Directory
The "who works here, who reports to whom" page
Photo, role, department, location, manager. Click anyone to see who reports to them. No 1990s org-chart PDF — a live, filterable directory the whole team can search.
Nexus Team & HR
BetaHR your team actually needs. Nothing more.
A directory, a leave workflow, an onboarding checklist. That's 90% of the HR a 5-50 person team needs — and it's the 90% that turns into a doomed Notion page if you don't put it in a real tool.
$12 / user / mo · included in the Suite · 7-day trial of every product
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Directory — managers, reports, departments, locations
2-tap
Leave: request → approve, with notifications
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Per-module surcharges. Onboarding is included.
Why it feels different
HR tools are either a lifeless spreadsheet or a quarter-million-dollar HRIS.
There is a missing rung — the lightweight, opinionated tool a 12-person team actually needs. Nexus Team & HR is that rung. Directory, leave, onboarding checklists, and the basic compliance bones. You graduate to an HRIS when you're a 200-person company; until then, this is enough.
The lifecycle
Hire → Onboard → Manage → Offboard.
Four steps, four words. From the moment someone signs the offer to the moment they hand back the laptop, the same tool carries the workflow.
01
Hire
Add a record with name, email, role, manager, start date. Send an invite when the day comes — they magic-link in and the directory lights up.
02
Onboard
Pick a checklist template (or write a fresh one). Tasks assign to people: laptop to IT, payroll setup to ops, intro coffees to manager. Each task has a due date and a checkbox.
03
Manage
Day-to-day. Leave requests, manager approvals, department changes, role updates, custom fields if you need them. The directory is the source of truth across the workspace.
04
Offboard
A leave-the-company checklist mirrors the onboarding one — laptop returned, accounts revoked, exit chat, final paycheck flag. Archive the record; the history stays.
The good parts
Ten ideas that make the difference.
Leave requests
Two taps: request, approve
Pick dates and a reason, submit. Manager gets a notification. Approve or deny inline; balance updates automatically. The team's availability calendar updates with the green/grey blocks.
Onboarding checklists
Templates, assignees, due dates
A new-hire checklist can have 20 items spread across IT, ops, and the hiring manager. Each task assigns to the right person on the right day; nobody forgets the laptop ticket.
Departments & locations
Tags, not org charts
Departments and locations are tags on a person, not a hierarchy you have to maintain. Filter the directory by either; report on headcount by either; promote without re-org charts.
Custom fields
Add the field, do not summon a consultant
Need to track t-shirt size, dietary restrictions, GitHub handle, or a contractor end-date? Add a custom field, fill it in, query it. No "module activation" or "field configuration tier".
Documents
Offer letters, NDAs, policies — attached to the person
Upload via Nexus Files and they live on the employee record, scoped to the right people. The new hire signs through Nexus Documents; the signed copy is attached automatically.
Birthdays & anniversaries
A small kindness, automated
A weekly digest to managers (and optionally a #celebrations channel via Webhook) for upcoming birthdays and work anniversaries. The kind of thing nobody remembers, that everyone remembers being remembered for.
Calendar
Time off, in one place
Approved leave drops into a team calendar — see who's out next week without DM-ing four people. Optional iCal feed your team can subscribe to from their own calendar.
Approval workflow
Manager approves; finance is on the loop
Leave > $X/day or > N consecutive days can require a second approver. Set the rule once; the workflow handles it. No manual "did you copy finance?" Slack messages.
Permissions
HR sees salary; nobody else does
Field-level visibility — the directory is public to the workspace, salary is HR-only, custom fields can be flagged "private". You decide who sees what without architecting a separate database.
Directory
The page everyone opens on day one.
Photo, role, manager, "say hi to me about". The new hire opens it on Monday and learns the team in 5 minutes. The 4-year veteran opens it to find the person in product who owns onboarding flow. It's the most-loaded page in your workspace, and it's where Nexus Team & HR earns its keep.
Leave
A workflow that respects everyone's time.
Submit in 10 seconds, approve in 2, see availability in a glance. Leave shows up on the team calendar, in the manager's notifications, and on the person's record — without anyone copying anything to a spreadsheet labelled "Master_PTO_FINAL_v3.xlsx".
What you won't find
The things we left out — on purpose.
A 12-person team does not need an HRIS. Here's what we deliberately won't ship.
No payroll engine.
Payroll is a regulated, country-specific beast — and you have a payroll provider who is great at it. Nexus exports the numbers payroll needs (hours, leave, headcount changes); we don't pretend to compute paychecks.
No 360-review bloat.
Performance reviews in a 12-person team are a conversation, not a quarterly form. We don't ship the 47-question self-assessment template. If you outgrow that, you've outgrown this product.
No per-module HR pricing.
Benefits, leave, directory, onboarding — they're all part of the seat. We don't carve out "Leave Management" as a $4/employee/month upsell on top of "Core HR".
No rigid org-chart enforcement.
Departments are tags, not a hierarchy. Promote, restructure, run a flat team — the directory adapts. You don't maintain the org chart; the org chart is whatever your data already says.
Connected
How Nexus Team & HR fits the rest of Nexus.
Your team is the workforce behind every quote, ticket, and invoice. Nexus Team & HR shares the same workspace as Time Tracking, Helpdesk, and the Knowledge Base — so the person tracking time, answering tickets, and writing the runbook is, in the system, the same person.
Try Nexus Team & HR free for 7 days.
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