# People Partner

> AI-powered HR platform that runs locally on your Mac. Performance reviews, employee data, eNPS surveys, document Q&A, and AI guidance — all on your device. $99 one-time, BYOK.

*Canonical URL: https://peoplepartner.io/index.md*
*Last updated: 2026-05-02*

## What it is

People Partner is the HR platform that runs on your Mac. Performance reviews, employee data, document Q&A, and AI guidance — and your data never leaves the device.

## Who it's for

- Solo HR practitioners running the entire function
- Founders managing HR alongside the rest of the company
- Accidental HR — operations leads, EAs, finance folks who got handed the people work
- Small-business operators with 10 to 200 employees

## What it does

- **Performance management with AI-extracted insights** — pull review data into one place, surface themes across cycles
- **Import your roster from any HRIS export** — CSV, Excel, PDF, Word, plain text
- **Point it at your handbooks** — it reads them so you don't have to re-paste
- **Built-in eNPS tracking**
- **Early warning signals for team health**
- **Representation insights with built-in privacy protection**
- **Automatically redacts sensitive data before it touches AI** — SSNs, financial details, etc.
- **Works with Claude, OpenAI, or Gemini — your choice** (BYOK)

## How it's different

It is not a replacement for BambooHR, Gusto, or Rippling. It's the AI knowledge layer that sits on top of whatever HRIS you use. You export your data, import it into People Partner, and now you have one place where all your HR context meets AI.

It is not a chatbot that gives generic answers. People Partner reads your actual data — the policies you wrote, the employees you hired, the reviews you ran — and gives specific, informed guidance.

It is not a cloud SaaS. Your database lives on your Mac. Sensitive data is redacted before any AI provider sees it.

## Pricing

$99 one-time purchase. BYOK (bring your own API key). Typical AI usage runs $2 to $8 per month, paid directly to your provider.

No subscriptions, no per-seat fees, no enterprise upsells.

## Requirements

- macOS 12 (Monterey) or later
- Apple Silicon or Intel
- An API key from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google (about 2 minutes to set up)

## Links

- [Pricing](https://peoplepartner.io/pricing.md)
- [FAQ](https://peoplepartner.io/faq.md)
- [Download](https://peoplepartner.io/download.md)
- [Blog](https://peoplepartner.io/blog)