Humand
by Humand
The mobile-first AI operating system for deskless workers
Humand is a mobile-first employee platform built for the roughly 2.7 billion deskless workers who have no company email or desktop login. It bundles more than thirty modules covering internal communication, HR administration, scheduling, training and culture into one phone app, with AI agents resolving routine requests instead of routing them to an HR inbox.
Humand is a mobile-first employee experience and HR platform aimed squarely at deskless workers — factory, retail, construction, logistics and healthcare staff who have never had a corporate email address or a desktop login, and who Humand estimates account for roughly 80 percent of the global workforce, about 2.7 billion people. The product consolidates more than thirty modules into a single phone app: internal chat and a private corporate social network, live streaming, org chart, knowledge libraries, onboarding, digital employee files, time-off and leave, time tracking and shift management, performance reviews, goals and OKRs, learning and development plans, internal job postings, surveys, and culture features such as kudos, referrals and events. Its AI layer, branded Sammy AI, answers internal questions around the clock and drives automated service flows so employees can add dependants to a health plan, upload documents, retrieve pay stubs or file employment requests without waiting on an HR representative; one deployment reported requests resolving within 72 hours after the employee portal and AI flows went live. The deliberate design constraint is that most of these employers cannot issue corporate devices to thousands of staff, so everything runs on the worker's personal phone. Founded in 2020 by Argentine entrepreneurs who met at university in Buenos Aires, the company closed a $66 million Series A on 26 February 2026 co-led by Goodwater Capital and Kaszek, with Y Combinator, Newtopia VC and angels including Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi, Lyft co-founder Rajat Suri and MercadoLibre co-founder Marcos Galperin. It reports 1.5 to 1.6 million workers across 1,500-plus organisations in 51 countries, including Siemens, Home Depot, John Deere, Domino's Pizza, MINISO, Chili's and OXXO.
The CHRO or head of internal communications at a company with thousands of frontline staff who have no corporate email, and whose HR team is drowning in repetitive document, payroll and benefits requests.
Every frontline employee reachable and self-serving on their own phone, with AI agents closing routine HR requests instead of queueing them for a human.
At a Glance
- Category
- Enterprise Platform
- Pricing
- Subscription, Contact for pricing
- Target Market
- CHROs, CIOs, Internal Communications Leaders, Operations Directors
- Deployment
- Cloud-only
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Team Size
- 201-500
- Customers
- 1,500+ organisations, 1.5-1.6 million workers across 51 countries
Key Features
- ✓Sammy AI assistant
Answers internal employee questions 24/7 in seconds, deflecting routine queries that would otherwise reach an HR representative.
- ✓30+ integrated modules
Communication, HR admin, talent development, operations and culture in one app rather than five separately-licensed point tools.
- ✓AI-driven service flows
Automates time off, leave, document upload, benefits enrolment and employment requests end to end without HR intervention.
- ✓Shift management and time tracking
Frontline scheduling and attendance run on the same phone app that carries comms and HR, avoiding a separate workforce tool.
- ✓Internal social network and live streaming
Gives deskless staff a company communication channel where email and intranet have never reached them.
- ✓Performance, goals and learning
Reviews, OKRs, development plans, internal job postings and training delivered to staff who cannot attend desk-based sessions.
- ✓Roles, permissions and SSO
Granular access control plus digital identity access management so a single app can serve multiple sites and countries safely.
Capabilities
Use Cases
- •Frontline internal communications
Reaches factory, retail and field staff on personal phones where corporate email and intranets never landed.
- •HR request self-service
Employees add dependants to health plans, retrieve pay stubs and upload documents without opening an HR ticket.
- •Distributed onboarding
New hires across dozens of sites complete paperwork, training and introductions from the app on day one.
- •Shift and attendance management
Operations leads publish shifts and track time in the same tool employees already use for company news.
- •Culture and engagement measurement
Climate surveys, kudos and feedback channels give HR quantitative engagement signal from populations that rarely respond.
Ideal For
Best For
- ✓Retail, manufacturing, logistics and healthcare employers whose frontline staff have no corporate email or desktop
- ✓Consolidating internal comms, HR admin, scheduling and training that currently sit in four or five separate tools
- ✓Deflecting repetitive HR requests — pay stubs, documents, benefits enrolment, time off — to AI-driven self-service
- ✓Multi-country rollouts needing one app across English, Spanish and Portuguese workforces
- ✓Onboarding and compliance training delivery to staff who cannot be pulled into a classroom or desk session
Not Ideal For
- ✗Desk-based knowledge-worker organisations already standardised on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, where the mobile-first premise adds little
- ✗Very large employee databases if performance is critical — Capterra reviewers report the platform 'occasionally freezes during simultaneous activity' and cite performance issues with large employee databases
- ✗Teams needing fine-grained audience targeting today, where reviewers say segmentation features still have room for improvement
- ✗Buyers who require a mature, deeply-reviewed vendor: the public review base is very thin, at 6 Capterra reviews at time of writing
Deployment
Market & Ratings
1,500+ organisations, 1.5-1.6 million workers across 51 countries
Market Analysis
Pros
- ✓Capterra reviewers rate it 4.5 out of 5 with 4.8 for both ease of use and customer support and 100% likelihood to recommend
- ✓Genuinely consolidates a stack — internal comms, HR admin, scheduling, training and culture in one app rather than four vendors
- ✓Real enterprise traction: 1,500+ organisations and 1.5-1.6 million users across 51 countries, with Siemens, Home Depot, John Deere and Domino's named
- ✓Well capitalised after a $66M Series A co-led by Goodwater Capital and Kaszek in February 2026, with Y Combinator and notable operator angels participating
Cons
- ✗Capterra reviewers report the platform 'occasionally freezes during simultaneous activity' — a real concern for a product whose whole premise is thousands of frontline staff opening it at shift change
- ✗Performance issues specifically with large employee databases are called out by reviewers, which cuts against the enterprise positioning
- ✗Segmentation features are described as having room for improvement, limiting targeted communication to specific sites or roles
- ✗Reviewers detect bugs, though they note support resolves them quickly
- ✗The public review base is very thin — 6 Capterra reviews — so the 4.5 rating carries limited statistical weight, and there is no meaningful G2, Hacker News or Reddit discussion to cross-check against
Pricing
Per-employee subscription
From $4/mo
- ✓Listed by Capterra as starting at $4.00 per user
- ✓Free trial available
- ✓Module selection and volume negotiated per deal
- ✓Cloud, iOS and Android access
Enterprise
Contact for pricing
- ✓Multi-country and multi-site deployment
- ✓SSO / identity access management
- ✓Roles and permissions, analytics and insights
- ✓Integrations with existing enterprise systems
Humand publishes no pricing table on its own site and routes buyers to a demo, which is standard for per-employee enterprise HR deals sized by headcount and module selection. Capterra lists a starting point of $4.00 per user with a free trial available, so at frontline scale the per-seat number is small but the headcount multiplier is what matters — a 5,000-person deployment is a materially different negotiation from a 500-person one. Expect module scope, country coverage and SSO to drive the final figure.
Security & Compliance
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Sources
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