Portal-First
Your program, roster, handbook, and billing in one private dashboard. No lost Notion docs.
Work With Sarah
Three common engagements — all with the same calm pace, the same private portal, and the same promise to translate every policy before you adopt it.
01
Fractional Head of People
The core of Sarah’s practice. Most founders arrive between 15 and 50 employees, holding a Notion doc that calls itself a handbook, and unsure if they’re classifying contractors right. Sarah’s job is to make sure they are.
- Two days/week embedded with the founders, weekly office hours
- Compensation bands & leveling matrix maintained quarterly
- Hiring loops, interviewer training, debrief calibration
- Performance reviews, comp letters, and PIPs when they happen
- On-call for the messy people stuff — tracked in your portal
Fractional Engagement
02
People Audit & Compliance
Headcount grew, paperwork didn’t. Sarah runs a 4-week sprint to map your current state, fix the cracks, and hand you a written remediation plan you can show a board, a CFO, or an EDD examiner.
- Employee vs. contractor classification audit (FLSA + state)
- Multi-state employment setup — CA, NY, WA, TX, MA defaults
- I-9, E-Verify, and required state notice cleanup
- Payroll, PTO, and benefits structure review
Compliance Sprint
03
Handbook & Onboarding Build
Not ready for a full fractional engagement? Sarah runs 6-week handbook + onboarding builds for founders crossing the 10-employee mark. You leave with documents your engineers will actually read.
- A handbook drafted in your voice — not lawyer boilerplate
- Day-1 packet: laptop, accounts, intros, first-week reading list
- 30/60/90 onboarding template — role × team agnostic
- A Meridian portal seat to track each new hire’s ramp
Build Sprint
The Operator Advantage in Every Engagement
Policies are just documentation with consequences. Sarah reads them like operating manuals — line by line, flagging anything ambiguous, and translating every clause into the plain English your engineers will actually follow.
Policy Review
Every offer letter, classification call, and policy clause read and summarized before you adopt.
Numbers You Trust
Comp benchmarks, refresh budgets, headcount runway — modeled in plain English.
Same Operator, Always
You work with Sarah personally on every retro, every offer call, every difficult conversation. No handoffs.
How We Work Together
1
Intro Call
30 minutes. Your stage, your team, and the real questions behind the next hire.
2
Portal Setup
Your private dashboard goes live. Program, roster, and next steps in one place.
3
Audit & Build
Current-state map, written remediations, and the systems that don’t exist yet — built in.
4
Run with Clarity
Cycles, retros, comp committees. Every commitment tracked. Your team grows up confident.
Which Path Fits You?
Start with a conversation — we’ll figure out the right next step together.
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