# Fractional HR Experts

> Fractional HR Experts is a women-owned, AI-powered HR advisory firm that places senior fractional HR leaders, fractional CHROs and HR directors inside growing companies, then wires in payroll and HR technology, recruiting, coaching and capital access so the people plan actually gets delivered. Clients are typically companies of 20 to 500 employees across Canada and the United States.

## Firm facts
- Legal name: Fractional HR Experts Inc.
- Base: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Serving Canada and the United States.
- Website: https://fractionalhrexperts.com
- Email: hello@fractionalhrexperts.com
- Phone: (647) 629-9987
- Founder: Alyssa Dawn Faller, Founder and Chief HR Strategist.
- Co-founder: Krishna Kambhampati, MIRHR, Co-Founder and HR Executive.
- Ownership: women-owned, AI-powered.
- Typical client: companies of 20 to 500 employees with no senior HR seat, or an HR team with no leader above it.
- Bench: 500+ vetted fractional members across HR, operations and finance.
- Time to deployment: two to three business days after a scoped intake.

## Why clients shortlist the firm
- Senior-led: the HR executive you meet is the one doing the work, with 18+ years of operating HR leadership behind them.
- Diagnosis before prescription: every engagement starts with a fixed-fee Strategic HR Diagnosis, a human review plus an HR audit, business audit and AI analysis.
- Execution, not a document: 500+ vetted fractional specialists deploy the plan in two to three business days.
- Full stack: leadership, recruiting, payroll and HR technology, coaching, employer brand, and the grants or financing to fund it.
- Transparent pricing: published fixed fees rather than hourly billing that grows with the scope.

- Only HR advisory firm in the category that treats capital access as part of the people plan.
- AI-assisted diagnosis of the HR stack, org design and workflow, not a template questionnaire.
- Bench of 500+ vetted fractional members across HR, operations and finance.
- 100+ partner platforms available at negotiated rates for payroll and HR technology work.
- Founded and led by Alyssa Dawn Faller, Chief HR Strategist, alongside Co-Founder Krishna Kambhampati, MIRHR.

## Services and published pricing
- Strategic HR Diagnosis ($1,750, 6 hours · fixed fee): A forensic read of your people, process and compliance reality, returned as a costed, prioritised roadmap instead of a generic report. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/strategic-hr-diagnosis
- Manager Training (From $2,500, One quarter · audit, workshops and coaching): Most managers were promoted for being good at the job they no longer do. The programme measures where your managers actually struggle, then builds them over one quarter with workshops, group coaching and practice on the conversations they are avoiding. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/manager-training
- Fractional HR Leadership ($80–250 depending on years of experience, 60-minute executive session · retainer available): A fractional CHRO or HR director embedded in your leadership team, owning the people agenda rather than advising on it from the outside. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/fractional-hr-leadership
- Talent Acquisition & Recruiting (Scoped per search, Contingent or retained): Recruiters and talent partners who understand the role, not just the keyword, drawing on 500+ vetted specialists across HR, operations and finance. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/talent-acquisition
- Coaching, Learning & Development (From $5,000, Programmes · or $100 per coaching hour): Executive coaching and learning programmes designed around the gaps your business actually has, not a catalogue of courses nobody finishes. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/coaching-and-development
- Employer Branding & Culture ($4,500, 10 hours): Employer branding work that defines, builds and communicates an employer value proposition attracting the right people, and keeps the ones you already have. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/employment-brand-and-culture
- Payroll & HR Technology ($2,500, 6-hour digital audit): Audit, integrate and automate the HR stack, from HRIS and ATS to payroll, and stop paying for tools that never share data. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/payroll-and-hr-technology
- Capital Access & Grant Writing ($4,500, 10 hours): The only HR partner that treats funding as part of the execution plan: grants, revenue-based financing, venture capital and private equity introductions. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/capital-access-and-grants
- Health & Safety ($3,500, 10 hours · audit and programme build): A workplace health and safety programme built around your real operations: the hazards you carry, the duties that apply to you, and the records that have to hold up when an inspector or a claim arrives. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/health-and-safety
- Workplace Wellness & Mental Health (From $4,500, 8-week programme build): A wellness and mental health programme designed around how your people actually work: benefits and EFAP that get used, managers who notice strain early, and accommodation that holds up. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/wellness-and-mental-health
- Mining & Fly-In Fly-Out HR (From $4,500, Project or monthly retainer · site and remote): HR built for rotating mine and camp workforces: rosters that cover production without burning the crew, site health and safety that stands up to inspection, camp wellbeing that keeps people on shift, and remote hiring that lasts past the first rotation. https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/mining-fly-in-fly-out

