Part-time ops, for teams of 5 to 30
Your people ops and back office, run for you: onboarding, payroll inputs, contractor paperwork, your inbox and calendar. For founders still doing it at night. From $600 a month.
Sulagna Adhikary
People ops and operations, part-time
“I've handled onboarding at Forvis Mazars and on Uber's global HR team (on contract), and ran payroll for 550+ people at HCAH. A ten-person team deserves the same care.”
Live time with New York
On weekdays, 9:00 am to 10:00 am your time, plus my call evenings.
Former employers, named to show where the experience comes from. Not clients, and no endorsement implied.
Working with someone you will never meet in person
Paying someone you have never met, in another country, is a real risk with money you just raised. Here is exactly how that risk is handled.
We start on a video call, and live time continues on the schedule your package sets, on your Zoom or Google Meet. You always know who is doing the work.
A written report every Friday on Operations and up, a monthly snapshot on Essentials, and a shared tracker in your own tool, open at any hour.
I work in accounts you create, with only the access each task needs. Remove my access any time; everything I built stays yours.
Month to month, paid in advance, 30 days' notice. Start with a free onboarding plan before you pay anything.
Two-step verification on every account, nothing copied to my devices, and a DPA with the EU clauses for UK and EU teams.
Invoices in US dollars, by bank transfer or Wise, or through Deel or Remote if you already pay contractors there.
The old way
At 5 to 30 people, HR and admin are real work but not yet a full-time job. Here is what founders try, and where each one falls short.
Doing it yourself
Your evenings
A full-time ops hire
A full salary
A PEO or HR service
Per person, per month
An assistant
An hourly rate
Part-time ops, from me
$600 to $2,000 a month
Salary: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Human Resources Specialists, median pay May 2025 (bls.gov).
What I run
At your size neither fills a week on its own. Together they are the operations hire you have not made yet.
People ops
Onboarding, offboarding, records in Gusto, Rippling, Deel, Remote or Justworks, payroll and EOR inputs before the cut-off, contractor documents across countries.
Priya joins Monday
On trackYour back office
Calendar across time zones, replies drafted for your approval, one register of every subscription, the numbers for your investor update.
Your week, Monday
Sent 6:40 am your timeAutomation
Built in Zapier or Make, inside your accounts, so it keeps running even if you stop the retainer.
New joiner flow
RunningIndia team
Indian payroll inputs through your EOR, POSH, notice periods and pay benchmarking.
For teams with people in IndiaReporting
Five headings in the same order every week, with one called "Needs you".
Data
Least access, two-step verification, and a DPA with the EU clauses for UK and EU teams.
Data and securityPeople ops is about people
Priya joins a 12-person startup on Monday. Here is her first day, two ways.
Without an ops person
With part-time ops
An illustration. Priya and the company are invented; the steps come from the first-week onboarding plan.
Proof
Every number comes with the story behind it on a call. Full background
8,000+
employee records kept accurate in Workday and Oracle HCM
Uber, global people ops, contract, 2026
96%
of 220+ monthly lifecycle tickets resolved within SLA
Uber, global people ops, contract, 2026
550+
people on a monthly payroll, with zero statutory penalties
HCAH India, 2023 to 2025
350
people across 3 offices, as the HR generalist
Forvis Mazars, 2025
Pricing
Fixed scope, fixed monthly price. No setup fee, no annual contract.
How many people are on your team?
What do you want off your plate?
Your fit
Essentials
$600 a month
Onboarding, offboarding, platform records and your calendar, for a team of up to 10.
Talk about EssentialsCompare all three packages$600 a month
The people-ops basics, run properly, for a small team trying this for the first time.
Talk about Essentials$1,200 a month
People ops plus your own inbox and calendar. The package most growing teams need.
Talk about Operations$2,000 a month
The part-time operations person you would otherwise hire as employee number 10.
Talk about Operations PartnerAdd-on Hiring support from $600 a month, when you provide a sourcing seat or a sourcing vendor. Month to month, cancel with 30 days' notice. Full details and terms
Ready before Day 1
Every new joiner has documents collected, accounts requested and a written first-week plan before their first day.
Closed on the last day
Every leaver's access checklist is completed on their last working day. Where I have no admin rights, your admin clicks the final buttons from my list.
Nothing renews by surprise
Every software subscription and contractor contract sits in one register, with renewals flagged 30 days ahead.
A report every Friday
Five headings in the same order every week, with one called "Needs you". Written so it takes two minutes to read.
What I never promise: legal outcomes or cost savings. Both depend on the law and on your decisions.
How it starts
A 20-minute call
Your team, your tools and what is eating your week. I tell you which package fits, or that I am not the right fit.
Scope in writing
Within one working day: the package, what is in and out, a start date and a short agreement.
Week one: access and audit
Accounts with only the access each task needs. Every tool, contractor and renewal mapped.
Month one: running
Checklists for your company, the register built, the first automation live, the first Friday report sent.
The work
The templates I run, written out in full. Each one is a sample, not client work.
Fit
Saying this early saves you a wasted call.
An assistant handles admin. I bring HR and operations experience as well: onboarding and offboarding, your HR and payroll platform, contractor paperwork, policies and reporting. Your own admin is half the job, and it is done by someone who also knows the people side.
A PEO or HR service gives you advice and a payroll engine. Nobody there runs your onboarding or keeps your calendar. I do the work inside the tools you already pay for, and your PEO or lawyer stays the source of legal answers.
No. US, UK and European employment law belongs with your lawyer or PEO. I run the process and the platform, and I flag questions to them early. My own legal depth is Indian statutory law, which is useful if you have people in India.
For US teams, most of my working hours fall while you sleep, so the work is done before your day starts. On three evenings a week I take live calls until 10:30 pm IST, which is about 1:00 pm in New York in summer. For UK and European teams my working hours cover your whole morning and early afternoon. My working week is Monday to Friday, India time.
Yours. I am hands-on with Gusto, Rippling, Deel, Remote and Justworks, and I work in Notion, Confluence, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and Jira. Automations run in Zapier or Make.
Tell me the role and the start date. I will send back a plan written for your company, free, whether or not you hire me.