Make open-source HR simple: hosted, AI automation, and analytics

Make open-source HR simple: hosted, AI automation, and analytics targets a $18.0B = 12M businesses × $1.5K ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% YoY (source: Grand View Research and multiple HR tech market reports averaging 10-15% annual growth).

Key trends driving demand: AI-driven automation — LLMs enable resume triage, policy drafting, and natural-language HR assistants that reduce manual work in HR teams.; Cloud and managed services adoption — SMBs prefer hosted solutions to avoid IT overhead, creating an opportunity for managed open-source offerings.; People analytics demand — HR teams increasingly want actionable benchmarks and dashboards, creating value for anonymized aggregated datasets.; Integration-first HR stacks — companies expect HRIS to connect with payroll, ATS, calendar, and collaboration tools, so pre-built integrations are a differentiator..