Aura AI Transforms Endear's Compensation Management

Overview

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‍Endear, a growing technology company eliminated weeks of manual compensation band creation by implementing Aura AI's automated platform. The transformation reduced setup time from hours to 30 minutes, automated complex multi-source data integration, and established a scalable 9-level compensation framework. This partnership demonstrates how modern compensation technology can turn administrative burdens into strategic advantages for scaling companies.

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Challenge

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Endear struggled with time-intensive compensation management:

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• Weeks of manual work to create compensation bands from multiple data sources
• Manual Excel management - working across 10+ spreadsheets with error-prone calculations
• Poor visualization making it difficult for managers to understand compensation structures
• Slow leadership decisions - hours required to make decisions on new salaries or existing bands

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Solution Before Aura

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Creating composite pay bands from multiple data sources was incredibly complicated, requiring weeks of manual market pricing integration and careful matching of job families to departments.

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Aura AI transformed the Endear’s compensation process through a streamlined 7-step workflow:

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1. Market Pricing - Composite percentile values from multiple data sources created with one click, saving days of manual work
2. Job Family Matching - Intelligent matching of internal job families to market data families, eliminating hours of reading and comparing job descriptions
3. Confident Benchmarking - Aura's proprietary job family score helped identify gaps in market data like sample size issues, low percentile values, absence of data and more
4. Employee Mapping - One-click assignment of employees to job families
5. Band Creation - Aura generated all compensation levels and bands out-of-the-box for every role, requiring only leadership review and updates.  
6. Team Visualization - Leaders can instantly see where their teams sit within bands and identify pay gaps
7. Advanced Features - Powerful tools like merging bands, percentile-based band resets enabled allowing expert comp professionals to tailor comp bands to company philosophy quickly, and accurately

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Additional Benefits

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• Enhanced collaboration across departments involved in compensation planning
• Smart access controls ensuring appropriate data access for different stakeholders

"What used to take us weeks of manual work now takes just a couple of clicks" - Jessica, Head of People

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Results Dramatics Time Savings

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• Setup time: Days → 30 minutes
• Band creation: Weeks → couple of clicks in minutes
• Market and Internal Data → Integrated

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Improved Structure

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• Clear 9-level framework (Across ICs, Managers, and Executives)
• Enhanced manager understanding through visualization

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Future-Ready Platform

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• Automated digital offer letter fully integrated and deployed
• Career framework creation planned

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Bottom Line

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‍Aura AI transformed the company's compensation management from a weeks-long manual process into an automated, scalable system that takes minutes to operate—enabling transparent, data-driven compensation decisions that scale with company growth.

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