Starting Out
Best for
Founders, COOs and Chiefs of Staff hiring their first employees or setting up basic HR.
Your goal
Get the essentials in place so you can hire, onboard and manage people without making it up as you go.
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Library
Every guide, template and diagnostic we have published, in one place. Pick a category to jump straight to it.
Your progress
People Foundations
A live read of where you're strong and where there's room to build. Tick off each foundation as you put it in place.
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As you work through the library, come back and tick these off. Your foundations build up over time.
Employment contracts, offer letters, workplace policies and onboarding plans are being written and reviewed by our partner lawyer. They'll land in this library before the first-move event on 4 February.
Start here
Ten minutes with one of these usually tells you more than a month of guessing.
Recommended pathways
Pick the stage you're at for a focused set of resources.
Hiring Ready
Best for
Founders and startup leaders running active or upcoming hiring rounds.
Your goal
Hire the right people, faster, with structure that protects culture and reduces mis-hires.
Scaling Up
Best for
Teams past their first 10 hires moving from founder-led to manager-led.
Your goal
Install the operating rhythm, performance and culture systems that hold once founders are no longer in every conversation.
Attract and hire
Tools for deciding who you are as an employer and hiring well yourself.
How should you resource this?
Before you hire, work out whether this is actually a hire - or a fractional executive, a contractor, an offshore role, or something to build with AI. Seven questions.
Claude skill
Employer Brand Builder
A Claude skill that looks at what candidates see when they look you up, interviews you about why someone would join, and writes your employer brand to a file you'll reuse for every hire. Then, if you want, builds your careers page from it. Hands the brand file, the page and the founder video card over as real files.
Claude skill
Hiring
Takes you from role brief to interview kit. Reads the employer-brand.md from the Employer Brand Builder, then makes you brief the role properly around what has to be true at 30 days, 3 months and 6 months. Writes the job description, a job ad in your voice, a weighted scorecard and an interview kit, and hands them over as Word documents plus a scorecard spreadsheet that adds up its own scores.
Employee vs contractor decision tree
Work out whether the person you are about to engage is an employee or a contractor, under the test that applies since August 2024 - and whether you owe them super either way.
Onshore vs offshore cost calculator
Compare the first-year cost of hiring a role in Australia against the Philippines, with on-costs, recruitment and placement fees side by side.
Employer branding for startups
How to build an employer brand that helps you hire before you have a brand to lean on.
Hiring Foundations Checklist
Everything to have in place before you open your first role. PDF.
Candidate Rejection Templates
Clear, respectful messages for every stage of the process. Word document.
Interns and new starters
For the first person you bring in, and the paperwork that follows.
Intern Kit
Check whether an intern can be unpaid, work out what a paid intern costs, and get a tailored 12-week plan.
New Hire Compliance Checklist
The paperwork and obligations to cover when someone new starts. PDF.
How to work with me
A fill-in template that tells your new hire how you actually operate, so they are not guessing for the first fortnight.
Policies
The workplace policies a small Australian team actually needs, written to sound like you.
Performance
For the conversations most founders put off, done fairly and on the record.
Claude skill
Performance Management Toolkit
Builds the documents for managing underperformance or misconduct - a BEAR feedback note, a formal meeting invitation, an improvement plan, a written warning and an outcome letter - matched to Fair Work Act s387 and the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code.
1:1s
A private 1:1 tool with Lara Hogan's first-session kit, a safety gate that stops sensitive disclosures from being logged, and a quarterly growth-conversation rotation built in - nobody else at your company can see your notes.