Anvil
Strong HR isn't hired. It's built.
HR management built for SMEs. No professional HR required. Your staff adapts in a day. You run the whole thing from one screen.
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Strong HR isn't hired. It's built.
HR management built for SMEs. No professional HR required. Your staff adapts in a day. You run the whole thing from one screen.
Book a Strategy SessionThe Story
$120,000 to $150,000 a year. They handle payroll, onboarding, contracts. Day-to-day gets done. But there's nothing above them. No architecture, no governance, no process design. Every decision, every procedure, every exception lives inside one person's head. When they go on leave, things stall. When they resign, everything walks out. The undocumented decisions. The unwritten rules. Gone. You start over.
Single point of failure. $120K – $150K/yr.You buy a platform hoping it will replace the person. But off-the-shelf HR software was built for generic companies, not yours. Your team fights the system because it doesn't match how they actually work. Adoption drops. Support gives you template answers. And you're locked into a multi-year contract, paying for seats nobody logs into. You traded a person-dependency for a vendor-dependency.
Adoption rate: ~30%. Still paying full price.Built around your actual operations, not a template. Staff adapts in days because the system mirrors their real workflow, not the other way around. When people leave, the system stays. Evidence is assembled before a dispute ever lands. Audit-ready by default. No lock-in, no per-seat pricing, no vendor holding your data hostage. A system that doesn't quit, doesn't forget, and doesn't hand you recycled answers.
Bespoke. No lock-in. Yours to keep.Most HR disasters are preventable. They just require a system that exists before the problem does.
The Three Paths
Cost: Catastrophic when it fails
You have no HR system. No process. No records. Fair Work obligation? You don't know what you don't know. An employee claims unfair dismissal. A payroll audit lands. A bullying complaint escalates. Without documentation, without a system, without evidence, you lose. Fines. Legal fees. Reputational damage. In the worst case, the boss faces personal liability. This isn't a cost. It's an existential threat.
Cost: $150K - $180K/yr + super + tools
A competent HR generalist in Australia, not a junior learning on the job, not someone doing HR as a side task, runs $120K-$150K salary. Add 11.5% super, payroll tax, leave entitlements, software tools they need, and overhead. Real cost: $150K-$180K. And there's no architecture above them. When they go on leave, things stall. When they resign (and they will), every unwritten decision walks out. You start over. The system was never a system. It was one person.
Cost: Bespoke investment. Built once. Yours forever.
Built around your actual operations. Australian employment law encoded in the system. Staff adapts in days because it mirrors their real workflow. Records, reviews, the entire employee lifecycle, one screen. When people leave, the system stays. When disputes come, evidence is already assembled. Audit-ready by default. No per-seat pricing, no vendor lock-in, no dependency on a single person who might resign. This is not a cheap alternative to HR. It is a better one.
The Comparison
The Math
A competent HR generalist in Australia, not a junior, not someone doing HR as a side task. $120K-$150K salary. Add 11.5% super. Add payroll tax. Add leave entitlements. Add the tools, software, and subscriptions they need. Add the cost of them not being there when you need them. Real cost, all in: $150K-$180K a year.
What's Inside
Onboarding, contracts, leave, offboarding, one place, no friction. Your staff finds their own leave balances without asking anyone.
Simple, boss-driven performance management. No 360-degree feedback theater. One click to record, one click to review. Clear, trackable.
Contracts, letters, warnings, all signed within the system. No DocuSign subscription, no printing, no scanning. Fully tracked, legally binding.
Ask it anything: "What's John's leave balance?" "Generate a warning letter for repeated lateness." It knows your company context, not generic HR templates.
Every action logged. Every document timestamped. When a dispute or audit hits, your records are your defence, assembled in minutes, not weeks.
Australian employment law encoded into the system. Contracts generated are compliant by default. You don't need to know the Fair Work Act, Anvil does.
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