Unlike traditional HR platforms, Central automates everything you need to operate a compliant US startup, like state registrations, worker's compensation and other filings – saving weeks of work, headaches and fines. Join 100+ companies that run on Central.Hey Product Hunt people - I have a confession. 

I’ve paid over $20,000 in government fines.

At my last YC W20 company, Clayboard, I only wanted to design and build. Instead, I was constantly drowning in back-office work related to payroll, benefits and government filings. Even with the currently recommended solutions, it was a never-ending pain in the...

Why do makers need to understand all this stuff?

Why do we still have to register in multiple states to run payroll, set up worker's compensation, pay random payroll-related taxes, deal with scary government mail, update addresses across state filings, and troubleshoot with insurance companies?

This is why for the past year and a half, @joshwymer, @pranavkash & I have been building Central.

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🥁 ENTER CENTRAL

Central is the first back-office platform designed for busy founders rather than HR/finance professionals.

Unlike other platforms, Central handles all the related compliance work and government filings from start to finish. There's no jargon to learn and there's no extra hidden work.

Think of Central as abstracting away the government and also declarative, i.e., you send offers to people, and Central does everything else automatically. 

Here’s everything you get when you sign up:

1️⃣ Payroll & compliance
- Hire and pay anyone globally
- Offer letters, NDAs, I-9 verification, and more.
- Automated payroll state registrations
- Automated payroll tax filings
- Automated worker’s compensation insurance
- Government mail monitoring

2️⃣ Business compliance & insurance
- Foreign qualifications & city registrations
- Continuous BOI reporting to FinCEN
- General liability insurance & other business insurance

3️⃣ Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401k

4️⃣ <4 min support
- Shared Slack channel, phone, email support
- White glove migration from existing providers
- Dedicated payroll & benefits expert.

5️⃣ Slack integration to get stuff done fast
- Retrieve company info & docs
- Update employee info
- Access personal docs
- Track offers & payroll
- Breakdown paystubs

Central is the product I wish I had at my last company. 

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Today, 100+ companies run on Central and I'm so excited to finally share Central with all of you:
https://centralhq.com

Please leave your first impressions and feedback below 👇@joshwymer @pranavkash @nilay_modi Well done on the launch! Wishing you continued success and growth. How did you come up with the idea?@kjosephabraham Thank you! This was born out of our own pain and we’re building the product we wish we had.Nailed the claim. A similar system should be introduced to Europe countries as well. Because when you want to do something here, it takes sooooo much time :DI can imagine this being a huge issue in the US! 

Does it work in Europa as well? We have easier cross-border regulations in the EU but not for a lot of countries.@casper_brix We're focused on U.S. based companies right now, but agree it would be useful in the EU as well!This product is truly incredible.  Every startup founder should sign up for this - it's the perfect blend of why AI is so damn exciting!

Central (YC S24)

The simplest and most-affordable Survey app for Slack. Pulsy is a must-have for every Slack-based company. Made with love by BuddiesHR.com 💜Hey folks 👋

I love Polly. But let’s be honest…

😱 Paying $2 per person per month, seriously?

So, I created Pulsy, an alternative that is 100% simpler and 4x more affordable 🤩 

- Just the core features you need
(templates (eNPS, engagement survey), flexible questions, anonymous, scheduling, recurring)
- 100% in Slack - no external signup
- Free under 30 users, $0.5 per user if team > 30.

Enjoy!

- Fab@fabien_pinel how does it ensure data privacy especially with anonymous surveys? are there any additional features planned for future updates?Now this is cool! Perhaps the best launch I have seen today.
Very clear value proposition. I can easily understand what, why, how, etc. And I genuinely feel that it is of value.

The affordable cost makes it even further appealing. And I like The Office memes on Buddies HR. 😆 

Congratulations on the launch! 🚀 
I will share this with my team and we might become a user of not just Pulsy, but also all other tools of Buddies HR.😁Hey @fabien_pinel I really appreciate the pricing for smaller teams. You're right, Polly is great, but the pricing doesn't fit.

Congrats on the launch 🚀Thanks @crebuh!Hey Fabien,

Do you have plans to expand the range of survey types beyond eNPS and engagement surveys?

How customizable are the questions within these templates?

Congrats on the launch!Hey @kyrylosilin 👋 Pulsy can run any type of surveys (not only eNPS / engagement) and all the questions are 100% customizable.

Pulsy

Your team’s worth every bit of support.

Get suggested agenda topics, add updates with speech-to-text, and find key ideas from past syncs with AI filters.👋 Hello, hunters!

After over 100 calls with managers, HR professionals, and tech employees, and a year in the making, we’re excited to launch mgmate on Product Hunt!

If you have a team and believe that your feedback and support make a difference, mgmate is built for your one-on-ones.

Why?

Founders have been on both sides in tech companies:
💻 Employees caring about work
👨‍💼 Managers caring about employees

Leo was Head of Engineering, and Kostya was Head of Sales & Customer Success.

Back-to-back meetings, high pressure, and insane speed. And most people don’t get the training they need when moving from individual contributors to managers. This leads to half-assed feedback and reactive management instead of helping people grow.

Solution

mgmate helps your team have meaningful one-on-ones, focusing on building a culture of feedback and support.

🎙️ Get ready in mins. Speech-to-text helps you add notes and tasks quickly.
🙋 Add depth to 1-on-1s. Suggested questions focus your attention on areas you might not have discussed enough and offer an icebreaker.
🕵️ Find important talks. Filters help you find earlier notes by subject, detected by AI.
🙌 One teammate = one page. Archive old topics & structure notes in threads.

Leo used mgmate for his 1-on-1s with engineers. Then our friends in marketing, sales, HR, and product started using it for their teams.

Go ahead and give it a try too!

We have a free version to use with 1 teammate, and we’ve made a promo code “Feedback” so you can try it unlimited for 3 months.

We built it because we care about people who carry too much on their shoulders.

And we’d love to hear your feedback!@nastassia_k thank you so-so much!@yura_turivny thank you sooo much!@a_zelenkov thanks a lot!@max_savonin1 thats huge comment 😃

Ofc happy to share some answers:
1. Yep you can create your own Questions or edit suggested
2. We plan to work on integrations in future releases
3. You can add note with speech-too-text, but we dont listen the whole call, so you are in control 100%congrats on the launch! how do you approach privacy? in the meetings, lots of sensitive data is discussed...@max_kotin thank you.

First, no one has access to your meetings except people in the room.
Every audio message is deleted shortly after it is transcribed.
No one reads or listens to your meeting. Every validation of the AI model that we need we do strictly with our records or with the permission of our users.
And some obvious things like HTTPS, firewalls on the servers, and security audits.@hr6134 but the data is sent to a LLM, like OpenAi, Claud or Gemini, isn't it?@max_kotin unfortunately right now some of it yes. However, we try to minimize the usage of third-party services and run a lot of algorithms locally. Obviously, in time, we will move everything to our own servers.Congrats on the launch! 🎉 

Feedback is crucial, especially in a rapid changing startup, and it's great to see a tool that emphasizes meaningful one-on-ones 🚀@darya_skd thank you.

Totally agree about feedback. Unfortunately, a lot of managers are promoted to their positions without proper training. And we just want to help them.Love the focus of the tool, feedback is what often gets lost in tons of work tasks. Great worktech solution, congratulations on the launch!@natella_nuralieva thanks a lot. 

Yeah, managers are like hamsters in a wheel, a lot of tasks, not so much time.@natella_nuralieva thank you — saw this a lot, people got busy and when its time to review progress its super hard to find papertrail.

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