Founding customer program
Five firms, half price, direct product-input access
Hibiscus HR is looking for five small Canadian accounting firms to be its first named customers. Not five soft trial signups. Five firms who run real payroll on this platform for at least a quarter and are willing to say so publicly.
In exchange we cut the price in half for a year, ship your feature requests inside a quarter, and hand you Stephen's personal phone number.
What we ask
Ask 1
Real payroll for at least one quarter
Run a minimum of three consecutive pay cycles on Hibiscus HR, using it as your firm's actual payroll platform. Not a parallel test, not a demo, actual pay hitting actual bank accounts.
Ask 2
A named quote and logo on the homepage
Your firm name and a partner's name attached to a one-sentence quote about what Hibiscus HR did for you. Fabricated testimonials violate the Canadian Competition Act, so a name and a face is what makes a testimonial mean anything.
Ask 3
A quarterly 30-minute review call
For the first year, we spend half an hour on your calendar every quarter walking through what worked, what did not, and what would you build next. Direct product-development input from a real firm.
What we offer
Offer 1
50 percent off for the first twelve months
$9 CAD per employee per month, from your first paid month for a full year. Zero-charge trial period stays the same. After twelve months the rate reverts to the published $18 or $16 annual.
Offer 2
Direct line to Stephen
Not through a support portal. Stephen's personal phone number for anything urgent for the duration of the founding-customer relationship.
Offer 3
Your feature requests get shipped
Anything on the quarterly review call that isn't "no we won't build that because it violates our positioning" gets added to the roadmap that week and shipped within a quarter. We are a small team; we don't have a backlog of a hundred bigger customers ahead of you.
Who we're looking for
- Canadian accounting firm, 5 to 30 people on staff.
- At least one partner taking T5013 draws (not just a founder on T4 salary). The partner-draw ledger is the wedge; without partners the product does not shine.
- At least one CPA or CGA on the team, since CPD tracking is one of the day-one values.
- Not in Quebec (yet). We support English-Canada payroll today; Quebec (RL-1, QPP, QPIP, CNESST, Bill 96, Law 25) is on the roadmap.
- Willing to have your firm name and one partner's face on the homepage of hibiscushr.ca.
How to apply
Email stephen@hibiscushr.cawith your firm name, your rough headcount, and how many partners take draws. We reply the same day, get on the phone within two, and if it's a fit we onboard the firm inside a week.
Five spots. First-come, first-fit. We'll close the program on this page the same day it fills.