HghrEd — the higher-education HCM, payroll and compliance platform: HCM dashboard with faculty tenure, student-worker management, grant ID tracking, and a US talent map

The #1 agentic workforce platform for higher education

The whole academic workforce:
sourced, paid, and compliant.

Get started with the agentic platform built for higher education — where your team and AI agents work together inside the systems your campus already runs: sourcing, rates, compliance, Employer-of-Record and payroll for faculty, adjuncts, researchers, student workers, grants and stipends. Baked in, not bolted on.

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The platform

One platform for the whole academic workforce

Everything a corporate workforce system does — plus the things higher education actually runs on, through to payroll. AI does the heavy lifting so your team doesn't.

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Rate Intelligence

Open a requisition and HghrEd proposes a defensible rate before you ask — with the evidence to back it.

Benchmark band by discipline (CIP), rank & tenure
Total cost of engagement: direct / EOR / agency / direct-sourced
Blends live clearing prices with CUPA-HR, IPEDS, BLS & Lightcast
Confidence score — never false precision

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Multi-State Presence & Residency

Automatic day-counting for traveling faculty and staff, with proactive alerts before a tax line is crossed.

"You've got 2 days left in New York" — to employee, manager & people-ops
Counsel-maintained thresholds (residency, withholding, sourcing)
Year-end W-2 work-day allocation, exported to UKG / ADP
Audit-ready, point-in-time history

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Workforce Value & Compliance Insight

A free assessment that quantifies your real cost of employment, savings opportunity, and compliance exposure.

Cost-of-employment breakdown vs. benchmark
Quantified annual savings opportunity
Compliance & coverage gap map
Prioritized roadmap — yours to keep

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Academic workforce models

First-class support for the roles a corporate system treats as edge cases.

Faculty lifecycle, adjuncts & tenured structures
Student & work-study workers with hour caps & rules
Tailor-made Courses (W-2 EoR) with milestones, plus SoW
Academic-calendar terms & unique stipend models

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Grant & fund tracking

Manage research grants and multiple funding sources with their restrictions — natively, not in a spreadsheet alongside.

Multi-fund allocation with per-source restrictions
Effort & encumbrance against the right award
Integrates with SIS & grant-management systems

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AI & automation

The services that used to need a person now run themselves — with a human in the loop where it counts.

Résumé ↔ job-description match scoring
Alumni / past-worker auto-matching to open requisitions
Automated onboarding & compliance workflows
Direct sourcing from a 24,000-strong pre-vetted academic pool

Guardians of HigherEd

Three AI Guardians, watching what matters

Your budget, your compliance, your mission. Each Guardian plugs into the system you already run, proves its value in weeks, and never sleeps. AI does the watching; your team makes the calls.

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Spend Guardian

Protects your budget

HghrEd · Spend Guardian

Spend Guardian — workforce spend oversight

Reads 100% of your work orders, timesheets and invoices and flags overbilling, billing on closed work orders, duplicates and rate drift, before you pay.

Free diagnostic: a 12-month back-test of your current VMS showing exactly how much you have been over-billed.

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Compliance Guardian

Protects against risk

HghrEd · Compliance Guardian

Compliance Guardian — multi-state compliance scorecard

Scores your multi-state exposure by jurisdiction with citations, lists every contingent worker at risk, and shows where your current system left you exposed, and how to fix it.

Free diagnostic: your Workforce-Value & Compliance score, plus the list of workers your obsolete system put at risk.

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Talent Guardian

Protects your mission

HghrEd · Talent Guardian

Talent Guardian — vetted academic talent pool

Sources, matches and keeps your academic workforce, faculty, adjuncts, researchers and student workers, so no course and no role goes uncovered.

Free diagnostic: vetted matches for your open roles from a 24,000-strong academic pool, in minutes.

Course Guardian, every course staffed with the right adjunct on time, joins the squad next.

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elipsumglobal.com · Travel & Residency

Travel & Residency — work-days by jurisdiction, threshold alerts and year-end W-2 allocation in the real product

Compliance, in the real product

Know the tax line before anyone crosses it

HghrEd counts work-days by jurisdiction automatically, warns the employee, manager and people-ops as a threshold approaches, and hands payroll a year-end W-2 allocation — exported straight to UKG or ADP.

Per-state day counts with live status — OK · Warning · Breach
"2 more days before a withholding obligation" alerts
Year-end allocation %, ready for payroll & multi-state W-2s
Audit-ready, point-in-time history for every decision

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Your roadmap

Make an educated decision that takes you higher

Every assessment plots your opportunities by impact and effort — so you start with the quick wins, not the busywork. Two lenses: your contingent workforce, and your permanent internal team.

↑ Higher impact & savings

Quick wins

Strategic bets

Easy fills

Deprioritize

Lower effortEffort to implement →Higher effort

elipsumglobal.com · Workforce Insight · Prioritization map

A real Workforce Insight prioritization map — states ranked by impact and complexity, with quick wins highlighted

↑ The real thing — a live Workforce Insight assessment ranks your states (and initiatives) by impact and complexity, so the quick wins are obvious.

