Ctrl+Grow, the operational AI platform built for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced the launch of a permanently free plan giving teams of any size immediate access to three core HR tools: Leave Management, Employee Onboarding, and a Learning Management System (LMS). The free plan carries no time limit, no credit card requirement, and no per-seat pricing — meaning a business can add its entire team from day one without triggering a bill.
Ctrl+Grow launches permanently free plan with leave, onboarding, and training.
Unlimited seats, no per-seat fees, no expiry, no card required.
Paid plans at $97/month or $897/year, priced per company not per user.
Free plan includes leave management, employee onboarding, and LMS.
No technical setup, no AI expertise required.
Built for SMEs and solopreneurs.
The Ctrl+Grow free plan includes Leave Management to handle requests, approvals, and balances for the whole team in one place; Employee Onboarding with structured onboarding flows for every new hire; Training / LMS to deliver courses and applied AI training to every team member; unlimited seats with every employee included and no per-user charge; and no card to start, free for as long as you want.
For small and growing businesses, HR software has traditionally come with a per-seat pricing model that makes growth expensive. A team of five, ten, or twenty employees faces a different bill each month as headcount changes. Ctrl+Grow's free plan removes that model entirely. One flat rate — zero — regardless of how many employees are added. The same applies to paid plans: pricing is per company, never per user.
Sophie Normand, Co-founder of Ctrl+Grow, stated: "Most business tools charge per user, so the bill grows every time your team does. We built Ctrl+Grow to flip that model. Leave, onboarding, and training for your whole team — free, for as long as you want it."
The free plan has no expiry and no feature degradation over time. Businesses that need additional functionality — support ticketing, team roles and permissions, or a done-for-you company website — can upgrade to a paid plan at $97 / month or $897 / year, both priced per company, not per user. New tools ship every month. Free-plan users receive all new free features as they launch, with no action required.
About Ctrl+Grow
Ctrl+Grow is an operational AI platform built for SMEs and solopreneurs. It gives growing teams the HR and ops tools of a large enterprise — leave, onboarding, training, ticketing — under a single flat membership, with no per-seat fees and no learning curve. Built by Sophie Normand and JC Bougle, co-founders of iLathys, the company behind fewStones, Authentic.ly, Storyboardhero, and Gwacamol.
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