for the first ones building a company.
Fractional HR Retainer.
Senior HR support without the cost of a full-time hire. For California small businesses and first-gen founders who need real HR — not a template.
Custom scopes available. Most clients save 60% versus a full-time HR hire.
Built for founders who are doing too much.
You are a small business owner, an early-stage operator, or a first-gen founder. You are running compliance, hiring, payroll questions, and employee relations on top of everything else. You do not need a $150k Director of People — but you also cannot keep doing this alone.
A fractional HR retainer means you get a PHR-certified senior HR consultant on call: California labor compliance, day-to-day employee questions, manager coaching, terminations done right, and the protection of having a real HR partner before something goes wrong.
What is included.
- Ongoing California labor compliance monitoring
- Employee relations and day-to-day HR questions
- Manager coaching and difficult conversations
- Termination support, performance documentation, PIPs
- Hiring and onboarding systems
- Handbook updates as laws change
- OSHA, harassment training, and required postings
- Bilingual EN/ES support for your team
How it works.
We start with a free 20-minute call to scope. From there, we set a monthly retainer based on your team size and complexity. You get a dedicated email line, scheduled check-ins, and on-call coverage when something urgent comes up.
No long-term contracts. Month to month. Cancel any time. The point is to make senior HR available — not lock you into something you do not need.