W2
W2 Employee
You are our employee for the length of the engagement.
- Weekly or bi-weekly direct deposit
- Employer taxes withheld and filed
- Workers compensation coverage
- Hourly or salaried structures
Services
Five ways we put the right people on the work
Every engagement starts with an intake call and ends with a written agreement. No verbal-only terms, no surprise line items.
Service 01
Contract Staffing
A consultant embedded with your team for a defined period. You get the capacity without adding permanent headcount, and we carry the employment relationship, payroll, taxes and insurance.
Typical engagements run three to twelve months with extension options. We handle timesheets, invoicing and any mid-engagement rate or scope changes in writing.
What is included
- Intake call and written requirement summary
- Sourcing, live screening and skills validation
- Rate, availability and work authorization confirmed pre-submission
- Background check, drug screen and I-9 / E-Verify
- Weekly timesheet collection and consolidated invoicing
- Workers compensation and general liability coverage
- Two-week replacement window at no charge
3–12 moTypical duration
48 hrsFirst slate target
Service 02
Contract-to-Hire
The consultant works on our payroll for an agreed evaluation period — usually three to six months — and converts to your payroll at the end of it if both sides want to continue.
Conversion terms are set in the original agreement, so there is never a negotiation about a buyout fee after you have already decided you want to keep someone. Convert early and the fee prorates down.
Why teams choose it
- Evaluate real work output, not interview performance
- Consultant evaluates you too — fewer 90-day regrets
- Conversion fee fixed and disclosed on day one
- Prorated conversion if you decide early
- Headcount stays off your books during the trial
- Clean exit if it is not working, with a replacement
Service 03
Direct Placement
Full-time permanent hires, sourced and screened to your requirement. You pay a one-time fee as a percentage of first-year base salary, and only if you hire someone we introduced.
We present three to five candidates, not thirty. Each comes with a written fit assessment that includes what we are not sure about — because a slate with no caveats usually means nobody actually screened it.
Terms
- Contingency — you pay only on a hire
- Retained option for confidential or leadership searches
- Fee quoted in writing before sourcing begins
- 90-day replacement guarantee
- Mid-level individual contributor through director
- Offer negotiation and counter-offer handling included
3–5Candidates per slate
90 daysReplacement guarantee
Service 04
Project Consulting
Sometimes you do not want a person — you want a thing finished. We scope the work into a statement of work with a fixed deliverable, put a small team on it, and name a delivery lead who is accountable for the outcome.
Good fits: migrations, integration builds, data pipeline work, automation buildouts, assessments and platform upgrades.
How it runs
- Discovery workshop and written scope
- Fixed-price or capped time-and-materials
- Named delivery lead as your single point of contact
- Weekly written status with risks called out early
- Defined acceptance criteria before we start building
- Knowledge transfer and documentation at handoff
Service 05
Engagement models & compliance
We support the arrangements consultants and clients actually use, and we do the paperwork properly for all of them.
C2C
Corp-to-Corp
You bill us through your own entity or your vendor.
- Signed subcontract agreement
- Certificate of insurance exchange
- Net payment terms agreed up front
- Vendor-of-record arrangements supported
1099
Independent Contractor
Where the role genuinely meets independent contractor criteria.
- Classification reviewed before offer
- Written contractor agreement
- Year-end 1099-NEC issued
- Milestone or hourly billing
I-9 & E-Verify
Right-to-work verified for every placement before the start date.
Background screening
County, federal, employment and education verification to your standard.
Drug testing
Pre-employment panels arranged through national collection networks.
Insurance
General liability, professional liability and workers compensation certificates on request.
Not sure which one fits?
Tell us the problem instead of the service. We will tell you which model makes sense — including when the answer is “you do not need us for this.”