Ascenta HR — Human Led. AI Guided.
The team

Built by the people who lived the problem.

Ascenta HR is 7 people: HR practitioners who have run the hard conversations, and engineers who have built the systems that should have helped them. We are building the platform we all wished existed.

Founders

The founders who set the standard Ascenta HR holds people work to.

Andrea Stone

Andrea Stone

Founder & CEO

SHRM-SCP, SHRM Utah State Council Board Member

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Haavard Sterri

Haavard Sterri

Co-Founder & CMO
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James Brissette

James Brissette

Technical Co-Founder & CTO
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Founding Team

The team building the guided architecture behind the Compass and getting it in front of the teams who need it.

Greg Dagnan

Greg Dagnan

Founding Engineer
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Adler Orteney

Adler Orteney

Founding Engineer
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Chloe Tam

Chloe Tam

Founding Engineer
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A note from the founder

Why we are building Ascenta HR.

“I spent years watching managers do their best with systems that were not built to help them. The write-up came too late, the script was never written down, and the person on the receiving end deserved better than whatever we improvised that afternoon.

Ascenta HR is the platform I wish I would have had: one that gives every leader the right script at the right time, holds people work to a standard, and treats culture as a daily practice, not a poster.

I built it around three questions every employee silently asks the company that hired them: do you care about me, can I trust you, are you committed to excellence? The team you see on this page is here because they answered those questions the same way I did.”

Andrea Stone
Founder & CEO, Ascenta HR

Come see what we are building.

Walk through the Compass with us, or get on the list for early access.