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Payroll for people who build things

Payroll, kept
the way you keep
your word.

Hours arrive from the phones your crew already carries. The run adds itself up and waits for you. Read it once, and everyone is paid on Friday.

Federal tax math4-minute pay runs$0 setup, ever

See it work

The whole run, in four minutes.

Eight people, one Friday. Hours come in from the phones the crew already carries, the run adds itself up, and you read it once before you approve. Here’s the Bramblewick run, start to paid.

The roster is the product. Eight people on the crew, eight lines on the run, one Friday.

A pay run's line items filling in on the Workstead approve screen

Federal tax math4-minute pay runs$0 setup, ever

The workbench

Three tools. One workshop.

Each tool does one thing well. None of them try to upsell you on a fourth. Pick them up; put them down. They just work.

01

Payroll, plain.

Direct deposit for W-2 employees, 1099 contractor payouts, federal tax withholding, and the quarterly reports your accountant needs for Form 941. Built around the realities of a small clinic payroll — not a 200-engineer SaaS sales pitch.

941 reportsNACHAW-2 & 1099
02

Time, tracked.

Clock in by phone (PWA on the home screen) or by walk-up badge. Schedules your crew can read. PTO that doesn’t live in a manager’s inbox.

PWA installbadge syncPTO policy
03

People, on paper.

Onboarding wizard, signed docs in MinIO, audit trail on every change. New hires hired, signed and paid before lunch. Nothing on a fax machine.

W-4 / I-9audit loginvite flow

The workshop

Built like it’ll outlast you.

No subscription tricks. No twelve-tab dashboards. No “talk to sales” mystery prices. One solid tool, one honest price, and a real human on the line when you need one.

Pay Run · Plot 001

Approved
MCMaya Chen · Sr. Engineer$8,200
JPJordan Patel · Engineer$6,400
SRSam Rivera · Designer$7,150
RJRiley Johnson · Ops$7,800
DBDana Brooks · Finance$9,200
Gross paid$52,340.00

Our promise

No tax-form anxiety.No three-tab payroll.No sales calls.Just work.

Pick up the tools.

Open your workshop in two minutes. Bring your existing data over in a weekend. No card. No sales call.

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Workstead — Sharp tools. Honest work. · Workstead