A structure you own, not numbers you rent.
Compensation for companies that are figuring out pay for the first time. Your data stays in your files, on your machine. $200 USD a month, however many people you have.
You can rent comp numbers. You can't buy comp structure.
There are good tools that will sell you market data — what a Senior Engineer makes in Denver. Useful, and not the hard part.
The hard part is the question you get asked next:
Answering it needs a structure — job levels, salary bands, rules for raises, a record of who decided what and why. Consultants build those, starting around fifty employees and five figures. Below that, you're on your own with a spreadsheet.
That's the gap this fills.
A comp function, not another dashboard.
A real comp function from day one
Job architecture, salary structures, pay bands, eligibility rules, and a versioned record of every change with the reason attached. The things a comp analyst would build, built.
The law, kept current
Minimum wage, overtime exemption thresholds, and pay-transparency posting rules for federal, all 50 states and DC, and 75 city and county jurisdictions — maintained by us, delivered on dated releases. You'll know a threshold moved before it catches you.
Your files. Actually yours.
Everything is CSV files in a folder you control. Open them in Excel. Back them up how you like. Cancel and keep every one of them — there's no export process because there's nothing to export from.
Nothing phones home
It runs on your machine, on your own Anthropic account. No vendor database holding your pay data, no data-processing agreement to negotiate with us — we're not in that chain at all, no central place to breach. Security reviews tend to be short.
Three steps. Plain language.
Check if your data fits.
Send us your column headers — just the top row of whatever spreadsheet you keep people in. No employee data, no names. We'll tell you how well it maps, what's missing, and roughly how long setup takes.
Set up.
You describe your company; it builds the structure and loads your people. You confirm every mapping before anything is written.
Ask it things.
Plain language. No commands to learn.
What it deliberately doesn't do.
It doesn't decide anyone's pay. Every recommendation touching someone's pay or employment needs a person to approve it. There's no setting that turns that off — it's what makes the record worth having.
It doesn't sell you market data. No crowdsourced benchmarks. Bring the numbers you trust.
It doesn't run payroll, and doesn't connect to your payroll system. It's the record of what pay should be and why; payroll pays it.
It isn't legal advice. The reference tables are sourced, dated, and maintained — and every row ships marked provisional. Check with your attorney before relying on any of it.
The maintained legal tables are US-only. Minimum wage, exemption thresholds, and pay transparency are US federal, state, and local. The structure itself — levels, bands, rules, records — works for anyone on your payroll, in any country and any currency. You just won't get maintained legal facts outside the US.
Or start with a diagnosis,
not a subscription.
The Comp Diagnostic is a fixed-fee engagement that tells you the truth about your own pay data: two to three weeks, one price agreed before it starts, run entirely on your records. You end up knowing who is misclassified, who is below their band or an applicable wage floor, where your data contradicts itself, and what your pay structure actually is — each finding cited to your own files.
No market data is bought, licensed, or resold. This is internal diagnosis — what your records already prove — not “what does the market pay.” If you hold a survey subscription you trust, it can feed the structure work.
That last one is the difference. Most consultants leave a deck. This leaves a working, versioned data structure you own — which the subscription below then keeps current.
Adjacent work is quoted the same way — fixed scope, priced before it starts: payroll data cleanup, spreadsheet consolidation, intake and approval flows that live in files instead of someone's memory.
Any size.
Ten people or five hundred — same price. We don't tax you for hiring.
Coming out of a Diagnostic? Your system of record is already built and populated — the subscription is how it stays correct as laws and people change.
$300 USD to start — your first month plus a one-time $100 setup. Or $2,000 a year if you'd rather pay annually. All prices in US dollars (USD).