Ugly Duckling Consulting Group

The Cost of Waiting

You're making expensive decisions without knowing what you don't know. One bad termination, one misclassified contractor, one state you forgot has different leave laws. The risk is real and it compounds.

You don't need a full-time HR executive. You need one on-call, today.

What You Get

• A half-day discovery session to assess where you are and where the gaps are.

• One hour of dedicated advisory every week: strategy, risk, compliance, people decisions.

• Emergency access when something lands on your desk that can't wait until next week.

• A consistent senior HR perspective your team can rely on, month after month.

A Note on Execution

The retainer covers advisory. We tell you what needs to happen and how to do it right. Your existing admin executes. If you don't have the right admin support in place, we can help you access it separately. That's a conversation we can have once we understand what you need.

Who This Is For

You're a founder, COO, or managing director running a company between 10 and 75 employees. You have smart people on your team but no one whose job is HR. You're making it work, but you know you're one situation away from a problem you weren't prepared for.

This is also built specifically for European companies establishing a US presence. US employment law does not work the way you expect. Getting it right from the first hire is significantly cheaper than fixing it later.

What This Is Not

This is not a project engagement. There are no hourly rates, no scope creep, no surprise invoices. It's a retainer. You get consistent access to senior HR expertise at a fraction of the cost of bringing someone in-house.