conneLess middleware. Less overhead. More business.
Payroll, HR, time and employee self-service in one system built for Canadian compliance — with an AI layer that removes administrative friction instead of adding it.
Working product preview. Ontario gross-to-net is live in this demo; other provinces are labelled by phase.
Trust is the product in payroll
AI-native operations
Deterministic, auditable payroll
One unified platform
Compliance is a property of every release, not a phase
A website that earns trust. A PWA that runs the business.
Admin console
Run payroll, manage people, approve time & absence, file year-end, read the audit trail. Maker-checker on money movement.
- Reproducible pay-run register
- Effective-dated people & comp
- Year-end T4 from the YTD ledger
- Append-only audit log
Employee self-service
The surface every employee touches — mobile-first, installable, WCAG 2.1 AA.
- Pay statements & year-end slips
- Self-update profile & banking (audited)
- Time-off requests & balances
- Buddy copilot for the repetitive questions
Narrow and correct before broad
| Capability | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ontario gross-to-net | CPP/CPP2, EI, federal + ON tax — deterministic, reproducible | MVP |
| Direct deposit | AFT via a sponsored EFT provider | MVP |
| ESS paystubs & T4 | View/download; T4 generation from the ledger | MVP |
| Québec (QPP/QPIP/RL-1) | Revenu Québec parallel regime | Phase 2 |
| Time & absence, GL sync, e-file | Feeds the run; QuickBooks/Xero/Sage; CRA/RQ submission | Phase 2 |
| HR module · Buddy/Aria · analytics · SSO | Full HCM + AI advisory | Phase 3 |
| Biometric time clocks | Deferred on privacy-law grounds (Law 25/PIPEDA) | Deferred |
One platform, seven modules
Each module states what it does, who it's for, and its honest status. Nothing here is implied as shipped that isn't.
Payroll & year-end MVP
Automated processing, statutory deductions & remittance, T4/T4A; RL-1 & ROE in Phase 2. The deterministic, auditable core.
Self-service MVP
Pay statements & tax slips, profile & banking self-update with verification + audit, consent-gated notifications.
Bookkeeping built in Live in demo
A double-entry ledger in the same console that runs payroll. Approved pay runs post to the books automatically; trial balance, P&L and HST return come straight off the journal — balanced to the cent or rejected.
Government grants finder Live in demo
Your categorized expenses, matched against a versioned catalog of real federal and Ontario programs — training, co-op and apprentice wages, R&D, export marketing, capital equipment. Deterministic estimates with the formula shown, linked to every official page.
Time & absence Phase 2
Timesheets, mobile/IP-restricted/kiosk punch, scheduling, time-off that flows straight into the pay run.
Human resources Phase 3
Onboarding & filing, policy acknowledge + e-signature, performance & records, org charts.
Advisory & analytics Phase 3
Workforce analytics with anomaly flags; HR advisory where AI drafts and an accredited human owns the answer.
AI copilots Phase 2
Buddy (chat) and Aria (voice) answer ESS & admin questions from tenant-scoped data — never advisory-as-fact, never on the money path.
Accuracy, release-gated — Every release passes an automated accuracy harness: payroll golden-tested against the CRA T4127 method, books exact to the cent, grant estimates exact to the statutory formulas — overall deviation capped at ±1%.
The wedge
The incumbents are mature and feature-complete. Connext Payroll doesn't win on feature count on day one — it wins on the eVamb thesis: less middleware, less overhead, more business.
AI-native, not AI-bolted-on
The copilots remove the support-cost questions that flood payroll teams — scoped to your data, honest about their limits.
Deterministic by design
Every statement is a pure function of inputs and a stamped rule/table version. Any historical run reproduces byte-for-byte. "Why did my net pay change?" is answerable.
Unified, not stitched
Time and accruals are first-class inputs to the run — no bolt-on vendor, no re-keying, no reconciliation tax.
A trust asset, not fine print
This is the posture the platform is built to. Items are Canada-first; international regimes are listed so the architecture stays open, not because they ship today.
| Regime | What we do about it | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PIPEDA | Lawful collection, consent, access & correction, breach reporting; safeguards proportional to payroll sensitivity. | Must |
| Québec Law 25 | Strengthened consent, privacy-by-default, breach notice, privacy officer, French-language interlock. | Must |
| Data residency | Canadian personal & payroll data pinned to a Canadian region — chosen at creation, immutable later. | Must |
| CASL | Consent recorded before any commercial message; a Customer Contact Gate blocks paths that can't prove consent + unsubscribe. | Must |
| AODA · WCAG 2.1 AA | Accessibility of website and PWA — a launch gate. Hard date Dec 31 2026. axe + manual screen-reader passes. | Must |
| CRA T4127 | Calculations conform to the payroll-deductions formulas; validated against PDOC as the oracle. | Must |
| Record retention | Payroll records kept 6 years; retention overrides platform defaults and most erasure requests. | Must |
| SOC 2 Type II | Trust-services controls for up-market sales. | Roadmap |
This preview is illustrative and not a CRA-certified calculation, nor tax or legal advice.
Base + per-employee-per-month
Simple and transparent. The exact model is a go-to-market decision; the shape below is illustrative — talk to sales above a headcount threshold.
Starter
- Ontario payroll & direct deposit
- ESS + paystubs + T4
- Buddy copilot
- Email support
Core
- Everything in Starter
- Multi-province + Québec (Phase 2)
- Time & absence, GL sync
- Year-end e-file
Enterprise
- HR module + analytics
- SSO (SAML/OIDC)
- Data-isolation options
- Priority + advisory
Prices are illustrative for this preview. Card billing is handled by Stripe (we stay PCI SAQ-A).
Guides built to earn the ranking honestly
Practical Canadian-payroll guides — the SEO engine and a credibility asset.
Year-end checklist
What to reconcile before T4s file — balancing checks, common box errors, deadlines.
Ontario payroll guide
Stat holidays, vacation accrual, overtime thresholds, EHT — the province-specific rules the engine parameterises.
CPP2, explained
Why the second additional CPP exists and how an effective-dated engine handles two ceilings without a code change.
Direct deposit & AFT
How Canadian direct deposit moves on Payments Canada rails, and why we recommend a sponsored provider first.
Law 25 for employers
What Québec's privacy law means for the personal data a payroll system holds.
Switching payroll mid-year
Carrying YTD totals so the first run reconciles and slips balance at year-end.
A product of eVamb Labs
Connext Payroll is a sibling to Connext Immi and Connext Doctors — built on the neekOS platform stack, Canadian-footed, and run by operators who would rather remove your overhead than sell you middleware.
The thesis
Less middleware, less overhead, more business. We ship narrow and correct, label scope honestly, and earn trust before we widen.
Canadian footing
Data pinned to a Canadian region, French and English from day one, and a compliance posture that is a feature — not an afterthought.
See it run
Talk to sales
Pricing is not negotiated at first contact — tell us about your team and we'll follow up with consent.