Cohortgap
An EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance API and workbench for large EU enterprises on mid-market HRIS (Personio, HiBob, Factorial) that turns any HRIS export into the statutory gap report in each member state's specific format, plus a cohort-anonymized, auditor-ready verification packet.
An HR or compliance lead at a 1,500-person European company that runs on Personio, not SAP, has a 2027 statutory deadline and no tool that fits. The compliant pay-transparency modules ship inside SAP and Workday; everyone outside that walled garden is left computing gender pay gaps by role and band in spreadsheets, then re-formatting the result by hand for every country they operate in. Each member state wants the disclosure differently, the math has to hold up to an auditor, and individual salaries can never be exposed in the process.
The HR or compliance lead at a 1,000+ employee EU enterprise that is explicitly not on SAP or Workday — they own pay-equity reporting, carry the 2027 statutory obligation personally, and already budget for compliance tooling that their HRIS does not cover.
A transposition deadline essentially this week, mandatory 2027 reporting, and SAP shipping its own module days before — the sharpest window in the batch.
Member-state formats only crystallize at transposition; building earlier meant building against unfinished law.
Four cross-references but a small local community and zero inbound connections held this down despite the cross-refs.
The sharpest temporal window in its batch — a transposition deadline landing essentially the same week, mandatory reporting in 2027, and an incumbent (SAP) shipping its own module days earlier — paired with a buyer defined by a named HRIS constraint plus company size plus role, and a structural incumbent blindspot: SAP and Workday can only serve their own HRIS, so the non-SAP/Workday base is left open.
Convergence is the weak axis — four cross-references but a small local community and no inbound connections. And the research deflates the moat: the workbench layer already has multiple players (Evenpay, beqom, PayGap, EqPay) and Trusaic's RAPTR already covers country-specific EU disclosure, so the defensible delta is the embeddable-API surface and the 27-format engine, not the workbench itself.
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