A people-systems and organizational-effectiveness partner

Your business is growing. Your HR should grow with it.

Experienced HR leadership, practical people systems, and technology built for growing businesses. Get the support you need without building a full HR department.

Explore your HR readinessTake the free 5–7 minute assessment.Talk with ScalemakerDiscuss your business and what you need.

The problems we help you see clearly

As a business grows, informal people practices start to strain. Owners absorb employee issues. Managers inherit HR work they were never prepared to do. Policies, records, hiring, and performance conversations become inconsistent. We do not begin with a catalog of HR tasks. We begin with whether your current approach is still enough—and what would actually help next.

Owner overload

Too much people work still sits with the owner or one key employee, leaving less time to run and grow the business.

Inconsistent practices

Hiring, onboarding, performance, and documentation vary by manager or location, which creates frustration and avoidable risk.

Growth outpacing systems

What worked at a smaller size does not reliably repeat as you add employees, locations, or complexity.

Who Scalemaker HR helps

We work with small businesses nationwide, up to about 200 employees. HR often sits with the owner, an office manager, or several people at once, and still runs on spreadsheets, paper, and memory.

This is a good fit when

HR currently sits with the owner, an office manager, or several people at once.
You're adding employees, locations, or services, and the informal approach is starting to break.

We partner with small businesses that want to get HR right, build stronger teams, and grow with confidence. Whether we're your HR partner for years or help you prepare for the next stage of growth, our commitment is the same: practical solutions, dependable support, and people systems built to last.

One team for your people systems.

We build practical HR processes around the way your business works, then bring them together in Scalemaker HRis, our early-access HR platform. You get experienced HR leadership, the tools to support it, and systems designed to grow with your business.

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Start with the assessment

The People & Growth Readiness Assessment is complimentary and takes just 5–7 minutes to complete. Once finished, you'll receive an overall score, results across six key areas, and recommended next steps. You can also schedule a complimentary 30-minute results review to discuss your findings and explore opportunities for improvement.

Overall Readiness Score

Your People & Growth Readiness Score is calculated from your responses to 18 statements across six key areas of your business.

Six Key Areas

See how your business measures up in six essential areas: foundation and compliance, leadership, hiring and retention, employee relations, HR systems, and growth readiness.

Clear Next Steps

Receive practical recommendations based on your results, along with an invitation to a complimentary 30-minute review to discuss your findings and opportunities for improvement. No obligation or sales pressure.

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Stay as long as we fit. Graduate when you outgrow us.

Experienced HR leadership. Built for small business.

Founded by Stacey Kay, MHR, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Scalemaker brings more than 25 years of HR experience to businesses that need practical solutions, not another layer of complexity.

About Scalemaker HR

Building better organizations for what comes next.

Stacey Kay, MHR, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, works with growing businesses to strengthen people systems and leadership capability so the organization can operate and grow with less strain on the owner.

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