Product
Headcount Planner
Built from QuickBooks or Xero

Build your headcount plan in minutes

Forecast headcount down to the individual employee. Clockwork connects to the major payroll providers and builds your entire plan in minutes, ready for you to adjust.

Free 14-day trial, no credit card. Your first forecast in about five minutes.

Clockwork headcount planner listing employees, planned hires, base pay, and total monthly cost
What it does

Strategize your staffing needs

Every employee and contractor expense, under control

Run any "what if" scenario on your existing headcount, for both W2 employees and 1099 contractors.

See what every new hire does to cash flow, whatever the payroll frequency

No complex formulas to capture payroll's quirks and its impact on cash flow. Clockwork handles the intricacies and leaves you the control.

Simply and easily view headcount plans in real-time

Clockwork integrates with every major payroll provider to pull in individual employee data to have full control over taxes, benefits, salaries, and much more in real-time.

How it works

Built from your books, kept current as they change.

Nothing to set up and nothing to maintain. Connect QuickBooks or Xero and this is what you get.

Step 1

Real-time integrations with all the major payroll providers

In minutes, integrate with your payroll provider to see employee level detailed information and plan for any adjustments with a comprehensive view of 1099 contractors and W2 employees

Real-time integrations with major payroll providers
Step 2

Forecast 1099 contractor and full-time W2 employees in one place

Your single source of truth for all of your headcount planning, both full-time and part-time, to see impacts on cash flow and finances.

Forecast 1099 contractors and W2 employees in one place
Step 3

Benefits, automatic raises, taxes all encompassed

Fully loaded employee costs to make sure every employee expense is covered and the ability to build custom metrics based on that data.

Benefits, automatic raises and taxes all encompassed
Who uses it

The same forecast, two jobs.

For accounting firms

The same deliverable for every client, built the day you connect them.

The portfolio view shows which clients need a conversation and when, so the advisory call happens before the problem does. Unlimited users, no per-client charges.

For businesses

A CFO's view of the business, without the CFO.

Decisions about hiring, buying, and pricing get made with the numbers in front of you, and Mira explains what moved and why. Free 14-day trial, no credit card.

Explore the platform

It all comes from the same model.

Every feature reads from one 5-year, 3-statement model built from your books, so the numbers always agree with each other.

Weekly Cash Flow Forecast

A 52-week cash forecast on a full balance sheet. See the low week before it arrives.

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Financial Modeling

The 5-year, 3-statement model everything else rolls up into.

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Scenario Planning

Change a hire, a price, or a location and compare the cash lines side by side.

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Mira AI FP&A Analyst

Ask why a number moved and what to do about it, in plain English.

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Questions people ask

Plain answers, no jargon.

Still have one? Book a demo and ask a human.

What does the headcount planner do?

It forecasts headcount down to the individual employee or contractor, pulls real payroll data from your provider, and shows what every hire, raise, or departure does to cash flow and the P&L.

Which payroll providers does it connect to?

ADP, Gusto, Paychex, Justworks, Paylocity, Paycom, UKG, Insperity, Paycor, TriNet, BambooHR, and more. Connect once and employee-level detail flows into the plan.

Does it handle contractors as well as employees?

Yes. W2 employees and 1099 contractors are planned in one place, with fully loaded costs including taxes, benefits, and scheduled raises.

Can I test a hire before committing to it?

Yes. Add the role, the start date, and the compensation, and the 52-week cash flow forecast and 5-year model update immediately so you can see whether you can afford it.

Free 14-day trial. No credit card.

See it on your own numbers.

Connect QuickBooks or Xero and Clockwork builds the model in about five minutes. Or bring a file to a demo and we'll build it while you watch.