The HR side of your business, made brilliantly simple

More work is landing on the same team. Your software shouldn’t grow more complicated because of it. Breathe brings all of HR into one simple tool. No spreadsheets, no exporting, no chasing information across systems.

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The job got bigger. Your team didn’t.

More work is landing on the same team. Responsibilities are evolving, expectations are rising and businesses are under more pressure to control cost and improve productivity. Employment requirements are changing too, creating more policies, records, updates and evidence to keep on top of.

Split across spreadsheets, inboxes and disconnected systems, every task means double entry, chasing managers, and answering the same question twice.

The solution isn't another tool. It's one place for all of it.

Join 17,000+ UK SMEs embracing brilliantly simple HR.

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The brilliantly simple
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Breathe brings employee information, rotas, pay, performance and practical AI into one connected platform. Enter data once, and it's used everywhere. No re-typing, no exporting, no double-checking.

It’s built for the whole business.

HR keeps control, managers take action without needing to become HR experts, and employees find answers and complete their own tasks without HR having to jump in.

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Runs from one record, so information transfers across HR, rotas, performance, health & safety and pay. Without duplication or double-checking.

Built around the jobs SMEs need to get done. Setting up a rota, getting ready for payday, keeping performance moving, and answering employee queries.

Breathe grows with what your business needs next, adding capability without adding complexity.

Built around how HR, managers and employees actually work, so people can act with confidence, not carry another layer of work.

Start with what matters most

Every business finds its stride in a different place first. Rotas that fall into place effortlessly, payday admin finished in minutes, performance conversations that drive real momentum. Breathe gives you one connected foundation, so you can expand the platform as your success grows.

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Core HR

The heart of everyday HR

Employee information, documents, leave and absence can be spread across the wrong tools, creating admin that never stops. Breathe gives your whole business one place to manage it: employee information, documents, leave, absence and everyday people processes.

Brilliantly simple HR, built for the whole business to use.

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The foundation for connected HR

Core HR is the central source of truth for the people side of your business. Breathe brings employee information, documents, leave, sickness and everyday HR processes together, then gives every other module the trusted people data it needs to work from. HR stays in control while managers and employees can do more for themselves.

Features and benefits

  • Keep one accurate, secure and searchable employee record at the centre of HR, rotas, performance, health and safety and pay.
  • Give employees a clear view of their leave, absence and important HR information.
  • Make requests and approvals easier with self-service tools for employees and managers.
  • Keep company policies and documents visible, with read requirements and reminders when needed.
  • Use reports and dashboards to spot what needs attention without starting from scratch.
Rota

Shifts change. Scheduling stays simple.

Shifts change, availability moves, and the rota turns into a spreadsheet headache no one wants. Set up, change and communicate rotas easily with Breathe.

Brilliantly simple rota scheduling, built for busy teams, powered by your people data.

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Shifts change. Scheduling stays simple.

Create accurate rotas from the people data you already have in Breathe. The new Rota experience gives managers a simpler way to plan shifts across locations and roles, copy patterns forward and keep employees informed, without rebuilding the same information in spreadsheets.

Features and benefits

  • Start with employee information, locations, roles and contracted hours already held in Core HR, so your rota begins with the right people data and stays connected as things change.
  • Get set up without a complex account tree, with a guided path to your first published rota within 30 minutes.
  • Build rotas with drag-and-drop scheduling, multi-week patterns and one-click copy forward.
  • See leave and absence information inline, so unavailable employees are clear before shifts are assigned.
  • Publish rotas and notify employees, giving them a clear view of when, where and how they are working.
  • Build with the flexibility to support multiple locations, roles, split shifts and overnight shifts as your business grows.
  • Flag scheduling conflicts and compliance risks earlier, so managers can act before publishing.
Coming soon - Payroll

Payday, without the duplication

Pay is sensitive, and every payday can mean exporting, importing and checking data between systems that don't talk to each other. Payroll is coming to the place where your people data already lives, creating a simpler, more connected way to manage pay.

Brilliantly simple payroll, built for a smoother payday.

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Payday, made simpler.

Payroll is coming soon to Breathe. Designed to take the friction out of payday, Breathe Payroll will help teams manage routine pay admin with less manual effort, clearer checks and a smoother experience for everyone involved.

