For Australian startup founders
You're building something great. Let's build the people side of it, together.
Australian templates and policies, Claude skills that do the hiring work with you, partner perks, and a community of founders who get it.
What we believe
Behind every hire, every team, every decision - there are people.
The startup leaders who get this early build faster, hire better, and scale with less friction. They don't wait until things break. They build deliberately.
PeopleStack is for the startup leaders who want to be deliberate.
People are the growth engine
The best startups don't out-hire their competitors by accident. They build a people function that attracts, develops and retains the right talent.
Intention beats improvisation
Founders and startup leaders who design their employer identity, hiring rhythm and culture early move faster when it matters - and avoid fixing avoidable problems later.
Culture is built, not guessed
Every operating ritual, every hiring decision and every offboarding moment shapes the place people want to work. We help you shape it with purpose.
Foundations first, scale second
You don't need a full HR team on day one. You do need the right foundations in place before the pressure of growth makes them urgent.
Attract & hire
Build the system that turns great people into great hires.
Winning the right people starts long before the interview. We give founders the employer brand, the role clarity and the hiring structure to attract, assess and choose well.
Employer brand
Your EVP, story and careers page that earn the right candidates.
Role brief
Outcomes at 30 days, 3 months and 6 months, so you know what you're hiring for before you write a word.
Job ads & scorecards
Clear role design, job ads and scorecards that align the hiring panel.
Interview kits
Structured interviews, question banks and decision frameworks.
Offers & contracts
Offer letters and contracts that make the yes easy to say.
Candidate experience
Comms, rejection templates and rituals that protect your brand.
Tools that do the hard part with you.
Employer Brand Builder
It sweeps what candidates already find about you, interviews you properly, and gives you an employer brand file and a careers page. Including a founder video you can record on your phone.
Hiring
It reads your brand file, gets the outcomes clear at 30 days, 3 months and 6 months, then writes the job description, the job ad, the scorecard and the interview kit.
How should you resource this?
Seven questions that work out whether this is actually a hire, or a fractional executive, a contractor, an offshore role, or something to build with AI. It costs it out too.
Employee or contractor?
Works out which one you are actually engaging under the test that applies since August 2024, and whether you owe them super either way.
Intern Kit
Check whether an intern can lawfully be unpaid, work out what a paid one costs, and get a tailored 12-week plan.
Employer Brand Check
Scores your startup on the things candidates notice before they decide whether to apply.
Built for the stage you're at
Headcount is a rough guide, not a rule. What actually moves you between these stages is complexity - more managers, more states, more people starting at once.
PeopleStack gives you the tools, templates, and expertise to build a people function that actually works - organised around the real moments of building and managing a team.
Starting Out
Hire your first people and get the basics right from day one.
- Contracts & offers
- Core policies
- New starter essentials
- Basic onboarding
Getting Repeatable
Turn founder memory into simple, repeatable people systems.
- HR records & processes
- Onboarding & 1:1s
- Team rhythms
- Hiring foundations
Scaling Up
Build stronger people systems, reduce risk and support managers.
- Performance & feedback
- Compliance & risk
- Manager capability
- Role clarity
Adding a People Lead
This is where a dedicated People person starts to earn their keep. What triggers it is rarely headcount - it is managers managing managers, more than one state, or a hiring run you cannot keep up with. PeopleStack keeps working either way, because the tools are for whoever is doing the people work, including a People lead of one.
- Hiring your first People lead
- 1:1 advisory with a senior People partner
- Org design, leadership and scale-up support
Pillars
Build deliberately across every stage of the employee journey.
Identity & Attract
- Employer Identity
Great people don't join job descriptions. They join stories. Define yours before someone else defines it for you.
- Attract & Hire
Brief the role properly, then write the ad, scorecard and interview kit around it.
Hire & Onboard
- Hiring
The best hire you'll ever make starts with knowing exactly who you're looking for.
- Onboarding
Set the tone before day one and make sure every new starter lands well.
Ways of Working & Performance
- Ways of Working
The way your team operates is part of your culture whether you design it or not.
- Performance & Growth
Build the rhythms that help people do their best work and know where they stand.
Compliance & Care
Get the basics right early. It protects the people you've worked hard to bring in.
And when people move on - Offboarding. How people leave still shapes your culture. Handle it with structure and care.
Everything you need to build a people function that actually works.
Employer brand kit
EVP, careers page and storytelling assets that attract.
Role briefs
30 day, 3 month and 6 month outcomes that become the job description.
Job ads & scorecards
Role design, job ads and panel scorecards.
Interview kits
Structured interviews and decision frameworks.
Offers & contracts
Offer letters and employment contracts, written for Australian law.
Onboarding guides
30/60/90 plans and new starter packs.
Policy library
Compliant policies you can customise and download.
Performance toolkit
Goal setting, reviews and 1:1 templates.
Offboarding resources
Exit checklists, handover docs and surveys.
HR templates library
Forms, letters and records for every moment.
Partner perks
Vetted tools and partner discounts.
Expert support
On-demand guidance from people experts.
Need more than the platform?
Members get preferential rates on project-based work with Megan and Deepak - recruitment support, people advisory, org design, or anything that needs a human rather than a template. Engaged separately, scoped to what you actually need. No retainers, no pre-committed hours.
Get in touchThe best startups aren't the ones that got lucky with people. They're the ones that got intentional.
Intentional about who they are as employers. How they hire. How they onboard. How they hold people accountable and help them grow.
That's what PeopleStack is built to help you do - not just patch the gaps, but build something worth working for.
Because when you get the people function right, everything else gets easier.
Perfect For
- Founders, COOs and Chiefs of Staff wearing the People Ops hat themselves
- Chiefs of Staff and Ops leaders owning people stuff alongside everything else
- Early People & Talent hires who are the only one in the seat
- Founding teams who want expert backup without a full-time HR salary
- Lean Aussie startups (roughly 2-50 people) in active growth mode
- Leaders who want a community of peers solving the same problems in real time
Meet Your Community Hosts
Practitioners who've sat in your seat, building People infrastructure inside lean Aussie startups - here to answer questions, pressure-test decisions, and keep the community moving.
Megan Luttrell
LinkedInMegan builds the hiring systems and people foundations that help startups scale with intention. Through Kairos, she's helped hundreds of Australian startups hire smarter and build teams worth being part of. She's also the force behind Aussie Founders Club – one of Australia's fastest-growing startup communities – connecting ambitious builders through events, content, and candid conversations.
Deepak Singh
LinkedInDeepak works with founders, COOs, Chiefs of Staff and founding teams to make the people stuff less overwhelming and more human. From culture-building to sticky feedback conversations, he brings honesty, humour and years of practical experience to help you lead teams that will energise and inspire.
PeopleStack Partners
Some of our trusted partners, offering exclusive perks to our members.
You're aiming to build the best startup. We're here to help you build the people function that makes it possible.
Simple self-serve tools when you need them. Real expertise when it matters.
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