People ops for teams of 5 to 50

HR without the
HR energy.

Time off, onboarding, and the paperwork nobody wants to own. Mellow handles the boring half quietly, so your team can go back to forgetting HR exists.

Free for your first five people. No card, no demo call.

Three rounded clay figures with dot eyes standing together on a clay platform
Time off, approved
New hire, day one ready
Payroll, sent
Nobody had a meeting

Quietly running people ops at

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Time off

Request days off without a meeting about it

Pick your days. Mellow checks the balance, the coverage, and who else is out, then applies the rule you wrote once. Most requests never need to touch a person.

June 2026
You've got 14 days left this year.

Requests

2 this month
  • Ravi Jun 4 → Jun 5 · 2 days Approved
  • Sam Jun 17 → Jun 19 · 3 days Approved
Out this week 1 of 8
Ravi Thu, Fri

Nobody else is off. Coverage holds without moving anything.

Your rule: under 5 days, cover in place, more than 3 days notice. That clears on its own. Everything else lands in your inbox with the context already attached.

What's inside

It does the boring half

Mellow covers the parts of HR that are just admin wearing a lanyard. You keep the parts that need a human.

Day one, already done

An offer signed on Tuesday means laptop, logins, payroll, and a buddy assigned by Wednesday. The checklist runs itself and pings you only when something's actually stuck.

Triggers on offer signed

Papers that don't live in a drive folder

Contracts, policies, and signatures in one place with a real audit trail. E-signature is built in, so nothing gets printed, signed, scanned, and then lost.

Every version kept

Payroll without the spreadsheet

Hours, time off, and mid-month changes sync straight to your payroll provider. Mellow flags what moved since the last run, then gets out of the way.

Checked before every run

A clay laptop, mug, plant, and desk calendar modelled in the same soft plasticine
Ravi's back Monday
In practice

It sits quietly on the desk

Mellow lives in Slack, in your calendar, and in one tab you rarely have to open. There's no dashboard demanding a daily visit. It speaks up when something needs a person and stays quiet the rest of the time.

  • Slack and Teams
  • SSO and SCIM
  • 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Data stays in your region
Pricing

Priced like a small team

Per person, per month. No setup fee, no onboarding package, no minimum seats you'll never fill.

Pinch

Up to 5 people

Free no card,
no expiry
Start free
  • Time off and the shared calendar
  • People profiles and org chart
  • Slack app
  • Email support, 2 business days
Most teams

Handful

6 to 50 people

$6 per person
per month
Start free for 30 days
  • Everything in Pinch
  • Auto-approval rules
  • Onboarding flows
  • Documents and e-signature
  • Payroll sync
  • Support in Slack, same day

Armful

50 and up

$11 per person
per month
Start free for 30 days
  • Everything in Handful
  • SSO and SCIM provisioning
  • Policies per region
  • Audit log export
  • REST API and webhooks
  • A named person who knows your setup

Billed monthly. You can cancel from the settings page, not a phone call.

Go be mellow about it

Setup takes about nine minutes, most of which is you deciding who counts as the team.