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Keep it — add ProHQ

ProHQ vs Darwinbox

AI-enabled, mobile-first enterprise HCM suite, hire-to-retire. ProHQ is a process engine: it runs your whole operation as one process — offline, in the field, in your team's language — and we build and run it with you.

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ORIGIN: India · 2015
PRICING MODEL: Per-employee/month on enterprise headcount tiers with custom quotes; the per-seat rate falls with scale — premium, but notably cheaper than Workday/SAP.
BEST FOR: Mid-to-large enterprises (~1,000–10,000+ employees), strongest across India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE

What Darwinbox is genuinely good at.

Unified hire-to-retire

Recruitment, core HR, payroll, time, performance and engagement share one data model, so changes flow without re-keying.

True mobile-first field tools

Native app with geo-tagging, facial recognition, OCR and shift/roster management built for deskless workforces.

Deep India + APAC localization

40+ languages including Hindi, serving 1,000+ enterprises across 130+ countries.

SIDE BY SIDE

Six things that decide it.

CAPABILITY

ProHQ

Darwinbox

Built around your process

A state-machine workflow that mirrors how you actually work — not generic boards, lists or tickets you bend to fit.

✓

Offline-first, built for the field

Record work where it happens — site, road, shop floor — with no signal. It syncs when the network returns.

✓

One process, everything attached

Tables, documents, files, approvals and chat hang off the exact stage they belong to — not separate apps that never quite talk.

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A team that runs it with you

We sit with your people, map the process and keep it running. Not a download-and-configure-it-yourself licence.

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Your team's language

Feels like Excel and WhatsApp, in the language the field already speaks. No training period.

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AI only where it pays

Drafting, summarising and repetitive paperwork automated on the process — included, not a per-seat upsell.

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✓ Built in ~ Partial / add-on / configure-it-yourself ✕ Not available

WHERE IT STOPS

The gap ProHQ fills.

Darwinbox is the strong India-built enterprise HCM, with native compliance and genuine mobile field tools — depth ProHQ doesn't claim. But it's still an HR suite, configured by consultants over months, not a process engine you stand up to mirror how the whole operation runs, and it's cloud-with-mobile rather than offline-first.

HCM, not the whole operation

Broad across HR (and some IT/Finance tickets), but it remains an HR platform, not a generic process state-machine.
Complex customization

Tailoring workflows often needs vendor/consulting support and a 3–6 month implementation.
Not verifiably offline-first

Strongly mobile and field-capable, but it's a cloud platform with a rich mobile client, not local-first sync.
Reporting limits

Analytics can lag at scale and reporting customization is limited, sometimes forcing manual exports.

THE INDIA REALITY

India-built in Hyderabad and India-strong: native PF/ESIC/TDS/EDLI/PT on one data model, Hindi plus regional languages, priced competitively for Indian enterprises versus Western HCMs.

KEEP IT — ADD PROHQ

Keep it, or run ProHQ alongside.

For a large enterprise, keep Darwinbox for HCM and payroll and run specific operational processes on ProHQ alongside it, where field, offline and rapid hands-on setup matter. You keep the compliance engine; you gain a process you can actually shape yourselves.

INTEGRATION

Bring your Darwinbox data with you

Darwinbox exposes 200+ APIs, a marketplace and unified-API connectors; ProHQ syncs employee records and approval/assignment status so Darwinbox stays the HCM of record while operations run in ProHQ.

Need to keep Darwinbox in the loop? We build that connector by hand during onboarding — which is why the beta is just twenty seats.

REACHING PARITY

Matching Darwinbox, on the process engine

Where Darwinbox leads today, here's what we're building — so it works offline and in the field too:

Geo-tagged attendance and shift/roster handling
Onboarding and exit flows through stages
Approvals and requests routed in one process

THE VERDICT

India's strongest enterprise HCM — deep and mobile, but a consultant-configured HR suite, not your operation.

We'll tell you honestly whether ProHQ is the right move from Darwinbox for how you work. That conversation is free.

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