By Business Stage Operational Scale

Growing Teams (5 to 50 Staff)

Synchronize multi-employee payroll, client deliverable pipelines, and live cash runway.

When your team hits 10 to 50 people, operational friction explodes. Payroll takes 3 days, project deadlines get dropped in Slack, and nobody knows true project profitability. Spike Console connects your HR, projects, and cash flow.

60 Sec

Full payroll computation run

0

Discrepancies between leave & salary

Unlimited

Team members without seat markups

14 Days

Turnkey migration from legacy tools

The Operational Gap

Why traditional setups fail

Compare the friction of disconnected tools against the unified velocity of Spike Console.

The Mid-Stage Chaos
  • ×HR runs payroll in Excel with manual calculations for PAYE, pension, and NHF.
  • ×Project teams track tasks in Trello, but billing hours never match invoices.
  • ×High per-seat SaaS costs force owners to ration licenses, leading to shared passwords.
  • ×End-of-month scramble to calculate staff commissions and project gross margins.
Integrated Operational Harmony
  • ✓One-click payroll automatically incorporates approved leave, bonuses, and statutory deductions.
  • ✓Project milestones directly bill to clients upon task completion sign-off.
  • ✓Unlimited team seats: give every employee their own secure login with granular role permissions.
  • ✓Live cash runway forecasting shows the exact impact of headcount growth before hiring.
Engineered For Execution

Core capabilities built into this solution

HR & Payroll 95% Time Saved

Automated Multi-Staff Payroll

Compute gross, PAYE, employee pension, employer pension, and net salary for all 50 staff in 60 seconds with direct bank batch export.

Attendance

Direct Leave-to-Pay Integration

Staff request leaves from their self-service portal. Approved unpaid leave automatically adjusts salary calculations without manual spreadsheet cross-checks.

Operations True Project ROI

Project Profitability Tracking

Link staff timesheets and direct vendor expenses to specific client project accounts to see real gross margins per milestone.

Security

Departmental Role Governance

Managers approve purchase orders and leaves; finance sees ledgers; operational staff see only their relevant task boards.

Daily Execution

How your team operates with Spike

Predictable, automated operational cadences that run seamlessly from morning to night.

01

Daily Operations & Attendance

Staff log tasks, log client billables, and submit leave requests directly in Spike.

02

Mid-Month Milestone Review

Project completions automatically notify billing, issuing milestone invoices directly to clients.

03

25th of the Month Payroll Run

Click "Run Payroll". Review automated tax schedules, approve bank batch disbursement, and disburse.

Canonical Architecture

Operating pillars powering this solution

All pillars write to a single unified database with zero sync latency, zero Zapier glue, and total audit integrity.

Financial Control People & Workforce Projects & Delivery Customers & Growth
Staffing

People (HR)

Payroll, leave & employee directory

Execution

Projects

Milestones, timesheets & deliverables

Accounts

Finance & Ledger

Real-time double-entry trial balance

Inflows

Billing

Milestone invoicing & automated dunning

Customer Proof
“With 34 employees across content and client service, running payroll used to take our accountant 3 full days every month. In Spike, it takes 15 minutes, and our project margins are finally accurate.”

Dele O., Operations Director

Apex Media & Digital · Ikeja, Lagos

3 days reduced to 15 mins payroll processing
Got Questions?

Frequently asked questions

Turnkey Industry Deployment

Claim your sovereign Digital Home.

Every operational wing included—Front Porch Storefront, Living Room CRM, Real-time Ledger & 24/7 AI Caretakers. Zero per-user seat taxes, billed flat in Naira.