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Fixed-Fee Diagnostic • Texas Businesses With 25–100 Employees

One Bad Termination Can Cost Six Figures.

Find your exposure before an employee's lawyer does. A fixed-fee audit of how your business hires, pays, documents, and separates people, with every finding explained in plain language and priced to fix.

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Fixed-fee HR audit for Texas small businesses with 25 to 100 employees

Who This Is For

Texas businesses with 25 to 100 employees. You have a payroll provider and maybe an office manager who handles paperwork, and every real HR decision still lands on your desk. You did not build the company to become good at employment law, and you should not have to. What you need is to know exactly where you are exposed, what each gap would cost if it went wrong, and what it costs to close it. That is the whole product.

What the Current State Costs

$75K–$125K
Published defense cost estimates for one employment claim, before any settlement and regardless of fault
3 Years
How long a lost unemployment claim raises your TWC tax rate, on every employee's wages
90%–200%
Replacement cost per departure as a share of salary, once recruiting, training, and lost output are counted

At 20% turnover, a 50-person company at $48,000 average pay is losing roughly $480,000 a year to the revolving door. Crossing 50 employees triggers FMLA, and most owners find out from a demand letter. Then there are your evenings: every hour you spend on a personnel mess is an hour your business paid executive rates for referee work.

What Gets Audited

The audit scores your business across the six domains of the People Systems Design framework, translated into owner terms. Each domain answers one question.

Clarity

Does anyone actually know what their job is and who decides what?

Control

If an employee sued you tomorrow, what would your files prove?

Flow

How much does your hiring and turnover actually cost, and where does it leak?

Support

Can your supervisors correct and document, or do they escalate everything to you?

Proof

Do you see people problems in the numbers before they show up in your inbox?

Reinforcement

Do your reviews, pay decisions, and discipline hold up, or do they contradict each other?

Audit Pricing

Three fixed fees. No hourly billing, no open-ended proposal.

Compliance File Check
$2,500
Fixed Fee
  • Personnel file sample review
  • Handbook and policy gap list
  • Written summary of findings
  • Full six-domain audit with interviews
  • Priced repair roadmap
  • Pre-termination review credit
Start with a Scoping Call
Compliance Audit
$3,900
Fixed Fee
  • Personnel file sample review
  • Handbook and policy gap list
  • Full six-domain audit with interviews
  • Findings call with plain-language risk explanation
  • Priced repair roadmap
  • Pre-termination review credit
Start with a Scoping Call
Recommended
Small Business People Systems Audit
$4,500
Fixed Fee
  • Everything in the Compliance Audit
  • Priced repair roadmap, every fix with a dollar figure
  • One pre-termination review credit, usable any time in 12 months
  • Your numbers in the HR Cost Exposure worksheet, completed together on the findings call
Start with a Scoping Call
For $600 more than the Compliance Audit, the full audit adds the roadmap that prices every fix, a pre-termination review in the bank for the day you need it, and your own exposure math in a worksheet you keep.

After the Audit: The Retainer

Most audit clients move to a monthly retainer, because the audit tells you where you stand and the retainer keeps you there. Senior HR judgment on call, at a fraction of the cost of a $120,000 HR director.

Foundation
$1,500
Per Month
  • Phone and email access for every people decision
  • Policy and handbook upkeep as laws change
  • Quarterly file and practice review
  • Supervisor training sessions
  • Pre-termination reviews (billed per review)
  • Annual mini-audit refresh
Ask About Foundation
Standard
$2,200
Per Month
  • Phone and email access for every people decision
  • Policy and handbook upkeep as laws change
  • Quarterly file and practice review
  • One supervisor training session per year
  • Pre-termination reviews (billed per review)
  • Annual mini-audit refresh
Ask About Standard
Recommended
Complete
$2,500
Per Month
  • Phone and email access for every people decision
  • Policy and handbook upkeep as laws change
  • Quarterly file and practice review
  • Two supervisor training sessions per year
  • Unlimited pre-termination reviews, included
  • Annual mini-audit refresh
Ask About Complete
Complete costs $300 a month more than Standard and removes the per-review billing entirely. One termination handled right pays the difference for years.
The Guarantee

A Clear Picture of Your Exposure and a Priced Plan to Close It.

If any part of the engagement fails to meet your standard, the final 25% of the fee is waived. This guarantee applies if:

  • The report is not delivered within 10 business days of document receipt
  • Any finding lacks a plain-language explanation of the risk and the fix
  • The repair roadmap arrives without pricing

Timeline

Ten business days from document receipt to findings call. The document request goes out the day you sign, and most owners can pull everything in an afternoon.

Questions Owners Ask

We use a payroll company. Isn't that HR?
Payroll processing keeps checks accurate. It does not review a termination before you make it, fix a broken handbook, or train a supervisor to document. The claims that cost six figures come from judgment calls, and judgment is what this covers.
We're about to fire someone right now. Should we wait for the audit?
No. Book the pre-termination review first (flat fee, usually same-week turnaround) and do the audit after. Sequence the urgent thing first.
Are we too small at 30 employees?
The exposure math changes with headcount, but it never reaches zero. At 30 employees, one claim is proportionally a bigger hit than it is at 300.
What happens with what you find?
Every finding comes with the fix and the price of the fix. Do it in-house, hire me for the repair, or hold the roadmap for budgeting season. No obligation past the audit fee.
Who does the work?
I do. Dr. Thomas W. Faulkner, DBA, SPHR, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Twenty-plus years across government, healthcare, and private sector HR. No junior staff, no call center.
Fixed Fee. Ten Business Days.

You Already Carry the Risk. The Audit Just Puts a Number on It.

A 20-minute scoping call confirms the tier that fits and starts the clock. If a termination is pending, say so first and the review gets sequenced ahead of everything else.

Book a 20-Minute Scoping Call Run the Payroll Leak Estimator First