We ran one annual comp cycle for a 1,400-person, three-entity company across two currencies through ten platforms, chasing the number a finance director actually loses sleep over: next year's fully-loaded run-rate. The surprise was how few tools could forecast the real cost of the raises they were so happily recommending on screen.
Written by Giovanna ZolfiWe ran one annual merit cycle through ten platforms: the same 900-person roster, a 3.4 percent merit pool, and a four-step approval chain. The surprise was how many tools nailed the raise math yet broke on the routing, sending comp back to a spreadsheet at the end to reconcile by hand what the workflow could not.
Written by Javier RiveroWe loaded a 24-person seed-to-Series-B startup, six US employees, twelve contractors across two regions, and a 190-holder cap table into ten compensation platforms. Then we ran one merit cycle and modeled two senior offers. No single tool covered global payroll, equity, and pay equity without surrendering ground.
Written by Giovanna Zolfi