features:
AI assistant
Ask anything in Slack
Answers policy questions
English language support
People records
Single employee directory
Documents and eSign
Time off requests
Automation
Onboarding checklists
Calendar sync
Email notifications
Plus
£10 /mo /user
+ platform fee based on team size
Save 20% with annual billing
Perfect for teams who want to automate away the busywork.
Key features:
Everything in Free, plus
Agents that act, not just answer
Drafts contracts and letters
Multi language support
People records
Custom fields and views
Bulk imports and exports
Attendance and rotas
Automation
Approval routing
Pre payroll reporting
Slack and HRIS sync
Enterprise
Custom
Annual billing
Dedicated onboarding
Specifically made for teams who need full customisation and control.
Key features:
Everything in Plus, plus
Custom agent playbooks
Private model deployment
Named success manager
Security
SSO and SCIM provisioning
Audit log and data residency
Custom DPA and SLA
Automation
Custom integrations
Sandbox environment
Priority support
“I kept HR in spreadsheets because I never had time to roll out yet another system. Northwind made it effortless, I connected our data, confirmed the output, and invited the team. I’m finally out of the spreadsheet.”
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