Ship code, not paperwork
Onboarding, e-signatures, security training and records in one place, for engineers and technicians.
- Dev setup as tasks, so you see when each engineer is ready
- Invention agreements tracked until the last signature
- Security training signed off by each person, with the date
The tooling is set up. The paperwork isn't.
About 106,100 software developer and tester openings come up every year, and jobs are projected to grow 10% this decade.* Ask who signed what, and the answer is an old spreadsheet full of question marks. Nobody is sure what a new engineer should sign at all.
*Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Launch the engineer's plan before day one. The agreement, policies and setup tasks reach them wherever they work, and each result comes back to you.
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Agreements, policies and certifications on each engineer's file
A site reliability engineer's file: the invention agreement they signed with the CTO, this year's security policies, and the AWS certification that ran out last month.
Agreements, contractors and new hires, in one place
A first read of your invention agreement, contractors with their end dates, and where each new hire stands.
A first read of your invention agreement
Before engineers sign it, the AI compliance check reads it for your state and flags what to fix.
Contractors on the same system
Contractors sit next to your engineers, each with their signed agreement and contract end date.
Where each new hire stands
See what each new hire still has to do before they're fully set up.
A DevOps engineer's first weeks, set up once
An example plan for a DevOps engineer. Save it once, and the next hire in the role starts from it. Items marked (your video) or (your course) are built from your own material.
FirstHR fits every kind of tech company
Find your kind of company below, and the rules it has to keep for every person you hire.
Engineering, product, field technicians and contractors
Every team runs on one setup. What changes is the plan, what people sign and what sits in their file.
The states with their own invention rules, and what H-1B hires get
Ten states keep an engineer's own-time inventions out of the agreement, and five of them want a written notice when it's signed. Nevada goes the other way.
- CaliforniaOwn-time inventions excludedWritten notice at signing
- DelawareOwn-time inventions excluded
- IllinoisOwn-time inventions excludedWritten notice at signing
- KansasOwn-time inventions excludedWritten notice at signing
- MinnesotaOwn-time inventions excludedWritten notice at signing
- New JerseyOwn-time inventions excluded
- New YorkOwn-time inventions excluded
- North CarolinaOwn-time inventions excluded
- UtahOwn-time inventions excluded
- WashingtonOwn-time inventions excludedWritten notice at signing
- NevadaEmployer owns related inventions
- H-1B, E-3 and H-1B1 hires, in any stateLCA copy by day one
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In a software company, a new engineer gets access to your code on day one. The agreement that says their work belongs to you often gets signed weeks later, if at all. Then an investor or a buyer asks for it, and you're chasing people who left a year ago. I want that agreement signed before they write a single line of code. In FirstHR every new engineer signs it before day one. This year's security training is done too, with a date.
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