PeoplanceLiveOne in-house platform for HR, hiring, payroll, and finance — web, mobile, and API
The HR and operations platform Innovaxel runs on every working day: people, leave, attendance, hiring, onboarding, payroll, invoicing, IT assets, and an internal CRM on one permission model. A Django API behind a React web app and a React Native mobile app.
- Industry
- HR & People Operations
- Market
- Pakistan & UAE
- Platform
- Web & Mobile
- Engagement
- In-house product
- Live at
- peoplance.com
The short version
The problem
Leave, hiring, payroll, invoicing and approvals were spread across separate tools and chat threads.
What we built
One platform for HR, hiring, payroll, finance, IT assets and CRM, on a single permission model across web, mobile and API.
Where it is now
Live and used across the company every working day. Multi-tenant support is next.
Every hand-off between tools was a place for a request to stall
The client
Peoplance is our own platform, and we're the client. We built it to run Innovaxel itself, with the same engineers, process, and production bar our clients get. The whole company works in it every day, so any shortcut we take shows up the next morning.
The problem
Like most growing companies, our people operations had spread across separate tools: one for leave, another for hiring, spreadsheets for payroll, an invoicing app, and chat threads for approvals. Every hand-off between them was somewhere a request could stall, data could drift, or a sensitive record could land in the wrong inbox. Off-the-shelf HR software covered part of the job and could only be configured to approximate how we work, not match it.
Small releases to colleagues who use it the next day
Privacy from the start
Sensitive values stay masked until someone asks to see them, and erasing data needs typed confirmation.
The API enforces access
Every permission is checked by the API, not by hiding buttons.
The company keeps running
Every release went straight to colleagues who’d use it the next day.
How we worked
Continuous delivery since December 2025: small versioned releases with a changelog, staging before production, and automated tests and linting on every merge. Each product rule is decided once and carried into the API, web, and mobile apps together, so a leave policy or approval step behaves the same on every surface.
Four things we shipped
1One system of record
HR, hiring, payroll, finance, IT assets, and CRM unified into one system with a single source of truth
217 scoped roles
17 responsibility roles, each with an explicit boundary, scoped to self, direct reports, department, or the whole organization and enforced by the API
3One API, every surface
Web app, native mobile app, and Slack integration all running on one Django API, which also publishes the careers and blog pages on innovaxel.com
4600+ commits in ten months
600+ API commits shipped to production in ten months, with the whole company using it every working day
What it runs on
Frontend
- React
- Tailwind CSS
Mobile
- React Native
Backend
- Django REST Framework
- PostgreSQL
- Celery
- Redis
Delivery
- Docker
What we did
- Product Design
- Web application development
- Mobile application development
- Access control architecture
- Slack & Google Workspace integrations
- Testing/QA
- CI/CD
What happens next
Live and in daily use across the company. Multi-tenant support is next on the roadmap. If you're deciding between building an internal platform and stitching more tools together, this is the build we'd show you first.
Try it live
Stitching together HR and operations tools?
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- 2You get a call confirmation
- 3Walk away with a 1-page build plan