Compete

What Compete does

Compete is an AI-powered workforce analytics and operations platform, incorporated in Israel as Compete HR Ltd. and operating with a U.S. presence in New York. The company sells a unified "People OS" to HR leaders, finance teams, and business executives at global companies with distributed workforces. Its core proposition is connecting siloed workforce data from HR, Finance, and Operations systems and applying HR-specialized AI to deliver real-time insights, predictive risk detection, and automated people processes — positioning itself as a strategic command center rather than a traditional BI or HRIS tool.

The platform is built around three integrated modules: AI Business Partner, a conversational AI interface that answers natural-language workforce questions without analyst dependencies; AI-Driven Analytics, which provides a Metrics Hub, AI-generated custom metrics, real-time dashboards, and a Risk Scanner for early detection of workforce risks such as turnover patterns or compensation disparities; and Personalized Workflows, a customizable engine for compensation, performance, and other people processes that replaces spreadsheet-based workflows. Underlying capabilities span NLP, predictive analytics, generative AI for on-demand metric creation, anomaly detection, knowledge retrieval, and process automation. The platform is secured by ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications and is GDPR-compliant, addressing the sensitive-data requirements of enterprise HR and Finance buyers.

Commercially, Compete operates a sales-led enterprise GTM motion with all three subscription tiers (CORE, PRO, ENTERPRISE) requiring contact-sales engagement, complemented by a freemium entry tier supporting product-led adoption among smaller HR teams. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is structured as annual recurring subscriptions. Go-to-market emphasizes consultative selling to CHROs, CFOs, and CEOs at distributed-workforce organizations, with named enterprise customers spanning eyewear retail (Warby Parker), freelance platforms (Fiverr), sales technology (Gong), gaming (Voodoo), telehealth (Sondermind), entertainment (BeachBum), HR technology (Corlogix, Revecore), media (Minute Media), and investment (Point Five). The company has raised approximately $17.5M to date, including a $15M March 2022 Series A led by Tiger Global with participation from Aleph and Vine Ventures, and an earlier seed round and Google for Startups grant in 2021.

Name

Compete

Legal name

Compete HR Ltd.

Website

https://competewith.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Compete is an AI-powered workforce analytics platform that unifies HR, Finance, and Operations data into a conversational and predictive People OS. It serves CHROs, CFOs, and business leaders at global companies with distributed workforces via subscription SaaS with enterprise and freemium tiers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Workforce Analytics Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

Keywords

• Workforce analytics
• HR analytics
• People analytics
• Compensation management
• AI-powered HR

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Subscription-based SaaS model with tiered pricing (CORE, PRO, ENTERPRISE). Subscription fees are payable in advance and invoiced at subscription start date. Annual renewal with potential price adjustments. Supports both paid subscriptions and freemium tier for customer acquisition.
2. Freemium Tier: Compete offers a 'freemium' subscription option where the service is provided free of charge, subject to integration requirements with customer's HRIS and other Compete-determined requirements. Features available under freemium are subject to change at Compete's discretion.
3. Enterprise Licensing: Enterprise tier with unlimited users, personalized workflows, priority support, employee training, and dedicated Slack channel. Higher SLA (up to 1 business day response) and dedicated CS manager included.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Compete sells an AI-powered People OS (workforce analytics platform) that connects HR, Finance, and Operations data into a single source of truth and delivers real-time workforce insights through conversational AI, analytics dashboards, and customizable people workflows. The platform is targeted at global enterprises with distributed workforces and is sold as a SaaS subscription with tiered (CORE, PRO, ENTERPRISE) and freemium pricing.

Product overview

Compete's People OS is a unified AI-powered workforce analytics and operations platform consisting of three integrated modules: AI Business Partner (conversational AI for instant workforce insights), AI-Driven Analytics (real-time visualization of workforce trends with metrics and dashboards), and Personalized Workflows (customizable workflows for compensation and people processes). The platform connects workforce data from HR, Finance and Operations to help business leaders make faster, data-backed decisions, achieving 8x faster resolution of workforce questions, 60% faster decision-making, and 2.5x faster execution of workforce processes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI Business Partner Conversational AI interface that provides instant, accurate workforce and budget insights in natural language, eliminating the need for BI tools, analysts, or manual reporting. Tailored to the customer's organizational structure and policies and used by HR, Finance, and executive leaders.
• AI-Driven Analytics Real-time workforce analytics module with a Metrics Hub of predefined and AI-generated custom metrics, customizable dashboards, and a Risk Scanner that proactively detects emerging workforce risks such as turnover and compensation disparities. Used by HR and Finance leaders to monitor organizational health.
• Personalized Workflows Configurable workflow engine for compensation, performance reviews, and other people processes that replaces spreadsheet-based processes with structured workflows aligned to organizational rules, approvals, and AI-driven metrics context.

Quantifiable outcome

• 8x faster resolution of workforce and budget questions
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

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Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Visier: Visier is a direct competitor offering a workforce analytics and people intelligence platform for HR and business leaders. Both target similar enterprise personas (CHRO, CFO) with AI-driven insights on workforce data, making them head-to-head competitors in the people analytics category.
• OneModel: OneModel provides a people analytics and data platform for HR leaders, with similar AI-driven metrics, dashboards, and HRIS integration capabilities. It competes directly with Compete's AI-Driven Analytics and AI Business Partner offerings for enterprise HR analytics buyers.
• Crunchr: Crunchr is a workforce analytics platform that connects HR, Finance, and Operations data for data-driven people decisions—mirroring Compete's positioning. It is a direct peer serving similar mid-market and enterprise HR personas across Europe and globally.
• ChartHop: ChartHop offers an organizational analytics and people data platform with dashboards, headcount planning, and reporting for HR and operations teams. It overlaps with Compete's workforce analytics and metrics hub capabilities for distributed-workforce customers.

Broad incumbents

• Workday: Workday is a broad HCM and finance suite that embeds native people analytics (Workday People Analytics, Illuminate) into its core platform. As an incumbent with massive scale and customer reach, it represents both a competitive threat and a potential ecosystem partner for Compete.
• SAP SuccessFactors: SAP SuccessFactors is a broad enterprise HCM suite offering embedded analytics and AI capabilities (SAP Joule). It competes with Compete in the workforce analytics layer, particularly for large enterprises already standardized on SAP.
• Oracle HCM Cloud: Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM provides embedded workforce analytics and AI-driven insights as part of a broader enterprise suite. It is an incumbent that competes with Compete for large-enterprise HR analytics budgets and may displace standalone analytics platforms.

Emerging players

• HiBob: HiBob is a modern HRIS platform for mid-market companies with built-in people analytics and reporting. It overlaps with Compete on workforce analytics and metrics for distributed workforces, though HiBob is more focused on being the system of record.
• Lattice: Lattice offers people management software with performance, engagement, and analytics capabilities. It overlaps with Compete's personalized workflows and workforce insights for HR leaders, though Lattice focuses more on performance/engagement than financial workforce analytics.
• Pave: Pave provides compensation management and workforce benchmarking tools with analytics for HR and Finance teams. It competes with Compete's Personalized Workflows for compensation processes and overlaps on compensation benchmarking and HR-Finance insights.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/competehr

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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