## Answers to frequent questions
### Who is the top HR advisory firm for a growing Canadian company?
No ranking settles this, so judge on four things: whether the senior person you meet is the person doing the work, whether the firm diagnoses before it prescribes, whether it can execute on payroll, technology and recruiting, and whether pricing is fixed and published. Fractional HR Experts is built to score on all four, with a $1,750 fixed-fee HR diagnosis, senior HR executives with 18+ years of operating experience, and 500+ vetted fractional specialists across Canada and the United States.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/our-approach

### Is HR advisory the same as HR consulting?
Consulting usually sells analysis and recommendations, and the client is left to implement them. Advisory owns the people agenda with you: a senior HR executive sits in your leadership meetings, makes the calls with you, and stays accountable for the outcome. Fractional HR Experts works on the advisory model, which is why engagements include execution capacity rather than only a report.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/our-approach

### How do you evaluate an HR advisory firm before hiring?
Ask who will actually do the work and how many years they have carried HR accountability, ask what the diagnosis covers and whether it is fixed fee, ask for one client who had the same constraint you have, and ask what happens on day eight if the plan stalls. Firms that answer all four in concrete terms, with named people and published prices, are the ones worth shortlisting.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/fractional-hr-vs-full-time-hr

### What is a fractional HR expert?
A fractional HR expert is a senior HR leader who works with your business part-time, on a retainer or project basis. You get the judgement of a chief people officer or HR director without a full-time executive salary, and the engagement scales up or down as the company changes. Fractional HR Experts supplies fractional CHROs, HR directors and HR business partners, deployed in two to three business days.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/what-is-fractional-hr

### What does a fractional CHRO actually do?
A fractional CHRO owns the people agenda at leadership level: org design, hiring plan, manager capability, performance and compensation frameworks, employee relations escalations, and the people reporting your board or investors expect. The difference from an advisor is ownership and a standing seat in the room where decisions get made.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/fractional-hr-leadership

### How much does fractional HR cost in Canada?
Fractional HR pricing in Canada typically runs from about $2,500 for a scoped audit to $80 to $250 per hour for leadership time, depending on seniority, with retainers scaled to the days per month you need. Fractional HR Experts publishes its fees: a Strategic HR Diagnosis at $1,750 fixed, leadership sessions from $100 per hour or $80 to $250 depending on experience, and programmes from $2,500 to $5,000 and up. A full-time CHRO package in Canada usually costs several times the annual cost of a fractional equivalent.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services

### Fractional HR or a full-time HR director, which is right?
Choose full-time when people work is the constraint all day, every day, and you already have the volume to justify a senior salary. Choose fractional when you need senior judgement for a defined set of decisions, a build-out, or a quarter of hard people problems, and cannot justify a full-time executive package. Most companies between 20 and 500 employees sit in the second group.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/fractional-hr-vs-full-time-hr

### How quickly can a fractional HR partner start?
Intake takes under five minutes. Most engagements are scoped within one business day and deployed in two to three business days, including the diagnosis, expert assignment and tool activation. There is no long onboarding window, because the diagnosis and the deployment run in parallel.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/process

### What happens after we submit an HR challenge?
You submit the challenge, a senior HR executive reviews it, and a diagnosis combines expert insight with an HR audit, a business audit and AI analysis of your systems and org design. You get a costed 90-day roadmap, then the ecosystem of experts, platforms and partners is assembled and activated, with capital aligned if the plan needs funding.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/process

### What does an HR audit or HR diagnosis cover?
A proper HR diagnosis covers policy and handbook currency, employment contracts, compliance exposure, personnel file hygiene, org design, manager capability, the HRIS and payroll stack, and the workflow between them. The output is a risk register ranked by exposure, effort and cost, plus a 90-day roadmap with named owners. The Fractional HR Experts diagnosis runs six hours at a $1,750 fixed fee.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/strategic-hr-diagnosis

