Specialist AI · HR · Pooks HR
Enterprise HR for companies that aren't enterprises yet.
Workday-grade HR operations rebuilt AI-native for growing companies. Without the weight, the price or the nine-month implementation.
Best for: Growing companies between 20 and 500 people
Pooks HR
Smaller companies face a binary choice.
Pay for tools built for giants — Workday, SAP, Oracle — that take months to implement, require dedicated HR operations teams and cost more than the HR function itself.
Or run HR on spreadsheets, shared drives and goodwill — which works until it doesn't, usually around 30 people.
Neither scales. Neither was built for a company that needs real HR infrastructure without enterprise weight.
Everything HR needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Onboarding
Structured onboarding workflows for every new joiner. Documents, access, equipment and first-week schedule — automated and tracked.
Employee records
Single source of truth for every employee — contracts, role history, performance notes, leave and entitlements.
Leave and entitlements
Leave requests, approvals and balances managed automatically. Policy enforced consistently across the company.
Benefits administration
Employee benefits connected to the Instly Benefits platform — enrolment, digital cards and claims in one place.
Compliance
Employment law varies by country. Pooks HR tracks obligations and flags what needs attention before it becomes a problem.
AI assistant
Employees ask HR questions in plain language. Pooks HR answers — policy, entitlements, process — without the HR team being in the loop for every query.
Built for the stage between startup and enterprise.
You've outgrown spreadsheets
Past 30 people, shared drives and manual tracking start to break. Pooks HR gives you proper infrastructure without the enterprise commitment.
You're expanding into Asia
Employment law, leave entitlements and compliance requirements vary significantly across Asian markets. Pooks HR handles the complexity.
You need HR without an HR team
Pooks HR runs the operational layer so your founders or office manager can focus on the work that actually needs a human.
Run by Pookie J.
Pooks HR is operated by Pookie J — the HR specialist behind the product. Beta clients work directly with Pookie J to shape the product around the problems they actually face.
Join the beta.
Pooks HR is in beta. Early access is available for companies that want to shape the product. You get direct access to Pookie J and a product built around your actual HR operation — not a generic template.