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Approving and hoping
"I review payroll every cycle and still cross my fingers that nothing slipped through." Manual reviews can't catch every overpayment, duplicate entry, unauthorized bonus, or misclassification before the money goes out.
Stop Approving Payroll Errors You Never Saw with AI Payroll Audit
Built for payroll and finance, Celery runs an AI payroll audit on every pay cycle in minutes, flagging overpayments, policy violations, and compliance risks.
Trusted by leading finance and payroll teams
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The Results Payroll Teams See With Celery
91%
Reduction in manual payroll review time
15
Costly mistakes caught on average every pay cycle
$248,735
Potential savings per 1,000 employees per cycle
Based on aggregated results from current Celery customers. Individual results vary by payroll size and complexity.
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Nathan Weiss
Administrator, Prestige Healthcare
“Labor is your biggest cost, so every dollar matters. Celery helps ensure every dollar you pay out is one you should be paying. Its value far outweighs the cost.”
Adam Cusner
CEO of LionStone Healthcare
“Celery’s ability to understand our needs and work collaboratively with our payroll team has been remarkable. They’re not just delivering a great product. They’re providing the support, training, and partnership we need to do our jobs better.”
Yarianny Rodriguez
Payroll Director
"With Celery, I can instantly spot PTO discrepancies and ensure compliance with company policy. Every cycle, it saves me from approving costly errors, giving me confidence in our payroll decisions."
Ahuva Saposh
Comptoller
“Celery’s AI-based system analyzes our payroll data, catching anomalies that would have otherwise slipped through. It’s essential for us, especially with so many moving parts.”
Lance Leland
COO
“Knowing that we have Celery in the background, running and catching as much as possible is going to help a lot in our review process and streamline that and make it a lot faster for us.”
Chaim Wolmark
CEO
“Celery has transformed how we view payroll data. Its customization means it meets our specific needs, and it presents data far more clearly than large Excel files.”
See how LionStone Care built an accurate and resilient payroll process with Celery
Manual Payroll Audits Aren't Catching What's Costing You the Most
Payroll is your largest expense and the one most likely to leak. Hours of manual review still miss the errors that hit hardest:
Hours we don't have
Your payroll team is spending entire days on paycheck reviews - and the bigger payroll gets, the slower the review. There's no time to investigate every anomaly, so most get rubber-stamped.
Hidden cost creep
Overtime drift, PTO miscalculations, one-off bonuses, retro adjustments - small line items that quietly cost six figures a year and never show up on a P&L summary.
Audit anxiety
When a payroll auditor or labor compliance review lands on your desk, you don't have a clean trail of who reviewed what, when, or why something was approved.
AI in Payroll, Without Replacing Your Payroll System
Celery layers on top of any payroll provider - ADP, Paycom, Paychex, UKG, Paylocity, and runs 100+ AI-powered tests on every payroll register before payments go out.
No more approving and hoping.
AI paycheck reviews on every employee, every cycle. Errors flagged before payments are released.
Hours back, every cycle.
Cut payroll review time by up to 91%. Your team only looks at the records that actually need a human eye.
Catch the leaks no one has time to spot.
Overtime anomalies, PTO discrepancies, one-off payments, misclassifications — all surfaced automatically.
Audit-ready by default.
Every flag, comment, and resolution is logged with timestamps. A clean trail for any payroll auditor.
No migration, no IT lift.
Upload your standard payroll register. Celery works alongside your existing payroll software — no system changes.
Adam Cusner
CEO
CEO
"We’re running payroll for nearly 5,000 employees, for me to tell you that we have two folks running payroll with Celery, that’s fairly remarkable."
Certified for enterprise-grade security
Celery is SOC2 certified to protect and safeguard sensitive financial data.
FAQs
On average, Celery reduces payroll cost by 0.5%–2%. For a 1,000-employee operation, that's typically $248,735 in potential savings per cycle.
Celery is SOC 2 certified. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with strict access controls. Payroll data is only used for your own audits, never shared, never used to train external models.
Celery catches all types of errors, from simple human errors, systematic errors, policy violations against your own rules, anomalies compared to historical data, and compliance issues against labor laws, union rules, and CBAs.
No. Celery handles the integration. Or you can simply upload your files to Celery.
No. Celery is an AI audit layer that sits on top of your existing payroll provider. You keep ADP, Paycom, Paychex, or whatever you run today — Celery reviews the payroll register before payments go out.
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