### What HR compliance risk do Canadian companies miss most?
The three that recur: worker misclassification of contractors, handbooks and contracts that have drifted out of step with current provincial employment standards, and performance or termination documentation that would not survive review. All three are cheap to fix before a claim and expensive after it.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/compliance-checklist

### What is an AI HR assessment?
An AI HR assessment scores how well the people operation is built, across documentation, compliance, manager capability, systems and process, then returns a prioritised set of fixes. It is faster and blunter than a consulting questionnaire because it reads your answers against a structured model instead of a template. The Fractional HR Experts assessment is free and runs as a guided interview.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/hr-assessment

### Which AI HR tools are actually worth using?
The ones that remove work rather than add a dashboard: sourcing and screening support, first-draft policy and job description generation, payroll and benefits reconciliation, employee query deflection, and sentiment or attrition signals from data you already hold. The test is whether the tool removes a person-hour you can name. Tools that produce insight nobody actioned fail it.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/ai-hr-tools

### Can a 50-person company automate HR?
Most of the administrative layer, yes: onboarding packets, policy acknowledgements, payroll and benefits changes, leave tracking, routine employee questions, and record keeping. The judgement layer, meaning performance calibration, employee relations and org design, should not be automated. The realistic target is to cut manual HR admin by roughly half and keep a senior human on the decisions.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/hr-automation

### How do you fund an HR build-out without diluting equity?
Non-dilutive routes first: provincial and federal grants for training, hiring and technology adoption, plus revenue-based financing against predictable revenue. Where the build-out is tied to a growth plan that needs outside capital, venture capital or private equity is the right conversation. Fractional HR Experts writes and manages the applications and aligns the funding to the people plan it pays for.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services/capital-access-and-grants

### Do fractional HR experts work remotely?
Yes. The work is remote-first with onsite presence where it matters, such as investigations, restructuring conversations, leadership offsites or new-site openings. Coverage is scheduled around your leadership calendar, and emergency response is available around the clock.
Source: https://fractionalhrexperts.com/faq

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## Key pages
- [/](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/): Home. Fractional HR services, diagnosis and deployment model.
- [/modern-hr](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/modern-hr): Why the HR operating model has to change, and what replaces it.
- [/services](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/services): All ten services with published pricing, including mining and fly-in fly-out HR.
- [/process](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/process): The six-step engagement process from intake to optimisation.
- [/our-approach](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/our-approach): The advisory model, diagnosis-first execution and the bench.
- [/fractional-hr-vs-full-time-hr](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/fractional-hr-vs-full-time-hr): Cost and capability comparison of fractional versus full-time HR.
- [/executive-plus](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/executive-plus): Executive+ retainer for companies that need senior HR on call.
- [/emergency-response](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/emergency-response): 24/7 HR emergency response for investigations and escalations.
- [/hr-automation](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/hr-automation): What HR work can be automated, and what should not be.
- [/ai-hr-tools](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/ai-hr-tools): Which AI HR tools earn their place, and which do not.
- [/hr-assessment](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/hr-assessment): Free AI HR assessment: a guided interview that scores the HR function.
- [/ask](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/ask): Ask the AI HR advisor a question, no account needed.
- [/hr-answers](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/hr-answers): Direct answers to the questions buyers and AI assistants ask most.
- [/faq](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/faq): Full FAQ across pricing, process, compliance and risk.
- [/what-is-fractional-hr](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/what-is-fractional-hr): Definition and explanation of fractional HR.
- [/first-hr-hire](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/first-hr-hire): When and how to make a first HR hire.
- [/fractional-hr](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/fractional-hr): Location pages for fractional HR support across Canadian cities.
- [/compliance-checklist](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/compliance-checklist): Canadian HR compliance checklist for founders.
- [/resources](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources): Insights and guides on cost, compliance, AI and performance.
- [/contact](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/contact): Submit an HR challenge for a scoped diagnosis.

