The Lytms Index / Payroll & PEO / this week
The Lytms IndexThis week in Payroll & PEO · issue 1 · Aug 16, 2026
A quiet week on the board.
first pulse, aug 16 · US region · lytms.ai/best/payroll
Nothing cleared the bar this window. The board is unchanged, no raise was announced, and no tracked vendor moved a published price.
Board movement
This is the first capture for this market, so there is nothing to measure movement against yet. The next one gives this section its first reading.
Who is funding this market
Not this week’s news — a read of who has raised in this market recently, which is how we tell a contested market from a settled one. Each date is the announcement’s own. It counts raises we FOUND in press, so it is a floor and never a census, and none of it moves a score.
jun 26Niural — Series A, $31M
aug 27Central — Seed, $8.6M
aug 26Sequifi — Seed, $6.7M
oct 16Deel — Series E, $300M
oct 21Cercli — Series A, $12M
apr 22Salsa — Series A, $20M
mar 4Helios — Seed, $15.5M
The pulse reports what changed; the board ranks. An event here can explain a movement — it is never an input to a score.
Measured across 17 AI-engine answers · 5 engines · 4 buying questions.