About This Prototype

We're going to build a prototype of a B2B SaaS app. Mahogany helps companies build compensation bands and administer changes. Leadership can set budgets and managers can see clearly where their teams are relative to market rates. Managers then take compensation changes through an approval process and the changes propagate into payroll systems. We think setting compensation for employees is a hard problem to solve. Mahogany is a tool that allows companies to set compensation bands and manage compensation changes. We also want to make it really easy to see where employees lie relative to market rates. There are some tools for larger companies that are expensive and lock you into an entire suite of products. For smaller companies there are antiquated spreadsheets that require them to do manual import/export into excel. They have to manage the approval process and feed that into payroll (ADP). Graphing + charting. A big part of this is going to be having a flexible way to add charts. As an example there is a graph in this directory that has two axes: employee level, and compensation. Each employee is a dot, having a level and a total compensation. Shaded regions on the chart indicate market rates, so some employees are outside the shaded regions if their compensation is not in-band. There is a social benefit to this software as well; larger teams will use it to correct unfair imbalances based on gender, race or any protected criteria. So splitting the data by gender, race, and age on the fly is a desired criteria. Seed data: a company of about 300 people. Maybe 30 managers, 150 engineers of different levels, 10 designers. No real auth — just a role switcher between Manager and Leadership views.