A senior HR partner, embedded inside your company.

For founders making people decisions that deserve a senior thinking partner. Strategic HR and organizational design — not compliance, not payroll, not benefits.

$99, 30 minutes, credited against your first invoice if it leads to an engagement. Complete a free diagnostic first and the $99 is waived.

Senior HR judgment in the room for your six-figure people decisions, without a full-time hire.

The retainer puts someone who has run senior HR in a complex organization next to you for the decisions that shape what the company becomes: the next senior hire, the restructure, the exit conversation, the leadership-team question. Strategic HR and organizational design, not compliance or payroll.

Between roughly ten and a hundred employees, the people side of a company stops being a part-time concern. Senior hires are six-figure decisions. Restructures and exits land on the founder's desk personally. A new leader who doesn't work out costs more in time and momentum than the salary line ever shows, and a senior HR leader on payroll is a six-figure commitment of its own.

The retainer is the third path. A senior thinking partner, embedded inside the company on a predictable monthly cadence, close enough to know the people and the dynamics, structured enough to keep momentum without carrying a full-time hire.

The two tiers.

Both tiers buy the same thing: senior HR judgment on the decisions a founder can't delegate, at a fraction of the cost of a senior HR leader on payroll. The difference is how much of that judgment is in the room each month.

What this is — and what this isn't.

This is strategic HR and organizational design: hiring strategy, performance management, org structure, comp philosophy, exit conversations, leadership-team dynamics, the people side of a fundraise or acquisition. Senior thinking on the decisions that shape what your company becomes.

This is not compliance work. Not payroll. Not benefits administration. Not running individual employee performance reviews. Not the kind of HR that sits inside a binder labelled "policies."

If what you need is a compliance audit, a payroll switchover, or a benefits broker, BlueChip will tell you that directly and point you toward someone who does that work well. The retainer is built for the people decisions a founder cannot delegate — and stays out of the work a founder shouldn't be paying senior advisory rates for.

Why BlueChip.

A founder making senior people decisions deserves a thinking partner who has actually done senior HR — the strategic side, the functional side, and the high-stakes-decision side together.

An undergraduate degree in education and a Master's in coaching, for the developmental side of working with founders and senior leaders. Senior HR background — training and development, recruitment, investigations — for the functional work that comes up week to week. Public sector administration experience, for understanding how decisions land inside complex organizations. Twenty-five years in high-stakes competitive environments, for the people decisions founders make under pressure, where the cost of getting it wrong shows up on the bottom line within a quarter.

That cross-domain background matters because the people side of a small-to-mid-sized company is rarely a single-discipline problem. It's hiring, retention, comp, performance, conflict, structure, founder dynamics, and risk — often in the same week, sometimes in the same conversation.

The logistics.

Minimum engagement: six months. Twelve-month engagements are available where the relationship needs that runway to do real work — most senior people projects don't unfold in a single quarter.

Pricing is a fixed monthly retainer, scoped to the tier and shared on the Clarity Call. No haggling, no per-employee math, no hidden surprises in the proposal. We walk you through the number on the call and map it to the decisions actually on your desk, so you can take a clear figure back to whoever signs off.

Tier switching is allowed at the six-month mark. If Essential Advisory is too light or Strategic Growth is more capacity than the company actually uses, the tier can flex at the renewal point.

Travel is a separate line item. BlueChip is based in Edmonton; on-site days outside the Edmonton area include travel, broken out in the proposal.

Engagements start with a $99 Clarity Call, credited against your first invoice if the conversation leads to working together, so there's no premium for the first conversation. Complete a free diagnostic first and the $99 is waived.

Not sure where to start?

If you're not sure whether Essential Advisory or Strategic Growth fits, start with a Clarity Call. Thirty minutes. We talk about the people side of your company, the decisions on your desk in the next six months, and which tier matches the actual work — or whether a one-off assessment or governance evaluation is the better entry point.

Or, for a free starter: take the Org Pulse — a 5-minute organizational health audit you can do before booking the call.

Where to go from here.