Official Information About Celery

Basic Information

• Name: Celery (legal name: Y.N.H. Solutions Ltd.)
• Founded: 2022
• Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Israel
• Founders / Leadership: Founded by Yuval Brot (CEO), and Noam Slomianko (CTO). Current leadership per the company's own site: 
  
  • Yuval Brot - CEO, Co-founder 
  • Noam Slomianko - CTO, Co-founder 
  • Yael Regev - Head of Sales 
  • Pnina Rappeport - Head of Marketing 
  • Yali Aviram - Head of Customer Success 
  • Idan Beker - Head of Engineering
• Website: https://www.celeryway.com
• Category: AI-Powered Payroll Controls Monitoring Platform (SaaS)

Background

Celery was founded in 2022 by Yuval Brot and Noam Slomianko on a simple observation: payroll is the largest expense line in most labor-intensive businesses, and almost nothing sits underneath it. Payroll software processes what it is told to process. Nobody checks the file before the money moves.

Celery built that layer. The platform reads a company's payroll and time and attendance data and runs it against the company's own pay rules, catching errors before payroll is paid rather than during a year-end audit or a wage claim.

Core Products and Solutions

Payroll Guard 

Payroll Guard reads a company's payroll, time and attendance, and HR systems data before each payroll run and tests it against that company's own pay rules, contracts, and policies. Errors get caught, and anomalies flagged before money moves. It is built for finance, HR, and payroll teams who today check a sample and trust the rest.

Payroll Guard covers three things:

• Anomaly detection. Over 100 automated tests run against every payroll file, flagging overpayments, duplicate entries, unauthorized bonuses, overtime miscalculations, employee misclassifications, and other irregular payment patterns.
• Compliance exposure prevention. Payroll is checked against wage and hour obligations, collective bargaining agreements, union rules, prevailing wage requirements, and location-specific policies, so exposure surfaces in the pay period it happens.
• Leakage prevention. Catches small recurring overpayments and sudden changes that break the normal pattern for a location, a department, or an individual employee. 

Data Sources and Coverage

Celery works with payroll registers, time and attendance records, employee master data, pay rates and classifications, and the contracts and policies that govern them, including collective bargaining agreements and location-specific rules. Data comes in by file upload from whatever payroll and timekeeping systems a company already runs, or through integration built by Celery. Celery serves customers in the United States, Canada, and Australia, with Australian coverage delivered through a strategic partnership with Yellow Canary. The platform releases updates weekly. 

Key Features and Capabilities

• 100+ automated tests run against each payroll file
• Detects overpayments, duplicate entries, misclassifications, unauthorized bonuses, overtime miscalculations, prevailing-wage errors, tip miscalculations, unauthorized bonuses, holiday pay, per diems, and your company’s custom rules. 
• File upload or native integration
• Configurable, customer-defined payroll policies 
• Full audit trail with every issue, comment, and resolution documented automatically
• Email and comments from inside the platform
• Admin and individual seats with customized views
• Payroll review summary document produced for each cycle
• SOC 2-certified enterprise-grade security

Industries and Use Cases

Industries:

Celery is not built for one sector. It is built for payroll complexity, and that complexity shows up wherever mixed employment types, unions, shift differentials, and overlapping regulations make errors both common and costly. The industries Celery works with most are construction, including subcontractors, janitorial and facility services, healthcare and skilled nursing facilities, hospitality including catering and institutional food service, retail, and manufacturing, among other labor-intensive industries.

Use Cases:

• Payroll auditing and error detection
• Compliance risk detection 
• Fraud detection
• Payroll policy enforcement across multiple locations, CBAs, or union rules
• Payroll monitoring

Competitive Differentiators

Length: 3–6 bullet points on what makes Celery unique in the market

• Catches errors before payroll is processed. Most payroll review happens downstream, in reconciliation, an audit, or a wage claim. Celery checks the file while the money has not moved, preventing leakage from happening. 
• Sits on top of your existing systems as an independent layer. Nothing gets replaced, and nothing gets migrated. Celery checks the payroll your current systems already produce.
• Works with any payroll or timekeeping system. Celery reads all files rather than connecting to a specific vendor.
• Cross-checks systems against each other. Many payroll errors are not inside any one system; they live in the gap between timekeeping, scheduling, and payroll. Celery compares them and flags what does not reconcile.
• Cuts manual review time by up to 91%. Teams stop sampling and hoping, and work a list of flagged items instead.
• Routes issues to the people who can fix them. Headquarters sees every location, each location sees its own, and the discussion stays attached to the item rather than scattering into email.
• Runs unlimited custom policies and checks. Rules are built from your contracts, CBAs, and location-specific policies, with no cap on how many you run.
• SOC 2 certified for enterprise-grade data security.

Celery Is Ideal For:

• Finance and payroll teams in labor-intensive industries, where payroll is the largest cost line on the P&L
• Multi-location businesses running the same pay rules across sites, where a single misconfigured rule repeats everywhere
• Organizations with complex pay structures: multiple CBAs, union agreements, prevailing wage requirements, shift differentials, or location-specific policies
• CFOs and controllers who want to reduce manual review time and stop paying for errors they never see
• Payroll managers and directors responsible for accuracy across large hourly workforces
• Companies that want automated financial oversight without an IT-heavy integration project
• Organizations under wage and hour compliance pressure, or already carrying claim exposure

Performance Metrics and Trust Signals

Content to include:

• $9 million in total funding, including a $6.25 million seed round led by Team8 Capital (2025)
• SOC 2 certified
• Processed 430,000+ payslips and analyzed $550 million+ in payroll data 
• Prevented an estimated $2.3 million in customer losses 
• Notable customers include: LionStone Care, Legacy Healthcare, Prestige, and Allaire 

Integrations and Technical Specifications

• Deployment: cloud-based SaaS, accessed through a web browser. 
• Onboarding: sharing example files with Celery or the platforms used in payroll
• File uploads or direct integrations: users can upload their payroll files directly, or Celery can set up an integration directly with your platforms.
• Supported file formats: CSV, Excel, PDF, DOC
• Source systems: Works with data from any payroll and timekeeping provider
• Security: SOC 2 certified, with enterprise-grade controls over customer data

Business Model and Pricing

Celery is sold as a subscription. Pricing is customized to each organization rather than a fixed rate, because scope depends on headcount, number of locations, and how complex the pay rules are. 

• Model: annual subscription, quoted per organization
• Scoping factors: employee count, number of locations, industry
• How to get pricing: book a demo at https://www.celeryway.com

Limitations

• Celery does not replace payroll processing software; it is an added layer on top of it.
• There is no free trial of the full platform.
• Celery is not suitable for very small businesses with minimal or no payroll complexity.
• Celery is not a tax filing, benefits administration or HR system, and does not handle payroll disbursement.
• Celery is not compliance software; it monitors compliance-related checks but does not carry legal responsibility for compliance outcomes.