About Komma

People beforemodules.

We are building the HR platform we were missing ourselves: one that helps with the work, rather than just recording that it happened.

Why we exist

HR systems have become filing cabinets. They should not be.

Most HR platforms are organised around fields that need filling in. That is why managers do not use them, and why HR ends up chasing people for information.

Komma turns that around. We start from the situation an HR professional or a manager is actually in — an application that needs answering, a new colleague starting Monday, a pay run that needs approving — and build from there. The rest is something the system should keep track of by itself.

It is also why we built the whole chain. Someone hired in Recruitment is created in Organisation, gets an onboarding flow, records time, is part of the pay run and is assessed in a review — without anyone typing the same thing twice. You can only do that in one system, not in five tools that do not talk to each other.

And it is why we put AI where it genuinely helps: drafting, summarising and spotting patterns. Not making decisions about people. You do that.

How we work

Four things we do not compromise on.

  1. Close to the customerWe build alongside the HR teams who use the platform. Call us with a problem and you will speak to someone who can do something about it.
  2. Simple over completeWe would rather say no to a feature than make the working day more complicated. A system nobody wants to use solves nothing.
  3. Careful with dataHR data is about as personal as it gets. Everything sits in the EU, access is controlled, and you own your data — including the day you leave.
  4. AI with a person at the wheelKarma is welcome to write the draft and find the pattern. Decisions that affect someone’s working life are made by people.

The team

The people behind Komma.

We have done recruitment, onboarding, payroll and development reviews ourselves — and wrestled with the systems meant to support them.

Gert Abildskov

Gert Abildskov

CEO & Co-founder

Responsible for setting the direction and the technical solution, working closely with the team and with customers.

Michael Ahlstrøm

Michael Ahlstrøm

CPO & Co-founder

Owns setting new standards in design, with a focus on how customers experience the product.

Else Juul Abildskov

Else Juul Abildskov

COO & Co-founder

Runs operations, and makes sure what we promise in a demo still holds once you are up and running.

Ditte Larsen

Ditte Larsen

CSO & Co-founder

Owns the commercial side of the business, and has a knack for seeing it from the customer’s chair to land on the right solution.

Mark Parrish

Mark Parrish

CIO & Co-founder

Owns customer implementation and support, and makes sure the customer always ends up with the solution they came for.

Our story

We have built HR software before. Now we take it to “next level”.

  1. How it started

    A shared inbox and four systems

    The idea came from having lived it: applicants tracked in email, onboarding in a spreadsheet, hours in another system and reviews in a document nobody could find again.

  2. First step

    We asked HR teams what actually hurts

    Instead of writing a feature list, we sat down with HR leads, payroll administrators and managers in Danish companies and followed their workflows.

  3. Along the way

    The whole chain, not a module

    It took longer, and that was the point. If recruitment, payroll and development do not share data, you have rebuilt the same silos — only in one browser tab.

  4. Now

    Karma and a wider launch

    We are putting AI into the workflows where it saves real time, and opening up to more companies. Write to us if you would like to be part of it.

Want to help shape it?

We are still taking input from HR teams who want a say in what we build next.

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