Autessa Homebase · HRIS
The HRIS your whole company actually opens.
Autessa Homebase is an all-in-one HRIS and people operations app: employee records and an org chart, PTO and leave management, performance reviews and OKRs, onboarding and offboarding, policy acknowledgment and training, with an AI HR assistant that works the way you do. Use it out of the box on day one, then shape the fields, policies, checklists and look to how your company works, right inside Autessa.
- HRIS
- PTO tracking
- Performance reviews
- OKRs
- Onboarding
- Policy acknowledgment
- LMS
What is Autessa Homebase?
A human resources information system, built around the people in it.
An HRIS is the system of record for everyone who works at a company. Autessa Homebase is that record, plus the everyday HR work that runs on it: time off, reviews, goals, onboarding, policies, trainings and benefits. Every employee has a Home, every manager gets their team, and HR gets a workspace where the rules are enforced on the server, not hoped for.
One record per person
Colleagues see the directory side; the person and HR see the rest. Every module reads the same record.
Dated, not overwritten
Job changes take effect on a date and land in job history, so last year’s org chart is still true.
Private by default
Pay, reviews, reasons for time off and personal details are shown only to the people who need them.
Ready on day one
Starter policies, checklists, trainings and handbook drafts install with setup, ready to make your own.
What makes it different
The parts other HR tools leave to spreadsheets.
Homebase is a full HRIS, and it goes further where people operations usually breaks down: dates, privacy, promotions, compliance evidence and the handoff to IT.
Effective-dated job changes
Autessa Homebase records every job change with the date it takes effect; future-dated changes apply themselves on the day, and everything lands in job history.
Google Calendar and Outlook sync
Autessa Homebase puts a blocking out-of-office event on your own calendar and a non-blocking invite on your team’s, from your own Google or Outlook account.
AI-assisted review writing
Autessa Homebase can draft a review from the person’s goals and feedback when the writer clicks, and labels the answer as drafted with the assistant.
Promotion management
Autessa Homebase writes every promotion case against the job ladder, routes it through an approval chain, and tells the person only when HR applies it.
Health insurance census
Autessa Homebase builds the health insurance census a broker asks for as an Excel file, exported only by the data owner and logged every time.
IT provisioning with IT Desk
Autessa Homebase opens an Autessa IT Desk request for every IT onboarding or offboarding step and closes the step when IT resolves it.
Apps and access
Autessa Homebase shows everyone against every Autessa app, with their role in each, and lets an HR administrator change it from one grid.
Interactive course builder
Autessa Homebase has its own course builder and player, with interactive screens, roleplays and a graded final check that completes the training on a pass.
Vanta compliance sync
Autessa Homebase syncs with Vanta: approved policies come in each morning, training completions go back each day, and acceptance exports are hashed and logged.
AI HR assistant
Autessa Homebase has an AI HR assistant that acts with your own access and asks you to confirm before approving, releasing or changing anything important.
HR roles, permissions and privacy
Autessa Homebase decides every read and write on the server by role and reporting line, with switches for who sees pay and reviews.
Effective-dated everything
Changes that apply themselves on the day.
- Title, level, department, manager and location
- Joining soon becomes Active on the start date
- Leaving becomes Left on the last day
Promotions
A promotion case written against the ladder.
Apps and access
Every person against every Autessa app.
Product tour
Every part of people operations, one Home.
A walk through each area of Homebase, from the record of who works here to the trainings auditors ask about.
HRIS and employee records
A directory and org chart everyone can use.
- Employee records with private personal details
- CSV import with a full preview
- Departments, teams, locations, levels and positions
PTO and leave management
Time off that counts the days for you.
- Annual grants, monthly accrual or unlimited PTO
- Carryover, caps, notice and half days
- Google Calendar and Outlook
Who’s out
The team calendar shows when, never why.
Performance management
Reviews, OKRs and 1:1s that feed each other.
- Self, manager, peer and upward reviews
- Anonymous peer feedback
- Calibration before release
Calibration
Fair ratings, compared side by side.
Onboarding and offboarding
Every joiner and leaver gets a dated checklist.