The difference

Generic platforms were built for corporate contingent labor

Faculty, work-study, grants, stipends and academic calendars are not edge cases to configure around — in HghrEd they're the core model. Here's where it shows.

Capability	Generic corporate system	HghrEd (higher-ed-native)
Faculty workforce management	Limited support for diverse academic roles & tenured structures	Built for the faculty lifecycle, ranks, adjuncts & scheduling
Student / work-study workers	Often lacks granular handling of work-study, max hours, distinct rules	Student-worker restrictions, hour caps & compliance, first-class
Grant & fund tracking	Typically external processes; no deep integration	Multi-fund management & restrictions integrated natively
Academic calendar & stipends	Standard corporate payroll cycles & structures	Aligns with academic terms & unique stipend models
Higher-ed integrations (SIS, grants)	Generic; integration effort can be extensive	Prioritized, purpose-built SIS & grant-system integrations
Multi-state residency compliance	Bolt-on or out of scope	Native day-counting, proactive alerts & W-2 allocation

Positioning reflects how general-purpose corporate platforms are architected for corporate contingent labor; specific capabilities vary by vendor and configuration. HghrEd's advantage is that higher-ed models are the core data model, not a configuration layer.

Capability	VNDLY (general VMS)	HghrEd
Tailor-made Courses with milestones	~ SoW module only — not an academic course / milestone model	✓ Tailor-made Courses with milestones auto-generated from term dates & total fee, plus SoW
Higher-ed-native data model (faculty / student / grant)	✕ general contingent-labor model	✓ purpose-built for higher ed
Embedded rate intelligence at requisition	~ rate cards, set manually	✓ AI suggestion + benchmark band + cost-of-engagement
Multi-state presence & residency alerting	✕ not in scope	✓ proactive alerts + year-end W-2 allocation
Workflow automation	~ general request workflows	✓ résumé ↔ JD matching, alumni auto-matching, automated onboarding & alerts
Direct sourcing from a vetted academic pool	✕	✓ 24k pre-vetted faculty / alumni pool
Free workforce-value & compliance assessment	✕	✓ WVCI, free
Freemium entry — start without a sales cycle	✕ enterprise sales	✓ free tier, self-serve
Guided migration off your current system	—	✓ proven migration path, built for multi-institution / system-wide rollout

VNDLY is a general-purpose VMS (a Workday company). Comparison is capability- and category-level — HghrEd is purpose-built for higher education; verify current feature parity directly with each vendor before procurement. HghrEd offers a guided migration for institutions moving off an existing system.

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when the value is obvious.

Run the directory, compare vendors and get your assessment for free. Premium intelligence and automation unlock when you're ready — no procurement marathon to get started.

Starter

For teams getting their bearings and proving the case internally.

Free forever

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✓ Vendor directory & comparison
✓ Basic requisitions & tracking
✓ Workforce Value & Compliance assessment
✓ Community insights & benchmarks
🔒 Rate Intelligence engine PRO
🔒 Residency alerting PRO
🔒 UKG / ADP / SIS integrations ENT

Professional

For programs running active higher-ed workforce at scale.

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✓ Everything in Starter
✓ Rate Intelligence engine
✓ Multi-state presence & residency alerts
✓ Direct sourcing & alumni matching
✓ Tailor-made Courses & SoW management
✓ Analytics & savings tracking
🔒 Full platform migration & EoR ENT

Enterprise

For institutions replacing a legacy system and running the full workforce.

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✓ Everything in Professional
✓ Full workforce & payroll platform (VNDLY replacement) & guided migration
✓ Employer-of-Record & payroll integrations
✓ UKG / ADP / SIS / grant-system connectors
✓ Counsel-maintained compliance rules
✓ SOC 2 alignment & dedicated support

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Vendor Directory FREE

Browse and shortlist workforce vendors side by side.

Workforce Value Assessment FREE

Your cost-of-employment & savings snapshot.

Rate Intelligence PRO

AI rate suggestion + benchmark band on every requisition.

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Unlocks on ProfessionalUpgrade

Residency Alerts PRO

Proactive multi-state day-counting & warnings.

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Unlocks on ProfessionalUpgrade

Full Platform Migration ENT

Replace your current VMS or payroll system with guided migration.

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Unlocks on EnterpriseUpgrade

UKG / ADP / SIS Connectors ENT

Year-end W-2 allocation straight into payroll.

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Unlocks on EnterpriseUpgrade

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Insights

Ideas for the modern academic workforce

AI, optimization and compliance — written for higher-ed leaders, not corporate procurement.

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Rate intelligence

What an adjunct should actually cost in New York vs. Tennessee

Why a single national benchmark misleads — and how peer-set, discipline and burden change the number.

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Compliance

The traveling chancellor problem: residency risk no one is counting

How a handful of senior travelers create six-figure withholding exposure — and how to alert before it happens.

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Automation

The university services that quietly automated themselves in 2026

From résumé matching to onboarding — what to automate safely, and where to keep a human in the loop.

No cost · No sales pressure

See your institution's workforce value & compliance risk — free

Get a quantified cost-of-employment breakdown, savings opportunity and compliance map for your institution. Yours to keep, whether or not you ever pay us a cent.

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The whole academic workforce:sourced, paid, and compliant.