People Systems Setup

The People infrastructure your startup needs: set up and ready to use.

More employees means more onboarding, managers, employee changes, leave requests, performance conversations, compliance requirements, and opportunities for something important to get missed.

But that doesn't mean you need enterprise HR.

People Systems Setup builds the lightweight operational foundation your company needs for its next stage of growth.

What I Set Up

Every company starts in a different place. We'll identify what's missing or still running and build the systems that matter most for your stage.

That can include:

  • Onboarding

  • Offboarding

  • HRIS setup or cleanup

  • Employee records and documentation

  • Leave intake and administration

  • Performance process

  • Manager escalation process

  • Employee issue intake and documentation

  • Benefits enrollment and change workflows

  • Compensation and promotion workflows

  • I-9 and work authorization tracking

  • Immigration tracking and handoffs

  • Multi-state employee setup

  • People policies and acknowledgment tracking

  • People compliance calendar

  • Payroll and People handoffs

  • IT and People handoffs

  • People data and source-of-truth cleanup

  • Basic People reporting

  • People tool implementation

  • Manager People Ops guides

  • Recurring People audits and maintenance

Not everything. The right things for where your company is now.

Why Now?

Series A and early Series B is often where informal People operations start to break.

You're hiring faster. You have more managers. Employees are working across more states. Exceptions are becoming more common. Founders are further removed from day-to-day employee activity.

And suddenly, processes that used to live in someone's head have consequences.

A missed onboarding step affects a new hire's first week. An undocumented compensation change reaches Payroll late. A leave request lands with a manager who doesn't know what to do. Employee data differs between three systems. An offboarding step gets missed. Every manager develops their own version of a People process.

The goal is to put structure in place before those exceptions become your operating model.

What You Get

This isn't a strategy engagement that ends with recommendations.

I build the infrastructure with you.

Depending on your setup, that can mean:

  • Working workflows

  • Configured systems and tools

  • SOPs and checklists

  • Templates

  • Manager guidance

  • Employee communications

  • Approval processes

  • Cross-functional handoffs

  • Documentation standards

  • Maintenance schedules

Your team leaves knowing what happens, who owns it, where it lives, and how to keep it running.

Right-Sized for a Startup

You don't need the People infrastructure of a 2,000-person company.

You need enough structure to stop reinventing basic People operations as you grow.

That means building processes that are clear enough to create consistency, lightweight enough to actually use, and structured enough to scale into your future People function.

Investment

People Systems Setup starts at $3,500 - $7,500.

Pricing depends on company size, existing infrastructure, and the number and complexity of systems being established.

You'll receive a defined scope, timeline, deliverables, and project price before work begins.

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