We are not a payroll company
A payroll provider moves money on the 15th and the 30th. That's a task. What actually limits your practice is everything around the task — what to pay, who to hire, how to keep them, and whether any of it is compliant.
Put plainly: a payroll provider is a vendor you manage. We are the HR department you never had to hire.
$50M to $300M. Four states. Same answer.
“Takes the entire payroll process off my plate so I can concentrate on what I do best — and it works.”
“Allowed me to build a dream team without spending a fortune on HR.”
“Extremely timely on their HR responses and extremely professional.”
“They make everything very clear: benefits, eligibility, 401(k), employee cost, employer cost.”
You're about to make your first real hire
And the questions come in a rush. Admin or paraplanner? Employee or contractor? What's the market rate in your state? What do you legally owe them on day one?
Get those wrong and you spend two years unwinding it. Our hiring assessment answers them in about ten minutes — mapping your next three hires against your AUM stage.
Get your hiring plan — free →No account, no credit card. Results on screen when you finish.
Benefits, compliance, and payroll can’t stay on your plate.
One missed filing creates real exposure. Multi-state compounds it.
Candidates compare you to bigger firms. Weak benefits lose them.
Acquiring or transitioning out? HR is where it gets ugly.
Start with the foundation. Add what you need.
Nearly every firm starts with tHRive, because employment is the part you can't do halfway. The rest layers on when the need is real.
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Some firms run on both. We'll tell you if that's you.
Ready to stop guessing your way through HR?
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