Humaans
Best-in-class HRIS plus an Agentic AI Workforce that executes HR admin work end-to-end.
By Humaans Inc. · HQ London, UK · 4.8/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Growing companies that need a modern, consolidated system of record for people data
- People Ops teams automating onboarding, offboarding, comp reviews and approvals
- Global companies managing employees across dozens of countries and regions
- HR and Finance teams that need real-time headcount, attrition, tenure and salary-spend reporting
- Teams that want agentic AI and MCP-connected assistants to execute HR work under existing permissions
Ideal size: 100–5,000 people · Scale-up with an established People Ops function
Not for
- Companies that need payroll processing to be part of the HRIS itself
- Buyers who require published, self-serve list pricing before evaluating
- US public-sector or FedRAMP-constrained organisations
- Very small teams looking for a free, zero-implementation directory tool
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
A few days to a few months
~30 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Quoted by sales. Growth and Enterprise plans, plus paid add-on modules and a separate Athena agentic AI tier.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
No published seat tiers; plans are scoped to company size and needs.
Add-on costs
- Humaans AI Companion
- Performance Management
- Headcount and Compensation Planning
- DE&I Insights and Analytics
- Data Tables and Data Validation
- Athena agentic AI platform is a separate tier
Company & support
Who is behind Humaans, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2020 · 6 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- London, UK
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailPlan not stated
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsPlan not stated
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteEnterprise only
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Enterprise plan lists a dedicated customer success manager, dedicated training and priority support; migration and technical setup are handled by Humaans' Product Implementation team.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Humaans sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Humaans
- Tines
- LawVu
- HiBob
- Allwhere
- Siit
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Humaans. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
Ships an official MCP server. Connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors and Cursor out of the box.
AI & MCP readiness
What Humaans ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
AI Companion answers employee and admin questions from policies and documents, cites sources and builds data views in natural language. Athena adds pre-built agents, a natural-language agent builder and an audit log of all actions. Access is permission-scoped; no source states customer-supplied keys or named model providers.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Never trains on your data
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Paid add-on
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Official MCP server
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Full audit trail
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Humaans is a London-founded HRIS for growing companies, combining a people system of record with an agentic AI layer. Growth and Enterprise plans cover the directory, documents, absence, onboarding and offboarding, workflows, reporting and integrations, with paid add-ons for AI Companion, performance, compensation planning, DE&I analytics and data tables. The Athena agentic AI tier and an official MCP server let AI clients read and update people data under existing permissions. Pricing is quoted by sales and migration is managed by Humaans.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to get live on Humaans?
Humaans states setup can take from a few days to a few months, depending on your data readiness, integration needs, team distribution and policies. Its Product Implementation team manages the migration end to end, including custom configuration and technical setup, so the effort sits largely with the vendor rather than your People team.
Is there a public price list?
No. Growth and Enterprise tiers are both quoted through sales, and several capabilities are paid add-ons: Humaans AI Companion, Performance Management, Headcount and Compensation Planning, DE&I Insights, and Data Tables. The Athena agentic AI platform is sold as a separate tier. Budget for an annual subscription plus add-ons rather than a per-seat list price.
What security and compliance certifications does Humaans hold?
Humaans states SOC 2 Type 2 certification, ISO 27001:2022 certification and GDPR compliance, with infrastructure hosted in the EU on Google Cloud Platform, AES-256 encryption in transit and at rest, SSO via Google, Microsoft Entra and SAML 2.0, fine-grained role permissions and immutable, searchable audit logs.
Does Humaans use our employee data to train AI models?
The vendor states it does not use Customer Personal Data to train, improve or develop general-purpose AI or machine learning models, and that no data is sold to third parties. AI processing is permission-scoped and defaults to the EEA or Switzerland, with US processing available by agreement.
Can our AI assistants and agents access Humaans?
Yes. Humaans ships an official MCP server at mcp.humaans.ai/mcp that works with MCP-compatible clients such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Copilot Studio. Authentication is OAuth 2.0, access reuses your existing roles and permissions, and the MCP is included at no extra cost beyond the subscription.
How does Humaans fit our existing stack?
Humaans offers native Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 SSO and provisioning, Slack digests and pre-built integrations with Okta, Docusign, ATS tools (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Teamtailor), payroll providers (Remote, Oyster, Papaya, Multiplier), equity, expense and compliance tools, plus a market-leading API, webhooks and Zapier for custom connections.