PEOPLE FIRST. STRONG ROOTS. LASTING GROWTH.
HR consulting, fractional HR, and recruiting support for small businesses and established teams. From your first hire to a team of thousands, we get to know your people, roll up our sleeves, and help.
Based in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Helping businesses nationwide.
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Small and growing businesses
You’ve got a business to run, and plenty of hats to wear. Our small business HR consulting gives you help with employee questions, policies, and compliance, without building a full-time HR department.
HR for small business
Established organizations
Even great HR teams need a helping hand. We work alongside yours to tackle a project, find the right people, or keep things moving when someone’s away.
HR for established teams
LESS SECOND-GUESSING. MORE MOVING FORWARD.
A tricky employee conversation. A policy you’re not sure about. A role you need to fill. HR questions come up at every stage of business, and it helps to have someone you trust to talk them through and help with what comes next.
HOW WE HELP
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ONGOING HR SUPPORT
Fractional HR
Think of us as part of your team. Our fractional HR support helps with employee relations, HR policies, compliance, and those harder conversations, as your HR team or alongside the one you have.
Let’s talk HR
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HR PROJECTS
Employee handbooks, compliance audits, and benefits support.
Let’s get that HR project off your plate. Whether you need an employee handbook, a review of your files and HR compliance, benefits support, or clearer job descriptions, we’ll work through the details with you and help put the right pieces in place.
Tell us what you need
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RECRUITING
Recruiting support to find your next great hire.
Let’s find the right people for your team. Choose contingent recruiting, where you pay when we make a placement, flexible on-demand help, or interim coverage to keep hiring moving while someone’s away.
Let’s talk hiring
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THE ROOTS COLLECTIVE
A community that gets it.
A welcoming community for small business owners, with practical HR guidance and resources to help you feel less alone in the day-to-day.
Explore the Collective
LOCAL ROOTS. NATIONAL REACH.
Hiring someone in a new state? Growing beyond your home base? We help businesses navigate multi-state HR compliance, including pay, employee leave, and paperwork. We’ll work through what applies wherever your people work.
THE ROOTS COLLECTIVE
Some days, it would be nice to ask another business owner, “Have you dealt with this too?” The Roots Collective is a place for those conversations, along with practical HR guidance and resources to help you find your way forward.
Join the Roots Collective
We meet you where you are.
One employee question or a bigger plan for your team, we’ll listen first and figure out the right support together.
We help make sense of it.
You don’t need to speak HR. We’ll explain your options in plain language, including when your people work across state lines.
We get to know you.
Your people, your goals, and what makes your business yours. That’s where a good partnership starts.
We believe good HR starts with good relationships. Whether your team has five people or five thousand, you deserve a partner who listens, cares, and helps you move forward.
Meet the team
What our clients say.
“Build Your Roots ability to adapt to our needs as an organization has allowed us to be comfortable with our transition period and our teams have had the needed support system.”
FNC Bank
“Build Your Roots has been instrumental in helping us to grow as an early stage organization and created a way for us to access quality, legally sound HR without hiring a FT person.”
Authsnap, Inc.
“Build Your Roots has been fantastic to partner with, and has offered tremendous support and resources to our company. The account representatives from BYR are professional, courteous, and knowledgeable.”
Calhoun Truck Lines
Tell us what’s on your plate. We’ll listen, answer your questions, and explore how we can help. No need to have it all figured out first.