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A note from the founder
Ritu Raj — Founder & CEO, Emplyra

Ritu Raj

Founder & CEO, Emplyra

Building Emplyra full-time · India · 2024–present

When I started building Emplyra, the question wasn't whether the product was needed — it was obvious that it was. Every company I knew was managing their team through a patchwork of spreadsheets, chasing leave approvals over WhatsApp, and spending hours assembling salary slips by hand at the end of every month.

The tools that existed were either built for enterprises with six-figure IT budgets, or so stripped-down that they just shifted the problem somewhere else. Nobody had built something that simply… worked. For real teams. Without a week-long onboarding process.

So I decided to build it myself.

Emplyra handles attendance, leaves, tasks, salary, and team management — not as separate products bolted together, but as one cohesive system that understands how these things are connected. A leave affects attendance. Attendance affects payroll. Tasks belong to people on teams. None of that should require manual reconciliation.

“Every decision in this product comes from one question: does this make an HR manager's Monday morning meaningfully easier? If yes, it ships. If it adds noise, it doesn't.”

We're still early. There's a long list of things I want to build next. But what exists today is solid, fast, and made with genuine care. I'm proud of it — and I hope it makes a real difference for your team the way I always imagined it would.

If you have questions, ideas, or feedback — reach me directly. I read every message.

Thank you for giving Emplyra a chance.

Ritu Raj

Founder & CEO, Emplyra

September 2026

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