Humaans

Humaans is a London-headquartered software company that provides a human resources information system (HRIS) for globally distributed and growing organisations. The product acts as a system of record for people data and centralises the employee lifecycle — onboarding, offboarding, compensation reviews, performance management and related processes — for People Ops, Finance and IT teams. Core capabilities include configurable ("dynamic") databases that can be adapted to a company's structure, real-time bulk editing of employee records, collaborative workflows, and reporting on turnover, headcount changes, salary spend, absence and tenure.

Alongside the core HRIS, Humaans offers an agentic AI layer: AI agents intended to execute administrative work end to end, including on top of a customer's existing HRIS, and an AI Companion that answers employee questions about policies and documents, drafts documents for HR administrators and surfaces workforce insights. The platform connects to customers' wider tool stacks via an API, webhooks and pre-built integrations, and offers managed data migration and implementation services. Humaans states its platform is GDPR compliant and SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 certified, with granular permissions and audit logs.

The company was founded in 2020 by Giovanni Luperti (CEO, previously Director of Product Design at Qubit) and Karolis Narkevicius, who leads product engineering on a React/Node.js/Postgres/Redis/Kubernetes/GCP stack. It went through Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch.

Founding story

Founded in 2020 by Giovanni Luperti and Karolis Narkevicius to build an employee management platform for modern people teams, motivated by fundamental changes in how work is organised and by the gap between sophisticated business tools and elegant consumer experiences.

Business model

Humaans sells a B2B SaaS HRIS and AI agent product to companies, complemented by implementation, data migration and dedicated customer success support. Enterprise-oriented elements include advanced admin controls, security certifications and custom configuration.

Software-as-a-service sold to employers, positioned around HRIS subscription and an Agentic AI offering that can also be layered onto an existing HRIS.

Traction

Reported reductions of about 65% in ongoing administrative work and 55% in onboarding time, a 4.8 out of 5 G2 rating, a 99.3% satisfaction rate and support for 300+ global locations. The company serves customers in 28 countries, with those customers employing people across 106 countries, and had a team size of 48 with about 10 open roles.

Latest developments

The company markets an Agentic AI Workforce and AI Companion alongside its HRIS, publishes HR research including an AI & HR Readiness Report 2026, and is hiring engineering, engineering leadership and product design roles in London and remote Europe.