Most HR tools store your handbook. Bounda reads it.
If you are weighing up HR platforms, here is the difference that matters: a document library will not tell you your disciplinary policy breaches the ACAS code. A compliance engine will. Judge it on your own handbook, free.
7-day free trial. No credit card. No demo call required.
Five differences you can verify in one trial.
Law-first, not admin-first
Most HR platforms are people-admin tools with a document store attached. Bounda is built the other way up: UK employment law is the engine, and your handbook is checked against 15+ legislation sources, section by section.
It reads your handbook, not just stores it
Uploading a PDF into a portal is not compliance. Bounda runs a ranked gap analysis on what your policies actually say, grades each issue by severity, and cites the specific law behind it.
Fixes drafted, not just flagged
Every gap comes with an AI-drafted compliant replacement in your tone of voice. Accept it, edit it, or draft the missing policy from scratch, then export to Word or PDF.
Ready for what is coming
Day-one rights are live and the unfair dismissal cap disappears in January 2027. Bounda tracks the Employment Rights Act 2025 rollout and tells you which sections need updating as each provision lands.
No contract to find out
No demo call, no annual commitment to see it work. The 7-day trial is free with no card, and a full compliance check on your existing handbook fits inside it.
The comparison that settles it: run your own handbook through it.
Feature tables are marketing. The honest test is what a tool finds in the handbook you actually have. Paste yours in, and within minutes you will see every gap ranked by severity with the legislation cited behind it.
- Checked against 15+ UK legislation sources.
- Issues ranked Critical, High, Medium and Low.
- AI-drafted compliant fixes, exportable to Word or PDF.
- Built for UK law
- Legal citations on every gap
- ICO registered
- Encrypted in transit and at rest
- Word and PDF export
- Cancel anytime
Questions from people comparing tools
How is Bounda different from the big HR platforms?
The big platforms are built around people admin: holiday booking, absence, rotas, onboarding. Their handbook features are usually a document library with templates. Bounda is compliance-first: it reads your actual policies, checks them against 15+ UK legislation sources including the Employment Rights Act 2025, ranks every gap by severity with legal citations, and drafts the fixes. If your problem is "is my handbook legally sound", that is the whole product.
Can I use Bounda alongside my existing HR system?
Yes. Bounda does not need to replace your HR admin tool. Many businesses keep their existing system for holiday and absence and use Bounda for the handbook: auditing, drafting, publishing and keeping it current as the law changes.
How hard is it to move my handbook into Bounda?
Minutes, not a migration project. Paste your existing handbook or individual policies and Bounda structures them into standard UK policy types automatically. Your first gap analysis can run in the same session.
Does Bounda include advice lines or insurance like some HR services?
No. Bounda is software, not a consultancy retainer, which is why it costs a fraction of the price. It does the systematic work: checking policies against legislation, citing sources, drafting fixes. For contentious individual cases you should still take legal advice.
What does switching actually cost?
Nothing to find out. The 7-day trial is free with no credit card, and running your existing handbook through the gap analysis is the best way to compare: you see exactly what Bounda finds that your current setup has not.
Is Bounda only for small businesses?
No. The gap analysis, drafting and chatbot scale from a five-person business with no HR team to companies with an HR function that wants the systematic legislation-checking done by software rather than by hand.
Compare on results, not brochures.
Run your existing handbook through Bounda free and see what your current setup has missed.