Buyer-side HCM procurement · Free for HR teams

Know what you should be paying for HR tech.

Start with a free 60-second cost check. Then let Patty, our AI procurement advisor, score 40+ HCM vendors on 150+ criteria against your actual requirements. No sales calls. No gated pricing. You never pay us.

Run the 60-second cost check → Skip ahead: full vendor match →

No email needed to see your result · Renewing? Scan your contract instead

Free for HR buyers, always No sales calls, ever No sponsored rankings Your data stays yours
40+
HCM vendors scored
150+
Scoring criteria per vendor
6
HCM categories covered
Free
For HR buyers. Always.
We score every major provider. None of them pay for placement.
What Patty catches

The clauses that quietly move money from your budget to your vendor's.

These patterns show up in HCM contracts across the industry. Patty reads for every one of them, and hands you the language to push back.

High severity
Uncapped CPI escalators

A "4 to 6% annual uplift" clause with no ceiling compounds fast. Three renewals later you're paying a quarter more for the same product, and nobody ever made a decision to spend that.

The counterCap increases at 3% or CPI, whichever is lower, with 60-day written notice.
High severity
Auto-renewal with a 30-day window

The renewal lands while you're running open enrollment. Miss the window and you're locked for another year at the escalated rate. That timing is not an accident.

The counterPush the notice window to 90 days and calendar it the day you sign.
Medium severity
Fees hiding outside the PEPM rate

Per-run charges, year-end W-2 processing, new-state registrations, garnishments, data export at termination. The quoted rate is the start of the bill, not the bill.

The counterAsk for total annual cost in writing, all fees included, before you compare anything.
See what's in your contract →
Step one · 60 seconds

Find out if your rate is even in the right neighborhood.

Pick a category, pick your headcount, enter what you pay. You get an instant read against typical market ranges for your size. No email required to see it.

It's deliberately simple. If your number looks high, that's your cue to run the real analysis.

Time to Answer ~60 sec
Email Required None
Check your costs →
Payroll · 101 to 250 employees
Above typical range
Typical range: $4 to $9 /employee/mo
Typical bandYou: $14 /ee/mo
Step two · ~6 minutes

The shortlist you would build yourself, if you had a week.

Patty interviews you the way a senior HR consultant would. She turns your answers into a scored match against 40+ HCM vendors, weighting what matters to you: PEPM, implementation risk, multi-state payroll, carrier connectivity, support model.

No sales call. No gated form. No sponsored rankings. The top three are the top three because your inputs said so.

Match Score 0–100
Time to Shortlist ~6 min
Start your match →
Your Vendor Shortlist
Rippling RP
Rippling
Global payroll · Strong integrations
94
Gusto GU
Gusto
Small-mid market · Simple UX
89
Paylocity PA
Paylocity
Mid-market · Benefits admin depth
76
ADP AD
ADP Workforce Now
Enterprise · Full compliance
71
Justworks JW
Justworks
PEO · Under 100 employees
52
Renewing? Start here

Read the fine print before it reads you.

Paste the pricing page, the order form, or the renewal quote. Patty identifies the vendor, checks the rate against market, flags the clauses that matter, and hands you the exact language to push back with.

Thirty seconds. No intake form. No “talk to sales.”

Check your contract →
Renewal Quote · Analysis
Rate check · Above typical market range
H
4.8% CPI uplift with no cap. Language doesn’t specify a ceiling. Cap at 3% and require 60-day notice.
H
Auto-renewal with 30-day window. Industry standard is 60–90 days. Push for 90.
M
Implementation fee uncapped. Ask for a fixed-fee SOW with defined scope.
M
Data export fee on termination. Standard ask: waive, with 60-day access to archive.
How we make money

You never pay us. Here's the whole model.

01

You benchmark and match, free

Cost check, Patty's full analysis, contract scans, the shortlist. All of it free for HR buyers, with no credit card and no obligation.

02

You decide what happens next

Stay put with better information. Renegotiate with your current vendor. Or switch. All three are fine outcomes for us.

03

If you switch, the new provider pays us

A referral fee, paid by the vendor you chose, after you chose them. That's the entire business model.

Vendors cannot pay to change their score or their ranking. Not now, not ever.
What you get

Built to remove the three things every HR buyer hates.

Repetitive discovery calls. Opaque pricing. Contracts written to benefit the other side.

Discovery without repetition

Patty runs one smart interview. Your requirements profile does the talking from then on. No eighth demo with the same slides.

~6 min from start to shortlist

Scoring with real depth

Every vendor is evaluated on the criteria that decide whether an HCM rollout works: pricing model, implementation risk, integrations, support, compliance coverage.

150+ criteria scored per vendor

Contract risk, surfaced

Auto-renewal traps, uncapped escalators, hidden termination fees. Patty reads the fine print and gives you the exact language to counter with.

40+ vendors compared, buyer-side

You never pay us

Free for HR buyers. Always. If you decide to switch, the new provider pays a referral fee. Your incentives and ours stay aligned.

$0 out of pocket for you
Free for HR teams. Always.

Your renewal is coming. Walk in with the numbers.

Benchmark your spend in about a minute. Free, and the leverage is yours to keep.

Run the cost check → Or go straight to the full match →