Nairobi → Mombasa → Kisumu → Eldoret

Bring your HR workflow.
Not the other
way around.

Most HR tools ship with an opinion — about approval chains, grades, leave calendars, titles. Meridian inverts it: your approvals, your policies, your PAYE all come along. The tool bends to the org, not the other way around.

Trusted by480+ African teams
Employees managed118,400
Statutory rulesNative KE · UG · NG · CI
Starts at$2 /user/mo
HEADCOUNT · KENYA▲ +12.1% YoY
0employees · live
ACTIVE TODAY
0
▲ +0.6% vs avg
eNPS · KE
0
▲ +6 vs Q1
APPROVAL · L-2041● LIVE
WK
Wanjiku Kamau
Annual · 5 days · Nairobi
PAYROLL · APR
KES0K
612 payslips● READY
CITIES · KE
NairobiMombasaKisumuEldoret
KENYA PAYE · EXPR
banded(taxable, [
  [0,        24_000, 0.10],
  [24_000,   32_333, 0.25],
  [32_333,  500_000, 0.30],
  [500_000, 800_000, 0.325],
])
I18N · ADA
"Mshahara halisi"
EN·SW
/ 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

A dashboard that assembles itself.

Scroll through the build. This is the exact command center your ops team opens every morning — constructed, one panel at a time, from the data that actually matters.

STEP 01 / 04

Start with the
headcount truth.

Every employee, every department, every contract — one canonical record with a complete audit trail. Not a CSV. Not a spreadsheet. A system of record.

STEP 02 / 04

Then the
operational pulse.

Who's in, who's out, who's pending. Attendance, leave, approvals — the tempo of a real company, updated the second it happens.

STEP 03 / 04

Layer in
every statutory rule.

PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, AHL. Expression-based, org-configurable, audit-traceable. When the Finance Act changes, you change one formula — not your entire payroll pipeline.

STEP 04 / 04

And now you have
a command center.

12 panels of live, actionable intelligence. Not four stat cards with a stock chart. The Bloomberg terminal of African HR.

meridian.hr / command-center — live
HEADCOUNT
1,240
+12.1% YoY
DEPARTMENTS
14
6 countries
MANAGERS
98
7.9 avg span
ACTIVE TODAY
1,087
87.7% present
ON LEAVE
43
−8% WoW
APPROVALS
17
3 over 48h
ATTENDANCE
94.2%
avg / week
PAYE · KE
₭1.42M
this cycle
NSSF + SHIF
₭186k
remitted auto
RUN RATE
$4.62
M USD/mo
HIRE PLAN
86%
of Q2 target
eNPS
42
+6 vs Q1
/ signature moment — 03 · Kenya

The Kenya engine, . as code

No hardcoded formulas. No "contact us for a custom deployment." Expression-based, audit-traceable, and — when KRA moves a bracket — you change one line.

DEFINEBANDSRUNOUTPUT
payroll / kenya / paye.exprexpressionlive
// start typing a formula…
Wanjiku Kamau
EMP-00412 · Commercial · Nairobi
APR · 2026
waiting for formula…
/ country engine — 04

Every rule. Natively.

Flip between markets. Watch the statutory rules, brackets, and filings redraw in place — not a blog post, not a roadmap, the actual engine.

Kenya
KES · LIVE IN PRODUCTION
● LIVE
Income tax
PAYE — banded (10% → 35%)
Native
Social sec.
NSSF — Tier I + Tier II contributions
Native
Health
SHIF — 2.75% of gross (replaces NHIF)
Updated FY26
Housing
AHL — 1.5% employee + 1.5% employer
Native
Reliefs
Personal · insurance · mortgage · pension
Configurable
Filings
KRA iTax · NSSF · SHA · HELB
One-click
OPERATIONAL FOOTPRINT

Kenya · KES

Tax brackets
5 bands
Statutory forms
14 auto-filed
Pay cycles
Monthly + mid-month
Bank files
Equity · KCB · NCBA · Co-op + 9 more
All country modules are pluggable. Your KE payroll keeps running while NG spins up next to it. No re-implementation.
/ meet ada — 04

The AI that actually knows your org.

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.

