Keep track of every employee, team, and office location in a single source of truth. It gives your entire organization clear visibility into who does what, without digging through scattered files.
The database connects three main tables natively: Users, Teams, and Locations. When you assign an employee to a specific team or office, headcounts and reporting lines update themselves instantly.
An embedded AI agent automatically summarizes each team's composition based on individual member roles. This keeps department overviews perfectly updated without manual rewriting.
Tracking a growing team in Excel quickly turns into a nightmare of outdated rows, missing avatars, and broken VLOOKUPs. When an employee switches managers or offices, updating multiple spreadsheets leads to inevitable data errors.
In a true database, every column enforces data types so emails stay formatted correctly and employee avatars are stored securely. You can organically link an employee to their exact department and manager without fragile formulas breaking.
As your company scales, headcounts and reporting structures calculate themselves automatically based on actual records. This is exactly what Softr Databases are designed for.
Map out complex reporting structures with automatic rollups that safely count team members per office or department. You can easily visualize direct reports and manager relationships.
Use built-in Database AI agents to automatically generate comprehensive team summaries based on everyone's specific missions. Your directory stays self-maintaining and instantly ready for anyone to search.
Manage employee profiles, contact details, roles and reporting structures
Organize departments with AI-powered summaries of member responsibilities
Catalog physical office sites with addresses and local staff distribution
This template gives structure and clarity to growing organizations outgrowing their simple spreadsheets.
You can completely adapt this structure to fit your organization's exact needs. Add new custom fields for employee birthdays, adjust the department dropdowns, or track specific skills side-by-side.
Import your existing employee lists directly from CSV or sync them via API in minutes. Your messy spreadsheet data will instantly transform into clean, connected records across Users, Teams, and Locations.
Give your team a secure employee portal by using a visual interface builder on top of this data. A well-structured database makes it incredibly easy to build a full internal app.
You can set up advanced users and permissions to ensure staff only see public profiles. Meanwhile, HR and admins retain full editing access to sensitive records.
A company directory database is a centralized system that tracks employee information, team structures, and office locations. It provides a single source of truth for organizational charts, reporting lines, and contact details, ensuring everyone knows who does what.
A no-code database lets HR and operations teams launch a production-ready directory in minutes without writing a single line of code or waiting for IT. It offers the strict structure and relational data of a traditional database but remains completely visual and easy to maintain.
AI can eliminate manual data entry and keep department descriptions constantly updated. For example, built-in AI agents can read through individual employee roles and missions to automatically draft comprehensive team summaries. This ensures team profiles stay accurate even as people join or leave roles.
Yes, you can easily turn this database into a fully functional internal portal where employees can log in and browse their colleagues' profiles. By configuring permissions, you can control exactly what each user role sees—allowing HR to edit records while standard employees can only view basic contact details.
Yes, this template is completely free to copy and start using right away. Softr Databases are included on all free plans, with higher-tier options available as your total employee record count grows. You can also invite unlimited internal collaborators to view the directory on any plan.
Excel is not designed to handle relational data, meaning linking an employee to a specific manager, team, and office requires fragile VLOOKUPs that frequently break as your company grows. Furthermore, spreadsheets struggle with image attachments like employee avatars and offer poor version control when multiple people try to update records simultaneously.