Software that shows its working
We build software for the reports and decisions that have to stand up to scrutiny: Employment Equity, gender pay gap, pay reviews and bursary schemes. Every number traces back to a rule and a named person. AI can suggest; people decide. And once a record is signed off, it can't be quietly changed.
Our products
South Africa Bean Lucid
Reconciled, signed and evidenced EEA2 and EEA4 reports from your payroll export.
Ireland Gap Proof
Your gender pay gap figures and report, with the evidence of how every number was produced.
Available anywhere Bean Sprouts
Run your employer-funded bursary scheme from application to payment.
Available anywhere Beanstalk People
Goals to reviews to pay, with an audit trail at every step.
Available anywhere Buzdesk
Drafts priced quotes from your own catalogue and compares supplier prices side by side.
When someone asks "where did this number come from?", you have the answer
Equity reports, pay gap figures, salary increases and bursary awards all get questioned: by auditors, regulators, committees and employees. So we build every product the same way. Nothing is a black box, nothing is decided by a machine, and nothing changes without a record.
Every number shows its working
Each figure links back to the data, the rule and the decision behind it, so you can explain it to anyone who asks.
AI suggests, people decide
Where we use AI, it drafts and flags. A named person approves, and that approval is recorded.
Signed off means sealed
Once a record is signed off it can't be quietly changed. Corrections become new versions, with the old one kept.
You deal with the person who built it
Elastic Bean is founder-led, with nearly thirty years of building software for organisations. No hand-offs, no call centre.