For startups building in Portugal

Your People function, automated.

The product runs the HR you legally must have — filings, policies, answers, reports. A real Head of People owns the judgment. You get your weeks back.

No signup. Demo company pre-loaded. The demo is the pitch.
app.people-os.pt · Nimbus Labs
GROWING · RITA — SEP 1
Segurança Social — filed before day oneDONE
Insurer — reply read, certificate storedDONE
Medical exam — provider nudged 09:10WAITING
THE ASSISTANT · AI ON YOUR EMAIL + CHAT
os@nimbuslabs.pt — Rita accepted · onboarding startedAUTO
“How many vacation days do I have left?”
16 of 25 working days — above the legal 22.
Handbook §8art. 238.º CT
PEOPLE HEALTH
23
people · +2 this quarter
COMPLIANCE
Score96%
Next tripwire35 heads · Mar 27
0 hfounder hours given back per year — the OS answers, files and reports while you build
€0not spent on a full-time Head of People this year — same function, product-priced
0 yrsyour first HR hire delayed — make it at ~60 people, from strength, with a running system
The autopilot

Announce a hire once.
Watch everything turn green.

The OS drafts every entity communication, sends on your approval, then reads the replies and walks each obligation to done — Segurança Social before day one, insurer, medical exam, meal card, contracts.

What a People function doesThe OSYouHuman
Offers & acceptance — by email, from your bands
Onboarding filings — Segurança Social, insurer, exam, meal card
Policy questions, answered with citations, 24/7
Payroll pack to your accountant, monthly
People Health report, board-ready
Pulse survey + action plan drafted
Salary bands, pay simulator, equity checks
Runway vs hiring plan, tripwires watched
Exits — decision, documents, conversation
runs on autopilot one click from you routed to Cátia — ● always for exits
FROM OFFER TO PAYROLL, BY EMAIL

The interface is an email address.

No dashboards to learn. You — and candidates — just email os@yourco.pt. The Assistant reads, drafts the offer from your bands, sends on your approval, collects the e-signature, creates the employee and queues payroll. One thread, zero admin.

Marta → os@nimbuslabs.pt
Offer for Rita Fonseca — Senior Product Designer, €48k, starts Sep 1.
os@nimbuslabs.pt → Marta
Offer drafted from your bands (IC4 Design · inside €48–60k), with equity, meal card and the 14-payment structure explained. PDF attached.Approve & send
Rita → os@nimbuslabs.pt
I accept! Really excited to join 🎉
os@nimbuslabs.pt → Marta
Acceptance logged · contract out for e-signature · Rita created in People OS · onboarding autopilot started · September payroll queued for your accountant.7 filings queued
The three numbers founders care about

Time. Money. The hire you don't make yet.

TIME BACK0 h

≈ 6–8 founder hours per week: policy questions answered with sources, filings tracked to green, the monthly report written. Nine working weeks a year, returned.

MONEY SAVED · PER YEAR€0

Full-time Head of People: ~€112k loaded. People OS + Cátia: ~€31k. Same function, installed in 30 days instead of hired in 6 months.

FT hire
€112k
People OS
€31k
HR DEPARTMENT DELAYED0

Most startups hire full-time People at ~25–40 heads — too early, from panic. With the OS you hire at ~60, from strength, and we help recruit them into a running system.

without · ~30 headswith People OS · ~60

How long does the money last?

Pick a hiring plan — the answer updates. No finance degree needed.
21 monthsof runway — hiring all 6, your money lasts until April 2028

Six modules, on rails

Everything a People function does — the product runs it daily
01

HR-ops autopilot

02

Hiring kits + consent

03

Policies + cited answers

04

Bands + pay simulator

05

Performance, light

06

Pulse + People Health

Counsel signs everything statutory · exits always human · no AI decisions about people
The person

The product refuses some jobs. That's the point.

CFCátia FranciscoHead of People · 10 yrs, VC-backed startups

Exits, individual comp, conflict, the 23:00 founder call — those route to a human with a decade of scar tissue. The OS makes her fast; she makes it trustworthy.

100%of exits human-led, counsel-signed
0decisions about people made by AI
<4hresponse on retainer days
½–1 dayper week, yours
Pricing

Four lines. No meter anxiety.

