Small business support · The engagement

Dedicated Support for Your Business

Three stages, one road, built for owner-run businesses of roughly ten to seventy-five people. Find where the trouble actually lives, build the structure that fixes it, and keep it holding as you grow. It starts at $3,000 with the Read, and every stage is a place to stop. Here's the whole walk, drawn end to end, so you know exactly where you are at every step.

Every stop on this road is a place to pause — you decide at each one whether we keep walking.

Which stage fits your size?

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1–10
Nothing more than a subscription.

At this size the whole job is a handful of clocks and a place to ask. The Concierge covers it, and you don't need me on retainer yet.

11–25
The Read, if something structural is showing up.

A first manager, a second location, a job that should be two jobs. The Concierge handles the everyday; the Read tells you whether there's more underneath.

26–50
The Read, then the Foundation.

This is where structure starts to matter and nobody owns it. Diagnose first, then build it alongside you over ninety days.

51–75
The Fractional Partner, with a hire in view.

You're close to the size where one HR person belongs on payroll. I carry the year and help you design that role and hire well when it's time.

Two or more states, or two or more locations, usually move you up one row. If you're past seventy-five people, you need someone on payroll, and I'll say so.

Stage iAbout one week

The Readiness Read

First, we find out where the trouble actually lives.

Before anyone commits to a build, a short, structured diagnosis. I look at how the work actually runs — the roles, the reporting, the policies, the quiet compliance worries — and put honest words to what's underneath. You leave with a clear picture and a recommendation, whether or not you go further with me.

  • iA kickoff conversation about what's felt off, then a structured look at how things really run
  • iiWritten findings — where the real fault sits, and what it's costing you
  • iiiA phased roadmap you keep, whoever does the fixing
  • ivA findings review with me, walking through it together

The Read is $3,000, flat — credited in full toward The Foundation if you decide to build.

Stage iiNinety days · $5,000 a month

The Foundation

Then we build the structure that fixes it — together, over three months.

The structural work, scoped to Phase One of your roadmap from the Read. Roles and reporting that make sense, policies that fit how you actually work, a compliance baseline that's up to code, and first-time managers who know what they're doing — put in alongside you over ninety days, so your people are running it before I step back rather than inheriting it finished. $15,000 across the three months, billed monthly.

  • iOrg design and leveling, built with you — not delivered to you
  • iiPolicies and a handbook that match how you actually operate
  • iiiA compliance baseline across every state where you employ
  • ivA first-manager playbook, with coaching to go with it
  • vUnlimited Role Library through the engagement
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Stage iiiOngoing · $5,000 a month · three-month minimum

Fractional People Partner

Then we keep it holding.

Structure only proves itself in use. This is a steady, senior hand for the stretch after the build — measuring whether the changes are actually working, adjusting what isn't, and handling what the year throws at you. You have me as your dedicated consultant: two scheduled business days a month, and reachable in between — a reply within one business day, usually faster. The fee is $5,000 a month, flat, stated here because you shouldn't have to ask.

  • iTwo scheduled business days a month, on site or remote
  • iiA dedicated consultant on call between visits — a person, not a queue
  • iiiA regular read on whether the new structure is holding, measured against what the Read first found
  • ivFirst call for whatever comes up — a hard termination, a new state, a first manager finding their feet
Scope the Fractional Partner with Erin→
For the duration of your engagement

And the whole way, the Concierge rides along.

Every client on this road carries the Glover & Co. Concierge for the duration of the engagement — included from the first day of the Read. It's the working library behind the advisory work: the tools and templates I'd otherwise rebuild for you at senior rates, kept current so you don't have to wonder.

See what's inside the Concierge→
  • iThe full tool & template library
  • iiThe Role Library — who does what, on record
  • iiiReviewed quarterly for compliance currency
  • ivThe Open Hour — one live hour with Erin, monthly

The road starts with a conversation.

No pitch — just a real look at what you're dealing with, and whether the first stage fits. Write to erin@gloverco.ai, begin with the Read directly, or take the free HR Fit Check first and bring me the result.

Every fee is flat and stated before work begins. Not legal advice — HR guidance; when a situation needs a lawyer, I say so plainly.