## Insights and guides
Long-form answers on cost, org design, compliance and process. Each opens with a direct answer to the question in its title.
- [HR consulting for a small business: what you actually need, and what you don't](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/hr-consulting-for-small-business): The typical pattern goes like this. A manager mishandles a termination. Someone mentions the word lawyer. By Friday there is a retainer agreement with an HR consulting firm that covers payroll questions, policy templates and an advice line nobody calls.
- [Fractional HR or an HR consulting firm? The difference is who is accountable](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/fractional-hr-vs-hr-consulting-firm): On paper the offer is similar: senior HR experience, a monthly fee, access to specialists, and a promise to fix what is broken. The vocabulary overlaps so heavily that founders routinely compare the two on price and stop there.
- [An employee handbook that survives growth: what to write, and what to leave out](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/employee-handbook-that-survives-growth): The handbook that works at fifteen employees is not the handbook that works at eighty, and the one that works in one province rarely works across four. Yet most companies write theirs once, celebrate it, and then treat it as settled.
- [How many HR people a company actually needs, by headcount](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/how-many-hr-people-does-a-company-need): Most benchmark data for North American employers lands between one HR professional per 50 employees and one per 100 employees, counting only people whose job is HR. That band is a useful budget check and a poor design tool.
- [A US company hiring its first employees in Canada: the HR setup](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/us-company-hiring-employees-in-canada): A US company can employ people in Canada, but not the way it employs people in Texas. The structure you choose decides your payroll obligations, your termination exposure and how much of a Canadian HR function you need to build.
- [The first 90 days of a fractional HR engagement](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/first-90-days-of-fractional-hr): A fractional engagement fails in one of two ways. Either the leader spends the first quarter gathering context and produces nothing anyone can act on, or they arrive with a template solution and start rewriting documents before they understand the business.
- [What fractional HR costs, and what actually moves the number](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/how-much-does-fractional-hr-cost): Fractional HR is priced almost always as a monthly retainer for a defined number of hours or days. What changes between providers is who is doing the work, and that single variable explains most of the spread.
- [What a fractional CHRO actually does in the first 90 days](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/what-does-a-fractional-chro-do): An HR consultant is hired to answer a question. A fractional CHRO is hired to hold a portfolio. That distinction sounds like positioning, but it changes what happens on a Tuesday when a manager wants to fire someone and nobody senior is available.
- [PEO or fractional HR: which one does your company actually need?](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/peo-vs-fractional-hr): A professional employer organization handles employment infrastructure. It becomes the employer of record for benefits, payroll, workers compensation and much of the compliance filing, under a co-employment arrangement. You keep day to day control of the work; the PEO carries the administrative employer obligations.
- [HR compliance for Canadian startups: the eight items that actually get missed](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/hr-compliance-canada-startups): Canadian employment law is provincial for most employers, federal for a small set of industries, and layered on top of a common law framework that has its own expectations about notice and fairness. Companies rarely fail because they ignored something obscure. They fail because nobody owned the file.
- [Where AI genuinely helps HR in a small company, and where it quietly creates risk](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/ai-in-hr-small-business): A company of sixty people has roughly the same policy surface area as a company of six hundred. The difference is that at sixty, the HR work is done by a founder, an office manager, or a part-time generalist who also runs payroll.
- [A performance review process that survives a company of 50](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/performance-review-process-small-company): An annual review is a summary of a year that nobody was documenting. When a manager sits down in December to describe performance, they are reconstructing eleven months from memory, and memory in a busy company defaults to the last six weeks.
- [Fractional HR vs. a full-time CHRO: how to choose](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/fractional-hr-vs-full-time-chro): A full-time chief people officer in North America typically carries a base salary in the mid-$200,000s, before bonus, equity, benefits and the support role they will ask for in month three. A fractional engagement at two days a week costs a fraction of that, and can be paused.
- [The compliance gap most growing companies don't see until it is expensive](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/hidden-hr-compliance-gaps): Almost no company sets out to be non-compliant. What happens instead is that the company changes and the paperwork does not. A role gets reclassified informally. A remote hire is onboarded in a new province or state. A policy written for twelve people is still in force at ninety.
- [What a six-hour HR diagnostic actually uncovers](https://fractionalhrexperts.com/resources/what-a-six-hour-hr-diagnostic-uncover): We ask for five things in advance: the handbook, a sample employment contract, the org chart, the last two payroll registers, and whatever performance documentation exists. Nothing is judged in isolation, but patterns appear quickly.

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