Warsaw · EU Total Rewards & AI Governance

Pelayo Consultores designs the governance.
Pelayo OS runs it.

One practice, one protocol. Every job grading, pay equity finding, and compensation decision Tomasz Rey's team ships is produced by the same governed system, 90+ skills, hash-chained audit trails, and a runtime that enforces policy instead of describing it.

01The idea

What if an organization could run like software?

That's the idea behind Pelayo OS: an AI-native operating system for governed organizational intelligence, a protocol layer where people, AI agents, organizational knowledge, and governance rules work through the same architecture.

Instead of a growing pile of prompts, tools, and agents, Pelayo OS treats the organization as living code:

  • modular skills with defined contracts
  • explicit connections between capabilities
  • evidence and audit trails built into execution
  • governance rules that travel with the work
  • cost and model decisions governed, not guessed
  • external signals continuously metabolized into action
90+
REGISTERED SKILLS

Spanning AI governance, Total Rewards, pay transparency, process archaeology, decision governance, and commercial delivery.

AI capability without governance creates more noise.

AI capability with architecture creates organizational leverage.

The goal isn't to build another AI tool. It is to build the infrastructure that lets organizations use AI without losing control of what they know, how they decide, or why they act.

I'm exploring where this architecture can go next. Connect with me if this resonates, and see more of Pelayo OS in action.

02The system

Two parts. One methodology.

People sometimes ask whether they're hiring a consultant or buying software. The honest answer is that the split doesn't exist, it's the same governance methodology, delivered two ways.

THE FIRM

Pelayo Consultores

Led by Tomasz Rey, engagements where a human has to sit across the table from a works council, a board, or a regulator and defend the number.

  • Format Diagnostics, full projects, retainers
  • Anchors Korn Ferry Hay, Mercer IPE, WTW GGS, Aon Radford
  • Output Board-ready reports, works council packages, calibration sign-off
  • Runs on Pelayo OS, every deliverable traces to a skill and a source
THE PROTOCOL

Pelayo OS

A governed runtime, not a chatbot, not a policy PDF. It executes compensation and compliance decisions inside enforced boundaries and signs the result.

  • Format 90+ skills, model-agnostic architecture
  • Enforcement Autonomy-agency gate, AUTO zone vs. RED zone (human required)
  • Evidence Hash-chained, HMAC-signed audit trail on every execution
  • Deployed EU-hosted, live production, 6ms median gate latency
03For leaders

Built for two mandates, not one

A CHRO and a Finance Director ask different questions about the same engagement. Both get answered from the same evidence base.

HR & TOTAL REWARDS

Is this defensible in front of a works council?

Job architecture, pay equity regression, and EUPTD Article 9 reporting built on Korn Ferry Hay, Mercer IPE, or WTW GGS, every grade traceable to a source, not a narrative.

EUPTD gap analysis, all 5 pillars3 weeks to board-ready
Rework requests after works council reviewZero
Start with an EUPTD diagnostic →
FINANCE & RISK

What does this cost, and what's the exposure if I don't?

Every governance decision is logged and cost-tracked per execution, with hard caps enforced before the run, not reconciled afterward. The audit trail is the same one you'd hand a regulator, not an internal memo.

Cost per governance decisionLogged & capped pre-run
Large-employer EUPTD reporting deadline2027
Audit trail signatureHMAC, hash-chained
Ask for the cost-governance brief →
04Ecosystem

It governs your stack. It doesn't replace it.

Pelayo OS is not another job-evaluation engine or another market-data feed. It's the layer that enforces the decision once your existing tools have supplied the inputs.

EVALUATION LAYER

Job evaluation & grading

Whichever methodology already structures and grades your roles, Pelayo OS doesn't re-grade the job. It governs the pay decision that follows the grade, a layer above, not a replacement.

MARKET DATA LAYER

Benchmarking & market data

Whatever feeds your salary bands (Radford, WTW GGS, or an internal survey), Pelayo OS doesn't compete with the data. It governs whether an offer built on that data is fair, budgeted, and policy-compliant.

REPORTING LAYER

Compliance reporting

Gap analysis and Article 9 reporting tools tell you what your pay gap is. Pelayo OS enforces the decision protocol at the point a pay decision is made, before the gap exists, not after.

How we implement Sysarb →
GOVERNANCE LAYER

Pelayo OS

Runtime enforcement, an HMAC-signed audit trail, and an autonomy-agency gate sit above all three layers. This is the layer that's usually missing: a policy document nobody reads and nobody enforces.

If your organisation already runs a job-evaluation tool, a market-data subscription, or a compliance reporting platform, Pelayo OS is designed to sit above them, not next to them, a single integration point rather than a fourth vendor relationship.
05Engagement

Three ways in

No scope creep, no retainer lock-in past the point you need it.

01 · Diagnostic

Understand the gap first

EUPTD gap map, job architecture baseline, and a risk register scored by article, likelihood, and remediation path.

Duration2–3 weeks
FormatExecutive briefing + risk matrix
Output3 documents + readiness score
02 · Full project

Build the infrastructure

Graded JD library, pay band design against market anchors, and an Article 9 report pack pre-filled with your data.

Duration6–10 weeks
FormatWorkshop series + deliverables
OutputAudit-ready EUPTD package
03 · Retainer

Stay compliant as the ground moves

Monthly governance review, transposition monitoring, and an annual re-grading cycle so the methodology stays consistent.

CadenceMonthly + quarterly
AccessAsync + scheduled
CommitmentQuarterly rolling, 30-day exit
06About

Tomasz Rey

GRP · CCP · PMP · PRINCE2 · Prosci ADKAR · SPHRi

  • Corporate Total Rewards background, multi-country compensation management
  • Focus areas, EU pay transparency, job architecture, AI governance for compensation decisions
  • Working languages, English, Polish, Spanish
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Two doors. Same protocol behind both.

A 30-minute conversation, either way, no pitch, no follow-up pressure.