Kolleg
An HRIS for small companies that would rather not run one.
Time off, policies, onboarding, expenses and German payroll paperwork for a small team, in one place and without an enterprise price.
- Role
- Designed and built
- Status
- Not offered publicly.
- Built with
- TypeScript
- Next.js 15
- Prisma
- Postgres
- Auth.js
- Claude API
- Slack
- Google Calendar
Why it exists
Small companies either run HR on spreadsheets or pay enterprise prices for software they barely use. Kolleg covers what a small team needs and nothing else.
What it does
- Request leave in Slack in plain English or German. “ab Montag zwei Wochen Urlaub” works.
- Onboarding starts from the signed contract PDF: AI reads the title, pay, hours and start date.
- Policies with e-signatures and an audit trail, plus a separate tax-advisor portal with DATEV-style exports.
- Expense claims pre-filled from the invoice.
How it’s built
- Role-based access from employee to tax advisor.
- A shared “who’s away” Google Calendar kept in sync automatically.
- Self-hostable: each company runs its own copy.