People-first software for UK teams
PeopleGem exists to take the people-admin off the plates of busy UK teams, whether salons, clinics, care homes, hospitality or retail, so you can get back to your people and the work that actually matters.
One calm place for the rota, the hours, the leave, the pay and the paperwork. No juggling three tools and three bills. Just the whole picture, handled.
Why we built PeopleGem
It usually starts the same way. A rota app for the shifts. A spreadsheet for the hours. A payroll bureau you email at month-end and then wait on. A separate portal for pensions, a folder somewhere for the visa copies, and three or four bills landing for the privilege. None of them talk to each other, so the same numbers get typed twice, and the evenings disappear into admin that has nothing to do with running a good business.
We didn't think a growing, multi-site business should have to live like that. A salon adding its third chair, a care group opening another home, a chain taking on a new branch. They all deserve one calm place that holds the whole picture, rather than a stack of tools stitched together with copy-paste and good intentions.
So we built it, and we did the fiddly UK work most generic HR tools quietly leave to you, like real HMRC payroll, Home Office compliance and statutory pay. And we made a point of keeping it human: plain English, phone-first, your data staying yours. HR software shouldn't feel corporate. It should feel like something that's genuinely on your side.
The principles behind every decision
A few things we hold to, and that you can feel in the product itself.
One calm place, not five logins
Rota, attendance, leave, payroll and compliance belong together. We put them in a single, quiet home, so the morning starts with a clear head, not a hunt across three apps and a spreadsheet.
Your data is yours
Documents live in your own cloud, whether Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox, and our AI is hosted here in the UK, not handed off to someone else's model. You can export or take it with you any time. No lock-in.
Built for the front line
Real teams run across sites and off their phones between customers. So PeopleGem is multi-site from the ground up and works in the palm of your hand, with a number per branch, hours that follow staff, and admins scoped to their site.
Real support from real people
HR software should feel human, not corporate. We write in plain English, we answer like people, and we build the fiddly UK bits, like RTI, right-to-work and statutory pay, so you never have to become the expert.
Built for how the UK actually works.
The parts that matter here at home aren't an afterthought or a resold bolt-on. They're the reason PeopleGem exists. UK payroll, UK compliance, UK-hosted, and your data kept where it belongs.
HMRC real-time payroll
PAYE, National Insurance, pensions and statutory pay, filed to HMRC as RTI on your own Government Gateway.
Home Office compliance
Right-to-work checks, visa and BRP expiry alerts and reportable events, tracked so an inspection never catches you out.
UK-hosted private AI
PeopleGem-AI runs on our own servers in the UK and answers from your knowledge base, so your people's details never leave.
Data in your own cloud
Files save to the storage you already own, encrypted field by field, GDPR-friendly and always yours to keep or take.
Come and get your evenings back.
Bring HR, payroll and rota into one warm, simple place, and hand the admin to PeopleGem. Start free, no card needed, nothing to lose.