Retainer
Ongoing HR support for a fixed monthly fee, with advice, documents and casework up to an agreed number of hours.
Best for: Companies without an in-house HR person.
Over 25 years of HR experience
Good HR is the string, not the kite.
You’re busy building the company. We’re the outsourced HR team that keeps it steady: contracts, onboarding, policies and the hard conversations, handled properly.
Based in Nicosia, Cyprus. In person in Nicosia, remote worldwide.
- Fixed fees
- Monthly or per project, agreed before we start.
- One named partner
- The same person every time, not a support queue.
- Plain English
- Policies your team will read to the end.
- Quick replies
- An answer within one working day, at most.
What we do
The HR work that piles up.
Five areas, one team. Pick the help you need now and add the rest when you need it.
- 01
Day-to-day HR advice
A named HR partner you can call when something comes up. Most questions are answered the same day, in plain English.
- 02
Onboarding, offboarding and job descriptions
Clear job descriptions, a first week that doesn't start with “where's my laptop?”, and exits handled with care. Always in your company's name: we're not a recruitment agency.
- 03
Contracts, policies and handbooks
Employment documents that are current with the law and written so people actually read them. Short where possible, precise where it matters.
- 04
Employee relations
Performance problems, grievances, disciplinaries and restructures. Handled fairly, documented properly, with everyone's dignity intact.
- 05
Pay, reviews and growth
Salary bands, review cycles and appraisal formats sized for your company, not borrowed from a corporation with ten thousand staff.
Who calls us
Usually it’s one of three people.
The founder doing HR at 11pm
You've just hired your twentieth person. The contracts are a patchwork, and someone has asked about parental leave.
The ops lead who inherited HR
HR landed on your desk because nobody else had it. You need someone to check your work and take the tricky cases.
The HR team of one
You know what good looks like; you just can't do all of it. We cover a project, a busy season or your holiday.
Where we’ve worked
25 years, very different workplaces.
A call centre and a humanitarian mission have little in common on paper. The HR fundamentals are the same; knowing where each one differs is the experience.
IT and software
Fast growth, remote teams, contractors, and roles that change faster than the job descriptions.
Telecoms
Shift patterns, field engineers, restructures and change across large, spread-out teams.
NGOs and charities
Tight budgets, volunteers working alongside staff, and policies that funders will ask to see.
Humanitarian organisations
National and international staff, deployments, duty of care and safeguarding.
Call and contact centres
Onboarding at volume, absence and attendance, attrition, and fair rules for shift work.
Law firms
Partners and fee-earners, professional standards, and sensitive matters handled discreetly.
Everyone else
Day-to-day HR support for any organisation that needs a steady hand, whatever the sector.
How we start
A call, a check, then the work.
No discovery workshops and no forty-slide proposal. Within a couple of weeks you know where you stand and what it will cost to fix.
Talk
A 30-minute call. You tell us what's going on and we tell you honestly whether we can help. Free, and there's no slide deck.
Check
We review your contracts, policies and processes, then give you a written list: what's fine, what's risky, and what can wait.
Fix and run
We sort the urgent items first. Then you either take it from there or we keep running HR with you on a retainer.
Ways to work with us
Project
A defined piece of work at a fixed price: a new handbook, a pay review, a restructure or an onboarding programme.
Best for: A specific problem with a deadline.
Interim
An experienced HR lead working inside your team two to five days a week, for a set period.
Best for: Covering a gap or a stretch of fast change.
Tell us what’s going on.
Most conversations start with one awkward question. That’s fine. Send it over and you’ll hear back within one working day.