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Offering 01 · Fractional HR

Compliance and hiring, handled.

M7 HR gives you senior HR leadership focused on the two things most likely to hurt an owner-led business: getting hiring right, and staying compliant as you grow. All of it without adding a full-time HR seat you are not ready to fund.

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The problem it solves

In most small businesses, HR is something the owner does at night. Offer letters get written from memory, the handbook is three years out of date, and nobody is watching the wage-and-hour rules that change almost every January. It works, right up until a bad hire, a classification question, or a complaint turns into real money and real time.

The instinct is usually one of two extremes: keep white-knuckling it, or post a full-time HR Director you are not sure you can keep busy. M7 HR is the option in between. You get the senior judgment and the systems, sized to what the business actually needs today.

Why owners care

The numbers owners feel.

Up to 30%
of a new hire's first-year salary is what a bad hire costs, by the U.S. Department of Labor's conservative estimate. SHRM's fuller accounting puts it at 50% to 200% of annual salary once lost productivity and replacement are counted.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor; SHRM
$57,784
is the new Colorado exempt salary threshold as of January 1, 2026, alongside a $15.16 state minimum wage. Misclassify one salaried manager and it becomes back pay plus penalties.
Source: Colorado CDLE, 2026
310%
increase in U.S. interim and fractional executive placements since 2020, with small and mid-sized companies now more than four-fifths of that demand. The market moved to fractional because, at this size, it works.
Source: Heidrick & Struggles, 2026

You stop guessing. You hire people who stick, your documentation holds up when someone looks, and you hear about a compliance gap from M7 rather than from a complaint or an audit.

What you get

The HR foundation, built and kept current

Employment documentation, policy, an employee handbook, and the filings that go with them, set up right and maintained as the law changes.

A hiring process that actually sticks

From role design and scorecards to structured interviews and offers, so the next hire is a decision, not a gamble.

Compliance you can stop worrying about

Worker-classification calls, multi-state questions, wage-and-hour, and the moving target of Colorado employment law, watched for you.

Working Genius for team fit

A fast, practical read on where your team gets energy and where work stalls, used for hiring and putting the right people on the right work.

How it works

  1. A $499 gap audit surfaces where you are most exposed.

  2. We agree on what to fix first, in what order.

  3. M7 builds and maintains the foundation, on a cadence that fits your business.

Start with the $499 gap audit.
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