Enterprise DNA

Instead of CompXL

Stop renting CompXL. Own your pay-review system.

We build your version around your review cycle, bring the agreed CompXL records across and run it for you. Your managers supply the decisions. Your business owns the records.

CompXL Max is quoted through Salary.com. Compare your annual planning renewal with a system built around the review work you need.

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What the renewal covers

A planning platform around your own pay decisions

CompXL combines planning, manager workflows, budget controls and other compensation functions. Start with the parts your team uses each review cycle, then compare the full scope of your renewal.

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The annual planning licence

The CompXL Annual Planning edition is sold on annual contract terms. Confirm your edition, employee allowance and renewal conditions with the vendor.

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Manager planning worksheets

CompXL provides configurable worksheets for salary, bonus and other compensation plans. Your managers supply the proposed amounts and reasons.

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Approval routing

Manager and administrator workflows carry proposals through approval chains. The decision and its supporting evidence are records your business needs to retain.

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Group budget controls

CompXL lets teams set budgets by group and track spend. Your annual increase pool and one-off bonus pool start with decisions made by your finance team.

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Market intelligence in Max

The current Max product includes market information and job matching. Decide whether your review needs a licensed market-data service alongside your own planning records.

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Connections to your people systems

CompXL connects with existing people systems. Moving the planning work means agreeing which records come across and who checks them before the next cycle.

Your review work, in your own system

See the decision, the budget and the missing evidence together

Monday review

Start with the unfinished work

See the records that need a manager, reviewer or agreement reference.

  • check Unfinished manager proposals grouped by cycle
  • check Overdue decisions with the responsible manager
  • check Approved changes waiting for agreement evidence
  • check Overdue proposals that also lack salary-baseline evidence

Budget control

Keep recurring increases separate from bonuses

Read each departmental plan against its approved increase and bonus budgets.

  • check Annual salary increases and one-off bonuses tracked separately
  • check Currencies kept separate throughout the review
  • check Submitted and approved proposals reserve budget
  • check Departments over their full planned budget shown alongside approved work

Review evidence

Keep an imported approval from becoming a fresh decision

An imported status stays as history until someone reconciles the records and a separate reviewer records a decision.

  • check Reconciliation evidence before imported proposals progress
  • check A separate reviewer label and policy-review reference for approval
  • check Evidence for proposals outside your approved salary bands
  • check Agreement evidence before a completed cycle is finalised

Your working papers

Prepare the review pack from the records

Produce private working papers and snapshots under your business name.

  • check Cycle decision packs with proposals and budgets
  • check Individual review worksheets with recorded history
  • check Agreement follow-up registers for the next meeting
  • check An internal handover file after the cycle is finalised

Make it yours

Design your own CompXL replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from CompXL. Try it here, and we build the real one.

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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your CompXL data across and run it for you.

What it looks like

Ask it like you would ask a colleague

Captured answers from fictional demo records. Salary figures are annual base amounts in the currency shown. Your own version uses your approved records.

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Pay Reviews for Claude Code

Connected to your own database

Which pay reviews are waiting on a decision or evidence?

DEMO-NZ

Employee code
DEMO-01
Name
Alex Rowan
Manager
Morgan Lee
Status
submitted
Reason
manager decision overdue
Due on
2026-10-16

DEMO-NZ

Employee code
DEMO-02
Name
Alex Rivers
Manager
Morgan Lee
Status
draft
Reason
manager decision overdue
Due on
2026-10-16

DEMO-NZ

Employee code
DEMO-02
Name
Alex Rivers
Manager
Morgan Lee
Status
draft
Reason
range exception needs evidence
Due on
2026-10-16

DEMO-NZ

Employee code
DEMO-03
Name
Casey Banks
Manager
Jamie Park
Status
approved
Reason
approved change missing agreement
Due on
2026-10-16

DEMO-NZ

Employee code
DEMO-04
Name
Jordan Vale
Manager
Jamie Park
Status
imported
Reason
import needs reconciliation
Due on
2026-10-16

DEMO-NZ

Employee code
DEMO-04
Name
Jordan Vale
Manager
Jamie Park
Status
imported
Reason
salary baseline needs evidence
Due on
2026-10-16

DEMO-AU

Employee code
DEMO-05
Name
Taylor Lake
Manager
Robin Hale
Status
submitted
Reason
manager decision overdue
Due on
2026-10-19

Ask it anything

Ten questions your review desk answers today

These reports combine your proposals, budgets and evidence. They are shipped examples, not a claim that CompXL cannot be configured to answer them.

chat_bubble Which managers have overdue proposals and missing salary evidence?
chat_bubble Which departments exceed their proposed increase budget while holding approved changes?
chat_bubble Which range exceptions still need a decision?
chat_bubble Which approved changes have no agreement reference?
chat_bubble Which imported approvals have never been reconciled?
chat_bubble Which managers have both approved and unfinished proposals?
chat_bubble How much approved annual increase is waiting on agreement, by currency?
chat_bubble Which people appear in more than one open cycle?
chat_bubble Which submitted Australian changes still need employment-policy review?
chat_bubble Which people have a proposed bonus and an unresolved range exception?

