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Your People team.
Without the overhead.
Practical People support for growing businesses, right where you work. Get experienced human advice today. AI-powered everyday HR support is on its way.
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- MMaya · Head of Ops09:12
One of our engineers just told me she's pregnant. What do we actually owe her, and what should I say back today?
- The People Bit10:42
This is a big moment for her, so congratulate her first. Then: here's the leave she's entitled to in her country, a template for the written confirmation, and three things managers get wrong in week one.
Pregnancy leave policy template.doc
You've got a business to grow. We've got the people bit.
Customer calls, board decks, launches, hiring. The People Bit takes the people questions off your plate, so you can get back to running the company.
What we help with
Everything a people team does, without hiring one.
Our team brings deep, varied HR experience, including CIPD qualifications, Master's degrees in HR, and years working across startups, scale-ups and long-established companies in a wide range of industries. Whatever your situation, there's a good chance we've already seen something like it.
Hiring & onboarding
Role scoping, interview loops, offer letters, first-90-day plans. Hire deliberately, not desperately.
Policies & handbooks
Leave, remote work, expenses, conduct. Plain-language policies people actually read, written for your stage.
Performance & feedback
Review cycles that fit a small team, manager coaching, and scripts for the conversations nobody wants to have.
Compensation & levels
Salary bands, equity basics, pay rise frameworks. Answers you can defend when someone asks why.
Compliance & contracts
Employment contracts, contractor risk, multi-country hiring. We flag what needs a lawyer and handle the rest.
Offboarding & tough calls
Performance exits, restructures, resignations. Handled fairly, documented properly, with care for the people involved.
Who it's for
Built for teams too small for an HR department, too big to wing it.
Most companies cross this line somewhere around their tenth hire. The People Bit is the layer between 'we'll figure it out' and a full-time head of people.
The new fractional.
Senior People expertise without buying fixed days or filling your calendar with meetings.
A good fit if
- You're growing, and People responsibilities are becoming too much for someone's side job.
- You have a first people hire who wants a senior sounding board.
- You're hiring across borders and every country feels like a new rulebook.
- You'd rather ask a real person than search a template library at 11pm.
Probably not if
- You need someone on payroll running day-to-day admin.
- You're looking for legal representation in a dispute.
- You're looking for an off-the-shelf HR software product. We help you choose, connect and get more from the tools that fit your business.
How it works
Set up once, then just ask.
Pick the right plan
Priced by team size.
Invite us to your workspace
Your data stays with your company.
Send us your questions
The way you'd ask a colleague.
Get answers
From real HR professionals, not a bot.
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Pricing that scales with your team.
Every plan includes a shared workspace channel, same-business-day answers and two introductory months at 20% off. Bigger teams get more manager seats and deeper support.
Start
1–20 people
From£795/mo
Best for early-stage teams asking their first HR questions.
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- Shared workspace channel
- Same-business-day written answers
- Founder + 1 person
- Templates and drafts included
- Fair use
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Grow
Most chosen21–50 people
From£1,295/mo
Best for teams building out a management layer.
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Talk to us about GrowGrow
- Everything in Start
- Priority handling of questions
- Founder + 2 people
- Fair use
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Scale
51–100 people
From£1,995/mo
Best for larger, multi-team organisations.
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Talk to us about ScaleScale
- Everything in Grow
- Founder + 5 people
- One video consultation with a senior advisor a month (up to 45 min)
- Policy and handbook maintenance
- Senior partner escalation
- Fair use
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Bespoke Projects
Project-based
Scopedper project
Best for complex, hands-on engagements.
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Scope an engagementBespoke Projects
- Complex People projects and organisational change
- Compensation frameworks
- HR systems, integrations and automation
- AI agents for suitable tasks
- Scoped and priced separately from memberships
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Supporting an international team? We bring international People experience and can support businesses operating across borders. Depending on the jurisdictions involved and the complexity of your needs, additional support may be scoped and priced separately from our standard memberships.
TPB AI AgentComing soon
Your team's People questions. Handled.
Meet the TPB AI Agent. An intelligent teammate designed to answer everyday People questions, coordinate tasks across your business and help managers navigate the decisions that aren't so straightforward.
Right where your team already works.
TPB AI Agent is in development. Features shown are planned and may change. Human Advisory is available today as a separate service.
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Tell us a little about your business and what you need help with. We'll review your enquiry and come back to you with the most suitable next step.
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