The gap we kept
running into
Everyone on our senior team has, at some point, sat inside a GCC organisation trying to make a global HR platform handle a WPS file, a GOSI classification, or a gratuity calculation that the product was never designed for. The workaround is always the same: a spreadsheet alongside the system, maintained by one person who understands it, reconciled manually every month.
That pattern is not a failure of any particular vendor. It follows from where the product was built. A platform designed for one market and extended outward treats regional compliance as configuration to be added later, and later is usually incomplete. The result is that the most regulated, highest-consequence part of HR — getting people paid correctly and lawfully — is the part the software helps with least.
What we decided to build instead
AmalOps starts from the obligations. UAE WPS and the SIF file, Saudi GOSI with its two branches, Qatari and Bahraini and Omani and Kuwaiti social insurance, end-of-service under six different formulas, nationalisation frameworks that derive from contribution records rather than HR reports. These are first-class configurations in the platform, not localisations layered on top.
Everything else follows from that foundation: one employee record that payroll, recruitment, performance and engagement all read from, so nothing is re-keyed and no metric is contestable. And AI applied where it does real work — scanning a payroll run before submission, flagging an attrition risk while the person is still employed, drafting a compliant letter in seconds — rather than as a chatbot bolted onto a dashboard.
How we work with customers
We quote after a scoping conversation rather than publishing a price list, because headcount, entity count, module selection and deployment model change the answer materially and a list price would be wrong for most people. We commit to under-6-week implementations because we respect that your team has a day job. And the senior people who sold the project stay accountable after go-live, which is a deliberately different arrangement from being handed to a support queue.
If you want to understand how we think about the problems in your market, our guidance articles cover WPS, GOSI, gratuity, leave law and overtime in depth, the free calculators apply the statutory formulas directly, and the glossary defines 215 terms in plain English. Or simply talk to us.