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Human Performance Systems

Scaling People with Precision and Purpose

Companies often focus on scaling product and revenue, but forget that people systems don’t scale automatically. As your company grows, so does complexity. Roles blur, accountability slips, culture frays, and velocity drops.

That’s where Human Performance Systems come in.

We help founders and leadership teams install the processes, rituals, and feedback loops that align your people with your strategy. From OKRs to hiring playbooks to performance reviews, we make sure your team scales as fast, and as well, as your product.


1. OKRs That Drive Focus and Accountability

Most startups start with big goals. But as they grow, priorities multiply—and it becomes harder to align teams around what truly matters.

We help you:

  • Design a company-wide OKR system that cascades from vision to team execution

  • Facilitate goal-setting cycles and align cross-functional ownership

  • Introduce weekly, monthly, and quarterly cadences for tracking and adjusting

  • Build internal tooling (Notion, spreadsheets, or SaaS) to make the system visible and manageable

Good OKRs are more than a list—they’re a decision-making framework. We help you turn strategy into daily focus.


2. Hiring Playbooks to Build Winning Teams

Hiring is the highest-leverage decision any startup makes. Yet most fast-growing companies rely on intuition and urgency instead of structure and alignment.

We help install:

  • Role scorecards to define success before you post the job

  • Structured interview processes, including behavior-based questions and rubric-based scoring

  • A scalable hiring playbook your team can follow and repeat across roles

  • Clear processes for founder-to-manager handoff, as teams scale

This results in faster, higher-quality hires—and fewer costly misfires.


3. Performance Reviews That Drive Growth, Not Bureaucracy

In early-stage teams, feedback often happens informally—until the team grows too large to manage ad hoc. Left unaddressed, this leads to confusion, stagnation, or even silent disengagement.

We help you implement:

  • Lightweight performance review systems that reinforce expectations and encourage growth

  • Peer and upward feedback loops that create 360° visibility

  • Promotion frameworks to bring clarity to career progression

  • Culture-aligned feedback tools (e.g., monthly check-ins, retros, or manager scorecards)

Our goal is to make feedback a muscle, not a meeting.


4. Culture as an Operating System

The culture you set in the first 20 hires becomes the DNA for the next 200. But culture is not ping pong tables—it’s how decisions are made, how people behave under pressure, and what gets rewarded.

We help you codify:

  • Values that scale—not just posters, but behaviors linked to your mission

  • Team rituals that reinforce alignment (standups, demos, retrospectives)

  • Communication norms that support speed and transparency

You don’t have to choose between speed and culture. We help you embed both.


Why It Matters

Without human performance systems, you risk:

  • Wasting time on misaligned goals

  • Hiring the wrong people (and keeping them too long)

  • Losing speed as teams grow and communication breaks

  • Creating a culture of confusion or low accountability

With the right systems, you:

  • Turn your vision into execution

  • Attract and grow the right people

  • Scale leadership, not just headcount

  • Build a workplace where top performers thrive


Who It’s For

This service is perfect for:

  • Seed to Series B startups growing past 10–50 people

  • Founders stepping back from day-to-day hiring or management

  • Teams with high turnover, unclear ownership, or fuzzy feedback culture

  • Companies preparing to raise, hire, or scale aggressively in the next 6–12 months

If your team is growing faster than your structure, we can help you catch up—and lead again.