The foundation
Golden record
Not sure where to start with AI?
Start by making sure you can trust your data. Makoto helps bring your people data together into one reliable record, so you have a clearer foundation for AI.
01 Why we exist
The systems went in.The manual work remains.
Compliance spreadsheets. Reconciliations. The workaround only one person understands.
Makoto is built for the teams that always pick this up.
Agents that you use in the flow of your work.
We build agents around your needs, replacing spreadsheets and manual processes that create risk. The three below are useful examples of where to start.
One trusted record becomes the foundation for your agents. See examples below.
01Reconciliation
Do your systems agree with each other?
Bring your HR, payroll and time data together. Spot discrepancies, check for gaps and ensure your people are paid correctly and compliantly.
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Sometimes it's simple. Someone is a leaver in your HR system but is still on the payroll. Sometimes it's complex payroll checks with short deadlines, running across several countries.
Either way, Makoto reconciles the data for you, flags discrepancies openly and gives you a Data Trust Score, so you know exactly where you stand.
02Payroll compliance
The calculations nobody wants to do by hand.
Makoto replaces those painful spreadsheets with complex calculations, checks and pivot tables. Giving you what you need, when you need it.
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Average holiday pay for shift workers with commission, weeks of zero pay and an ad hoc bonus. Or National Minimum Wage checks once your clock-in grace periods and salary sacrifice benefits are taken into account.
This is what Makoto was built for. It works them out and delivers the results straight into your existing payroll system.
03Right to work
Keeping within student visa working limits.
Keep sight of permitted working hours across sites and systems, with a Teams alert so you can act in time.
Read an example
You have rota staff on student visas, and someone is checking their permitted working hours by hand. For those with a 20-hour term-time limit, that means pulling together shifts across your rostering, HR and payroll systems, every single week.
What if Makoto just pinged you a Teams message before someone reached their permitted hours, so you could act in time?
Peace of mind for the people who care about getting it right.
02 Who we are
Built by people who have lived it
Ned McEvoy
Co-founder
Ned has spent 20 years integrating HR and payroll technology into some of the world's leading brands. He specialises in making technology work in complex, highly regulated environments. He has seen the same pattern in organisation after organisation: the new systems go in as designed, but time and again the spreadsheets remain. Now it's time to change that.
He holds an Executive MBA and a degree in Computing, and is based in the UK.
Sam Garwood
Co-founder
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