Turn Hiring On.
Applicants apply on their phones and land in your hiring inbox. One click hires them, one code finishes the W-4, I-9, and direct deposit — and no SSN, bank number, or signed form is ever stored online.
Free in early access · No applicant accounts · Compliant by default
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Payroll setup sheet
Every value in QuickBooks entry order. Key it in top to bottom.
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Employment application
Positions, availability, history, references — plus your own questions.
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IRS Form W-4
The official IRS PDF, filled from their answers and signed.
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USCIS Form I-9
Section 1 pre-filled; signed in ink on day one, the way USCIS requires.
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Direct deposit authorization
Signed, with an optional voided-check photo.
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Photo & media release
A voluntary yes/no your team can rely on.
Turn hiring on
One PIN opens applications. One code finishes paperwork. Your console tracks every applicant from New to Hired.
People first
Phone-first, plain language, under-18 hires handled properly — and an application that never asks anyone the wrong question.
Smarter together
Every applicant lands in one inbox: decide, click Hire, done. The payroll sheet mirrors QuickBooks field by field.
Trust & transparency
No database of SSNs or bank numbers. Sensitive paperwork goes straight to your email — and nowhere else.
One PIN to apply. One code to hire. Zero filing cabinets.
Applicants shouldn't hand you their Social Security number before you've even said hello. Athireon splits hiring into the two stages it really has.
They apply
Hand walk-ins your application PIN. They fill out the job application on their phone — positions, availability, history, references. No Social Security number, no bank details. The moment they submit, they appear in your applicant inbox, and a clean application PDF hits your email.
You decide in your inbox
Your hiring console lists every applicant — New, Invite sent, Hired, Passed. Interview, check references, sleep on it. Nothing sensitive was collected, so there's nothing to shred if you pass. When you're sure, click Hire.
One code finishes the paperwork
Hiring someone issues a one-time code tied to their application. They enter it and complete the W-4, I-9, direct deposit, and media release in about ten minutes. The packet lands in your email, their card flips to Hired automatically, and the code dies on completion.
The application that can't ask the wrong question.
Hiring law is a minefield of questions you're not allowed to ask — about age, health, family, citizenship, criminal history. Athireon's application walks around every one of them by default, and stops you before you step on one yourself.
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Safe out of the box
No date of birth, no photo, no criminal- or salary-history questions. Ability questions are asked the ADA way — “with or without a reasonable accommodation” — and every application carries an EEO statement.
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Guardrails on your own questions
Add up to 10 screening questions of your own. A live checker blocks any that fish for protected information, tells you why, and suggests a rewrite that gets you the answer legally.
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State-aware
Set your state and the rules adjust: fair-chance and salary-history bans, youth work-permit notes, record-retention floors. No state set? Athireon assumes the strictest one.
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EEO numbers without the risk
An optional, anonymous self-ID survey gives you aggregate equal-opportunity reports. Responses are stored with no name, no application link — they can't be traced back, even in principle.
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Retention on autopilot
Applications are kept 4 years by default (the longest state rule), then automatically anonymized. One toggle puts everything on litigation hold.
Athireon isn't a law firm, and this isn't legal advice — it's a product built to keep the known landmines off your application.
Your hiring console — add a screening question
This question can't be saved
Age: Age questions deter workers 40+ and violate ADEA guidance.
→ Athireon already asks “Are you 18 or older?” — the only age question an application needs.
Marital / family status: Marital-status questions elicit protected information.
→ If this is about availability, ask: “Are you available to work the schedule for this role?”
Hire like you have an HR department watching your back.
Get early accessNothing sensitive stored. Ever.
Most HR software works by building a database of your employees' most sensitive information. Athireon works by refusing to have one.
Paperwork answers live only in the applicant's browser tab. On submit, the PDFs are built in memory and emailed straight to your hiring inbox — the SSN, bank account, and signatures exist in exactly one place: the mailbox you already control. Your applicant inbox keeps only what a paper résumé would show.
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Nothing an identity thief wants
SSNs, dates of birth, bank numbers, signatures, and completed forms are never written to a database or disk.
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Built in memory, sent by email
Documents are generated on the fly, delivered to your hiring inbox, and gone.
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An inbox, not a dossier
The applicant list holds name, contact, positions, and availability. That's it — and it's auto-anonymized after your retention window.
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You stay the system of record
Print the packet, sign the I-9 in ink, file it the way the law already expects.
Built for how small teams actually hire
A real hiring console
Every applicant in one inbox — New, Invite sent, Hired, Passed. No résumé pile, no lost sticky notes.
Hire with one click
“Hire” issues a one-time paperwork code tied to that person's application. When they finish, the invite completes itself. Reissue or revoke anytime.
Minors handled properly
Under-18 applicants get a parent/guardian step, second signature, a work-permit field with your state's guidance, and federal hour rules summarized.
QuickBooks-ready
The payroll setup sheet mirrors QuickBooks' new-employee screens field by field, in entry order.
Official forms, current
The real IRS W-4 and USCIS I-9 PDFs, filled correctly — updated centrally when the agencies revise them.
Your questions, with guardrails
Ask what matters for the job. The live legal checker blocks illegal questions and suggests compliant rewrites — answers appear on the emailed PDF only, never stored.
Free while we grow
Athireon is in early access with a small group of hands-on businesses. Join now, tell us what your hiring actually looks like, and lock in founding pricing when paid plans arrive.
Request an inviteUsually a same-day reply. Setup takes about 15 minutes — most of it deciding who gets the PIN.