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        "body": "Hey everyone 👋 We’re Onur and Ece, founders of **Spine (F26)**. We previously founded companies together with over $1B in value, and Spine is the company we wish we’d had while building them.\n\nWe run **benefits, people ops, and compliance for startups for free**.\n\nInstead of giving founders another piece of software to manage, we give every company dedicated senior HR and benefits specialists who actually do the work, on top of the HRIS they already use — Rippling, Deel, Gusto, ADP, and others.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\n* Dedicated senior HR + benefits specialists working directly with your team in Slack\n* Works on top of the HRIS you already use \n* We implement better-fit, more cost-effective health plans and have reduced healthcare costs by around **15% on average**\n* We run open enrollment, benefits administration, payroll, compliance, onboarding/offboarding, and employee support \n* It’s free for startups: we become your benefits broker and are paid by insurance carriers\n* **30+ startups already use Spine, many of them YC companies**\n\nwatch here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6paMQfwwHU>\n\n### **The problem**\n\nRippling, Deel, Gusto, and other HR platforms are great software. But someone still has to operate them, deal with issues, coordinate with carriers, answer employee questions, manage compliance, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.\n\nAt an early-stage company, it usually falls on the founder, COO, finance lead, or whoever happens to know the most about it. That work quickly becomes a second job.\n\nSoftware helps. But someone still has to do the work.\n\n### **What we built**\n\n**Spine does the work for you. For free.**\n\nEvery company gets a dedicated senior HR lead and benefits specialist who works directly with the team, primarily through Slack, on top of the systems they already use.\n\nWe:\n\n* Review your existing health plans and run the market for better options\n* Benchmark coverage and pricing to reduce healthcare spend\n* Run open enrollment and benefits administration\n* Handle employee benefits questions directly\n* Run payroll and resolve payroll issues\n* Handle compliance, onboarding/offboarding, and ongoing people ops\n\nYou don’t need to migrate away from Rippling, Deel, Gusto, ADP, or whatever HRIS you already use. **We operate on top of it.**\n\nFor benefits, we become your broker of record. Insurance carriers already pay broker commissions, so we use those commissions to provide the rest of the service for free.\n\n### **Why we started Spine**\n\nWe spent years building and operating startups ourselves and kept running into the same problem: as our companies grew, we accumulated more software for payroll, benefits, compliance, and HR, but **the work itself never disappeared**.\n\nWe thought startups shouldn’t need to build an internal HR team just to make all of this work.\n\nSo we built Spine.\n\nToday, **30+ startups use us**, and we’re taking this work completely off their plates while also reducing what they spend on healthcare.\n\n### **Our ask 🙏**\n\nIf you’re running a startup, **get a senior HR and benefits team dedicated to you, for free.**\n\nYou can use us if:\n\n* your health insurance renewal or open enrollment is coming up\n* you’re thinking about leaving a PEO\n* you want to know whether you’re overpaying for healthcare\n* you need help with payroll, compliance or benefits\n* or you’re simply tired of spending time on work that has nothing to do with building your company\n\n**Send us what you have and we’ll start working for you right away, for free.**\n\nWe’d also really appreciate introductions to founders, CFOs, or people/ops leaders who could use the help.\n\nStart here: <https://hr.joinspine.ai/start>  or reach out to me directly here: [onur@joinspine.ai](mailto:onur@joinspine.ai)\n\nWould love feedback from the YC community ❤️",
        "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/URD-spine-we-run-hr-backoffice-benefits-for-startups-for-free",
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