HR software by sector
CoDash is one product, deliberately not forked per industry - the same people, time off, voice and growth underneath. What changes by sector is which features carry the weight. Here's the honest mapping.
Where CoDash fits
Teams of 20 to 1,000, UK employment law built in, privacy in the architecture. Every card opens the full sector guide.
Creative & digital agencies
Crunch weeks become TOIL that actually gets tracked, hybrid patterns show who's in the studio, the asset register knows which Mac went where, and the skills matrix and career frameworks give people a reason to stay. The culture layer - feed, kudos, anonymous voice - is the part agencies actually open daily.
Recruitment companies
High-churn onboarding without the admin drag: checklists that fire on day one, probation tracking that catches early leavers, Bradford Factor on absence, and your own hiring run through a proper pipeline with a public apply page. Commission stays with payroll - deliberately; everything around it lives here.
Software & SaaS
OKRs that cascade and auto-close, 1:1s with shared agendas, review cycles with 360 - performance machinery that engineers don't roll their eyes at. SSO, a read API, HMAC webhooks and per-company permissions keep your platform team happy too.
Marketing & PR
Campaign crunch and comp days handled by real TOIL rules, client entertainment through expenses with HMRC-checked mileage, and an engagement pulse that tells you how the team is actually doing between the big wins.
Consultancies & professional services
Utilisation lives in your practice tools; everything about the people lives here - cost centres for reporting lines of business, working-time opt-outs on record, clean leave management around client commitments, and documents with acknowledgement evidence.
Accountancy firms
January survives on visible capacity: the team calendar with coverage guardrails, TOIL for busy season, training compliance for CPD evidence, and retention rules that mirror how you already think about records.
Architecture & engineering firms
Certification registers with expiry chasing for the accreditations that matter, project teams mapped onto the org chart, and a proper record behind every leaver and starter.
Construction & trades (office + site)
Right-to-work checks with expiry reminders, the accident book and incident log as living registers, toolbox-talk acknowledgements through document tracking, and clock-in for site teams.
Manufacturing & logistics
Clock-in/out with self-closing forgotten clock-outs, rotas drafted then published to everyone's phone, overtime flowing to a finance payout view, and the working-time 48-hour opt-out register kept for you.
Retail & ecommerce
Rotas people get by email, seasonal-peak overtime with pay multipliers, absence patterns that show the Monday/Friday skew, and onboarding that copes with seasonal starters.
Charities & non-profits
Trustee-ready reporting, DBS tracking with renewals, policies with acknowledgement evidence for funders, and pricing that respects small-team budgets - all data held in the UK/EU.
Education & training providers
DBS levels and renewal dates per person, training compliance with auto-enrol and expiry, cover visibility on the team calendar, and document acknowledgement for safeguarding policies.
Estate agents & property firms
Branch structure on the team tree, who's-where across offices, commission-adjacent record keeping via pay bands and comp history, and starter checklists that get negotiators productive fast.
Media & production
Freelancer-heavy headcount handled by employment types and clean offboarding, kit tracked per person, TOIL after the edit runs long, and celebrations that keep a distributed crew feeling like one team.
Don't see yours? The feature tour is sector-neutral by design - or ask us straight whether CoDash fits, and we'll tell you honestly, including when it doesn't.