Building an HR tool for small teams: here's what surprised me talking to founders

Almost every founder I spoke to during research said the exact same thing. "We know our HR is a mess, we just haven't had time to fix it."

That one line changed how I'm building Office Bee.

The problem isn't that people don't know better tools exist. It's that switching feels like more work than just living with the spreadsheet. So nothing changes until something actually breaks.

We're building around that reality. Minimal setup, no long onboarding, just clean people ops that works from day one for startups that have outgrown spreadsheets but don't need a full enterprise system yet.

If you're managing HR manually right now, or a founder handling people ops on your own, I'd love to have you involved in shaping the product before we launch.

Happy to answer questions below. Early access waitlist is open at Office Bee.