Owners & founders
HR that runs while you're busy
Onboarding, e-signatures, training and employee records in one place, run by you or someone you trust.
- AI suggests each new hire's steps for your state
- Offers e-signed by you and the new hire at the same time
- Hand HR to a colleague and keep billing and roles yourself
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When every hire still runs through you
Offers wait for your signature, the rules are yours to know, and handing HR off feels like handing over the business.
Set it up once, then step back
AI drafts each new hire's plan, a colleague runs it day to day, and you sign what matters.
- Let AI draft the planAI suggests steps for the role, and you keep the ones you want.
- Make a colleague HRInvite a colleague as HR, or promote an employee in User Roles.
- Sign what mattersCountersign each offer at the same time as the new hire.
See FirstHR your way
Click through it, watch it, or get a demo of just the parts you need.
Product tour
Short click-through tours of onboarding, documents, training, your team and what employees see. No signup.
Demo videos
Short videos of each job in FirstHR, start to finish.
Your own demo
Tell us what you need and get a playlist of just those clips.
Keep the final say without doing all the work
Your HR colleague does the work. You see where every hire stands, on the same screens.
What you want to knowOn your ownWith FirstHR
Has the new hire signed their offer?On your own: Ask around, search the inboxSignature Tracking shows who still has to sign
Where is each new hire?On your own: Ask around on MondayOnboarding Tracking shows each stage and what's overdue
Who skipped the training?On your own: A spreadsheet, if anyone keeps oneTraining Tracking shows who hasn't started and every missed deadline in red
Whose license has lapsed?On your own: You find out when it's a problemThe person's file shows Needs Attention
Is the new policy right for our state?On your own: Guess, or wait for a lawyerRun the AI check for your states, as a first pass
The colleague you hand HR to, set up once
An example plan for the HR representative who will run hiring with you. Save it once, and the next person in the role starts from it.
Hand off the work, keep the keys
Give a colleague the HR role. The plan, billing and roles stay with you.
YouMain Admin
TobyHR
RyanEmployee- People and departments
- Onboarding, documents, training and tasksTheir own
- Invite new people as Employee or HR
- The plan, billing and cardsView only
- The company profileView only
- Change anyone's role
- Remove someone for good
- The Main Admin's position, department and manager
Hiring deadlines and records the law sets
Two deadlines when you hire, and two rules for how long to keep records after someone leaves.
When you hire
- business daysForm I-9, Section 2Examine the new hire's documents and complete Section 2 within three business days of their first day of work.
- daysNew hire reportReport each new hire to the state within 20 days. Your state can set a shorter deadline.
After they leave
- yearKeep personnel recordsWith 15 or more employees, keep each record a year after it's made, and the file of anyone you let go a year from the day they leave.
- years from hire, or 1 after leavingKeep the I-9Three years after the hire, or one year after they leave, whichever is later.
Reviews
"Solid app with a ton of features that cover all HR needs. I'm impressed by how well the app is organized and how easy it is to navigate."
Iskandar ChacraHead of Engineering, Ultraspeaking"FirstHR centralises every HR process, from hiring to firing, in a sleek and user-friendly interface. Especially noteworthy is its modern design."
Daniel RödlerCo-founder, Octomind"There are many HR tools out there but firstHR manages to combine lots of features into one package very well and all with an affordable price tag."
Johnberg ArslanCo-founder, AppManagerFirstHR in the press
A free trial with no strings attached
When the 7 days are up, the trial simply stops. There's no card on file, so nothing renews and there's nothing to cancel.
Do I need a card to start?No.
Will you charge me when the trial ends?No.
Will you move me to a paid plan?No.
Will someone push me into a sales call?No.
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- No credit card
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A note from the founderNick AnisimovFounder of FirstHR
You started a business to build something, not to spend Sunday nights on offer letters and new-hire forms. But every hire still goes through you, because you're the only one who knows how it's done, and you don't want to lose control. I run a company too, so I know that feeling. In FirstHR you set up each role's plan once and hand the day-to-day to someone you trust. They do the work. You keep the billing, the roles and the final signature.
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Questions from owners and founders
Nothing is charged, since the 7-day trial starts without a card, and nothing is deleted. Its 3 seats fit you, your HR colleague and one new hire. Until you pick a plan, you and anyone with the HR role can open only Settings, Support and Subscription, and only you can choose the plan. Employees keep access to their own portal.
Team is $98 a month, or $980 a year, for up to 10 people. Business is $198 a month, or $1,980 a year, for up to 50. Every person in the workspace counts, you and your HR colleague included, and every feature comes with both plans. Above 50 people, ask for an Enterprise quote on the pricing page.
Your HR colleague invites them from My Team, and each one sets a password from the email and takes a seat. The papers you already have go into each person's file with Upload Document, marked as signed, and licenses get their expiry dates. Anything everyone should sign now, like a current handbook, goes out with Send for Signature.
Yes. The HR role opens everyone's records, documents and training in the company, yours included. HR can't change your position, department or manager, can't change anyone's role and can't delete people permanently.
Yes. In Send for Signature, choose Multiple Signers and add yourself as an additional signer. You and the new hire are asked at the same time. Everyone who signs needs a FirstHR account, so invite the new hire first: the open invite takes a seat, and you can send the letter once they accept.
Every task inside an onboarding, yes: you see it on that onboarding's Checklist in Onboarding Tracking, with its status. Other tasks show in Tasks only for the person who gave them and the person who got them, and that holds for the Main Admin too. To follow something yourself, create the task and assign it: you get an email when it's marked done.
Hand the Main Admin role to the person taking over. In User Roles, press Change Role next to them, or Add Administrator if they aren't an admin yet, choose Main Admin, tick the box and press Transfer Main Admin. You become HR at that moment and can't take the role back yourself; only the new Main Admin can give it back.
Your new hire completes Section 1 of Form I-9 and you or your HR colleague complete Section 2, the way the government requires, and the new-hire report goes to your state. FirstHR keeps both from slipping: the I-9 steps sit in the plan's First Day, and the state report goes to your HR colleague as a task with a deadline. Before a plan launches, the optional Compliance Review flags an I-9 item that is missing or scheduled too late, as a first pass, not legal advice.
Teams like yours
Other people who run HR, and the company stages where the owner usually does it.
Set up your next hire and keep the final say
Onboarding, e-signatures, training and records, run by you or someone you trust. Sign-up takes a couple of minutes.
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