The Sunday-night contract
You are drafting an employment agreement at 22:00 because someone starts on Monday.
For owner-led businesses · 5–250 employees
Grow the business, not the headcount.
A complete people function for owner-led businesses. We redesign how work gets done, manage every employee's performance and career, and take payroll, compliance, hiring and disputes off your desk. One flat fee. Guaranteed.
People P&L
March
Contribution per head
R412k
+18% vs. same quarter last year
- Payroll variance
- -0.4%
- Pay position
- P48 median
- Compliance register
- 14 of 14 green
- Flight risk
- 2 flagged
- Open hires
- 3 · 9 days open
- Check-ins held
- 38 of 38
Two flight risks flagged in production. Your people partner has a retention option for each — you decide.
The real gap
You can't outsource your people function to a consultancy.
A consultancy sends templates and invoices. You still make the hard calls, still carry the exposure, and still own the sleepless nights. What owner-led businesses need is an executive-level people lead who understands the business of business — and puts money behind getting it right.
Thinks like an owner
Every recommendation is weighed against margin, cash flow and growth — not a checklist.
Runs it, doesn't just advise
We take payroll, compliance, hiring, disputes and performance off your desk. Done. Guaranteed.
Carries the risk with you
20% of our fee is at risk on your contribution-per-head target. We win when the business wins.
10 min
every employee request answered
7 working days
payroll migrated
30 days
compliance green
20%
of our fee at risk on your growth target
The trap
If you own the business, you are the HR department.
The employee who just stopped performing
You noticed six months late, and now there is no paper trail to stand on.
The resignation that blindsided you
Your second-best operator hands in a letter and you had no warning at all.
The letter from the regulator
A submission you did not know existed is late, and the penalty is already running.
The payroll fire drill
Month-end becomes a spreadsheet hunt, and one wrong number costs you trust.
The hire that had to happen before the growth could
Every new rand of revenue needed a new salary, so margin never moved.
None of this is a criticism. It's the design flaw in asking a founder to run a specialist function in their spare time.
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The offer
One service. Five layers. You can't buy them separately.
- 01
Growth Engine
We redesign how work is done so output grows faster than headcount. Quarterly sprints, incentives rebuilt for output, managers enabled. We're paid partly on whether it works.
- 02
Performance, live
Every employee managed continuously. Live objectives, a manager briefed before every fortnightly check-in, early warning both ways. No annual review.
- 03
Career, managed
Every employee's pay benchmarked yearly, skills gaps closed, a visible next step. Your best people get a reason to stay.
- 04
People P&L
Contribution per head, payroll, pay position, flight risk, compliance — live, on your phone, from month one.
- 05
Foundation
Payroll, contracts, statutory returns, hiring, disciplinary process, exits. Everything. Done. Guaranteed.
People P&L
The numbers you have never had.
Contribution per head, payroll variance, pay position, flight risk, open hires, compliance — live, on your phone, from month one. You decide what to do with it. We do the work.
People P&L
March
Contribution per head
R412k
+18% vs. same quarter last year
- Payroll variance
- -0.4%
- Pay position
- P48 median
- Compliance register
- 14 of 14 green
- Flight risk
- 2 flagged
- Open hires
- 3 · 9 days open
- Check-ins held
- 38 of 38
Two flight risks flagged in production. Your people partner has a retention option for each — you decide.
Guarantees
We put money behind it.
- Every employee request answered in 10 minutes.
- Any contract drafted the same working day.
- Payroll migrated in 7 working days. Every filing on time.
- Compliance green within 30 days.
- Shortlist in 5 working days, offer accepted in 15.
- A hire who leaves inside 6 months is replaced free.
- Dismissals and retrenchments procedurally sound, or we fund the representation.
- 20% of our fee at risk on your contribution-per-head target.
No HR department offers any of these. No outsourcer offers most of them.
Read every guaranteeWho you deal with
One number to call. A named specialist for every kind of problem.
People partner
Your senior counterpart. Ten to twelve clients, maximum.
Employment-law specialist
Hearings, retrenchments, CCMA. Named, not a call centre.
Payroll specialist
Runs your payroll and every statutory filing.
Reward & careers specialist
Benchmarks pay, builds the next step for every role.
Talent specialist
Owns every vacancy end to end until the offer is signed.
People Desk
Always on. Every employee question, answered in minutes.
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Not a consultancy. Not an outsourcer. Not software.
Takes admin and compliance off the owner
Everyone else: Partly
Entirely
Redesigns work so output grows faster than headcount
Everyone else: No
Yes
Money at risk on your outcomes
Everyone else: No
20% of fee
Pricing
One fee, tied to your business — not to your headcount.
Founder-led
Up to R20m revenue · up to 40 employees
R7,500 / month
Scaling
R20m–R100m · up to 120 employees
R19,500 / month
Established
R100m–R500m · up to 250 employees
R45,000 / month
Hiring within your band never raises the bill.
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