A company handbook that runs itself.
Employee handbook software for small teams: write your rules once, and startbuddi enforces them, keeps every version and shows who has signed. The questions people keep asking you on WhatsApp get answered from one place.
Free plan, no card needed. Or book a demo.
Policies that actually change how things work.
Leave, working hours, attendance, expenses, performance, learning, onboarding and offboarding are each a policy. Publishing one makes People enforce it, so your leave rules and approval chains come straight from what you wrote.
- 15 built-in categories, plus Custom for anything else
- New policy: Policy type, Questions, Rules & approvals, Applies to, Review & publish
- Apply to everyone, team members, contractors or specific departments
Know exactly who has read it.
Ask your team to acknowledge a policy and they see a banner with one button: I acknowledge this. Change the policy and everyone signs again, because an old signature never carries forward.
- Needs Acknowledgement and Acknowledgements views
- Pending, overdue and progress for every policy
- Remind anyone who hasn't signed in one click
Write down the thing people keep asking about.
A knowledge base for everything your team should be able to look up: how the company works, what each department does and the policies behind it. Pages sit in spaces for the company, a department, a team or a topic.
- A company handbook space created for you
- Spaces per department or team, set up in one click
- Visible to Everyone, Members only or HR only, with page versions
Every change on the record.
Each published policy keeps its history: the version, when it was published, who changed it and why. Requests made under an older rule keep that rule, so nothing gets rewritten after the fact.
- Version, Published on, Changed by, Change summary
- Make this a policy turns any page into a policy, with or without sign-off
- Start from a policy template and edit it for your team
People talks to the rest of your business.
Everything below shows up on the client's record on its own, so you never piece the story together by hand.
Ask Chip. It already knows your people.
Chip works from your own records, so the answer comes with names, amounts and dates, and a next step you can take in one click.
Which plans include the handbook?
Policies and the knowledge base are on every plan, including Free. Your team needs seats to read and sign them: Starter includes 2 users, Growth 5 and Scale 15, and you can add extra users.
- FreeIncluded, free forever
- StarterIncluded, 30-day trial
- GrowthIncluded, 30-day trial
- ScaleIncluded, 30-day trial
Questions about the handbook
What is employee handbook software?
How do I track who has read our company policies?
Do you have policy templates for a small business?
What happens when I change a policy?
Is this legal advice?
Write it once. Let it run.
Your handbook, your policies and who has signed them, in one place. Free to start.
Or book a demo and we'll set it up with you.