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Strategy, put into practice.

Stop being the bottleneck
in your own firm

NOL Hiring Intelligence is business consulting for advisory firms. Comp structures that actually motivate. Org design that gets you out of the work. HR programs that run without you. On retainer or one project at a time.

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Fractional HR

An HR leader on retainer, at the level you need

Foundation
$1,200/mo

Steady firms that want a regular touchpoint and someone to call.

  • Monthly HR strategy call
  • Employee issue consulting as it comes up
  • Ongoing compliance monitoring
  • Policy and handbook upkeep
Most firms
Growth
$3,000/mo

Firms in motion — hiring, restructuring, building systems.

  • Everything in Foundation
  • Twice-monthly strategy sessions
  • Workforce and capacity planning
  • Hiring strategy and oversight on every role
  • Manager and leadership coaching
Strategic Partner
from $5,500/mo

Complex or fast-moving — acquisition, restructure, or rapid team growth.

  • Everything in Growth
  • Executive-level partnership and planning cadence
  • Transition and M&A HR support included
  • Compensation restructuring across the firm
  • Custom scope, priority access

Month-to-month. No onboarding fee. If a retainer isn't right yet, a single project is a perfectly good place to start.

Fixed-scope projects

One problem, one price, one deliverable

Compensation Plan Build
from $2,500
Three weeks

“You want your team thinking like owners, and right now pay is a number you picked.”

Deliverables
  • Written comp structure for every role
  • Market benchmarks for your state and firm size
  • Bonus and revenue-share framework
  • Script for presenting it to your team

Price moves with: Headcount, number of roles, and whether partner comp is in scope.

HR Compliance Audit
$3,500–$8,500
Two to three weeks

“You're reasonably sure you're compliant, and that's the problem.”

Deliverables
  • Written risk report ranked by exposure
  • Remediation checklist in priority order
  • Wage, hour, and classification review
  • Multi-state gap analysis

Price moves with: Number of states and headcount are what move it.

Hiring Needs Assessment
$500–$1,500
One week

“The cheapest way to find out whether you have a hiring problem or an org problem — before you spend $60K on the wrong role.”

Deliverables
  • Next three hires in sequence with timing
  • Compensation range for each role
  • Written read on current capacity gaps
  • Live walkthrough of findings

Credited in full against a retainer if you start one within 60 days.

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What changed

One engagement, start to finish

11.2%
Revenue growth in six months
16 yrs
Tenure protected through a hard conversation
Q1+Q2
Employee bonused both quarters
$0
Ongoing HR cost — she runs it herself
Before

A solo advisor managing $110M in Western Pennsylvania came to us about her longtime client service specialist — sixteen years in the role, with no formal job description and no compensation tied to performance or growth. She wanted to reward the work and give her a real path forward, but had no way to define the role or measure it fairly.

After

The employee bought in immediately. She now understands exactly how her work moves the needle — she bonused in Q1 and nearly maxed out her bonus in Q2. Firm revenue is up 11.2% over the prior six months, the working relationship is stronger than it was, and the advisor runs the entire program herself, reaching out only with the occasional question.

What we did
1Ran intake session mapping what she was doing well vs where the advisor wanted to go
2Rebuilt job description from generic to growth-oriented, separating strengths from stretch responsibilities
3Designed quarterly incentive plan (bonus pay = performance score × net new assets), built self-running calculator, tracking register, SOP
4Delivered manager conversation guide so the advisor could introduce change herself

$110M AUM solo practice · Western Pennsylvania

This was a Compensation Plan Build →
Also on the table

The rest of what we do

Performance Management
Org Design & Structure
Transition & M&A HR Support
Recruiting & Hiring Execution
Operations & Process
Something else entirely

Ideas are only as good as their execution

Tell us what's not working. If a project fits, we'll scope it on the call. If it doesn't, we'll say so.

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