What you've tried. What's still missing.
Four plays. Each does something well. Each leaves a gap. Here's the landscape.
Ariya is the missing middle.
- A named senior advisor on your file (not a rotating queue)
- Tracking, checks, filings, and drafts underneath (not self-serve dashboards)
- One price and we run implementation (not tier roulette or hourly drift)
The enterprise payroll platform.
A trusted name. Every feature boxed up. Every tier in all caps.
- Issue
- Wage-and-hour question (California)
- Agent
- Pending assignment
- Response SLA
- 48 to 72 hours
- Your rep changes every three to six months.
- Essentials sit behind tier upsells you didn't know existed.
- Implementation is your team's problem.
Ariya. A named senior advisor on your file, plus systems underneath. One price. We run implementation.
The modern SMB platform.
Beautiful UI. Priced for small teams. Self-serve by design.
- No named person on your file.
- "HR support" is a chat box or a rotating CSM with eighty accounts.
- Notifications are alerts, not fixes. It's still your problem.
Ariya. The alerts run underneath. A human owns the next step. Not “tap to review.”
The fractional HR consultant.
Twenty years of real experience, billed by the hour.
Every call on the clock. Every quick question, delayed.
- Hourly billing trains you not to call.
- Strategy only. They're not running your payroll.
- Solo practitioner. Vacation, illness, retirement: single points of failure.
Ariya. Monthly price. Strategy and ops. Senior judgment without the meter running.
The in-house HR hire.
You hired someone. On payroll, in your Slack, at your all-hands.
- $90k to $150k fully loaded, before benefits and tools.
- One person can't be great at comp and ops and strategy.
- When they leave, HR stops for three to six months.
Ariya. Senior HR for a fraction of a senior salary, with repeat work handled underneath. Same context next quarter.
Where we're not the answer.
- Over 200 employees. You need a team, not a partner.
- Want zero human contact. We'd be overkill.
- Need global payroll or equity administration. Not our lane.
- Want a vendor who always says yes. We tell you when you're wrong.
The option that fits you.
Twenty minutes with Duane. No pitch deck. He'll tell you honestly.
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