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Let people operations scale while the team stays lean

People operations hires often drown in administration before they can focus on strategy. Let the product handle recurring work, then hire for what only a person can do.

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Founder presenting in a bright auditorium while the audience fades into soft focus below. An overlaid prompt card reads: "Create a Q1 review agent for the engineering team."

Where growth strains

Where growth exposes the gaps

10+

Your first hires need dependable systems

Employee records remain editable in shared sheets. Payroll turns into a monthly chase through forms and reminders. Half a founder's day disappears into approval follow-ups. Locaxion protects employee data from the start, prepares payroll automatically, while replacing repeated follow-ups with workflows that keep moving.

50+

Critical company knowledge stays in one person's head

Leave requests disappear into Slack DMs, contracts remain in personal Drives, and unwritten policies surface only when someone asks. Locaxion gives you one reliable system from the first hire, so the foundations run automatically before gaps become problems.

150+

Compliance and reviews turn into extra jobs

As hiring crosses borders and the first audit approaches, calibration slows while managers chase forms instead of speaking with their teams. Locaxion includes preconfigured regional policies, exports provider-ready pre-payroll reports, and operates performance cycles end to end.

What changes the workload

The capabilities founders feel first

  • Operations on autopilot

    Recurring time-off, contract, payroll-prep, and audit work runs automatically. You purchase the outcome rather than another tool that needs an operator.

  • Built into Slack

    Employees request leave, sign documents, and get policy answers in Slack—without another login, adoption program, or rollout email.

  • Regional rules included

    Preconfigured statutory leave, working-time rules, and contract templates cover every hiring region, without keeping a policy lawyer on retainer.

  • Payroll-ready reporting

    Hours, leave balances, and variable pay arrive in your provider's required format, ready to export every cycle with zero manual reconciliation.

  • AI automations

    Configure onboarding, probation, recurring reports, and offboarding once; the workflows keep every employee step moving in the background.

  • Performance included

    Reviews begin on schedule, calibration is drafted automatically from real signals, and flight risk appears in 1:1s rather than exit interviews.

Trezy
Locaxion made the process feel refreshingly simple. AI takes care of the repetitive work, so our team can get value quickly without having to learn an entirely new way of working.
Quentin Lacointa
CEO, Trezy

The evidence

What manual people operations really cost

Share of hire-to-retire HR tasks that can be automated today McKinsey, "Human Resources in the Age of Automation"
56%
Time saved by automating leave management alone EY 2025 Cost Update Study
16 hrs/mo
What manual HR processes cost a 100-person company each year EY 2025 HR Benchmarking
$25k+
First-year fully loaded cost of a people operations hire BLS ECEC Q4 2025, Glassdoor 2026
$100k+

Questions founders ask most

Do spreadsheets still work for a very small team?
A spreadsheet works until you need an audit trail, regional leave rules, or a contract stored in someone's personal Drive. At 8 people, setup takes about an hour—less time than maintaining the spreadsheet this quarter.
Why not hire a People Operations generalist?
Use a People Operations generalist for compensation philosophy, manager coaching, and difficult conversations—the work only a person can do. Chasing approvals, preparing payroll, and answering policy questions are product work, and product costs less.
Do Gusto, Deel, or Rippling cover this already?
Payroll providers execute payroll. Locaxion prepares everything required beforehand—hours, balances, deductions, and signed contracts—then exports it in the provider's format. There is no duplicate system and no manual reconciliation.
Can Locaxion support hiring across several countries?
Preconfigured statutory leave, working-time rules, and contract templates cover EMEA, UK, Nordics, and US. Regional rules apply automatically, so a hire in Helsinki receives a Finnish contract and Finnish leave entitlements without manual setup.
How quickly can founders get set up?
A founder workspace is ready in under an hour. Most of that time goes to importing existing data and inviting the team; there is no implementation project, retained consultant, or kick-off deck.
How is Locaxion unlike an HRIS?
An HRIS stores files and permissions. Locaxion performs the work an HRIS leaves for people to coordinate—approvals, document generation, payroll preparation, and recurring reports—replacing both the HRIS and its surrounding spreadsheets.