Introducing HollyHR: small-team HR without the small print.
We built the HR system we wanted small UK teams to have: calm to use, honest about its limits and easy to leave.
Why build another HR product?
Because small teams still face a bad choice: run sensitive people admin in spreadsheets, or buy a system whose price, modules and exit path become harder to understand as the company grows.
HollyHR starts with a smaller promise and takes it seriously: accurate core records, leave and sickness, documents, working patterns, self-service, bounded export and governed developer access.
What matters
Simple is a product decision
We remove admin and explain calculations before adding another module tile.
Fair means predictable
Free covers up to 10 active people; Standard is £2 per active person with no whole-account band jump.
Trust includes the exit
A System Admin can create a bounded organisation archive with 26 manifest datasets and eligible files, subject to visible file and archive limits.
What is actually shipped?
The core HR product covers people and employment records, departments and locations, leave, sickness, who's away, documents, onboarding, working patterns, employee self-service and bounded organisation export. Developer access is an organisation-scoped REST API in beta, signed webhooks and a hosted MCP in developer preview; their read, plan and write controls are documented separately.
What are we not pretending?
We do not yet have the incumbent trust history, native integration marketplace, custom report builder or Plus workforce modules. We publish those boundaries because good early-access customers deserve a product truth, not a launch adjective.
Questions people ask
Who is HollyHR for?
HollyHR is for UK small teams that need dependable core HR without a heavyweight rollout or opaque price bands.
Is HollyHR open for signup?
HollyHR is in early access and accepting self-service teams. Start free to tell us about your team.
Who is behind Holly?
Holly is built in London by Paul Gould and a small founder-led team. Paul has more than 25 years of experience running small businesses. Product, migration, security and privacy questions go directly to the people building it.
Proper HR, without the big-system palaver.
HollyHR is free for up to 10 active people. We're accepting self-service early-access teams.
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