ChartHop StrawberryReconcile three headcounts before the board meeting
Payroll says 214, the org chart says 219, the directory says 226. A companion reads all three and hands back the differences as names: in one and not the other, conflicting details, the same person twice.
The difference is contractors, a leaver whose last day is Friday, and two people counted in both a team and its parent. Somebody reconciles it by hand every month.
A companion reads employees, org structure and custom fields, checks them against whatever else you keep, and lists every disagreement with a name on it. What it reads is bounded by what the connected account can see, which for people data is exactly the boundary you want.
What does reconciliation look like in practice?
A list of names.
A companion reads the ChartHop employee records, compares them against whichever system you point it at, and returns three groups: in one and not the other, in both with conflicting details, and records that look like the same person twice.
The conflicting-details group is the interesting one. It is usually a manager change made in one system in April and never in the other, which quietly breaks every report that rolls up by manager.
Can it prepare a compensation review?
Within what your account is allowed to see.
If the connected account has no access to compensation fields, a companion has none either.
Where access exists, the work is assembly: band, tenure, last change date and manager for every person on a review list, so the conversation starts from facts. The decision stays with the people accountable for it.
What a reorg breaks downstream
A reorg moves forty people, and afterwards the approval chains point at a manager who no longer manages them, three dashboards group by an old department name, and two people report to someone who left.
A companion reads the new structure and lists the downstream inconsistencies, which turns a vague sense that something is off into a checklist. Fixes are staged for confirmation. HR teams run it monthly alongside ai for hr teams.
Headcount planning on a correct denominator
Open requisitions in one system, approved headcount in ChartHop and actual starts in payroll rarely agree, and a plan built on the wrong denominator is worse than no plan.
A companion assembles the three views with the discrepancies named. Two hours of work, done in one pass. Related: prep a board update with ai.
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