Relaunching LunaHR — a from-scratch rebuild for 2026
After a long stretch of quiet engineering, we’ve relaunched LunaHR — our HR platform for UK SMEs. Here’s what changed, what shipped, and what’s coming next.
LunaHR has been live for years as a flexible HR platform for small and mid-sized UK teams. This year we’ve done something we don’t do often: we rebuilt it. Properly. From the ground up. Same name, same product positioning, but a substantially better tool underneath.
The trigger was simple — small teams have very different needs to enterprise HRIS suites, and the old build was starting to show its age. Compliance keeps changing, AI is quietly rewriting how a lot of admin work gets done, and our customers were ready for an HR product that felt like the rest of their modern stack.
What’s new
The rebuilt LunaHR ships with a tighter dashboard, a redesigned employee profile, and a handful of new modules that didn’t exist before:
- AI expense capture — drag a receipt in, LunaHR reads it, categorises it, and surfaces a confidence score so reviewers know what to spot-check.
- Performance & 1:1s — review cycles, goal setting, and ongoing 1:1 notes in one place, with delegation built in.
- IT asset management — track laptops, phones, and other kit through their lifecycle with QR-tracked check-in / check-out, issue management, and proper audit logs.
- Document signing & filing cabinet — contracts go out for signature, come back signed, and live in a filing cabinet that the right people can search and the wrong people can’t.
- Configurable everything — custom fields, custom leave policies, and per-company personalisation so the platform fits how teams actually work, not how an HRIS thinks they should.
Built on a stack that pays off long-term
The rebuild runs on Next.js, React Server Components, and Convex underneath, with Clerk for identity. That stack lets a small team move fast without giving up the kind of reliability you need for an HR system — record-level access control, audit logs, real-time updates across clients, and an offline-friendly mobile companion app.
It’s also a stack we’ll happily live on for the next decade. We’ve been burnt before by “modern” choices that aged badly within two years; this one we’re betting on.
What’s coming next
Now that the foundations are in, the rest of the year is about depth: deeper payroll integrations, broader leave-policy options for shift-based workforces, and a much-expanded mobile app for managers approving things on the move. We’ll be writing about each of those as they ship.
If you’re running a UK team between roughly 10 and 250 people and your current HR setup is a mix of spreadsheets and tools that don’t talk to each other — we’d love to show you around.