Holly is for the point where a spreadsheet has started to wobble, but a heavyweight workforce suite still feels like too much. We are building the everyday HR core for small UK teams — and showing the working as we go.
Public early access · signing up verifies your email and lets you create a workspace immediately
Part-time patterns, starter dates, leave clashes, private files and payroll hand-offs matter at 8, 18 or 40 people. The work is already too important for loose rows and private inboxes.
That does not mean every small team needs recruitment, performance, rota, payroll, advice and learning in one procurement exercise. Holly is being built for the useful middle: a dependable core without pretending to be the whole workforce stack.
See the connected coreValues are cheap on an About page. These ones are tied to behaviour a buyer can inspect.
Effective-dated working-pattern assignments and calculated leave duration sit behind a straightforward request.
Inspect working patternsFree is £0 up to 10 active profiles. Standard is £2 per active profile each month before applicable taxes.
Calculate the priceA System Admin can prepare 14 named CSV areas and eligible uploaded files, with manifests recording what was included or skipped.
Check the export boundarySmall-team software still holds sensitive records and decisions. We want an employee to finish the ordinary job quickly, while the operator can trust the history, permissions and edge cases underneath it.
For the founder choosing a young company, the commercial rule, current boundary and exit path should be visible before a sales conversation.
The working product is real and workspace creation is self-service. The company, assurance evidence and customer history are still younger.
Use your work email or Google account and complete verification.
Choose the organisation name and workspace address yourself.
Add people directly or import a supported spreadsheet.
Contact Paul for a focused walkthrough or migration question.
Public signup creates a verified account and workspace immediately.
Early access should narrow the promise, not turn every unfinished idea into a public commitment.
Short answers about ownership, access, contact and the product behind the page.
Holly is built in London by Paul Gould and a small founder-led team. Paul has spent more than 25 years running small businesses. He started Holly because HR software for small teams had become too complicated, too expensive and too hard to leave. Product, migration, security and privacy questions go directly to the people building it. HollyHR is a trading name of Holly Software Limited, registered in England and Wales.
The public site and working core product are live in public early access. Signing up verifies your email and lets you create a workspace immediately.
After verifying your email, you can create a workspace immediately. The founders remain available for a focused conversation or product walkthrough; no approval is required.
No. People records, leave, documents, onboarding and reports work without AI. The API and developer-preview MCP are optional technical routes, not the identity of the product.
Read the published security posture, Data Processing Agreement and sub-processor register; inspect pricing and the bounded organisation-export contract; then use the contact route for a specific security, privacy or migration question.
Start free, ask for a focused walkthrough, or check the security and exit path before you do either.
Signing up verifies your email and lets you create a workspace immediately