That single habit removes most appraisal arguments before they start. It is also the thing most HR software does not do: it will happily store a rating, but it cannot tell you where the rating came from.
The four platforms
- Alvora HRMS Built — employee records, leave, attendance and shifts, goals, appraisals, increments and letters, in one place. Your HR team stops chasing spreadsheets and your managers stop asking them to.
- Alvora Hire Built — every CV in one pipeline, no duplicates, no candidate lost in someone’s inbox. Interview notes are captured as you go, so shortlists are based on what was actually said.
- Alvora Gig In build — for contractors and vendor staff: joining papers, compliance documents, timesheets and payments. Useful when a big part of your workforce is not on your payroll.
- Alvora Learning In build — training delivered and tracked, using the same skill list your appraisals use. So you can see whether training actually changed anyone’s rating.
We mark what is built and what is still being built. You should never find out during a demo that a feature does not exist yet.
From goal to pay rise, without a gap
Most HR software stops at the rating and leaves the pay decision to a spreadsheet. That gap is exactly where staff stop trusting the process.
| Step | What happens | What you can show later |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Set from the company target, agreed with the employee, then locked | Who changed the target, when, and why |
| Proof | The employee submits evidence as they go; duplicates are caught | The documents behind the number |
| Rating | Worked out from the result using rules you set, not a manager’s mood | A plain-English explanation the employee can read themselves |
| Review meeting | Managers compare ratings side by side and adjust the odd ones out | Every change, with the reason given |
| Increment | Budget checked, rules applied, approvals collected | A letter and a payroll entry that match the decision exactly |
Where AI sits, and where it does not
AI helps. A person decides.
What it does
- Writes a first draft of a job advert you then edit
- Points out a vague goal before a manager approves it
- Answers “how much leave do I have left?” from your own policy, with the source
- Explains a number in plain words — the maths is done by code, not by AI
What it never does
- Decide anyone’s rating. The number that affects pay is chosen by a named person
- Read faces, voices or moods. We have not built it and cannot add it later
- Watch how people work and use it against them
- Calculate leave balances or pay. That stays ordinary, checkable code
Every AI feature can be switched off, and everything still works without it. You are never stuck if the AI is wrong or unavailable.
How you get it
Alvora is not sold as a separate licence. It comes inside the packages — HRMS Essentials from the smallest one upwards, HRMS Core on Operate, and Alvora Hire on Partner. That is deliberate: software on its own rarely fixes an HR problem, and we would rather configure it around what a health check actually found.