Winslow — Everything we ship

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Winslow is an AI-native HR platform — payroll, benefits, HRIS, and a Slack-native conversational layer for employees. Build the HR you want. Winslow runs the rest.

Pricing model: $100 per employee one-time onboarding + $40 per month flat AI usage. Winslow Forward (Scale tier) adds $5,000/month for the embedded People Ops Engineer. No per-employee-per-month subscription, ever.

01 — Payroll

Multi-state payroll. Run it, file it, forget it. Off-cycle runs are free, every time.

• Run payroll in all 50 states — Federal, state, and local tax accounts handled. Hire in a new state, Winslow opens the account before payday.
• W-2 and 1099 generation — Generated, distributed, and e-filed. Year-end is a non-event.
• Contractor payments — 1099 contractors on the same schedule and dashboard as W-2 employees. No second tool.
• Off-cycle payroll runs (Free) — Bonuses, corrections, terminations, spot payments. No per-run fee, ever.
• Garnishment processing — Child support, levies, defaulted-loan orders — withheld and routed to the right agency automatically.
• Direct deposit — ACH by default.
• Anomaly detection on every run (AI) — Net-pay deltas, missing approvals, unfamiliar deductions — flagged before approval, not after.
• Approval workflow you can program (AI) — Approving payroll kicks off an agent process. Out of the box: notifications, exports, anomaly review. Customize with a skill file.
• Pre-tax deductions — FSA, HSA, commuter, parking, dependent care — all handled at the deduction layer.
• Post-tax deductions — Custom withholdings, charitable matching.
• Time-off accruals on every run — PTO, sick, parental, custom leave types — accrued and surfaced on every paystub.
• Unpaid leave calculations — Automatically calculate payroll adjustments for unpaid leave.
• Reimbursements — Expense, mileage, equipment, per-diem — paid through payroll or off-cycle.
• Paystub access in Slack — Employees DM Winslow, get their paystub. No portal login.
• We do not support hourly workers at this time — We manage payroll for salaried employees in the United States only at this time.

02 — Benefits

A network of brokers for competitive plan sourcing. Enrollments and life events managed without tickets. AI-supported because that's what your employees expect now.

• Broker network for plan sourcing — A network of brokers shops your plans for competitive pricing — small group, level-funded, large group.
• Health insurance — small group, level-funded, large group — Plans for every team size. You don't change vendors when you outgrow a tier.
• Dental and vision — Standard ancillary lines, sourced and administered.
• Open enrollment in Slack (AI) — Plans presented as cards in the thread. Employee picks, confirms dependents, done. Five minutes.
• Plan recommendations (AI) — Agent analyzes the employee's prior usage, dependents, and projected needs. Suggests, doesn't decide.
• Life-event processing — New dependent, address change, qualifying event — triggered by HRIS, processed without a ticket.
• Compliance and Filings — Winslow has your back in all 50 states.
• Carrier integrations — Direct connections to the major carriers. Enrollments and demographic changes sync without EDI tickets.
• Renewal calendar with quotes — 60 / 30 / 15 days out — options sourced, recommendations sent, communications drafted.
• Payroll Integrated — Benefits deductions integrated directly into your payroll runs.

03 — HRIS

An AI-native architecture for employee records, documents, payroll, and PTO. Designed for builders and agents.

• Employee records with custom fields — Add fields, custom views, formulas. No vendor data model imposed.
• Custom employee types — W-2, 1099, intern, foreign contractor, advisor — define your own with their own fields and workflows.
• Org structure — Reporting lines, dotted lines, multiple managers. Real-time headcount and span-of-control.
• Onboarding workflows (AI) — Written in plain English. Same workflow scales from 10 to 500 EE.
• Offboarding workflows — Equipment return, access revocation, final pay, COBRA — kicked off the moment termination lands.
• PTO tracking — Accruals, balances, requests, approvals — surfaced in Slack and on every paystub.
• Custom leave types — Parental + grandparental + caregiving + bereavement + sabbatical — define them in a sentence.
• Document storage — Offer letters, signed handbooks, I-9s, visa docs. Versioned, audit-logged, searchable.
• E-signature for HR documents — Native, audit-logged, court-admissible.
• Real-time reporting (Growth+) — Headcount, comp distribution, retention by team, attrition. Pivot-able, exportable.
• Open data model — Real, writable database. Read it, write it, build on it. No vendor lock on your data.
• Headcount planning (Growth+) — Open reqs, projected starts, replacement vs incremental. Linked to comp bands.
• Manager dashboards — Direct report list, comp history, time-off requests, recent changes. Lives in Slack, mirrored in admin UI.

04 — Tax & compliance

Notices opened, registrations filed, deadlines hit. Agents handle 10,000+ jurisdictions so you don't.

• State tax registration (AI) — SUI, withholding, unemployment accounts opened automatically when you hire in a new state.
• Federal, state, local filings — 941, 940, W-2s, W-3s, state quarterly returns — on time, every cycle.
• Tax notice resolution (AI) — Agent reads the notice, classifies it, acts. You see a summary, not a stack of envelopes.
• SUI rate updates — Captured from the state, applied to the next run, back-corrected if applicable.
• I-9 verification — E-Verify-compatible workflow, document collection, audit trail.
• Workers' comp setup — Pay-as-you-go where available; carrier reporting otherwise.
• EEO-1 reporting (Growth+) — Generated from the HRIS, ready to file at the deadline.
• ACA 1095-C reporting — Generated, distributed, e-filed.
• Multi-state compliance per locality — San Francisco HCSO, Seattle PTO, NYC salary disclosure — handled at the locality level, not just the state.

