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Best example of Sanity used for internal company/HR system?

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Last updated: Sep 16, 2022
Hi wondering if anyone can assist with this do you know of the best example where Sanity is used for an internal company system? I remember seeing a Restaurant Brands Limited demo at one of the Jam stacks and we are considering building an HR system for our work off of Sanity and my boss wanted to see an example first.
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Great question! You're remembering the Restaurant Brands International (RBI) demo correctly. While I don't have details about the specific JAMstack conference presentation you attended, I can point you to an excellent resource about how RBI uses Sanity for their internal systems.

The RBI Case Study

Restaurant Brands International—the parent company of Burger King, Popeyes, Tim Hortons, and Firehouse Subs—uses Sanity to power internal applications that serve content to over 20 million monthly active users across 30,000 restaurants in 100+ countries.

Mitchell Posk, a software engineer with RBI, presented at Sanity's Structured Content 2022 conference about how they built their internal content platform. You can watch the full video of his talk, which covers:

Key Features of Their Internal System:

  1. Real-time content validation - Content teams get immediate feedback on what will work before publishing, eliminating guesswork
  2. Multi-brand, multi-region support - They hide irrelevant options for different markets and brands, reducing complexity
  3. Autonomous content editing - Content teams can work independently without blocking other departments like Product or Legal
  4. 3-minute deployment goal - They aimed to deploy new content in under 3 minutes (previously took days or weeks through agencies)

Why This Works Well for HR Systems:

The same principles that make Sanity work for RBI's restaurant operations could apply to an HR system:

  • Role-based access control - Different permissions for different departments/regions
  • Structured data - Employee information, policies, benefits data can all be modeled as structured content
  • Multi-channel delivery - Content can be delivered to employee portals, mobile apps, intranets, etc.
  • Real-time updates - HR policies and information can be updated quickly across all platforms
  • Audit trails - Track who changed what and when (important for compliance)

For an HR system specifically, Sanity's Enterprise features include SSO, advanced role-based access control, and audit logs—all critical for internal employee systems.

I'd recommend showing your boss the full RBI blog post and the embedded video presentation, as it demonstrates exactly how a major company uses Sanity for internal applications at scale.

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In case it would be helpful to have that RBI demo handy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONnShrX9nu8
But also, I think
user H
’s demo applies pretty well, too, and is well worth a watch besides 😃
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlKrtImLltY
Hi User. We use the Community Studio internally.
One of the first client Sanity-based projects I did before joining the company was actually to build out a whole intranet on Sanity. And of course have different implementations of it internally as well. But nothing we can share at the moment I think. You might find some relevant stuff on https://www.sanity.io/projects too
And we use a sanity based product for everything basically…. before I started I worked with so many different tools in an agency for marketing, digital experience and customer rel. Never liked them and always dreamed about something I could adapt to our needs. Now that I started @ sanity I have that and LOVE it.
user J
That's the vibe I am rocking. I see comments sometimes along the lines of "I wish Sanity came out the box with ______."
Sanity
is the box.
For the one small concession of "it doesn't start with baking in some things that you're used to seeing elsewhere", you get "it contains the ability to do just about anything. Really."

If one accepts that tradeoff the world is his or her oyster!
Well said!!!It is that easy and since you can basically copy paste from any repo, project or starter whatever you need, its like lego but open source.

I am working on some changes to our internal support tool and I am able to define workflows my brain needs (ADHD) and add that ONE function I love from Trello, one from Notion, one from using post-its on my screen and then get everything automated in a way that I need.
And the sharing culture here is so amazing… by building I learn, not first I learn then I build.
When I try accessing the API from another service I am also always so amazed how complicated and closed off things are, which frustrates me a lot. Why so hard?!
Thank you everyone. This is very much appreciated 🙏

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