01Grounded in your real data — employees, payslips, policies, filings.
02Multilingual by default. 12 African languages + English.
03MCP server exposes every Meridian resource to Claude, Cursor, and your own agents.
04$1/user/month. Not $30. Not a seat-based AI tax. Not an enterprise upsell.
Ada
online · reading Kenya org data
⌘K
Ask anything · EN · SW · YO · IG · TW · AF
MCP SERVER · meridian://
Your org, as tools for any agent.
connected · 4 clients
npx @meridian/mcp --org acmeCopy
employees.search
Query the directory by filter, department, city, manager
payroll.run
Trigger a payroll cycle or preview the output for a cohort
leave.request
Draft, submit, or approve leave on behalf of a user
payslip.get
Fetch a payslip PDF or JSON for any period
statutory.forms.file
Queue KRA, URA, FIRS filings for review + submission
org.chart
Read the current org graph, reporting lines, cost centers
CLAUDE
CURSOR
WINDSURF
+ YOUR AGENT
WHY THIS MATTERS
Other tools bolt on a chatbot trained on the internet. It gives you a help article, then a link to the docs, then a sales rep. You know? Ada was raised in Nairobi, Lagos, and Kampala — she knows what PAYE is, she knows what NSSF Tier II means, she knows "bring wife" isn't a valid leave reason. And through MCP, your in-house agents get the same context, natively.
Turn on Ada
/ modules — 05

Pay for what you use. Not an inch more.

Start with CoreHR. Add Payroll when you're ready to run it in-house. Turn on Performance cycle by cycle. No all-or-nothing licensing.

MODULE / 01$2 /user/mo
CoreHR
Employee directory, org structure, departments, job grades, positions, documents, configurable numbering, bulk import, audit trail.
Free tierStarterRequired
MODULE / 02$1 /user/mo
Leave
Configurable accrual, carryover, proration. Tenure-scaling policies. Multi-step approvals. Calendar + balances.
PoliciesCalendarApprovals
MODULE / 03$3 /user/mo
Payroll
Expression-based engine — no hardcoded formulas. Statutory KE · UG · NG native. Custom deductions, employer matching, benefits, payslip designer, bank files, muster roll.
PAYENSSFSHIFAHLBank files
banded(taxable, [ [0, 24_000, 0.10], [24_000, 32_333, 0.25], [32_333, 500_000, 0.30], ])
MODULE / 04$2 /user/mo
Performance
Review cycles, objectives, scoring models, appeals, 360 feedback.
360CyclesAppeals
MODULE / 05$1 /user/mo
Attendance
Clock in/out, timesheets, overtime tracking, shift patterns.
ClockShiftsOvertime
MODULE / 06$1
Ada
The AI that actually knows your org. Ask in Swahili, English, Pidgin, or Afrikaans. Draft contracts, query payroll, reconcile timesheets. MCP server exposes every Meridian resource to Claude, Cursor, and your own agents.
AssistantMCP serverSwahili · EN · Pidgin
/ in production at
480+ teams · 118,400 employees · ~$48M payroll / month
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AKILI AI
MANARA EDU
PATA LOGISTICS
OKAPI BANK
KILIMO AG
/ pricing — 06

Transparent to the last dollar.

No sales calls to see the price. No per-country surcharge. No enterprise-only modules. Build your stack in the calculator, see your number, start in 10 minutes.

CoreHR
employee records · org · documents
$2/user/mo
Leave
policies · calendar · approvals
$1/user/mo
Payroll
engine · statutory · bank files
$3/user/mo
Performance
cycles · objectives · 360
$2/user/mo
Attendance
clock · timesheets · overtime
$1/user/mo
Ada
assistant · MCP server · multilingual
$1/user/mo
Everything · all modules
most popular · 100 employees
$9/user/mo
/ the offer

Run payroll this Friday.
Not next quarter.

CoreHR is free up to 25 employees. Payroll takes an afternoon to configure. Bring your existing CSVs — we'll import them. No sales call required.

SOC 2 TYPE II
ISO 27001
DATA RESIDENCY · NAIROBI · LAGOS · KAMPALA
99.98% UPTIME · TRAILING 12MO