Starter Packs

Structured starting points for common, high-stakes HR situations.

Starter Packs make it easier to begin with Dr.CHRO when the problem is specific enough to scope clearly. They are structured entry offers, not a public price list. Scope, fee, and timeline are confirmed after intake.

If you are still deciding whether Dr.CHRO is relevant, read How We Help first. If you already know the issue is live, start here.

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Why Starter Packs exist

A clearer first step than a vague advisory conversation.

Some businesses know they need help, but not whether they need a long engagement. Starter Packs create a more concrete way to start when the situation is common, urgent, or easy to define.

Defined scope

Each package is built around a specific problem pattern. The final scope, fee, and timeline are confirmed once Dr.CHRO has reviewed the situation.

Faster to start

Useful when the issue is already live and you need a practical starting point quickly.

Senior judgment, still structured

You are not buying generic templates. You are buying CHRO-level judgment in a more contained format.

Bridge into broader advisory

If the problem turns out to be larger than the package, Dr.CHRO can move you into a wider managed engagement.

Launch packages

The six starter packs at launch.

These packages cover common starting patterns: sensitive exits, culture foundations, risk diagnosis, compliance foundations, compensation design, and growth-stage people foundations. Commercial terms are confirmed after intake, not published as fixed prices.

Timing

Confirmed after intake

● Most urgent

Termination Playbook

A practical, defensible, empathy-built approach to handling a difficult exit.

Best for

Founders, business leaders, and people teams facing a sensitive termination, difficult exit, or high-stakes performance situation.

Problem solved

Poorly handled exits that create legal exposure, cultural damage, leadership distraction, or unnecessary escalation.

What's included

  • Review of the situation, documentation, and business context
  • Guidance on process, sequencing, communication, and decision discipline
  • Assessment of likely legal, reputational, and people-risk pressure points
  • A written playbook for handling the specific exit with clarity and empathy

Expected outcome

A clearer, more defensible exit process that reduces avoidable mistakes while treating people with dignity.

Commercial note

Scope, fee, and timeline are confirmed after intake. Starter Packs are structured entry offers, not a public price list.

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Right when the decision is live and the cost of mishandling it is high.

Timing

Confirmed after intake

↑ Growth stage

Culture Code Pack

Define the culture you want early, then embed it into leadership behaviour, hiring, and daily ways of working.

Best for

Founders and early-stage leadership teams who want to build a deliberate culture before growth, hiring, and pressure create inconsistency or drift.

Problem solved

Unclear or accidental culture formation that creates mixed signals, inconsistent decisions, and avoidable misalignment as the company grows.

What's included

  • Culture code and core values working session
  • Leadership behaviours and expectations framework
  • Hiring and people decision alignment principles
  • Team norms and operating principles guide
  • Practical rollout plan to embed culture into daily ways of working

Expected outcome

A clearer cultural foundation that leaders can model, teams can recognise, and the business can scale with greater consistency.

Commercial note

Scope, fee, and timeline are confirmed after intake. Starter Packs are structured entry offers, not a public price list.

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Right when culture matters more than instinct, but the business has not yet made it explicit.

Timing

Confirmed after intake

★ Most popular

Risk Check-Up

A structured diagnostic of your current people, policy, and compliance exposure before issues become more expensive.

Best for

Founders, CEOs, and operators who know there may be HR risk in the business but need a clear diagnostic before deciding what to fix first.

Problem solved

Hidden or poorly understood HR exposure across contracts, policies, people practices, documentation, and governance.

What's included

  • Review of current contracts, core HR documents, and selected policies
  • Diagnostic assessment of key people-risk and compliance gaps
  • Identification of immediate, medium-term, and structural risk areas
  • Written summary with sequenced next steps

Expected outcome

A clearer view of where risk sits today, what needs attention first, and where stronger operating discipline is required.

Commercial note

Scope, fee, and timeline are confirmed after intake. Starter Packs are structured entry offers, not a public price list.

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Right when the business needs diagnosis and prioritisation, not guesswork.

Timing

Confirmed after intake

↑ Growth stage

Compliance Pack

Strengthen your core employment and HR compliance baseline before weak foundations create bigger problems.

Best for

Growing businesses that need a more defensible compliance and documentation baseline as the organisation scales.

