Now in early access

People intelligence
your mid-market
actually deserves

Cendral gives 200–1,000 person companies the workforce analytics capability that enterprise vendors charge millions for. Predict attrition. Map skill gaps. Match talent internally. Hire smarter.

Attrition risk · Q3 2025 3 critical
  • PR
    Priya R.
    Senior Engineer
    87%
    High
  • MK
    Marcus K.
    Product Manager
    62%
    Med
  • AL
    Aisha L.
    Sales Lead
    28%
    Low
Skills gap · Engineering team
ML / AI
−38%
Cloud infra
−17%
Python
+10%
The gap nobody talks about

Workday is for enterprises. Spreadsheets are for everyone else. Until now.

Companies between 200 and 1,000 employees are the invisible middle of the workforce tech market. Too large to run on gut instinct, too small to afford the platforms built for Fortune 500s. They make million-dollar hiring and retention decisions with the same tools a startup uses on day one.

39%
of key workforce skills are expected to change by 2030 — mid-market companies have no system to track this in real time.
$200K
average cost to replace a senior leader — yet most mid-market HR teams find out someone is leaving the day they resign.
3×
better workforce planning outcomes for companies using predictive people analytics, versus those relying on reactive reporting.

Four modules. One source of truth for your people.

Cendral integrates with your HRIS, ATS, and engagement tools in under a day — then surfaces decisions you never had visibility into before.

Skills Gap Mapping

Understand the delta between what your teams know today and what your roadmap requires in 6–18 months. Built on live job market signals, not static competency frameworks.

  • Role-level skill inventories from HRIS + performance data
  • Forward-looking gap scoring against market benchmarks
  • L&D prioritization recommendations with ROI estimates
  • Org-wide heat map export for leadership reviews
Attrition Prediction

Know who is likely to leave 90 days before they resign. Cendral's model weighs tenure, engagement, compensation drift, promotion lag, and team dynamics together.

  • Individual risk scores with explainable signal breakdowns
  • Manager-level digest for 1:1 conversation prompts
  • Cohort clustering to find systemic retention issues
  • Slack/email alerts when risk thresholds are crossed
Internal Mobility Matching

Before you post a job externally, surface the internal candidates who could grow into it. Reduce external hiring costs by 40% and give high-performers a visible growth path.

  • Skills-adjacency matching across departments
  • Upskill gap estimate for each internal candidate
  • Mobility history tracking and success analytics
  • Manager approval workflows built in
Interview Intelligence

Structure your hiring process around the skills you actually need to close. Cendral ties interview scorecards to your skills gap analysis and predicts 90-day ramp time per candidate.

  • AI-generated interview guides aligned to skills gaps
  • Structured scorecard analysis and bias flagging
  • Offer calibration based on compensation market data
  • Post-hire validation loop to improve future scoring

Live in 24 hours, insights in 48.

No months-long implementation. No consultant fees. Cendral connects to your existing stack and starts surfacing actionable intelligence immediately.

1
Connect your stack

Native integrations with BambooHR, Rippling, Gusto, Lever, Greenhouse, Workable, and more. OAuth in minutes.

2
Baseline in 48 hrs

Cendral processes your historical data to build skills profiles, tenure maps, and compensation benchmarks automatically.

3
Act on insights

Dashboards, Slack digests, and manager reports surface what needs attention — with specific recommended actions.

4
Measure outcomes

Track retention improvements, internal fill rates, and skill coverage over time. Prove the ROI of people decisions.

Built for the companies left behind by enterprise HR tech.

If you're between 200 and 1,000 employees, growing fast, and tired of making people decisions with incomplete data — Cendral was built for you.

Series B–D Tech

"We were scaling to 300 people and still running attrition analysis in Excel. By the time we knew someone was unhappy, they had already signed elsewhere."

Director of People OperationsSaaS company, 280 employees
Professional Services

"We had 14 open roles we didn't realize we could fill internally. We were spending $200K on external recruiting for talent that already worked for us."

Head of TalentManagement consultancy, 450 employees
Manufacturing / Ops

"Our skills gaps were invisible until a critical project failed. We needed to see months ahead, not just react when someone walks out."

VP of Human ResourcesIndustrial firm, 680 employees
MA
200–1K
the underserved middle

Mann Agarwal

Founder & CEO, Cendral

Mann has spent years watching mid-market companies lose their best people to competitors who could predict it coming — and watching HR leaders fight for credibility at the leadership table with nothing but lagging indicators.

His conviction: the 200–1,000 employee band is the most consequential yet most underserved segment in workforce technology. These companies grow fast, compete hard for talent, and make decisions that determine whether they become something enduring — all without the tools to do it intelligently.

Cendral is built on the belief that people intelligence should be a default capability for every growing company, not a privilege reserved for enterprises with eight-figure HR tech budgets.

Decisions over dashboards People analytics that doesn't drive a specific action is just a report. Every Cendral insight surfaces a recommended next step.
Integrated, not isolated HR data has only become siloed because the tools for the middle market haven't existed. Cendral connects everything that already exists.
Forward-looking by default The average HRIS tells you what happened. Cendral tells you what's coming — and what to do before it does.
Early access · Limited seats

Your people data is already telling you something. Are you listening?

Join the first cohort of mid-market companies who will see attrition coming before it happens and build skill coverage before gaps become crises.