Services
HR Consulting for Venture-Backed Startups
The HR infrastructure that lets you scale from 10 to 100 without breaking.
Most Series A startups don't need a head of people yet — but they do need policies, compliance, and hiring infrastructure that won't embarrass them in a Series B diligence call. We build it.
What we do
What we build
- Employee handbook
- Multi-state compliant, board-approved, and actually readable. Updated annually.
- HR policies
- PTO, remote work, expense, code of conduct, harassment prevention, accommodations. Defensible and consistent.
- Compliance
- Federal and state employment law, required postings, training requirements, leave laws, EEO-1 reporting where applicable.
- Hiring infrastructure
- ATS setup, interview rubrics, offer letter templates, reference check processes, background check vendor selection.
- Compensation framework
- Leveling, salary bands, equity bands, geographic adjustments. Built so your next 50 hires don't feel arbitrary.
- HRIS implementation
- Rippling, Gusto, BambooHR, or HiBob. We implement, migrate, and train your team.
When founders hire us
Signals it's time
- You've grown from 10 to 30 people and your HR is held together with Notion docs
- You're hiring across multiple states and don't know what compliance you're missing
- A Series B investor asked about your harassment training program and you didn't have an answer
- You want to hire a head of people next year and need someone to bridge until then
Further reading
More on running HR and benefits at a startup
On the operational side, how to administer payroll and 401(k) at a startup covers the integrated stack we recommend — and how the same-day 401(k) remittance from native integrations eliminates the most common compliance failure.
On the benefits side, the Series A/B benefits stack covers what to offer, what it actually costs, and what employees actually use — built for the realities of recruiting against well-funded competitors.
And if you're sizing the broader back-office spend, our buyer's guide to outsourced back-office costs covers HR consulting retainer ranges alongside fractional CFO, controller, accounting, and modeling pricing.
HR that won't surprise you in diligence.
Tell us your headcount, your states, and where you're heading. We'll show you what a Pegacorn HR engagement looks like.