Identify and resolveoperational gapsthat cost you
Hobasa is a cross-system intelligence platform that helps organisations identify and resolve hidden operational gaps across Finance and HR before they impact performance.
The problem
Important business issues often sit between systems, reports, teams and processes, making them difficult to identify, understand and resolve.
Siloed information
Finance, HR, payroll, operational and reporting systems each hold part of the picture.
Too much manual work
Teams spend valuable time gathering information, validating findings and following up across multiple sources.
Limited visibility
Risks, opportunities and unresolved issues can remain hidden until they become larger business challenges.
Inconsistent decision-making
Disconnected information makes it difficult to align around priorities, next steps and results.
As organizations grow, maintaining visibility and acting on the right priorities becomes increasingly difficult.
The cross-system advantage
The signal lives between your systems.
Most tools sit inside one system. Hobasa reads across finance, HR, payroll and operations, then surfaces the patterns that only appear in the gaps.
A read-only integration layer that listens, normalizes and correlates across your stack.
Margin slip traced to unbilled overtime in Region 3.
Retention drop correlates with shift coverage gaps.
AR delays tied to a workflow handoff on Tuesdays.
How it works
How Hobasa helps, in four simple steps.
No jargon. We pull your information together, spot what matters, and a real person checks it before it reaches you.
Bring your data together
Your accounting, payroll, HR and other tools all send their information into one place — safely and automatically.
Match the pieces
We line up related records from each system so you see the full story, not scattered pieces.
Spot what matters
We surface the things worth your attention — savings, risks, mistakes or opportunities you'd otherwise miss.
A person checks it, then you act
One of our experts reviews the finding before it reaches you, so you can trust it and act with confidence.
Integrations
Connects to the finance, HR and recruiting tools you already run.
Implementation & support
Plug-n-play is generic.
We ensure it is tailored for you.
Hobasa is delivered as a boutique engagement, not a self-serve login. A senior team sets it up, configures it to your business and stays alongside you, so value compounds instead of stalling.
We scope and connect
Our team maps your systems, defines priorities and stands up the integrations, with your IT or without it.
We tune to your business
KPIs, thresholds and review cadences are configured by domain experts who have run finance and operations, not just built software.
We run it alongside you
Ongoing review of signals, anomalies and insights, with a named team that knows your business and the people in it.
Built for every team driving performance
Different perspectives. Shared value.
Designed for every team involved in driving performance, owners, investors and the advisors who support them.
Less chasing. More signal across the portfolio.
Spend less time gathering information and more time uncovering problems before they affect performance across portfolio companies.
- Less time spent gathering information and chasing updates
- Improved visibility into context and supporting information
- Better alignment across portfolio companies
- More focus on uncovering problems before they affect performance
Conversational AI
Ask anything across finance, HR, payroll and ops, get an audit-ready answer.
One conversational layer sits across every connected system, ledgers, HRIS, payroll, billing and policies, so owners, CFOs, investors and advisors investigate, explain and act in plain English.
- Grounded in your systemsEvery answer cites the exact ledger entry, HR record, contract or KPI it came from.
- Built for every personaSwitches between CFO finance views, CHRO workforce reads, investor portfolio cuts and CPA review modes.
- Reviewer mode for decisionsApprove, edit and watermark insight before it ever reaches a client or the board.
Platform
One platform from raw signals to client-ready advisory.
Continuous data capture across your stack.
Connect ledgers, payroll, HRIS and policy systems. Hobasa watches the signals advisors care about and flags what's changed, before it becomes a problem.
- Pre-built finance & HR connectors
- Real-time anomaly detection
- Cross-client benchmarks
AI that reasons like a seasoned advisor.
Models trained on accounting workflows compose audit-ready narratives, recommendations and next steps. Every output is sourced, explainable and reviewable.
- Source-grounded explanations
- Reviewer mode for partners
- Versioned client memory
Advisory that scales with your firm.
Push insight into the rituals your team already runs, client reviews, board packs, monthly close. Standardize the work; differentiate the relationship.
- Branded client deliverables
- Workflow & approval routing
- API & export anywhere
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Trust, security & the people behind it
Built to the standard your auditors, IT and board already expect.
Real controls, real expertise. The team behind Hobasa has spent careers running finance, audit and operations, the platform is how we encode what we've learned.
ISO 27001 – Certified
Information security management system certified to the international standard.
SOC 2 Type II – Audit in progress
Report expected in Q3; controls independently reviewed for security and availability.
Encryption everywhere
TLS 1.2+ in transit, AES-256 at rest, customer-isolated keys.
PII masked by default
Sensitive fields tokenized before any model ever sees them.
Never sent to third-party LLMs
Your data is not used to train any external model, ever.
24×7 monitoring
Continuous observability with on-call response.
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