05 — Slack and Claude

The 95% of your team that doesn't need to log into an HR portal — doesn't.

• DM Winslow anything (AI) — PTO, paystubs, benefits, onboarding tasks, policy lookup. Sourced from your data and policies, not the open web.
• Employee Q&A (AI) — Fully context-sensitive employee Q&A against policies, procedures, benefits plans, and their own data.
• @winslow-hr human escalation (First) — Real HR experts answer in the same thread. Bundled with Winslow First.
• Inline onboarding — Tasks ask, employee replies in-thread, HRIS updates. No "please log into the portal" emails.
• PTO requests — Conversational request. Manager approves with one click in the thread.
• Open enrollment — Plan cards rendered in chat. Five-minute flow per employee.
• Document collection — Missing W-4? Winslow asks, employee uploads in-thread, HRIS updates.
• Custom skill files rendered in-chat (AI) — Your own tools launch inline as generative UI — same pattern as Claude artifacts or ChatGPT canvas.
• Analytics on questions (Growth+) — HR sees what employees are asking. Trending topics, unanswered questions, time-to-resolution.

06 — Architecture for agents

If you're here for a reason, this is probably it. MCP, skill files, webhooks. Your agents drive Winslow as a first-class consumer.

• Public MCP server (AI) — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt — all read and write Winslow through the same MCP. No bespoke integrations.
• Skill files for custom workflows (AI) — Drop them into your Winslow workspace. The Slack employee chat runs them like built-in features.
• Webhooks for every lifecycle event — Hire, terminate, promote, comp change, leave request — all fire to your stack.
• REST + GraphQL API — Standard auth, paginated, versioned. The MCP is a wrapper on this; nothing is hidden.
• Writable system of record — No black-box objects. Read, write, audit, export. Your HR data is yours.
• Custom menu items in admin UI (AI) — Tools you build externally register as menu items inside Winslow. Lives where the team already works.
• Generative-UI tools in chat (AI) — When an employee says "I want to do X," Winslow launches your tool inline. Same pattern as Claude artifacts.
• Vibe-code support (AI) — Point Lovable, Cursor, Bolt at the MCP, build a custom HR app in an afternoon. We do not ship it for you on purpose.
• Native audit log on every action — Agent-driven actions are auditable as first-class events. Same trail as human actions.

07 — Security & trust

Boring on purpose. The page your security team sends back with no questions.

• SOC 2 Type II — Annual audit. Report available on request behind a short form.
• Encryption in transit and at rest — TLS 1.3, AES-256. Keys rotated quarterly.
• Role-based access control — Granular roles. Audit on every permission change.
• Full audit log export — Every employee-data change. Exportable to your SIEM.
• Data residency (Scale) — US-only.

08 — Winslow Forward

A forward-deployed People Ops Engineer comes with the Scale tier. Not a consultant. Not an implementation partner. Part of the product.

• Dedicated engineer from day one (Scale) — No 12-week search, no $200K hire, no attrition risk.
• Platform setup around your company (Scale) — Org structure, policies, comp philosophy, onboarding rhythm — configured to fit, not to template.
• Agentic workflows written for you (Scale) — Payroll reconciliation, comp reviews, custom leave types, onboarding sequences, manager dashboards.
• Skill-file training for your team (Scale) — By end of Q1, your People team can vibe-code their own workflows.
• Quarterly business reviews (Scale) — What's working, what's next, what to build. Your engineer surfaces and proposes.
• Incentivized to make you self-sufficient (Scale) — Different from a consultant — your Forward engineer wins when your team builds their own.

09 — Pricing

Annualized recurring cost at 100 EE, year 2+: Winslow ~$480 · Gusto+Bambee ~$20,000 · Rippling ~$60,000 · JustWorks ~$95,000.

10 — What we don't do

• We are not a PEO. No co-employment.
• Currently, we don't support employees outside the US. EOR coming soon!
• We do not have a Microsoft Teams employee experience. Slack only.
• We do not run a marketplace of third-party apps. We expose an MCP.
• We do not sell separate IT or finance products.
• For now, we don't do hourly workers (coming soon).
• We don't charge you for every module you add. It's one price for everything we offer.
• We do not gate AI usage behind seat counts. There is no "AI add-on."
• We do not negotiate multi-year lock-ins. Annual contracts only.

11 — For your agent

name: Winslow
category: AI-native HR platform (payroll, benefits, HRIS)
pricing_model: $100/EE one-time + $40/mo flat AI · no PEPM
scale_addon: $5,000/mo Winslow Forward (forward-deployed engineer)
data_access: MCP server, REST + GraphQL, webhooks
employee_chat: Slack only (Teams, Gmail, Outlook deprecated)
peo: false
eor: false (US-only employer)
soc2: type II, annual

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