Switching

How to switch from CompXL

A move usually involves exporting a planning worksheet, mapping your fields and rules, checking the imported records, then running both systems side by side before you stop using CompXL.

  1. 1

    Export your planning records

    Ask CompXL what your account can export, since its export options are not specified here. Salary.com documents downloadable planning workbooks, and a configured worksheet can be saved as CSV. Bring across the records you need for the review cycle, including people and salary baselines, pay bands, budgets, proposals, decisions and approval history. Check which attachments and other history need separate migration work.

  2. 2

    Prepare and test the worksheet

    Start with a configured planning worksheet saved as CSV. Have your administrator match its headings to the new desk and verify the annual salary basis, then use the import's test run before loading operational records. The test helps expose mapping problems before the full import. Keep the source worksheet unchanged while you work, because changed source rows are flagged during validation.

  3. 3

    Review the import checks

    Check the import results for unknown columns, changed source rows and salary baselines that do not match. Correct the worksheet or its mapping, then test again before proceeding. Imported approvals remain history until someone reconciles them into the new desk, so do not treat an imported approval as a new approval. Confirm that the records you intend to use are present and make sense.

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    Run both systems side by side

    For a short period, keep CompXL available while you use the new desk for the same review work. Compare the people and proposals in each system, along with salary baselines, budget figures, decisions and evidence. Investigate any differences before relying on the new records. Keep the source approvals as history until they have been reconciled, and make clear to your team where new decisions should be recorded.

  5. 5

    Switch off CompXL

    When the records and checks are complete and your team is ready, stop entering new review decisions in CompXL and use the new desk for the agreed work. Follow CompXL's process for ending access or your contract. Keep the exported records private and retain any source material you still need, especially items that were not included in the worksheet migration.

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Where the real effort goes

The real work is usually mapping your fields and review rules, verifying salary baselines, and choosing how much history to bring across. Attachments, formulas and historic access controls need separately agreed migration work. If you have Enterprise DNA run the new desk, they handle bringing your agreed CompXL records across and building your review rules and documents.

Not ready for a call?

Get your CompXL switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off CompXL, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

One email with your plan. No spam, and you can unsubscribe any time.

Three ways to own it

Do it yourself, customise it, or have it run for you

Open source

Do it yourself

Free, MIT licence

  1. 1 Clone the repo and install its dependencies
  2. 2 Run npm test and npm run demo with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor
  3. 3 Map your CompXL planning workbook and test the CSV import
  4. 4 Reconcile the records and run a complete test cycle before switching
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Built around your business

We customise it

One setup fee, then a retainer

  • check Your review fields, budget rules and decision documents
  • check Your agreed CompXL history brought across and reconciled
  • check A web front end for your team if you want one
  • check A different stack and connections scoped around your existing systems
Get your version built

Omni by Enterprise DNA

We run it for you

One setup fee, then a retainer

  • check Installed, connected and operated through Omni by Enterprise DNA
  • check Authenticated team access, backup and retention requirements built into the setup
  • check Your authorised people retain all pay decisions and employment reviews
  • check Ongoing operation and changes as your review process develops
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Questions

Instead of CompXL, answered

Does this replace payroll or decide what people should earn? expand_more

It covers annual salary-review planning and fixed bonus proposals. Your managers decide the amounts, your advisers check employment requirements, and your payroll team keeps payroll. The free version records those decisions and produces internal working papers. It does not calculate tax, pay wages or issue employment agreements.

Can we bring our CompXL history across? expand_more

The free version imports a configured planning worksheet saved as CSV. Your administrator maps the headings, checks the annual salary basis and runs a test first. Source approvals stay as history until reconciled. Attachments, formulas, historic access controls and other records need separately agreed migration work.

What happens when a proposal exceeds budget or sits outside a pay band? expand_more

Submission checks the reserved increase and bonus budgets separately. Approval needs a separate reviewer label and a policy-review reference. A proposal outside a recorded band also needs an exception reference. These are record checks. Your authorised people supply the actual decisions and evidence.

Can our managers use their own screens and keep salaries private? expand_more

Enterprise DNA builds your team screens, authenticated access and permissions into the agreed setup. The free version is for a trusted operator using a protected database. Its actor labels are a record of what was entered, not proof of identity. Private snapshots and documents need the same care as your salary files.

What does Enterprise DNA charge, and how does it compare with CompXL? expand_more

We agree one setup fee, then a retainer for the version we build and run. Bring your CompXL renewal and the functions your team uses to the call. Salary.com quotes the current Max product, including its wider planning and market-information capabilities. We compare the work and connections you need before agreeing the scope.

Bring your next pay-review cycle to Sam

In a 30-minute call, show Sam the renewal, one planning worksheet and the approvals your team needs. Agree the records, controls and connections your own version should cover.

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Pay Reviews for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.

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