Beek

Sobre Beek

Beek is the app where Latinos listen to great audio content in Spanish. The platform gives users access to more than 250,000 audiobooks, including over 5,000 titles in Spanish, and the catalog keeps growing with new releases every month. Beek has found its place in the audio content space by creating a digital experience built around access, technology, and strong content for Spanish speaking audiences.

As a startup, Beek moves in a fast paced environment where growth, efficiency, and compliance all have to live in the same room without fighting over the chair. Like many growing teams, Beek had to manage several responsibilities at once, often without a large administrative structure behind the scenes. That meant processes like payroll and Human Resources became more important as the company grew. At the same time, the team needed to stay compliant without having a dedicated payroll specialist in house. That mix created pressure because payroll needs time, care, and follow up, even when the team is busy improving the product and the user experience.

What were the main challenges with payroll?

Before Runa, payroll was one of the most stressful admin tasks for the Beek team. Payroll calculations were done manually, which created doubts around taxes, employee payments, and compliance processes with institutions like SAT and IMSS. “Just thinking about payday created tension for us, and each calculation involved long reviews that were prone to errors,” explains Estephania García. Every payroll cycle needed several checks and manual reviews, which took time and increased the chance of mistakes that could affect employees and internal order.

The lack of centralized information also made employee communication harder. Receipts, payments, and payroll questions were not as easy to manage as they should have been. That added more work for the team and created avoidable friction in a process that should feel simple and predictable. As Beek kept growing, manual payroll became harder to sustain. In a startup, agility matters. Spending too much time on repetitive admin work can quickly pull the team away from the product, the users, and the priorities that help the company move forward.

In what areas has Runa helped them?

Runa changed the way Beek manages payroll and Human Resources. By automating payroll calculations, salary payments, receipt stamping, and secure document storage, the team removed many manual tasks that used to take time and create risk. “Now we have full control over every process and can provide absolute transparency to our employees,” says Estephania García. One of the biggest improvements was visibility. The team now has payroll information in one place, making it easier to review records, answer employee questions, and keep documents organized without jumping between scattered files or tracking things by hand.

Runa also made compliance easier by helping payroll calculations and receipts stay aligned with current legal requirements. That reduced stress for the administrative team and gave them more confidence every time payroll came around. Another major benefit was time. By automating repetitive work, the team could focus more on strategy and employee experience instead of spending hours checking spreadsheets or processing payroll manually. In a growing company, that change matters. It improves productivity and helps the team stay organized. Runa’s Human Resources tools also helped centralize employee information and documents in one platform, making day to day management much simpler. Overall, Beek was able to professionalize internal processes without losing the speed a tech company needs.

What motivated them to choose Runa?

Beek chose Runa because the platform brought together technology, simplicity, and reliability in a way that matched what the company needed. Beyond features, the team valued having a modern and intuitive tool that could support growth without making internal work more complicated. According to Estephania García, “You can see the quality of the product and the talent behind it, which gives us the confidence of knowing that our payroll is in good hands.” That confidence mattered a lot, especially for a company that needed legal compliance and internal order without building a large payroll team from scratch.

The platform’s automation, security, and ease of use gave Beek peace of mind around one of its most sensitive internal processes. Over time, Runa became more than payroll software. Today, it works as a strategic ally that helps Beek keep payroll and Human Resources processes organized, transparent, and ready to scale. That allows the team to keep growing with more confidence and clearer operations, while staying focused on what they do best: building an audio experience that reaches more Spanish speaking users every day.