Problem solved

Weak or missing contracts, policy gaps, and unclear compliance practices that create avoidable exposure and inconsistency.

What's included

  • Review of core employment documentation and policy coverage
  • Baseline compliance checklist tailored to the business context
  • Guidance on urgent fixes, missing documents, and sequence
  • Practical guidance on where to tighten the operating baseline first

Expected outcome

A stronger compliance foundation and a clearer path to more consistent, lower-risk people operations.

Commercial note

Scope, fee, and timeline are confirmed after intake. Starter Packs are structured entry offers, not a public price list.

Explore

Right when growth has outpaced documentation, policy discipline, or governance maturity.

Timing

Confirmed after intake

Compensation Framework Design

Build a clear, level-based compensation structure that brings consistency, fairness, and market alignment to pay decisions.

Best for

Businesses that have grown beyond ad hoc pay decisions and need a more consistent philosophy for hiring, promotion, and reward.

Problem solved

Inconsistent pay decisions, negotiation-driven compensation, and weak internal logic across roles and levels.

What's included

  • Review of current roles, levels, and pay decision patterns
  • Design of a level-based compensation structure and decision framework
  • Guidance on compensation philosophy, fairness, and market alignment
  • Recommendations for using the framework across hiring, promotion, and reward decisions

Expected outcome

A clearer compensation architecture that improves consistency, fairness, and decision quality as the business grows.

Commercial note

Scope, fee, and timeline are confirmed after intake. Starter Packs are structured entry offers, not a public price list.

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Right when pay decisions are starting to create friction, inconsistency, or founder dependency.

Timing

Confirmed after intake

↑ Growth stage

Growth Stage Package

A combined growth foundation package covering organisation design, culture foundations, and a compensation framework aligned to business strategy.

Best for

Growing businesses at an inflection point that need stronger organisational foundations, not just a fix to one isolated HR issue.

Problem solved

Misalignment between business strategy and the organisation's structure, culture foundations, and compensation approach.

What's included

  • Organisation design review and structural guidance
  • Culture foundation definition for the next stage of growth
  • Compensation framework aligned to business strategy and operating model
  • Integrated guidance for leadership, growth readiness, and people consistency

Expected outcome

A stronger people foundation for scale, with clearer structure, cultural intent, and reward design aligned to how the business needs to grow.

Commercial note

Scope, fee, and timeline are confirmed after intake. Starter Packs are structured entry offers, not a public price list.

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Right when the business is moving into a new stage and needs its people model to catch up with strategy.

Which path is right?

Use a Starter Pack when the problem is clear. Use managed advisory when it is not.

A Starter Pack is not meant to replace broader advisory. It is meant to make the first step easier when the situation fits a known pattern.

Choose a Starter Pack

Best when the situation is specific.

  • You know the immediate issue you need help with
  • You want a clearer starting point and scope
  • The problem is urgent but still relatively bounded
  • You want to begin without a wider advisory commitment

Choose managed advisory

Best when the problem is broader or still emerging.

  • The issue spans multiple people, teams, or decisions
  • You need ongoing guidance rather than a one-off intervention
  • The right path is still unclear and needs diagnosis first
  • You need a matched CHRO for a more complex engagement

Common questions

What businesses usually want to know before choosing a package.

Starter Packs are meant to reduce ambiguity, not create more of it. These are the questions we expect most often.

When is the fee confirmed?

After intake. Dr.CHRO reviews the situation first, then confirms scope, fee, timeline, and whether the Starter Pack is the right fit.

Can a package lead into broader advisory?

Yes. A package can be the first step if the issue later turns out to be more structural, sensitive, or complex than expected.

What if my issue does not match a package exactly?

That is normal. The packages cover common patterns, but the right next step may still be a broader managed advisory path.

Are these only for one geography?

No. The site and offer structure are intentionally framed for growing businesses more broadly, while recognising that local legal and compliance context always matters.

Do Starter Packs replace legal advice?

No. Dr.CHRO gives HR and people advice. We are not a law firm and do not replace advice from an employment lawyer. If your issue needs legal advice, we will say so plainly.

Need help choosing?

Start in-platform or ask us to shape the brief first.

Create your company account if you already want to brief the work in-platform, or use the guided contact path if you want help choosing the right package or advisory path first. Scope, fee, and timeline are confirmed after intake.

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