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Comparison · HR
Ashby vs Deputy
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Ashby and Deputy — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Ashby vs Deputy: at a glance
What is Ashby?
Ashby keeps extending conditional forms and closes small gaps in interview scheduling.
Ashby ships small admin, form and scheduling changes almost daily. Conditional logic now reaches global application forms, a week after conditional forms learned to branch on location, and single-interview schedules can be marked completed. Earlier this month it added private-field warnings on report alerts and custom field reference IDs for the developer API.
What is Deputy?
Deputy is hardening pay-data permissions while Australian super rules claim release slots.
Deputy's recent work splits between access control and Australian payroll compliance. A rebuilt access-level system in late April introduced custom roles with finer-grained control over what people can see and do, followed in June by permissions that restrict visibility of pay rates and labour costs. July's release adapted Deputy Payroll to PayDay Super, the Australian employer reporting requirement. Scheduling picked up one visible change: the open/empty shift row can be pinned while managers scroll.
Ashby vs Deputy: editorial side-by-side
Ashby
5.0HR
Ashby keeps extending conditional forms and closes small gaps in interview scheduling.
◆ Current state
Ashby ships small admin, form and scheduling changes almost daily. Conditional logic now reaches global application forms, a week after conditional forms learned to branch on location, and single-interview schedules can be marked completed. Earlier this month it added private-field warnings on report alerts and custom field reference IDs for the developer API.
◆ Where it's heading
Two threads run in parallel: forms that adapt to each candidate, and admin controls that make Ashby safer to run as a system of record next to an HRIS. The cadence is steady and incremental rather than headline-driven.
◆ Prediction
Expect conditional logic to spread to more form types and more scheduling states to become editable without starting over.
Deputy
0.0HR
Deputy is hardening pay-data permissions while Australian super rules claim release slots.
◆ Current state
Deputy's recent work splits between access control and Australian payroll compliance. A rebuilt access-level system in late April introduced custom roles with finer-grained control over what people can see and do, followed in June by permissions that restrict visibility of pay rates and labour costs. July's release adapted Deputy Payroll to PayDay Super, the Australian employer reporting requirement. Scheduling picked up one visible change: the open/empty shift row can be pinned while managers scroll.
◆ Where it's heading
Permissions are the throughline — custom roles first, then sensitive pay data placed behind them — which is the shape of a product answering harder questions from larger, multi-site customers. Compliance work anchors Deputy to the Australian market its payroll product serves, and that regulatory calendar will keep taking release capacity. Scheduling itself, the core surface, is getting refinement rather than rethinking. The feed also carries the same release twice under slightly different titles, so apparent cadence runs ahead of actual shipping.
◆ Prediction
Expect further permission scoping across cost and pay surfaces, and follow-up work as PayDay Super reporting beds in. The entries show nothing about roadmap outside Australia and scheduling.
Alternatives to Ashby and Deputy
Other HR products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Ashby or Deputy.
Ever Gauzy
Ever Gauzy builds out a collaboration suite with chat, inbox and docs beside HR and time tracking.
Employment Hero
Employment Hero floods its feed with jobs reports and AI surveys, not product releases.
Tanda
Tanda follows its HR Agent beta with UK pay-run and manager-permission controls.
HiBob
HiBob keeps widening its public API, now with bulk reads of custom employee tables
Fountain
Fountain logs every Candidate AI answer and brings remote I-9 reverification to all customers.
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Recent activity from Ashby and Deputy
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoAshbyConditional fields for global application forms
- 3d agoAshbyComplete interview activity
- 5d agoAshbyLocation fields for conditional forms
- 6d agoAshbyCustom field reference ID in API
- 7d agoAshbyAlert warnings for private fields
- 8d agoAshbyComplete feedback when changing stage, now on for all customers
- 4mo agoDeputyPayDay Super for Deputy Payroll
- 5mo agoDeputySensitive Data Permissions for Pay Rates
- 6mo agoDeputyCustom Access Levels
- 6mo agoDeputyCustom access levels
- 6mo agoDeputyFreeze Empty/Open Shift Row in Schedule Employee Views
- 7mo agoDeputyOpen/empty shift row can be pinned in schedule views
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Ashby and Deputy?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Ashby is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Ashby better than Deputy?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Ashby is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other HR products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Ashby?
Top Ashby alternatives in HR are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Ashby alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ashby for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Deputy?
Top Deputy alternatives in HR are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Deputy alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/deputy for the full list with editorial commentary on each.