Employee & HR Management
Build a compensation and payroll analytics tool
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe your compensation and payroll analytics tool, and it builds register imports, bands, manager worksheets, equity views, and exception logs.
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What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t a payroll provider or enterprise HR suite — it’s an AI app builder that builds software for you.
You describe the internal tool you need in your own words, and Kliv builds the real app: the database, imports, calculations, screens, reports, and access rules. You own it, run it on your own accounts, and change it later by asking. It is not a template.
On this page, that app is a compensation analytics tool for payroll imports, bands, merit worksheets, equity views, and decision logs. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one.
Why build your own compensation analytics tool?
Henrike runs People Ops at a 240-person electronics manufacturer with two plants of hourly assembly and a floor of salaried engineers. Questions arrive all year: whether second shift is underpaid, what a 4% pool buys, and which exceptions need explanation. The answers sit in a payroll export that should not be emailed and a workbook with one owner.
Large compensation tools are built for much bigger companies. Kliv builds the right-sized internal tool: register imports, bands, worksheets, equity views, and written reasons in one database, with salary access enforced per row.
What the numbers sit on
The tool keeps the records needed to run a compensation cycle carefully.
Register import
Each pay cycle export is validated before rows land. Pay codes are mapped, totals reconciled, and rejects report line numbers.
Comp bands
Minimum, midpoint, and maximum are stored by level and role family. Each salary gets a compa-ratio when the register lands.
Merit worksheet
Each manager sees their own team, budget, and proposals. The worksheet stops at the edge of that team because the database enforces the org chart.
Equity view
Gaps by level, band position, and shift are computed the same way every cycle, so trends are comparable.
Decision log
Off-band offers, retention adjustments, and exceptions keep a written reason, date, and owner for next year’s questions.
An example: Henrike’s merit cycle
Here’s how one People Ops team might use it. It’s only an example — you would describe your own register, bands, managers, budgets, and approval rules.
The register imports cleanly
Henrike opens the cycle by importing the payroll register. Bands refresh, compa-ratios recompute, and the equity view is current before meetings start.
Managers see only their teams
Worksheets open for every manager. The Brno plant manager sees her team and budget; the engineering lead sees his team and budget.
An exception requires a reason
A test engineer’s proposal is above band maximum. The worksheet accepts it only with a written reason, which becomes part of the decision log.
HR checks equity before sign-off
Henrike reads gaps by level and shift, comparing this cycle with the last four. The numbers are computed the same way for everyone.
Letters use approved numbers
Approved changes merge into company templates. Each manager receives only the letters for their own people.
The cycle keeps its history
When the next cycle starts, Henrike can answer why an off-band decision happened because the reason is still attached.
Describe the compensation tool you want
Kliv builds from your description, so include imports, roles, bands, formulas, worksheets, approvals, and what must be logged.
Merit cycle workbench
Budgets, manager proposals, exceptions, and HR approval.
“Build a merit-cycle tool for our 240-person company. Set a 4% raise budget per department, let managers propose increases for their own teams only, require written reasons for off-band proposals, and route final approval to HR.”
Pay equity dashboard
Register imports and cycle-over-cycle gaps.
“Build a pay-equity dashboard that imports our payroll register every month, compares salaries by level, role family, site, and shift, and shows gaps cycle over cycle with filters limited by HR role.”
Overtime cost monitor
Weekly payroll export and Monday digest.
“Build an overtime analytics tool that reads our weekly payroll export, validates pay codes and totals, shows overtime by production line, shift, and week, and emails each plant manager a Monday digest for their own plant.”
Small audience, sensitive numbers
Access is the design constraint. A merit worksheet is not a passworded spreadsheet. It is rows that answer only to the right login. Managers read their teams, HR reads the whole register, and band definitions can be shared separately.
Recurring reports run on a schedule. The Monday overtime digest and quarter-end compensation summary can be generated from the latest import on a set rhythm.
This kind of tool is judged by how few people can open it, and how exactly that list matches the policy. The tools companies build for themselves make Kliv’s case for small, exact internal tools.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI app builder that builds custom web apps from a description. For compensation analytics, it builds the internal tool around your imports, bands, worksheets, reports, and access rules.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. Kliv builds your database, calculations, screens, validations, and role rules.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. You can add a new report, change a band structure, add an approval step, or adjust import rules later.
Is this a payroll system?
No. Payroll stays where it runs today. This tool reads the register your provider exports and answers analytics questions payroll systems often do not.
Who can see salary data?
Exactly who you allow. Managers can be scoped to their own teams, HR can see all rows, and other roles can be limited further.
Does Kliv price by headcount?
No. Employee rows live in your database. Kliv does not price the app by your headcount.
How does data get in?
You can upload a register export or schedule a function to fetch it. Either way, validation can check pay codes, totals, and rejected lines.
Can managers work in their own worksheets?
Yes. Each manager can see a worksheet scoped to their team and budget, with proposals routed to HR.
Can exceptions require written reasons?
Yes. Off-band offers or proposals can require a reason before submission and keep that reason in a decision log.
Can scheduled reports email managers?
Yes. Digests can be generated on a schedule and scoped to the manager’s permitted rows.
Can I move off Kliv later?
Yes. The code syncs to your own Git repository, so leaving is a git pull.
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Build the compensation cycle around your rules
Describe the register, bands, worksheets, approval rules, and who may see each number. Kliv builds the internal tool around that policy.
