Leapsome

Leapsome is a modular Talent Management and HR Management platform. It combines a core HR system (an HRIS), a talent suite for performance, goals, engagement, learning, and compensation, and an applicant tracking module on one employee record. HR and People Operations teams use it to run HR administration and talent programs in one system.

Core HR (HRIS): The HR Management module covers employee records with role-based access, documents with e-signatures, absence management, time tracking, preboarding and onboarding, workflows with approvals, and reporting on headcount, growth, retention, and absence. Absence policies are set per work location, with holiday calendars, prorated entitlements, and approval routing. Payroll support is payroll preparation: the system collects payroll-relevant changes such as new hires, leavers, absences, and salary changes, reconciles them, and hands them to a payroll provider through an integration or export. It does not process payroll. Every change is logged with who made it, when, and the document behind it.

Talent Suite: The suite covers performance reviews with 360-degree feedback, self-assessments and calibration; a competency framework; goals and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs); engagement surveys with benchmarks and action plans; learning courses and paths tied to roles; one-on-one meetings; instant feedback and praise in the app or Slack; and compensation with salary bands, review cycles, and approvals.

Recruiting: An Applicant Tracking module covers candidate pipelines by stage, role approvals, interview scheduling, structured interviews with scorecards, offers with e-signatures, and a hire-to-employee handover that starts onboarding. It also covers per-job access control and candidate data anonymization on a schedule.

Agents and workflows: Workflows, dashboards, and reports can be built from a plain-language prompt and edited on a canvas. The vendor's agents handle administrative steps such as absence approvals, document chasing, and payroll collection, with human sign-off on consequential actions. Agents act only within the permissions set for them. An MCP integration, in beta, lets approved AI clients such as Claude and Cursor read Leapsome data, and write access is off by default.

Integrations and security: Integrations cover HRIS imports from systems such as HiBob, BambooHR, and Personio, SSO through Okta, Microsoft Entra, and Google, DATEV transfers, ATS imports, and Slack and Microsoft Teams. The vendor states it holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications and hosts data in Germany.

Positioning and history: Earlier Leapsome materials, including the previous listing text and many published reviews, describe it as a performance management and employee engagement platform. The vendor now describes a modular HR platform, adding the HRIS, recruiting, and compensation to the talent tools, with pricing per employee per month by module. Older reviews therefore describe performance, goals, and engagement, and may not cover the HR administration modules.