About
We built StaffCircle to solve today’s business problems
Founder and CEO Mark and the StaffCircle leadership team have worked in many organisations where a lack of consistent performance comms and culture are the main factors that constrain business growth. They saw at first hand how this was negatively impacting the performance of ambitious and expanding businesses with great propositions.
There were plenty of point solutions on the market but nothing that addressed all the problems in a single platform. For growing businesses, streamlined admin and automated processes is key, along with data-driven insights that can deliver sustained scalability.
Mark and the team created StaffCircle to bring together leading-edge, multi-channel communication, employee engagement, performance management and self-service features in an easy-to-use, affordable platform that integrates with Microsoft’s 365 suite.
Most importantly, StaffCircle is built to support business performance and agility, helping successful companies empower their people to be more motivated and productive and their leadership to be more strategic.
Directly understanding how communication and culture problems negatively impact business performance was the key driver for CEO Mark Seemann to design the StaffCircle platform
The problem
We built StaffCircle after seeing businesses suffer from a lack of consistent comms, culture and performance processes as they scaled up, causing a lack of clarity, uneven culture and below par performance. We realised that there was no single solution available that could solve all of these problems. There are many single-point solutions available on the market, but StaffCircle encompasses all of these pain points into one slick, easy to use solution.
The solution
The brainchild of software entrepreneur Mark Seemann, StaffCircle creates a place where communications and productivity can flow across any device (SMS, mobile app, desktop app and email) in any location, helping to better empower, engage and enhance your most valuable asset – your people.
ROI
Increasing productivity, engagement and retention of employees pays big dividends, especially in industries where a digital divide exists between desk and non-desk based workers. It costs an organisation over £30,000 every time an employee leaves and it takes approximately 6 months for a replacement to get fully up to speed. StaffCircle helps reduce staff attrition, speeds up new-starter on-boarding and improves overall ongoing communication in the workplace. To apply these calculations to your business, check out our ROI calculator and input your specific values.
The platform
Built alongside Microsoft Azure Architects and a member of the Microsoft Startups Program. The company created the StaffCircle platform on Azure integrated with Microsoft technologies. StaffCircle is a customisable and extendable mobile and desktop platform for the modern workplace. We will always do our best to tailor our solution to our customers needs, with 50% of ongoing platform developments driven by customer feedback, the other 50% based on our ongoing innovation.
Meet the StaffCircle team
Brian Merton
Head of Platform
Brian Merton
Head of Architecture
Coming from being Platform Architect of the Atlas platform for Citation as well as mobile banking software, expert in complex platform design, Brian’s responsibility is the architecture and design of the StaffCircle platform as well as running the development team.
Mark Seemann
Founder & Ceo
Mark Seemann
Founder & Ceo
Product Creator and Software Entrepreneur. Founder & CEO of 3 SaaS businesses worth £35m+ during the last 20 years. Expert in Communications technology, CRM, Business Workflow and the creator of 2 VoIP patents.
Passionate about improving communications, productivity and capability in the workforce and giving employees the tools to succeed in their work. Mark’s responsibilities include the business direction and strategy of StaffCircle.
Ollie Simpson
Head of Customer Success
Ollie Simpson
Head of Customer Success
As a leader of Customer Operations and Success Management, Ollie’s mission is to ensure that each Customer gains the full value of the StaffCircle platform and associated services.
Neil Merton
Head of Ux & Design
Neil Merton
Head of Ux & Design
Previously UX and Front-end Lead of the Atlas platform for Citation and an expert in mobile and web application design, user sentiment and engagement. Neil’s responsibility is to ensure the StaffCircle platform is intuitive, easy to use but also extendable and customizable.
Our Values
We are inclusive
We act as one team and strive to overcome exclusion wherever we find it because we know it is our diversity that gives us our strength.
We are entrepreneurial
We provide ongoing software developments to improve the product offers. The developments are driven by our customers and our internal advances.
We are empathetic
StaffCircle was born off the back of personal experiences, pain points and hurdles. We want to give our customers the best experience possible, providing a solution to multiple problems in one place.
Always customer focused
We are passionate about our customers’ success and we look to add value wherever we can.
We are world-class
We strive to be the best at what we do, both in terms of our software and our service to customers. We avoid taking short-cuts where this compromises quality.