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Hobasa

The operational gaps that fall between systems

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PITCHED AT THE PALO ALTO NIGHT ON 6 AUGUST 2026

Finance knows its numbers and HR knows its people, and the expensive problems live in between, where neither system is looking. Hobasa is a cross-system intelligence layer that surfaces those gaps before they show up in performance.

Every company runs several systems of record that are each correct on their own terms. The headcount plan and the payroll agree at the summary level and diverge in the detail; a contract renewal and the budget for it live in different tools with different owners. Nothing is broken, so nothing raises an alarm, and the cost accumulates quietly until a quarter goes wrong.

Hobasa reads across those systems rather than trying to become them, which is the only realistic posture: no organisation is going to consolidate its finance and HR stack because a startup asked. The value is in noticing the disagreement between two sources that each believe they are right, and putting it in front of someone with the authority to resolve it.

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