Most small businesses don't have an HR problem so much as an HR gap: nobody whose job it actually is to know the rules, write the documents, or make the hard call when an employee situation gets complicated.
Scrappy HR fills that gap without asking you to build a department around it. You get one advisor who learns your business and stays with you for the moments you can't afford to wing it.
It's built specifically for businesses that have outgrown Googling HR questions, but aren't ready for, or don't need, a full-time HR hire.
Scrappy HR pairs small businesses with a dedicated advisor and a ready-to-use toolkit, without the retainer of a full department.
You don't need an HR department. You need someone who's done this before.
What Scrappy HR Looks Like
The same person every time, who already knows your team and your history, not a new voice explaining your business back to you each call.
One advisor, not a call center
Guidance to make onboarding and culture decisions intentionally, before habits get set that are hard to undo later.
Culture and hiring, built on purpose
How is Scrappy HR different from just hiring an HR consultant?
A consultant typically comes in for a defined project and leaves. Scrappy HR is an ongoing relationship: the same advisor, available weekly, for whatever comes up, not just one initiative.
What if we outgrow Scrappy HR?
That's a good problem to have, and it happens. Many clients graduate into Fractional HR Support as headcount and complexity grow, and your advisor will usually be the first to flag when that time has come.
Do we get the same advisor every time?
Yes. One advisor is matched to your business for the life of the engagement, specifically so you're never re-explaining your company from scratch.
Is this only for really small businesses?
It's built for businesses generally under 20 employees, including many women-owned and minority-owned businesses navigating HR for the first time, but the real test is whether you need backup, not a department.
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Documents that hold up
Multi-state compliant offer letters, warnings, and separation paperwork, ready when you need them instead of pieced together from old templates.
Backup for the hard conversations
When a performance issue turns into a termination, your advisor can help you think it through, or step in and help lead it.
When we help
The Results
- You're the one answering every HR question
- You've never written a compliant termination letter
- Your team just crossed 10 or 15 people
- You want expert backup, not a big retainer
- Confidence in decisions you used to guess at
- Documentation that protects your business
- Culture built on purpose, not by accident
- Room to grow into more support later
You don't need a whole department. You need someone in your corner.
