About

We build the systems companies run on. The Access runs them every day.

The Access was built by two operators who spent years inside enterprise workforce software and high-growth tech. We kept watching good companies lose hours to questions that already had answers. So we built the platform that hands those answers back.

A leader speaking to an engaged room
The pattern

The same three problems, in every company we touched

Different industries, different sizes, same gaps. After enough years you stop calling it coincidence and start seeing a product.

Employees cannot get answers

The policy exists. The SOP exists. But the person who needs it is texting a manager at 9pm or guessing. Information nobody can find is the same as no information at all.

Hiring done by habit

Most teams hire off a job description someone copied years ago, then wonder why the wrong people apply. Hiring right is a system, not a gut call, and almost nobody builds it.

Managers lose the day to gaps

Every workflow with a hole in it becomes a manager's problem. Their best hours go to answering the same questions and patching the same gaps instead of leading.

Who we are

Two operators, one obsession with efficiency

We have built and run the systems on both sides of this problem. The Access is where that experience turned into a product.

Co-founder

Brandon Bates

More than 15 years building enterprise workforce software and the programs large companies use to hire and run their people. I have seen what a good system does for a business, and what a broken one quietly costs it.

Enterprise workforce softwareTalent and operations
Co-founder

Eric Barron

I helped build and scale a technology company to an acquisition, where the tech was the reason it sold. I have sat in the executive seat and felt the drag of an operation that cannot answer its own questions.

Executive leadershipScaled to acquisitionGo to market
How it works

Fix the system once. Keep it running every day after.

The consulting

We start the same way every time. We map how your operation actually works, fix what is broken, and write the workflows your team should have had all along.

The platform

Then we turn those workflows into a platform your whole company can use. Someone asks a question, it answers from your approved playbook and takes the next step. The consulting fixes the system once. The platform keeps it running.

We started this because access should not depend on who you know or who happens to pick up the phone. Give a team the answers, the right way to hire, and workflows without holes, and you give every person in it a fair shot to do good work.

See it on your own files

See what your operation looks like with the gaps closed

We will show you The Access answering your kind of questions, from your kind of documents. Then you decide.