Payroll, plain.
Texas tax filing, direct deposit, contractors, garnishments, 401(k) sync. Built around the realities of a small clinic payroll — not a 200-engineer SaaS sales pitch.
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The workshop for running your team
Sharp tools.
Honest work.
Workstead is the HR & payroll workshop for operators who’d rather build their company than wrestle with payroll software. One toolkit. Clean joinery. Made to last.
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The toolkit
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
We left a $250/seat HCM for Workstead in a weekend. First clean three-state filing we’ve had in two years.— Jess Marlowe, Ops Lead, Marlowe Foundry
Pay Run · Plot 001
FiledMCMaya 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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