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Notes on people ops,
minus the busywork
Field notes on HR automation, scaling teams, and building a people function that runs itself.
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AI & automation
Scaling teams
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Culture
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Scaling teams
The first HR hire can wait. The first HR system can’t.
What to put in place before you’re big enough to need a people team.
Theo Kela
6 min read
Compliance
GDPR for people data, without the legalese
A plain language guide to handling employee records the right way.
Lena Frost
9 min read
AI & automation
Six people ops workflows worth automating first
The highest leverage processes to hand off, ranked by hours saved.
Maya Rao
5 min read
Culture
Async by default: writing onboarding that scales
How to document a company so new hires onboard themselves.
Dario Amin
8 min read
Scaling teams
The metrics a 50 person company should actually track
Five people metrics that matter, and a dozen vanity ones to ignore.
Theo Kela
7 min read
Product
Why we built Northwind on MCP from day one
An architecture note on making people data safe for AI agents to use.
Lena Frost
10 min read
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