The modern approach to building a team
Spend your funding where it matters
With a strong foundation of employee systems and the support to scale, what you build can last a lifetime.
Without them, you’ll find your time and money spent on repairs rather than growth.
Successful startups need successful employee systems
Product, Sales, and Operations all require employees performing at the top of their game. Unlock your team’s efficiency by building early, for scale, with our expertise.
See what we can do for your team
Startups move fast, and so do we. Read our case studies and see what we can accomplish together.
Our Services
The Kitchen Sink
Retain our team to join as a fractional support to handle anything and everything that might come up that affects the employee. When we say end-to-end employee lifecycle, we mean it.
Fixer
Call in the experts to untangle a functional knot or evolve a key workforce system for the next stage. If the foundations are shaky, we’ll fix them right up then scale to the next level.
Builder
Built to provide baseline tools, systems, and training for successful hiring, culture, and team performance at an early stage without breaking the budget.
FAQs
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We focus on the end-to-end employee lifecycle, building efficient and scalable systems across hiring, retainment, and employee management. By identifying and driving improvements to every area that affects the employee, as a result, company performance improves. Our key outcomes are increased employee quality, decreased operational costs, and efficient, repeatable, scalable Workforce programs.
From the moment you realize you need to hire to the day the employee leaves the company, we have best practices, frameworks, and methodology to hands-on advise and achieve company workforce goals.
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Unlike Recruiting or HR consultants, we focus on the end-to-end high level processes that maximize company goals and outcomes. Making one great hire, or writing one solid policy, is not enough to hit profitability milestones or raise another series.
Economic volatility requires teams at peak performance, not just hitting goals but surpassing them. Investors are now demanding clear plans, both for hiring and employee growth, to show clear Org Readiness for investment.
A Workforce Consultant has expertise in the entire employee lifecycle, with the end goal of Org Readiness. We diagnose the root cause of org challenges and provide the frameworks, advice, and training to prevent and recover from missteps.
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We’ve worked with teams as small as 4, and as large as 400, but our sweet spot is in Seed, A, and B stage teams under 100 employees. Why? This is where the majority of the make-or-break employee systems get installed, or missed.
Shortsightedness or missteps in Seed stage carry on to A, A into B, and so on, with exponential cost. Startups can’t afford to waste runway on these errors, or the time it takes to correct them.
By partnering with our team, you gain a hands-on advisor who can both correct and prevent missteps, while upleveling your team with the tools, frameworks, and guidance to succeed moving forward.
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The odds are, if you're on this page, you should reach out for a conversation. It's never too early to start shaping your Workforce programs, but we find many teams realize they need help when they reach a trouble spot.
It could be long hiring cycles, culture issues, org scaling for fundraising, a desire to improve team performance, or any combination of workforce challenges that bring a leader to realize they need extra help.
Whatever your situation may be, our team offers a free first consult to help you identify your true needs and determine the best course of action with our team or another resource.
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Product launch delays, missed sales targets, wasteful marketing, toxic employees, management issues, top employees leaving, all can be the Achilles heel to an idea primed to change the world.
If you get down to the root cause of all these possible factors, it’s an employee issue. You didn’t have the right people, at the right time, with the right skills to hit your goals. The key to this is upleveling skills hiring and retaining employees.
Hiring and retaining talent doesn’t need to be a mysterious black box, a costly outsourced function, or a pain in the ass for your team.
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It’s a clear fact that modern employees demand more value in exchange for their labor than generations before. Having worked in the startup trenches and after 1000s of candidate interviews across every level and vertical, we’ve identified the three motivating factors of the modern employee.
Compensation is just one factor in candidate and employee decisions. We ensure your team is paying competitively without breaking the budget, install tools and processes to manage future pay scaling, and advise on total rewards that balance cash comp.
Professional growth, both in promotions and skill upleveling, is a huge lever that most startups don’t know how to pull. Whether you need to lay the foundations of org mobility or are ready to scale your programs to support growing team sizes, we provide the internal resources and upleveling to keep this essential area functioning successfully and manageable.
Company culture, one of the most prominent factors to successful hiring and retention, is no longer a “work hard play hard” atmosphere and providing cold brew on tap. Our team helps you create a work environment that is inclusive, with the tools and training to support employees from a variety of backgrounds through any stage of growth.
