Across People and Finance teams, AI has moved from curiosity to active deployment. The question now isn't whether to use it. It's where it actually changes the work.
Our partnership with Flock Safety captures a company that already runs with unusual speed and rigor, now turning that same lens on its compensation function. The goal isn't to bolt AI onto existing processes. It's to redesign how the work gets done.
The 80/20 problem in compensation
In most companies, compensation teams spend roughly 80% of their time on execution. Pulling data, reconciling files, running merit math, fielding manager questions, building decks. The strategic 20%, the part that actually shapes how the company pays, retains, and grows, gets squeezed into whatever time is left.
That ratio is what Openroll is built to flip.
"Compensation is quietly becoming one of the highest-leverage functions inside fast-scaling companies," says Mattias Lindell, CEO and Co-founder of Openroll. "The teams that figure out how to run it like an operating system, not a series of spreadsheets, will pull ahead."
Why Flock Safety
Flock Safety is one of the most operationally serious companies scaling in the US right now, protecting thousands of communities and partnering with thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. That bar shows up internally too. The People function is held to the same standard as the rest of the business.
That's what made the partnership obvious on both sides. Flock's team isn't looking for incremental improvements. They're rebuilding their compensation operating model from the ground up, with AI doing the execution layer so their people can spend their time on the calls that actually matter.
"Working with the Flock Safety team has been one of the highlights of building Openroll so far," says Lindell. "The ambition is real, the speed is real, and the standard they hold their People function to is exactly the kind of energy we built Openroll for."
What comes next
Compensation is one of the last big functions inside modern companies still running primarily on spreadsheets. That's changing fast, and the teams moving first are the ones setting the standard for everyone else.
The partnership with Flock Safety is a small window into that shift. More to come.
"Most tools try to help you do the same work in less time. Openroll is changing the way we think about what is possible in how we work - that difference is refreshing."