Features and benefits

  • Follow a clear, guided process for preparing and running payroll.
  • Automate repetitive payroll tasks, giving teams more time back before payday.
  • Surface potential issues early, so they can be resolved before payroll is completed.
  • Keep pay-run information, checks and records organised in one place.
  • Give employees clearer access to their pay information.
Performance

Performance management that drives momentum, not paperwork

Goals, feedback and performance conversations can turn into a heavyweight process or an annual scramble. Make it part of everyday work, without turning performance management into another thing to manage.

Brilliantly simple performance, built for better conversations all year round.

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Performance management that keeps people moving forward

Make goals, progress and better conversations part of everyday work. Breathe helps managers and employees stay aligned, understand what’s expected and keep performance moving. Regular feedback and simple touchpoints help you understand how people are feeling, without adding another heavyweight process.

Features and benefits

  • Set clear objectives and keep progress visible between reviews.
  • Record one-to-ones, actions and follow-ups, so important conversations don’t get lost.
  • Break objectives into clear steps, so everyone knows what needs to happen next.
  • Use regular feedback, quick polls and deeper surveys to understand how people are feeling and spot where support is needed.
  • Create a shared view of expectations, progress and feedback, helping managers have more consistent and useful conversations.
  • Keep performance information and employee insight alongside your HR records, so it’s easier to take action.
Health & Safety

Business safety you can track effortlessly

Health and safety tasks and records are hard to keep organised, visible and up to date until something slips. Breathe gives you a clearer way to complete relevant tasks and keep important records moving, without relying on HR to chase every step.

Brilliantly simple health and safety, built for staying on top of what matters.

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Business safety you can track effortlessly

Keep health and safety tasks, records and follow-up moving from one clear place. Breathe gives your people a simpler way to report, complete and review what matters, without relying on HR to chase every step.

Features and benefits

  • Create, store and review risk assessments in one central location.
  • Make it easier for employees to log incidents, hazards and near misses.
  • Schedule recurring safety tasks and checks so important actions do not get missed.
  • Keep responsibilities, training and certification records visible and up to date.
  • Track emergency roles and key safety information across the business.
  • See the bigger picture through a central health and safety dashboard.
Learn

Make learning part of everyday and give people more ways to grow

Scattered e-learning makes progress hard to track. Breathe brings mandatory learning into one simple place, giving employees and managers clarity while giving HR the visibility and records needed to stay compliant. 

Learn also creates space for wider development, helping employees build new skills, stay engaged and grow with the business. 

Brilliantly simple learning, built for compliant, capable and engaged teams.

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Make learning part of everyday work

Give people more ways to build skills while making mandatory training easier to manage. Breathe Learn brings courses, assignments and progress tracking together, so employees know what to do, managers can support development and HR has the records to stay on top of compliance.

Features and benefits

  • Give employees access to a library of 100+ bite-sized courses with built-in assessments.
  • Assign learning by department or role, so the right people get the right training.
  • Build structured learning paths with playlists for different teams and priorities.
  • Track progress, completions and overdue learning in one place.
  • Keep training history, qualifications and certificates easy to find.
  • Support both compliance training and wider development as your people grow.
Expenses

Less expense admin. Faster approvals.

Expense claims can turn into a trail of emails, receipts and follow ups that slow everyone down. Breathe gives employees an easier way to submit expenses, managers a clearer way to review and approve them, and HR better visibility without the chasing.

Brilliantly simple expenses, built for faster claims and simpler approvals.

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Less expense admin. Faster approvals.

Replace the trail of emails, receipts and follow-ups with a clearer way to manage expenses. Breathe gives employees an easier way to submit claims, managers a faster way to approve them and HR better visibility of spend.

Features and benefits

  • Submit expense claims and receipts from one simple workflow.
  • Use the mileage calculator to make claims faster and reduce manual errors.
  • Let AI capture key details from receipts, keeping supporting evidence with the claim.
  • Set spending limits and warnings to help teams stay within policy.
  • Route claims to the right approver automatically.
  • See expense data in one dashboard, including spend against projects or clients.

THE FUTURE OF BREATHE, POWERED BY AI

Help people find useful answers faster, grounded in information the business has chosen to make available. This is the start of a bigger shift, as AI is woven through the platform as it grows. So over time, more searching, reporting and repetitive work becomes simpler without the platform getting harder to use.

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Free playbook

The simple HR processes playbook

In this free small business HR guide, we look at where unnecessary HR work can build up and the simple, practical improvements that can make your HR processes easier for everyone involved. 

Whether you use software, spreadsheets, emails or paper, this guide is a starting point to make HR for small businesses simpler. 

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