Know If You Can Deliver Before You Commit
Your HR tool doesn't know your projects. Your PM tool doesn't know your people. When a new deal lands, you open a spreadsheet and guess. Merlin connects project demand to workforce capacity in one platform. For the first time, see the full picture.
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Capacity Dashboard
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Capacity Dashboard
Visualize workforce supply vs. project demand in real time. See red zones where capacity falls short, green zones where you have room. Forecast months ahead, not just this sprint.
Why This Architecture Matters
Three independent lifecycles
Most tools track employees OR tasks. Merlin's Person/Position/Engagement model connects who you have, what role they fill, and when they're available, directly to your project pipeline. This is what makes capacity planning possible.
Person
The human. Carries identity that persists regardless of contract or role. Their lifecycle spans their entire relationship with your organization.
Position
The organizational role. Establishes your true org hierarchy regardless of who occupies it. Positions live and evolve independently from the people who hold them.
Engagement
The contract. Dictates availability, locations, and rules. Engagements start, end, and renew on their own lifecycle. This feeds directly into capacity calculations.
Flexible Editions
Start where you are, grow into the full picture
Each edition builds on the previous one. Start with HR visibility, add operational depth, unlock capacity intelligence.
Start with visibility. People, positions, org chart, time off.
Everything in People Lite, plus:
Expenses, evidence vault, compliance. Add operational depth.
Everything in People, plus:
The full picture. Opportunity pipeline, capacity forecasting, and the decision engine.
Pricing
Enterprise intelligence, SMB pricing
Per-user SaaS subscription. The same model your CFO already understands, at a fraction of what comparable tools charge.
How it works
Per-user subscription
Starting at $5-8/user/month. Price scales with your team, not with enterprise tiers or hidden add-ons.
All-inclusive
Every feature in your edition is included. No per-module charges, no premium add-ons.
Exact pricing per edition will be announced at launch. Sign up for updates to be the first to know.
For perspective
A 100-person company today typically pays $23-40/user/month across Jira + BambooHR, with no capacity planning. Merlin at $5-8/user/month adds the intelligence none of them provide.
Your data stays yours
Each customer gets their own isolated database. We never mine, sell, or share your data. GDPR compliant by design.
What Makes It Different
| Advantage | Description |
|---|---|
| HR + Projects + Capacity in one system | No other SMB tool unifies all three. Competitors do HR (BambooHR), or projects (Jira), or capacity (Runn). Merlin does all three natively, in one data model. |
| Decision engine, not just dashboards | Merlin doesn't just show you data. It recommends actions: hire, redistribute, defer. Scenario modeling for staffing decisions. |
| Built for general SMBs, not just agencies | Unlike PSA tools (Productive, Kantata), Merlin works for any company with people and projects. Tech, manufacturing, nonprofits, education. |
| Aggressive per-user pricing | $5-8/user/month vs. Personio ($8-12), Odoo ($25-37), Jira+Tempo ($28). Enterprise-level capacity intelligence at a fraction of the cost. |
| 25 years of operational expertise | The Person/Position/Engagement data model encodes decades of real-world experience. Not a task tracker with HR bolted on. Designed from day one to answer: can we deliver? |