Uncertain Starting Point
HR Help Without an HR Department
Use this advisory and project front door when there is no established HR function and leadership needs to define the immediate problem before selecting a longer model.
Fix the System That Keeps Producing the Problem
HR Consulting Services
for Texas Employers
Get help with an immediate employee issue, review recurring HR problems, or retain senior support. File and policy reviews start at $2,500 for businesses, $3,500 for nonprofits, and $4,500 for municipalities. Full audits and implementation projects have separate fixed fees and deliverables, shown below. Urgent and specialist work is scoped and priced in writing.
Pricing shown is current as of August 2026.
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When You Cannot Wait for an Audit
Three Services That Can Be Scoped Without a Full Audit
Use the scoping call to confirm fit, conflicts, urgency, and current availability before you rely on a start date.
Urgent
Workplace Investigations
A complaint has landed and internal neutrality or capacity is limited. Use a defined process, documented findings, and a report that can be shared with qualified counsel when needed.
Urgent
Pre-Termination & Corrective Action Review
Someone reads the file and the history before you act, not after the claim arrives. Scope and price are confirmed up front.
Urgent
Interim HR Coverage
Your HR person left, but payroll, files, employee questions, and compliance workflows remain. Interim coverage keeps agreed essential work moving while you hire.
The Engagement Ladder
How an Engagement Works: Audit, Repair, Retainer
Most systems work starts with a fixed-fee diagnostic. Urgent matters get scoped on their own, and every stage makes the next one optional.
Stage 01
The People Systems Audit
The full six-domain audit combines records and interviews into supported findings and a prioritized repair roadmap with cost estimates. A narrower file and policy review is available when that is all you need.
Stage 02
People Systems Repair
Projects implement the repairs you approve. Your roadmap identifies estimated costs; the repair scope, deliverables, fixed fee, and responsibilities are agreed before additional work begins.
Stage 03
The People Systems Retainer
Ongoing advisory access or fractional leadership keeps agreed priorities moving after the project, or can be scoped on its own. You choose the access, responsibilities, and implementation depth needed.
Stage 1
Fixed-Fee HR Audits: What They Cost and Who They Are For
Each sector offers a file and policy review, full audit, and stabilization project. Compare the deliverables as well as the price. Full-audit findings deadlines and delivery guarantees apply to the tiers identified on each offer page.
Cities, Counties & Special Districts
Municipal People Systems Audit
File and policy review: $4,500. Full municipal audit: $14,500, including cited findings, a council-ready report, and a repair roadmap with cost estimates. Stabilization: $24,500, including agreed priority repairs. Full-audit findings: 30 business days after document receipt.
From $4,500Fixed Fee
Texas Nonprofits
Nonprofit People Systems Audit
Policy and file review: $3,500. Full nonprofit audit: $9,500, including a board summary, applicable award-term mapping, and repair cost estimates. Stabilization: $16,500, including agreed priority repairs. Full-audit findings: 20 business days after document receipt.
From $3,500Fixed Fee
Businesses With 25–100 Employees
Small Business People Systems Audit
File and policy review: $2,500. Full business audit: $7,500, including interviews, a repair roadmap, exposure worksheet, and pre-termination review credit. Stabilization: $13,500, including agreed repairs. Full-audit findings: 10 business days after document receipt.
From $2,500Fixed Fee
Need to compare audit purpose before choosing an audience-specific product? Review the HR audit services overview.
Stage 2
Repair Modules, Priced in the Audit Roadmap
These existing repair services address the gaps identified in a full audit or separately established scope. Each commissioned project has its own deliverables and fixed fee. A repair roadmap is not an obligation to buy implementation.
Stage 3
No-HR Help vs. Retainer vs. Fractional HR
The distinction is who owns the work. Choose the route that matches the current decision and the level of execution ownership needed.
Recurring Senior Advice
HR Retainer
Internal leaders retain day-to-day execution and use the consultant for recurring judgment, policy upkeep, and a second review before difficult decisions.
Part-Time Leadership Ownership
Fractional HR
The consultant owns an agreed priority set and operating cadence as part-time HR leadership rather than serving only as an advice line.
Specialist Engagements Scoped on Their Own
Specialist engagements can be commissioned without a full audit. We confirm the question, required inputs, outputs, client responsibilities, and fee before work begins.
Each of these pages publishes the framework behind the engagement, in full. If the framework is all you need, take it and run the work yourself.
The Guarantee
Delivery guarantees for full audits and stabilization findings
The full-audit and stabilization findings tiers carry the delivery standards listed on their offer pages. Missing a listed standard waives the final 25% of the fee. Entry file and policy reviews are outside this guarantee. The guarantee concerns delivery, not a promised legal, funding, retention, or financial outcome.
How an Engagement Starts
How Scope, Fixed Fees, and Optional Stages Work
01
A 30-Minute Scoping Call
Describe the issue, organization size, and decision deadline. We identify the likely route, explain published fees or the information needed for a quote, and tell you if another kind of help fits better.
02
A Written Scope and Fixed Fee
Before work begins, you see the included records and interviews, outputs, responsibilities, deadline, exclusions, and fixed fee. Public and nonprofit buyers confirm their own approval requirements.
03
Findings Matched to the Scope
Reviews deliver a summary and priorities. Full audits add supported diagnosis and a repair roadmap with cost estimates. Stabilization includes the agreed implementation. You know which output you are buying before you commit.
04
Repair, Then the Retainer
Do the work in-house from the roadmap, or commission the agreed repair work. Some clients choose ongoing support; none are obligated to.
For a fuller market-pricing discussion, review the Texas HR consultant pricing guide.
Before You Book
HR Consulting Results From Texas Engagements
The case-study library documents engagements across municipalities, nonprofits, healthcare, and growing businesses. Review each page for the starting condition, intervention, measurement period, and reported outcome rather than relying on an isolated headline statistic.
Read the Case Studies
Ready to See Where You Stand?
Choose the HR help that fits your next decision
In a no-cost 30-minute scoping call, explain what is happening and what you need to decide. We will identify the appropriate service and the next step to confirm scope, timing, and price.