You didn't build a product, land a customer, or close a round just to lose your best employee because your hiring was ad hoc and your reviews were nonexistent. Coherence's HR fractional service builds the systems that prevent those problems — before they happen.
You hired fast, trusted your gut, and three months later the person is gone — or worse, still there. The average mis-hire costs $15K–$40K in direct expenses alone. The opportunity cost of a bad cultural fit runs even higher.
Without structured reviews, your best performers feel unappreciated and your underperformers stay invisible. You end up managing by exception, which means you're always either pleasantly surprised or blindsided.
When policy is "what we decided in the last Slack conversation," you're exposed. Employment law, overtime classification, remote work agreements — each one is a liability you didn't know you were carrying.
You offer what feels right, they counter with a number that seems high, and you either overpay or lose them to a competitor who made a data-driven offer first. You don't know what market rates actually are for your roles.
For a 40-person company losing two employees a year to HR-related causes, that's $120K–$300K in preventable costs annually — before factoring in the compounding effect of knowledge loss, team morale, and leadership distraction.
We build structured interview processes with scoring rubrics, candidate scorecards, and reference-check protocols. You'll stop making gut-call hires and start making informed ones. Average time-to-fill goes down; quality of hire goes up.
We design semi-annual review cycles with 360-degree components, objective OKRs, and development plans. Not the "check the box" annual review that everyone dreads — a system your managers actually use and your employees actually value.
We create an employee handbook, job descriptions with FLSA classifications, remote work agreements, and a policy framework you can actually enforce. You have something defensible if the Department of Labor ever comes knocking.
We pull actual salary data for your roles and geographies so you can make offers with confidence. You'll stop losing candidates to better-informed competitors and stop overpaying out of anxiety. Total comp philosophy included.
Payroll setup, benefits enrollment workflows, PTO tracking, onboarding checklists — we systematize the administrative work that's been eating your time. You stop being the HR department and start being the CEO.
You're between 15 and 100 employees. No dedicated HR person. The CEO is doing hiring, reviews, and policy decisions on top of everything else — or doing them poorly because there's no time. You're probably growing but feeling the people problems intensify.
Book a 90-minute Clarity Lab focused specifically on your HR gaps. We'll map out your hiring process, review your current policies, and give you a prioritized roadmap. Then decide if Coherence's fractional HR is right for you.