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We publish every update of our platform and services here: African country openings, new features, integrations and improvements. Concrete proof that a pan-African HRTech is built over time, across the 54 countries of Africa.

HR monitoring: warnings and issues

A client-side HR monitoring space, with two clearly separate objects. A warning is an act of the employer, dated, with its written notice attached: verbal, formal, then final. After two warnings still in force, the next …

HR monitoring: warnings and issues

Contractor pay: bonuses, allowances, advances

Pay items cover transport, meal, housing and remote-work allowances, performance, exceptional and signing bonuses, the thirteenth month and commission. Each company can add names of its own. An item is paid once or every…

Contractor pay: bonuses, allowances, advances

End-to-end HR reviews

A review is scheduled between a client and their worker, employee or contractor. Nine types are offered depending on the profile, and each company can define its own. The talent can also propose a slot: the client confir…

End-to-end HR reviews

New UI/UX: sign-up, onboarding, recruitment

A wave of visual redesign across the most travelled journeys: client sign-up, client and contractor onboarding, the recruitment space and its public job and candidate pages. Same functions, new layout, clearer signpostin…

New UI/UX: sign-up, onboarding, recruitment

A settings space for talents

Talents only had a profile page. They now have a settings space gathering what concerns them: identity, address, payment details, and for contractors the details of their own business. What they set themselves: their lan…

A settings space for talents

E-mail preference centre

Each client user chooses the e-mails they receive. The choice holds per workspace: with the same account, you can stay notified at one company and step back at another. Some notices stay mandatory, those touching account…

E-mail preference centre

The team table and the worker profile, rebuilt

The team table was redrawn. The photo, first name and last name took three columns, they now take one. Contract and status, until now plain text, become coloured pills readable at a glance. And a column appears that was …

The team table and the worker profile, rebuilt

Discover comes to the client side

The Discover tab, until now reserved for talents, opens to clients. The platform introduces itself there domain by domain: recruitment, team management, payroll and invoicing, time and absences, contracts and electronic …

Discover comes to the client side

The client dashboard, rebuilt

The dashboard changes in nature. It used to show headcount by gender, monthly costs and sites; it now gives what people come for, active talents and countries covered, then the most frequent moves within reach: start a r…

The client dashboard, rebuilt

One account, several workspaces

One e-mail address can now open several workspaces: a company where you are the client, an engagement where you are the contractor or the employee. On signing in, a screen lays them out, companies on one side with the ro…

One account, several workspaces

Pages now use the full width

Screens were drawn for a fixed width. On a large monitor the content stayed squeezed in the middle, surrounded by empty space, and a table of thirty workers had to be read in a narrow column. The page structure was rewor…

Pages now use the full width

Evolution of the work base

The core was reworked in depth. The data model was reviewed and adjusted first, then the new code laid on top of it, with a clear separation between the applications and the libraries they consume. That structure comes w…

Evolution of the work base

Working Time and Time Sheet tracking

End-to-end monthly time tracking for contractors. Talent side: monthly hours declaration, attaching the previous month's report, completion with invoice, completion with KYC if missing, change suggestion, archived months…

Working Time and Time Sheet tracking

Online contractor onboarding (COR module)

Clients launch the contractor onboarding themselves from the platform, step by step: Contractor or Employee selection, Kernel offer with country-based dynamic pricing, talent KYC, automatic generation of the collaboratio…

Online contractor onboarding (COR module)

Hubspot integration for Sales-driven account creation

Backend endpoint that exposes a company and its contacts from Hubspot. The sales team can create a Kernel account for a CRM-identified prospect without double entry. The prospect receives a magic link and finds the accou…

Hubspot integration for Sales-driven account creation

Settings: shared company information

Client users can view their company legal information (name, registered office, latest K-bis, general email, phone) from a dedicated Settings tab. The Update button is reserved for the Owner and triggers a contact reques…

Settings: shared company information

Client and talent layout overhaul, new Discover tab

Complete overhaul of the client and talent interface: new menu, new page structure, smoother experience, app-loader on startup, screen-size verification. For freelance talents, a new Discover tab brings together Kernel r…

Client and talent layout overhaul, new Discover tab

Complete client onboarding: KYC, MSA, T&Cs, Legal Representative

Fully automated onboarding for new clients: T&Cs validation by all users (with a public legal-notice page), KYC and KYB by the Legal Representative, ability to invite or change the company Legal Representative, online MS…

Complete client onboarding: KYC, MSA, T&Cs, Legal Representative

Integrated electronic signature (Oneflow)

Integration of Oneflow as the platform's electronic signature tool. This building block underpins every signature on Kernel: MSA (client master agreement), CPS (client-side collaboration agreement), COR contract (talent …

Integrated electronic signature (Oneflow)

Client invoice sync with Evoliz

Integration of the Evoliz invoicing tool with the platform. Invoices issued for the client by Kernel are automatically synced and visible in the client Invoices tab, without double entry or delay. Includes custom-period …

Client invoice sync with Evoliz

Automated email sequences around employee contracts

Backend module that automatically sends emails at six key moments around every employee contract: on full signature by all parties, two days before contract start, then one day, seven days, thirty days after start, and e…

Automated email sequences around employee contracts

Recruitments space overhaul and public sharing

Overhaul of the client recruitment views: one-click duplication of a recruitment, public sharing of a candidate file or a job description via link (URL accessible without a Kernel account), explicit validation of the job…

Recruitments space overhaul and public sharing

Authentication overhaul: magic link, reset password, route guards

Complete authentication overhaul: magic link sign-in (link sent by email), password sign-in, full password-reset flow, email verification on sign-up, route guards that redirect users based on their status, error page for…

Authentication overhaul: magic link, reset password, route guards

Candidate presentation in the client space

Clients review candidates presented through a unified anonymised Kernel template (photo, age, experience, languages, skills, monthly cost, AI summary). Available actions: mark to meet, reject with reason, reactivate a re…

Candidate presentation in the client space

Public inbound flow via recruitment request

Multi-step public flow (responsive desktop and mobile) that lets a prospect submit a recruitment request and create their Kernel account in minutes. Magic link by email, unique recruitment identifier, recruitment view av…

Public inbound flow via recruitment request

Team management and multi-role access rights

Unlimited team-member invitations with assignment of one of four roles (Owner, Administrator, Manager, Accountant). Four dynamic statuses per invitee (Invitation sent, Active, Suspended, Deleted), granular per-page permi…

Team management and multi-role access rights

Personal Settings space

Profile Settings tab. Each user can update personal information (last name, first name, language, time zone, role, photo) and secure their account (email change confirmed by link, password change with double entry).

Personal Settings space

Official V1 launch of the platform

First official version of the Kernel platform. Client side: dashboard, collaborator and contract management, company documents, absence calendar, payslip, invoices, team directory, notifications drawer, bilingual French …

Official V1 launch of the platform

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