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Early-access: Taito.ai people operations system
Today we’re launching early access to Taito.ai people ops: a full people operations system for growing teams.
As a founder or operator of a 20-100 person company, you need to build the people operations foundation and employee experience that supports scalable growth, without adding unnecessary process or overhead that slows everyone down.
But the tooling options are frustrating. Run HR in spreadsheets: free and fast to set up, until they break. Or buy an HRIS: most are built for companies ten times your size, take months to onboard, and lock you into a contract before you’ve seen the product work.
What growing teams actually need is something you can set up yourself in under 30 minutes: a solid operational foundation that handles the basics automatically, fits how your organisation works, and is genuinely enjoyable to use from where your team already is (Slack, Claude, whatever’s in your stack).
Taito started as a performance management tool. Now performance is the layer that sits on top of your people ops foundation.
Who it’s for
Founders and early operators implement Taito.ai to run people ops with confidence using AI, rather than adding admin headcount.
Founders and CEOs scaling past 30 people without a dedicated people function yet. Time off in DMs, contracts in Drive, policies in someone’s head. Most early people ops roles spend the first six months on admin you can automate. Buy the product first; hire a person when there’s something only a person can do.
People Leaders who were hired for strategy but are spending the week chasing signed PDFs across six tools. Taito handles the recurring half of the job: approvals, reporting, contract generation, compliance. So you can focus on the part that actually needs you.
Operators (COO, Chief of Staff, first ops hire) building structure for scale. Regional policies, audit logs, and field-level permissions ship in the box. Set it once, hand it off when you hire a People Lead, and it keeps running.
What’s included in early access
Today, Taito.ai is open for early access as a full people operations system.
- People directory: employee records, org chart, custom fields, data import from spreadsheets or your current HRIS
- Time off: Slack-native requests and approvals, regional leave policies built in, balances synced to payroll
- Attendance: shift tracking with regional rules, records flow straight to payroll
- Documents and eSignatures: generate contracts from templates, send for signing, file automatically
- Pre-payroll reporting: hours, leave balances, and variable pay formatted for your payroll provider
- Performance reviews: continuous review cycles, feedback, and check-ins running in Slack
- MCP server: connect Taito to Claude, Cursor, or any AI tool your team uses; combine it creatively with other data sources in your stack
- People agents: no-code agents for automating onboarding, probation, offboarding, and recurring people tasks
Works in Slack for day-to-day requests, in the web app for setup and reporting, and via MCP for any AI interface your team already uses. Access controls are built into every layer, so AI agents only see what they’re supposed to. And it’s designed to be genuinely enjoyable to use, not another HR portal that collects dust.
How to get access
First organisations are already using Taito and helping us shape the product.
Early access users get hands-on access and a setup experience designed to get your team running in days, not months.