For human resources

For the work that keeps your HR office running.

We build the processes your office runs on. The ones with more than one step, more than one signature, and a date somebody is counting on. We build them around how your office already works, take them off your hands, and keep them moving.

Book a conversationAbout 30 minutes
Onboarding packet · M. Alvarez, second grade
Starts Aug 18
✓Form I-9
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✓Form W-4
WithM. Alvarez
StatusComplete
✓Direct deposit authorization
WithM. Alvarez
StatusComplete
·Handbook acknowledgment
WithM. Alvarez
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·Fingerprint clearance on file
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✓Building assignment sign-off
WithPrincipal, Lincoln
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Four of six done. Nobody was asked for a status, and nobody had to remember the two that are out.
01 · The condition

Almost nothing here is one step.

A new hire isn't a form. She's a stack of them, three people who have to sign, and a start date that doesn't move.

01Some of it she does. Some of it you do. Some of it a principal does.
02One piece has to happen before another piece can.
03None of it counts until all of it is done.

It's the same with a request that has to be approved, then attended, then recorded. Or a departure, where half of what has to happen happens after the last day. And the only thing that knows what all of it is happens to be a checklist in a folder.

02 · The desk

The work that touches your desk.

01
Job applications
A good candidate is deciding whether you're worth the trouble. Not a portal account, not a PDF to print and mail. A link, on a phone, at nine at night.
02
The candidates you don't have an opening for yet
A standing form someone fills out when nothing is posted, so the list already exists the day a position opens.
03
Onboarding
I-9s, W-4s, the packet, and everything that has to be true before she can start.
04
Personnel actions
Hires, transfers, pay changes, separations, each on the path its kind of action needs, not the path whoever happens to be in that week knows.
05
Staff leave requests
Submitted, approved, and in front of whoever has to cover the room.
06
Professional development requests
Approved by whoever approves them in your district, with the hours on record when a renewal comes up.
07
Complaints
Filed, routed, followed up, and resolved, with what was done written down.
08
Exits
The checklist, the final paperwork, and the conversation about why, captured the same way every time.
And if the one costing you the most is not on this list, it is still this kind of work. That one is usually the place to start.
03 · Today

Right now the folder is the system.

Somebody built that checklist and it's a good one. It knows every step. What it can't do is tell you where anyone is without opening the cabinet, tell you what's coming due this week, or tell you what was supposed to happen on Tuesday and didn't.

A packet gets handed across a desk and filled out by hand. A pay change reaches three people one at a time, each finding out it exists when it lands. Nobody can say where any of it is without asking.

New hire checklist
In the cabinet
StepWhere is it
I-9 signed?
W-4 returned?
Packet handed over?
Principal sign-off?
Due Tuesday?
It knows every step. It cannot answer the column on the right.
04 · With Flow Forms

We walk it before we build it.

We sit down with you and walk the whole thing, step by step, the way it really runs. Then we build it, and what you get back is your process, running.

It goes to the next person on its own, asks again when nobody answers, and tells you what's coming due. You can open it any time and see where anyone stands. Nobody has to forward anything.

How we build it →
What goes away is the carrying.
That's the work we take off your hands.
05 · What it looks like moving

“You can't believe how much more efficient FlowForms made our organization. Paperwork now flowed electronically along the chain of command and between all departments with stake in the process within minutes, as opposed to days.”

John Blackman, Director of Human Resources
Belgrade Public Schools
75%

Reduction in paperwork processing time, first month. Belgrade Public Schools

From the register
What runs there
Belgrade Public Schools
New hire onboarding, hiring, resignations, credentialing
Hardin Public Schools
Job applications, I-9s and W-4s, employment interest form
Sublette County School District #9
Employee exit and stay interviews
Teton County School District #1
Professional development requests
06 · Tomorrow

Once it's running.

A new hire gets assigned a packet, and at any point you can open it and see what's done and what's still out, form by form. Nobody has to be reminded, because the process does that. An application arrives complete from somebody who almost didn't bother. A pay change goes to all three people on the path that kind of change takes, in the order it has to go, and gets back to payroll before the cycle closes. When a complaint comes in, every step after it is on record, including what was done about it.

Onboarding packet · M. Alvarez
Carried by: nobody
Aug 4Form I-9
Aug 4Form W-4
Aug 4Direct deposit authorization
Aug 7Handbook acknowledgment
Aug 11Fingerprint clearance on file
Aug 12Building assignment sign-off
Six of six, a week before she started.

All of this, and all anyone does is fill out a form. That is an HR office where the work moves and nobody carries it.

Bring us the first one.

Start with onboarding, or start with whatever is costing you the most. We'll talk it through together and show you how it could work in your office. No slide deck. No generic walkthrough.

Book a conversationBuilt around your office. We do the setup.▊
07 · Questions

Questions we hear from every office.

Can I see what a new hire still has left to do?
Yes. A person gets assigned a packet, and you can open it any time and see form by form what's been completed and what's still pending.
Can someone outside the district fill out a form?
Yes. An applicant gets a link and fills it out from a phone. No account, no password, nothing to install.
What happens when the approver is out?
The process routes to whoever covers for them. You decide who that is when we build it, and a request never sits waiting on one person to come back.
Does this replace our payroll or student system?
No. Whatever you use for payroll and records stays where it is. We build the processes that live outside it.
How is it priced?
Per process, so the office that needs it can say yes on its own.
Who builds it?
We do, with you, on a video call while you watch. Nothing like a typical software rollout. No IT project, no six-month timeline, and we stay on to make changes whenever you need them.