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Real production deploymentHR software · 12 employees · India

Folkgrove (yes, us)

Customer #0: our own HR runs on the product

a real production deployment — not a staged demo environment

The challenge

Every HRMS demo you will ever be shown runs on staged data. We wanted to be held to a harder standard: our own company, on our own product, in production — before asking anyone else to trust it.

What changed

  • Folkgrove runs live on a single self-hosted VM: the full stack — app, API, worker, MySQL, Redis, the Cerbos policy engine, and object storage — in production, not a lab.
  • Our team's own attendance, leave, payslips, and helpdesk run through the same screens you see on this site.
  • Every screenshot in the product tour was captured from a running instance by actually performing the flow — applying the leave, approving it, running the payroll cycle.
  • 2,700+ automated API tests run behind every release, because we're the first users who'd be hurt by a bad one.

1 VM

runs the entire production stack

100%

of site screenshots captured from the live product

2,700+

automated API tests behind every release

Seen in the product

A real payroll run's audit trail — executed, not mocked, while capturing this site's demo
A real payroll run's audit trail — executed, not mocked, while capturing this site's demo
A real leave request applied and approved end-to-end during capture
A real leave request applied and approved end-to-end during capture

“If a flow annoys us, it gets fixed before a customer ever sees it. Running our own HR on the product is the fastest QA we have.”

— Arun M., Founder

Every claim above maps to a flow you can click through.

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A 30-minute walkthrough with a real payroll cycle and your org structure. No slides — the actual product.