The HRMIS for modern African teams
HR professionals shouldn't have to fight their tools to do the work — bending their process to fit what each platform allows. Meridian works the other way around: it adapts to how your team already operates.
/ manifesto — 01
For close to twenty years, African HR teams have paid enterprise prices for tools that are clunky, buggy, sloooowwwwww, and inflexible whenever a tax rate moves — sometimes taking 5 months to ship the fix. The lighter options are cheaper and prettier — but still built for someone else's tax code, with a local logo on top. They change just as slowly. We built the opposite: a platform where Kenyan, Ugandan, Nigerian and Ivorian statutory rules are the default, not an add-on — and a rule change is a config edit, not a release cycle.
/ the platform — 02
Leave in one app. Payroll in another. Time & attendance in a third. Performance in a fourth. Headcount in a sheet. Six logins, six bills, no source of truth — and the data never agrees.
OAuth into your stack and pull people, leave, comp, contracts and performance. Keep working in the apps your teams know — or migrate gradually. No big-bang cutover.
Conflicting values are surfaced, not silently overwritten — you pick what's true. Statutory rules apply on top automatically. Every team sees the same person.
Cancel the long tail of subscriptions, or let Meridian be the truth layer over them. Either way, your team works from one screen and every number reconciles.
One screen · every number reconciles
/ country engine — 03
Live in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and South Africa — each with native statutory engines computed in-product, not described in a doc.
Built in Nairobi, tuned for 47 counties. · KRA · 14 statutory forms auto-filed · Equity · KCB · NCBA · Co-op + 9 more bank files
/ when the rules change — 04 · KRA
This is a real amendment cycle, traced down the page. Notice in at 14:03. Commit at 14:23. Every payslip recomputed, every audit entry stamped — before the next payroll run.
Top PAYE band moves from 35% to 37.5%.
/ meet ada — 05
Ada speaks Swahili, Pidgin, and Afrikaans — not just English. She's trained on your employee handbook, your approval chains, your statutory engine. Ask her to run payroll. Ask her to draft a contract. Ask her kwa nini PAYE imepanda.
Grounded in your real data — employees, payslips, policies, filings.
Multilingual by default. 12 African languages + English.
MCP server exposes every Meridian resource to Claude, Cursor, and your own agents.
Built into the platform you already use — not a separate enterprise upsell.
/ managed services — 06
Three focused service lines — payroll you can fully delegate, statutory compliance guidance, and HR consulting to build the people frameworks your organization needs.
We provide end-to-end payroll outsourcing services, allowing organizations to fully delegate payroll processing while ensuring accuracy, confidentiality, and compliance with local statutory requirements.
We assist organizations in navigating complex statutory requirements — covering payroll tax advisory, compliance audits, reconciliations, and risk mitigation.
Our HR consulting services support businesses in building strong people frameworks — from policy and structure to performance management and HR process optimization.
/ one contract covers software + services · cancel either independently · data exports in CSV and Parquet on request
/ why meridian — 07
The HR software market was drawn for a different geography. Meridian is the regional-first alternative — transparent where enterprise suites are opaque, deep where generic HRIS is shallow, and structural where spreadsheets are fragile.
median time from signup to first live payroll run
African countries live today · 12 on the statutory roadmap
of payroll runs produce a statutory-ready audit trail
hidden line items. Open API, exportable data, published roadmap
/ the rest of the machinery — 08
Pick who can request what. Pick who approves, in the order you already use. No flowchart software. No consultants. Build a leave or expense flow in minutes — and change it whenever your team does.
Reporting lines come from the employment record, not a PowerPoint someone has to maintain. Compact, zoom, re-parent with a drag — the chart is the source of truth, not a screenshot of it.
CoreHR comes standard. Everything else is a switch. Turn Performance on for this quarter's cycle, off for the summer. Billing re-bases at the next cycle — not after a procurement cycle.
/ frequently asked — 09
Short answers below. Want the long version? Grab a slot — we'd rather chat than write another whitepaper →
Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and South Africa — each with native statutory engines (PAYE, social security, levies, filings) computed in-product, not described in a doc.
About 10 minutes from signup to first live payroll run, given clean source data. Our migration template imports headcount, comp bands, and history from spreadsheets or your existing HRIS.
We push the rule update on the legal effective date. You see the diff, the audit entry, and the affected payslips — before your next run. No vendor ticket, no engineer required.
Yes. Open REST API across employees, payroll, leave, and approvals. Export everything you have access to, any time, in standard formats — your data is never hostage.
Pricing depends on team size, modules, and country mix. Reach out → and we'll quote your team in a 15-minute call.
/ the offer
Payroll takes an afternoon to configure. Bring your existing CSVs — we'll import them. No sales call required.