Employee Directory

Replace the spreadsheet your team has outgrown

Many growing teams keep their people list in a shared spreadsheet. It goes stale, it doesn't filter well, and copies drift apart. When someone asks who owns payments infrastructure or who joined the London office this week, the answer takes a thread and a guess.

Employee Directory keeps that list in one place: searchable profiles, a chart of who reports to whom, a skills finder, and a feed of new starters, work anniversaries, and announcements. Bring your people in from a CSV file, and each person keeps their own contact details and skills up to date.

The sample data is a company of 38 people and one former employee. The app uses today's date, and the sample start dates, milestones, and announcements move to the date you install, so the dashboard shows current activity.

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What's included

Dashboard. Four counts (active headcount, new starters this month, profile completeness, and remote and hybrid mix), a department chart, recent and upcoming people events, and pinned announcements.

Searchable directory. Search by name, title, or department, and filter by department, office, work mode, and status. Every filter you set applies together. Former staff stay out of the list unless you choose to include them. Results show each person's photo, role, office, and manager.

Teams. A reporting-lines chart from the CEO down. Expand any manager to see their team, with photos, titles, and report counts, and open any profile from the chart. A department view groups people by team.

Skills and expertise finder. Skills grouped by category, each with the people who have it. Tap a skill on the finder or on a profile to see everyone with that skill in the directory.

Employee profiles. Tabs for Overview (manager, direct reports, and the AI team intro), Contact (email, phone, Slack, LinkedIn, and desk), Skills, Activity, and Manager Notes. Manager notes are private: only the person's managers and the directory's admins can read or add them, and each note is signed by the person who wrote it.

Milestones and announcements. One feed for new hires, work anniversaries, promotions, and leave, plus company announcements. Work anniversaries in the next 30 days and people who started in the last 30 days appear on their own, based on start dates. Pinned announcements stand out with an accent border.

Import from a CSV. Choose a CSV file, match its columns to directory fields, and review the rows before you import. Rows with problems are flagged and skipped. People are matched by email, so importing the same file again updates them instead of adding duplicates, and managers are linked by their email.

Admins and editing. Admins add people, import files, edit any profile, and read every manager note. Managers can change the job title and status of anyone who reports to them, directly or further down. Everyone can update their own contact details, photo, bio, pronouns, timezone, and skills. Skills come from a shared catalog, and you can add a new skill when you need one. If an email already belongs to someone, the form says who.

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AI workflow: Draft Team Intro

The Draft Team Intro action is on the Overview tab of every profile.

It sends the person's role, manager, department, office, work mode, skills, and recent milestones to an AI model and returns a three- to four-sentence introduction to paste into a chat channel or a welcome email.

You can edit the text, copy it, or choose Regenerate for a new version. If your organization is out of AI credits, the panel says so and explains that you can buy more credits or change your plan in Glide.

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Who this is for

• HR and People Ops teams who need one current record of headcount, profiles, and reporting lines
• Founders and office managers at companies of 20 to 200 people who have outgrown a spreadsheet
• Department leads who want to see their team's skills, onboarding status, and work modes at a glance
• New starters who need to find their manager, see how the company fits together, and learn who to ask about what

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Getting started

1. Become the first admin. Open Admins and choose Make me the first admin. Then add other admins by their sign-in email on the same page.
2. Bring in your people. On the Directory page, choose Import CSV, or add people one at a time with Add Employee. Use each person's sign-in email so they can edit their own profile.
3. Clear the sample company. The sample people, milestones, and announcements are rows in your project's database. Remove them when your own team is in.
4. Check reporting lines. Set each person's manager on their profile, or include a manager email column in your CSV. The Teams chart, the "Reports to" card, and manager notes all follow these links.
5. Add milestones and announcements. Anniversaries and new starters appear on their own. Add promotions, leave, and announcements to the milestones and announcements tables.
6. Use the AI intro. Draft Team Intro uses AI credits from your Glide plan. The AI connection is already set up.