About us

We build HR software
that speaks Arabic as well as English.

Goose HR is a standalone HR platform built for the Middle East: one employee record, bilingual from the first screen, and UAE payroll that already knows the rules.

/ Why we built it

Most HR platforms were designed somewhere else, for a single country and a single language, then translated into Arabic once the interface had already been decided. You can feel it: the layout fights right-to-left, the name on the contract is not the name in the system, and payroll needs a spreadsheet on the side to survive the month.

Companies here also carry rules that those platforms treat as edge cases — WPS files the bank will reject if a single field is wrong, GOSI and GPSSA contributions that depend on nationality, end-of-service gratuity that has to accrue every month, and a Hijri calendar that decides when half the workforce is on leave.

So we built Goose HR the other way round: Arabic as a first-class language, bilingual on the same record, with the regional rules in the engine rather than in a consultant's spreadsheet. The goal is unremarkable and hard — a payroll day that ends early and a set of numbers nobody argues with.

Operating principles

How we make product decisions.

/ 01

Arabic is not a translation.

Every screen is designed right-to-left first and checked in Arabic before it ships. If a feature only reads well in English, it is not finished.

/ 02

Every figure is traceable.

Any number on any screen — a leave balance, a deduction, a gratuity accrual — can be opened until you reach the rule and the record that produced it. No magic totals.

/ 03

Payroll day decides.

If a change would make the monthly run slower or riskier, it does not ship. Payroll is the one deadline in HR that cannot move, so it gets the veto.

/ Where we are

Now · Beta

Core HR, leave, attendance and payroll

The employee record, the leave engine, attendance and the payroll run with WPS, GPSSA and gratuity are in place. UAE payroll is live; Saudi Arabia is in validation.

Next

Self-service on mobile, everywhere

Polishing the employee and manager experience on a phone: requests, payslips, letters and document renewals without an HR ticket.

After that

Performance cycles and recruiting

Goals and reviews that actually close, then a lightweight hiring pipeline that turns an accepted offer into an employee record.

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Founding date, funding, first customers and office locations will be filled in once they are real. We would rather leave the row empty than invent it.

The team

A small group of careful people.

Product, engineering, payroll and support, working across the Gulf and the Levant. Real names and photographs go in below once the team page is approved.

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Want to help build it?

We are looking for engineers, designers and payroll specialists who know the region. Open roles are listed as they open — write to us in the meantime.