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Roadmap

What's shipping
before we say it is.

Most HR vendors publish a roadmap that's really a wish-list that never moves. Ours has three lanes and one rule: anything in Now has an owner and an ETA; anything in Next is scoped; anything in Later is on the radar but not committed.

Now

4

In flight this quarter (Q2 2026)

  • MCP server (read-only)

    agents

    A Model Context Protocol server exposing employees, commesse, timesheets, expenses and payroll runs as resources. Enables Claude/Copilot/Cursor to ground on your tenant data.

  • Self-host Helm chart v1.0

    self-host

    Production-grade Helm chart with external Postgres, Redis, S3-compatible storage, and sealed-secrets integration. Today it's a reference Compose; v1.0 is what we deploy ourselves.

  • OpenAPI 3.1 spec + generated SDKs

    api

    The REST API as a single source-of-truth spec. Auto-generated TS, Python and Go clients drop on every merge — no more drift.

  • Webhook delivery service

    ecosystem

    Dedicated delivery queue with HMAC signing, exponential backoff (72h), replay from dashboard, and partial-failure dead-letter. Replaces the current in-process fan-out.

Next

5

Scoped for Q3 2026

  • Module standalone billing

    modular

    Enable just Money, just People or just Work in the product — billing, seat counts and feature flags all module-aware. Back-end scoping already there; UI + Stripe wiring remaining.

  • Real OAuth for Slack / Google / Okta

    ecosystem

    Replace the mock OAuth handshake in Settings → Integrations with the actual flows. Tokens stored in a KMS-wrapped vault.

  • Commessa Forecast v2 with cash-flow projection

    money

    Layer cash-in/cash-out on top of the current utilisation forecast. Scenario sliders move payroll, hiring, and collection dates together.

  • Native iOS + Android apps

    mobile

    Native shells around the PWA with biometric unlock and background sync for expense photos. Ships via App Store / Play Store; PWA remains the default.

  • Multi-entity + group payroll

    money

    Run payroll across multiple legal entities under one workspace. Ops-intensive compliance surface — worth doing right rather than fast.

Later

5

On the radar for Q4 2026 and beyond

  • Agent-native workflows (write actions via MCP)

    agents

    Once the read-only MCP server has settled, extend to write actions — approve expense, book leave, draft offer letter. Gated behind explicit per-tool permissions.

  • BYO-LLM for anomaly detection

    ai

    Optional plug-in: route expense/timesheet anomalies through your own Azure OpenAI or Bedrock tenant. No data leaves your network.

  • Marketplace SDK for community modules

    ecosystem

    A packaging format (think VS Code extensions) for third-party modules distributed on GitHub. Each module declares permissions up front.

  • SCIM for inbound user provisioning

    enterprise

    Not just outbound identity federation — let enterprises push employee lifecycle events into Pulse from Okta / Entra ID / JumpCloud.

  • Deeper EU payroll (AT, BE, PT, PL, SE)

    money

    We natively cover 8 countries; these five are the most asked about. Roadmap rather than commitment — each one is 6+ months of compliance work.

Things we are deliberately not doing.

Every product becomes what it chooses to say no to. Here are the temptations we've said no to, with reasons you can argue with.

  • Closed-source enterprise edition with extra features. No.
  • Per-API-call pricing for the REST API. Included on every tier.
  • LLM-generated "AI Copilot" in place of the local intent parser. Reliability > marketing.
  • 50-country in-house payroll — we'll partner with EORs for the long tail instead.

Influence the order.

The lane ordering inside Next and Later is driven by signal — 👍 reactions on GitHub issues, customer meetings, and depth of dependency in the codebase. The loudest way to move something is to open an issue, describe your context, and invite +1s.

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