Install€3,900one-time · 30 days
  • Policies + handbook, counsel-signed
  • Entity flows wired
  • Leveling + salary bands
  • Data in, team onboarded
The OS€690 / month16–40 people · €390 ≤15 · €990 41–60
  • Six modules on autopilot
  • Unlimited cited answers
  • Monthly People Health, board-ready
  • Compliance watched vs headcount
The Person€1,900 / month½ day/week · €3,600 full day
  • Comp + performance decisions
  • Manager coaching, founder counsel
  • First in line when something burns
  • Exit cases from €900 + counsel
TYPICAL 25-PERSON COMPANY
€2,590 / month
About 3% of payroll — vs €100–125k/year loaded, plus 3–6 months of hiring, for the full-time bet.
FAQ

The questions founders ask.

Is our employees' data safe with AI in the loop?

Isolated per client, processor agreement signed, AI vendors named as sub-processors with no-training clauses, EU-resident processing on request. Your team is told, in writing, when AI touches their data.

Will AI ever decide something about one of our people?

No — structurally. The OS drafts, files, tracks, answers. Humans decide hiring, pay, ratings, exits. The Assistant refuses those by hard rule; scoring and emotion inference are banned practices we never touch.

Do we still need a lawyer?

Yes, for a fraction of today's spend: counsel signs the handbook and every involuntary exit — reviewing statute-cited drafts, not writing from zero at partner rates.

See your People function, already running.

One click. Nimbus Labs pre-loaded. Every screen is the real concept.

POpening Nimbus Labs…
NEEDS YOU Anti-harassment code — counsel-signed, waiting approval Rita's equipment — €2,480 vs €2,200 policy

People Health

Friday, 17 July · the state of the team
demoM
23people · all PT+2 QTD
4.1%regretted attrition — the one that matters1 person
15eNPS · June pulse−9
96%compliance score1 due

Headcount 12 MONTHS

Pulse trend % FAVORABLE · 3 WAVES

direction · execution · wellbeing

This week, on autopilot

Read reply from Fidelidade — Miguel on the work-accident policy. Marked done.
Nudged Medicalvida — Rita's exam, 2nd follow-up on a clock.
Filed Segurança Social admission for Miguel — 6 days before start.
July payroll pack to accountant — duodécimos applied for 4 opt-ins.
Answered 7 questions (vacation ×3, meal card ×2, expenses ×2) — cited, none escalated.

Compliance DONUT = SCORE

Harassment codeaction
Time recordingactive
Medical exams1 pending
Next tripwire: 35 heads → 50-runway · projected Mar 2027

From Cátia

"July pulse lands Tuesday. Announce the deadline reset Monday — the pulse will show whether it worked."

June pulse — the story ACTION PLAN AUTO-DRAFTED

Wellbeing 51% (−9), bimodal — an engineering pocket, not a company mood. ① one dated launch scope (Marta, Mon) ② staging spike (Rui, 31 Jul) ③ leveling published Sept. Re-pulse mid-Aug.

The registry, kept for you. Contracts archived, CC/passport renewals watched, payroll data complete, férias mapped. Click anyone to see everything — and act.

The team CLICK A ROW · ⚠ = DOCUMENT NEEDS ATTENTION

PersonRole · levelContractVacation leftNext awayDocs
Showing 8 of 23 — the demo keeps it short. Every person has the full page: dados pessoais, contactos, dados contratuais, contrato arquivado.

Absences — next 30 days MAPA DE FÉRIAS

Registry health WATCHED DAILY

Contracts archived23 / 23
Payroll data complete — estado civil, titulares, dependentes23 / 23
ID documents current1 renewal due
Mapa de férias 2026 — filed before Apr 15filed
Time recordingactive · art. 202.º
Hiring comes first. Simulate the cost of a hire from your own bands, close the candidates already in flight — onboarding then runs itself further down.

Plan a new hire YOUR BANDS + REAL EMPLOYER COSTS + YOUR RUNWAY

IC1IC2IC3IC4IC5
Salary — band midpoint, ×14€50,000
+ TSU 23.75% · seguro AT · meal card€14,500
True cost / year€64,500
Per month€5,375
Runway impact21 → 20.5 months
Offer this weekSign + docsSS filed before day oneDay one · Sep 1
✓ Emailed catia@peopleos.pt + os@nimbuslabs.pt — Cátia and the email AI follow up on one thread: JD, range publication, loop, offer.
Same math the offer email uses — bands, ×14 structure, employer costs. Nothing to configure.

