Every difficult conversation, handled right.

ManagerAlly guides you through the conversations managers dread, from a first performance chat to misconduct and redundancy, and builds the documentation and evidence file as you go. Walk in prepared, handle it with confidence, and know exactly when to bring HR in.

✓ Built for Australian workplaces. ✓ Guidance approved by HR professionals. Built on the Fair Work Act 2009.

Guided, compliant employee conversations for sole traders, growing businesses, and enterprises.

Confidently manage employee conversations with guided, compliant tools built for sole traders, growing businesses, and enterprises. Improve communication, reduce risk, and handle workplace discussions with ease.

Sole traders
Employ staff under your own ABN? You carry the same Fair Work obligations as any employer, but with no HR behind you. Be your own HR department, with a professional’s wording in every conversation.
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Growing businesses
From your second seat to your tenth: every manager runs the same fair, documented process, and the owner sees every case in one place.
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Enterprises
More than ten managers? A lower rate on every seat beyond the tenth, one consistent process across sites and teams, and a complete audit trail for HR.
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Managers go in underprepared

Most managers don't know what to say in a performance meeting, misconduct conversation, or redundancy consultation until they're already in the room.

One wrong word becomes a Fair Work claim

In Australia, a single procedural misstep, like an unrecorded conversation or a missed obligation, can escalate into a tribunal dispute.

HR only finds out when it's too late

Managers avoid escalating to HR until a matter is serious. By then the documentation is weak, the risk is high, and the cost to fix it is significant.

ManagerAlly is built to close this gap.

300,000+ Australian businesses have 5–199 staff, most with no HR department

53,000+ claims reached the Fair Work Commission last year, and rising

10 guided scenarios, from a first performance chat to a redundancy consultation

For managers

Confidence in the room. Know what to say, what not to say, and what comes next in the ten conversations managers dread most.

For the business

Protection on file. Every case builds a complete, timestamped record, ready to hand to your HR team or adviser if it ever escalates.

See it happen step by step

From scenario to
completed case Play the case study

See the workflow in action

Select your scenario

Ten scenarios, from a first performance chat to a redundancy consultation, each with its own questions, risk checks and documents.

01
Answer guided questions & attach evidence

Structured questions capture the circumstances and history. Attach the emails, screenshots and records that support them. They stay with the case.

02
Review your risk flags

Risk checks flag escalation triggers such as protected attributes, missing notice, award obligations and thin evidence before you walk in.

03
Walk in prepared

A tailored meeting guide, invitation letter and document drafts are ready before you sit down, so you run the meeting, not the paperwork.

04
Record the outcome

Record what was said, and the file note, follow-up and letters complete themselves. Need more support? The whole case file goes straight to your HR team or adviser.

05

"Most claims that reach the Fair Work Commission don't turn on the decision — they turn on the process. A tool that walks a line manager through notice, the support person and the opportunity to respond, before HR is even involved, will close the gap where most of the damage is done."

HR People & Culture DirectorProfessional services, 200+ staff

"The evidence is always the problem. Managers remember the conversation but not the date, and the email that started it all is buried in an inbox. Anything that gets managers to attach the email to the record on the day is going to be a great tool for handling difficult conversations with staff properly."

PM Employee Relations AdviserWorkplace relations consultancy

"Small businesses without an HR function need this most. A structured intake, plain-English risk flags and a script that says 'no decision has been made' would prevent a large share of the unfair dismissal and general protections claims we see against SMEs."

GM General ManagerLogistics, 40 staff, no in-house HR

Perspectives gathered from HR and workplace-relations practitioners during product research. ManagerAlly is in development and has not yet been used in live workplaces.

Founding member

1 month free no lock-in contracts · no payment required

Limited to the first 100 organisations. Register today with no payment and no obligation, and your free month is waiting when we launch in early 2027.

All 10 conversation scenarios
Meeting guides & letters built from professionally approved wording
Risk checks & one-click HR handoff: the same full product on every plan
Evidence attachments, case files & a dashboard of every case
Priority onboarding & a say in the roadmap
Nothing to pay until after your free month, cancel any time

87 founding spots available

Same inclusions on every plan; only the per-seat price changes with business size. Registering costs nothing and commits you to nothing; billing starts only if you stay past your free month. Plan structure and standard pricing may change before launch; a founding member’s free month will not.

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