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Managed Services & Consulting for HR · Payroll · HRIS · Talent
Rapid Growth & M&A

Scale and transactions both break the same things.

Growth and acquisition put pressure on exactly the same seams — the handoffs between recruiting, HR, payroll, benefits, and the HRIS. Processes that worked informally at one size stop working at the next, and integrating a second organization exposes every gap at once.

Scalable process Integration support Due diligence Multi-entity
What this looks like

Where the strain shows up

Whether the pressure comes from hiring or from a transaction, it lands in similar places.

Hiring volume has outgrown a process that was built around a handful of offers a year.

Two organizations are being combined and their policies, systems, and pay practices do not match.

Employee records, documents, and historical data sit in systems that are about to be consolidated.

Leadership needs workforce visibility for a board, an investor, or a diligence process and it does not exist.

How we help

How we support the work

Growth and transactions usually need both project capacity and ongoing operational ownership.

Scale

Managed Services

Operational ownership of HR, payroll, benefits, and talent so the function scales without proportional headcount.

Managed services
Integrate

Consulting Projects

Defined project work — system consolidation, policy harmonization, data migration, and integration planning.

Consulting services
Hire

Talent Support

Recruiting capacity, hiring surges, interim recruiter coverage, and talent operations.

Talent solutions
What's Included

What this work covers

Engagements vary widely. The items below are what growth and transaction work most often involves.

  • Workforce process design that holds up as headcount increases
  • Policy and handbook harmonization across combined entities
  • Payroll consolidation and multi-entity, multi-state complexity
  • HRIS consolidation, configuration, and data migration between platforms
  • Employee document and historical record transfer
  • Benefits alignment and open enrollment across a combined population
  • Recruiting capacity for hiring surges and new locations
  • Workforce reporting for leadership, boards, and diligence processes

Transaction and growth scenarios

  • Acquisition requiring systems and policy integration
  • Divestiture or carve-out of a business unit
  • Entity consolidation or restructuring
  • Expansion into new states or markets
  • Headcount growth outpacing existing process

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How it works

Getting started

1

Current state

We map what exists across the organizations or locations involved, including what is undocumented.

2

Gap and risk view

Differences in policy, pay practice, systems, and compliance posture are identified before they become issues.

3

Integration or scale plan

Work is sequenced around the dates that matter — close, payroll cycles, enrollment windows.

4

Execution and steady state

The plan is carried out, and ongoing operations either return to your team or stay with ours.

FAQ

Common questions

We support the workforce operations side — understanding what exists across payroll, HR, benefits, and systems, and where the gaps and exposures are. We are not a financial or legal diligence provider and will point you to the right partners for those.
Carefully, and around the calendar rather than the org chart. Consolidation is sequenced around pay cycles, tax jurisdictions, and entity structure, because the cost of getting a cycle wrong is much higher than the cost of moving slowly.
Document transfer and data migration are defined services. Historical records are extracted, organized by employee, and loaded into the surviving system so the history is not lost in the transition.
Yes. Most of this work is about process that scales, and rapid organic growth breaks the same handoffs an acquisition does — just more gradually.
Yes. Portfolio companies frequently need a formal HR function faster than they can build one, and standardized workforce operations across holdings is a common requirement.
Let's Talk

Growing fast or working through a transaction?

Tell us what is changing and when it has to happen. We will tell you what needs to move first.