Closing now CANDIDATES AT THE FINISH LINE

Ana Duarte · Senior ML EngineerOffer out — €64k · inside band IC4 · expires Thuaccept window
Pedro Lima · Product DesignerFinal loop Thursday · scorecards infinal loop
Inês Costa · People Ops (part-time)References this week · start could be Oct 1references

Open roles RANGES PUBLISHED — ALWAYS

Onboardings — running themselves. These two accepted; from that second the OS files, chases and reads replies. You only see green ticks arrive.
Rita FonsecaOnboarding · Senior Product Designer · starts Mon 1 Sep
7 of 9 green
Contract + categoria profissional signedCC, IBAN, morada collected · 8 Jul
Segurança Social — admission scheduled 22 AugAlways before day one · confirmation stored
IRS + duodécimos election50% duodécimos · September payroll queued — pack to accountant, Factorial-ready
Work-accident insurance — FidelidadeReply read 11 Jul · certificate stored
Medicina do trabalho — admission examProvider silent 2 days · nudged today 09:10 · escalates to phone task tomorrow
Meal card — €10.46/day tax-free ceilingCoverflex · arrives before day one
Equipment — MacBook + screenWaiting your budget decision
Handbook + Assistant + time recording accessProvisioning day −1
30/60/90 from the hiring kitManager reviewed · buddy: Sofia
Miguel CostaOnboarding · Backend Engineer · starts Mon 18 Aug
9 of 9 green
All entity steps green — SS filed early, insurer confirmed, exam booked 19 AugFull trail stored per item

Offboarding

Exit admin runs on these rails. Exit decisions are locked: always prepared with Cátia + counsel — start from any person’s page in The Team.

Olá Marta 👋 I answer from the Nimbus handbook and Portuguese law — with sources. Try me.

os@nimbuslabs.pt THE EMAIL INTERFACE

Offer to Rita — drafted from bands, approved, sentaccepted
Contract → e-signature (permanent = simple sig)signed
Rita created · onboarding kickstartedauto
September payroll — pack to accountantqueued · Factorial API ready

Forward any offer, contract or payroll email to the OS address — it reads, drafts, waits for your approve, then runs the flow.

This month DEFLECTION

31 answered instantly · 3 routed to humans (by rule, not failure)

Hard rules

Harassment / conflicthuman, formal route
Own pay, own exithuman
Pregnancy + anything negativehuman, protected
Outside the handbookpolicy gap → logged
Transparent by default. Published bands, same math for everyone — this simulator can live on your careers page.
IC1IC2IC3IC4IC5
GrowingSolidExceeding
ANNUAL GROSS · 14 PAYMENTS€50,000Band IC3 Engineering: €44,000 – €56,000
+ meal card €10.46/day · equity per grant guide · review each September

Engineering bands MIN–MAX · DOT = MID

Inside band for evidenced level22 / 23
Below-band outlier1 · remediation Sept (€2.9k/yr)
Within-level gap by sex−2.1% · inside noise
1 approval waiting: anti-harassment code — mandatory from 7 employees (you have 23). Counsel-signed. One click publishes.

Policy library

PolicyVersionCounselStatus
Time off & holidaysv1.2Signed · Maylive
Payroll & 13.º/14.ºv1.1Signed · Maylive
Sick & family leavev1.0Signed · Maylive
Expensesv1.0Signed · Junlive
Remote + right to disconnectv1.1Signed · Junlive
Anti-harassment codev1.0Signed · yesterdaywaiting you
Data changes (IBAN, CC expiry)v1.0operationallive · monitored

Preview — Time off §1

The promise. 25 working days — above the legal minimum — and we want them used.
The floor (we give more). 22 working days (art. 238.º CT) · hire-year accrual (art. 239.º) · carryover to 30 Apr (art. 241.º).
Every policy: promise → mechanics → exact legal floor, cited → who to ask.

One question, answered simply: how long does the money last if we hire? Pick a plan — the big number updates.

How long does the money last? CLICK A PLAN

21 monthsof runway — hiring all 6, your money lasts until April 2028

Scenario table

PlanMonthly costMoney lasts untilCompliance moment
Plan€248k/moApril 2028 · 21 moMar 2027
Stretch€248k/moMay 2028 · 22 moMay 2027
Brake€226k/moAugust 2028 · 25 mo

Tripwires on the timeline

35 heads — start the 50-employee compliance runwayMar 2027
50 heads — whistleblowing + pay-gap planbeyond horizon
Recommendationhire as planned; start the runway Jan 2027
CF
Cátia Francisco

Your fractional Head of People · 10 years, venture-backed startups · ½ day/week retainer

Anything touching an identifiable person routes here: exits, comp, conflict, the hard calls. Response <4h on retainer days.

Open threads

Comp review — Sofia · counter-offer scenario ready, your call Mondaywaiting you
Leveling launch · manager training scheduled Septon track

Always human

Exit decisions & conversations+ counsel
Individual pay & equityhuman
Harassment & conflictformal route
Founder counselhuman