HR policy and handbook setup
Advisory
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Operations, HR & Admin
Build the operational infrastructure your company needs to scale.
Growth-stage companies scaling their team without a dedicated HR or COO - typically between 10 and 100 employees.
The work
Operational infrastructure before headcount catches up
Companies between 10 and 100 employees often feel operational strain before they have dedicated leaders for HR, facilities, administration, or internal systems. PIF Advisory helps stabilize those functions without adding unnecessary full-time overhead.
The work is practical and embedded: cleaner onboarding, clearer policies, better vendor control, documented workflows, and administrative systems that let founders and department leaders focus on the business.
Scope
What this practice covers.
The operating work inside this engagement, named clearly.
Recruiting operations
Onboarding process design
Vendor management
Office and facilities coordination
Administrative systems
People operations for remote teams
FAQs
What to know before we begin.
The questions operators ask before an engagement starts.
Outsourced operations means PIF helps design and run the administrative systems that keep the company moving, including vendor workflows, onboarding, office coordination, HR processes, internal documentation, recurring operating cadences, and cross-functional follow-through.
HR focuses on policies, compliance, employment records, benefits coordination, and employee lifecycle administration. People operations includes those basics while also improving onboarding, manager support, employee experience, workforce planning, and remote-team workflows.
A full-time COO makes sense when operational complexity requires daily executive ownership across multiple departments. Before that point, outsourced operations can build process, remove founder bottlenecks, and clarify what the eventual COO role should own.
PIF can support an office manager with systems, templates, vendor strategy, escalation paths, and operating cadence. The office manager can continue handling daily execution while PIF brings structure, prioritization, and senior operational oversight.
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Practices
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Operations, HR & Admin
Operational infrastructure for scaling teams.