Payroll, benefits & government bullsh*t for startups
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 👇
About Central on Product Hunt
“Payroll, benefits & government bullsh*t for startups”
Central launched on Product Hunt on August 19th, 2024 and earned 773 upvotes and 128 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. 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.
On the analytics side, Central competes within Artificial Intelligence, Finance and Human Resources — topics that collectively have 473.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Central performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Central?
Central was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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