Learning, policies and compliance
An LMS with courses people finish.
Policy acknowledgment
One policy, one acknowledgment, one record.
Employee self-service and AI
An HR assistant that acts as you, and asks first.
Calendar sync
Out of office, from your own calendar.
Every screen
Built for employees, managers and HR at once.
One app, three experiences. Each person sees the sections their role uses, and the server decides what data each page receives.
For every employee
The self-service side: everything about your own work life, on one Home.
- Home
- My profile
- My time off
- Request time off
- My reviews
- My goals
- 1:1s
- Feedback and praise
- My onboarding
- My learning
- Interactive courses
- Policies to confirm
- Review my policies
- My documents
- Benefits
- My requests
- Apps and resources
- Announcements
- Knowledge
- Directory
- Org chart
- Team calendar
- Notifications
- Assistant
For managers
Anyone with people reporting to them gets a manager’s view automatically. No setup.
- My team
- Time off to approve
- Team calendar
- Team reviews
- Team goals
- 1:1 series
- Nominate for promotion
- Promotion decisions
- Onboarding for my team
- Assign and waive trainings
- Open positions
- Manager guides
For HR and leaders
The HR workspace: records, cycles, policies, reports and settings, scoped by role.
- People records
- Add a person
- Import people
- Job changes
- Departments and teams
- Locations
- Job levels
- Pay review
- Pay bands
- Promotions board
- Health insurance census
- Review cycles
- Review templates
- Calibration
- All goals
- Time-off policies
- Balances and ledger
- Holidays
- Onboarding and offboarding
- Checklist templates
- Learning admin
- Course builder
- Trainings
- Benefit catalog
- Acknowledgements report
- Articles and categories
- Reader feedback
- Employee documents
- Reports and dashboards
- HR roles
- Custom fields
- Apps and access
- Vanta compliance
- IT Desk
- Branding
- Setup
Everything in Homebase
All of people operations, mapped.
Each area has its own page, and each feature its own deep dive.
HRIS and employee records →
Autessa Homebase is a human resources information system (HRIS) that keeps one record per person, with a directory and org chart everyone can use and private details only HR sees.
PTO and leave management →
Autessa Homebase handles PTO and leave management end to end: policies that accrue, requests that count working days, approvals, a who’s-out calendar and calendar sync.
Performance management →
Autessa Homebase runs performance reviews, calibration, OKRs, 1:1s and feedback in one place, so every review has the goals and feedback behind it.
Promotions, pay and benefits →
Autessa Homebase manages promotions, compensation bands and benefits with pay kept private by default: dashboards show counts, never amounts.
Onboarding and offboarding →
Autessa Homebase turns every hire and every departure into a dated checklist with an owner for each step, and connects IT steps to Autessa IT Desk.
Learning, policies and compliance →
Autessa Homebase includes a learning management system (LMS), policy acknowledgment and a handbook, with the completion evidence auditors ask for.
Employee self-service and HR workspace →
Autessa Homebase gives every employee a self-service Home and every HR team a workspace with reports, an AI assistant and permissions enforced on the server.
How it works
From sign-up to everyone on Home.
Homebase installs with sensible starter content, so you are editing, not building from a blank page.
Run the guided setup
Claim the HR administrator seat, add your branding and HR team, and install starter time-off policies, holidays, checklists, a review template, trainings, benefits and handbook drafts. Add demo data if you want to explore first.
Bring your people in
Import everyone from a CSV, with managers matched by work email so the whole org chart comes from one file, or add people one at a time with onboarding started in the same step.
Make the rules yours
Rewrite the handbook templates, set accrual and carryover, edit the onboarding steps and the review questions, and choose who sees pay and reviews.
Everyone starts on Home
Each person sees the cards for their role: balances, approvals waiting, reviews to write, steps that are theirs, trainings due and policies to confirm.
Use cases
For HR teams of one, and teams of twenty.
How HR administrators, HR partners, managers, executives and employees use Homebase, and how it fits startups, growing companies, distributed teams and compliance-heavy businesses.
