We are how South Africa gets performance done.
Synthro is a performance operating system for South African business. Not a generic HRMS. Not a global template with a Rand price tag. A platform built around the BCEA, the LRA, B-BBEE, SETA, and the CCMA because those are the rules South African businesses actually operate under.
Why We Exist
South African businesses pay an admin tax every week: leave tracked in spreadsheets, performance reviewed once a year too late to matter, compliance documented in a box that nobody has checked since the last audit. We built Synthro to end that tax. Remove the admin. Automate the compliance. Give leadership real performance data.
Our Vision
Every South African business should run on performance, not paperwork.
Our Mission
Give every South African company the operations engine that used to be reserved for the Fortune 500: one that removes the admin, makes compliance automatic, and turns managing people into a measurable advantage.
What We Stand For
- Performance over paperwork: Admin is not the job. Everything we build exists to replace a form, a spreadsheet, or a meeting that should never have existed.
- South Africa first: BCEA, LRA, B-BBEE, SETA and the CCMA are not edge cases. They are the ground we build on.
- Compliance as a feature, not a fear: Labour law should not keep you up at night. Synthro turns the rules into rails.
- Earn the whole team, not just HR: Managers manage, employees self-serve, leadership sees the truth.
Leadership
Founded by Naphtali Tsikada, CEO. COO: Malachi Tsikada. Based in South Africa.
Contact: hello@synthro.io | LinkedIn