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What we build

Capacity planning, recruiting workflows, interviewer programs, ATS and systems work, and project execution for talent teams. Fixed scope, fixed price.

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What we build

Four things that make the function work.

01

Planning & Operating Models

Turn growth plans into an operating model that can support them.

What you get (examples)
→Capacity and hiring plans
→Clear owners and decision rights
→Planning rhythms that hold
→A roadmap for the next stage
02

Processes & Workflows

Take work that depends on tribal knowledge, manual coordination, or heroic effort and turn it into something that can actually run.

What you get (examples)
→Your current process, mapped
→A future-state workflow
→Handoffs and approvals that move
→Playbooks your team can run
before · no owner, no timing
IntakeScreenLoopDebriefApprovalOffer
after · every step owned, every handoff timed
Intake · Hiring manager · 48hOn track
Screen · Recruiter · 72hOn track
Loop · Panel · 5 daysOn track
Debrief · Hiring manager · 24hOn track
Offer · Finance · 48hOn track
03

Programs & Enablement

Build the programs your organization needs, and make them operational.

What you get (examples)
→Interviewer & hiring manager programs
→Team & operating programs
→Training & enablement
→Launch & adoption
04

Systems & Automation

Make the technology layer work with the operating model instead of around it.

What you get (examples)
→Systems configured to how you work
→Automations and integrations
→Clean data, fewer tools
→Standards that keep it running
We build on systems you already own and administer. Nothing we leave behind depends on us.
When you simply need someone to run it
05

Project & Program Execution

Sometimes you know exactly what needs to happen. You just don't have the capacity to run it.

Cadence State takes the work from decision to operating reality.

What you get (examples)
→Scope and milestones
→Stakeholders aligned
→Risks managed, launch delivered
→A documented handoff
Embedded support

Or keep us in the room.

Some teams don't need a project. They need an operator in the room while the function steadies: a set number of days each month, a defined scope, and the same person doing the work.

→Fractional talent operations leadership
→A standing cadence with your team
→Priorities set monthly, adjusted as you go
→Priced on scope and days per week
How we diagnose

The visible problem is rarely the whole problem.

→A team asks for another coordinator.
→A recruiter says the ATS is slowing everything down.
→A program keeps getting pushed because nobody owns it.
→A process works, until volume doubles.
We look underneath the request
→What's creating the friction?
→What actually requires another person?
→Is process, technology, or clearer ownership needed?
Then we build it.

Not sure which you need? That's what the diagnostic is for.

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