See use cases →
Integrations
Calendars, Vanta, IT Desk and every Autessa app.
Google Calendar and Outlook for time off, Vanta for policies and training evidence, Autessa IT Desk for provisioning and benefit requests, Roleplay for practice, and CSV and Excel in and out.
See integrations →
Security and privacy
Who sees what is decided on the server.
Role and reporting-line rules for every page, search and assistant answer; write-only Social Security numbers; logged census exports; a full audit history.
See security →
Comparing HRIS options
Evaluating Rippling, BambooHR, HiBob, Lattice or Gusto?
Fair, factual comparisons of how Autessa Homebase handles each job people teams evaluate.
FAQ
Questions people ask about Homebase
What is Autessa Homebase?
Autessa Homebase is an HRIS (human resources information system) and people operations app. It holds employee records, the directory and org chart, PTO and leave, performance reviews, OKRs, 1:1s, promotions and pay bands, onboarding and offboarding, policy acknowledgment, training and a handbook, with an AI HR assistant built in.
Does Autessa have an HRIS?
Yes. Autessa Homebase is Autessa’s HRIS. It keeps one record per person with effective-dated job history, custom fields with field-level privacy, departments, teams, locations, levels and positions, and every other HR module reads from that record.
Can Autessa Homebase track PTO accruals?
Yes. Each time-off policy grants days each year, earns them monthly, or has no set limit (unlimited PTO), with carryover, maximum balances, notice periods and half days. Every change is written to a ledger and balances are recalculated every night.
Does Autessa Homebase run performance reviews?
Yes. HR builds a review cycle in four steps, then self, manager, peer and upward reviews are written against a template with a labeled rating scale. HR follows progress, calibrates ratings, releases reviews, and employees acknowledge them with a comment.
Does Autessa Homebase support OKRs?
Yes. Goals can be company, department, team or personal, linked by what they support, with key results, progress and on track, at risk or off track status. People check in every few weeks and get a monthly reminder.
How does onboarding work in Autessa Homebase?
Adding a person can start their onboarding checklist in the same step. The checklist is built from a template, and each step belongs to HR, the manager, a buddy, IT or the new hire, with a due date counted from the start day. Owners are emailed and see the step on Home. If you ask it to, an Autessa agent can also call or email a new hire about a step that is still waiting.
Does Autessa Homebase include an LMS?
Yes. Homebase has a learning management system with a training catalog, automatic assignment for new joiners, yearly renewals, overdue tracking and reminders, an interactive course builder with a graded final check, and a SOC 2 evidence export.
Can employees acknowledge policies in Autessa Homebase?
Yes. Publishing a policy that asks for confirmation asks everyone it is for. Each person reads it and presses I have read this; Homebase records the version and date, sends reminders, and HR exports the acknowledgment report as CSV.
How does Autessa Homebase work with payroll?
Homebase works alongside your payroll provider. It keeps pay records, pay bands, pay history and a health insurance census, and links to your payroll and benefits portals from the app launcher, while your provider runs pay and payroll taxes.
Does Homebase work with my time-tracking and benefits tools?
Yes. Link them from the Homebase app launcher so everyone reaches them from Home, while Homebase keeps the benefits catalog, benefit requests and the health insurance census.
Does Autessa Homebase work out of the box?
Yes. Guided setup installs starter time-off policies, holidays, checklists, a review template, trainings and handbook drafts, so your people can use Homebase the same day. From there you tailor it in Autessa: custom fields and who sees them, accrual rules, onboarding steps, review questions, approval chains, the HR assistant and your branding.
Who can see salaries and reviews in Autessa Homebase?
Each person sees their own pay and released reviews. HR sees everyone’s. Executives see pay unless HR turns that off, and managers see their team’s pay only if HR turns it on. The server enforces these rules on every page, search and assistant answer, and dashboards show counts, never amounts.
Does Autessa Homebase work on phones?
Yes. Homebase is a responsive web app: the directory becomes cards, the org chart an indented list, the team calendar a list by day, and requesting time off is a single phone-first column.
100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa Homebase fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
Start free and make it yours