Your HR department, without hiring one.
A named HR adviser you can talk to, payroll run for you and your staff paid, and one platform for contracts, right to work and staff records.
Hirenza is built for businesses with roughly 10 to 80 staff and no HR manager, where the owner or the office manager handles people problems on top of everything else. That's who we design for and who we know best.
Smaller, bigger, or already have an HR team? You're welcome too. Plenty of HR managers use our platform and call us for a second opinion.
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How does Hirenza support owner-run businesses?
Hirenza helps owner-run businesses manage hiring compliance by connecting role planning, candidate checks, onboarding, worker readiness and records in one workflow. In owner-run businesses, risk often appears when one location, manager, agency, or department handles evidence differently from another. A right-to-work check, DBS result, credential, sponsored-worker change, onboarding decision can be missed if it lives in a separate inbox or spreadsheet. Hirenza gives employers a shared record for what must happen, who owns it, what evidence has been collected, and what still blocks the worker from starting. Hirenza keeps the workflow, evidence and handover history organised for review and day-to-day management, and a named Hirenza HR adviser is there for the people questions behind it. Hirenza gives HR and employment advice to employers only. Immigration and sponsor licence advice is given by Harveys Legal, an authorised immigration adviser. We do not give tax advice.
Primary sources to verify rules
The challenge for owner-run businesses
when a people problem lands
Sickness, a disciplinary or a grievance lands on the owner, between everything else.
contracts and handbooks
The Employment Rights Act 2025 is changing the rules in stages through 2026 and 2027.
eats your Friday
One payroll mistake upsets everyone, and pensions and sick pay keep changing.
Key Compliance Risks
- Unfair-dismissal rights after six months, expected from January 2027
- Contracts and handbooks written before 2026 that no longer match the law
- Sick pay from day one since April 2026 missed in payroll
- Right to work checks not done, or not evidenced, before day one
Hirenza for Owner-run Businesses
The modules that matter most for your sector.
A practical operating model for owner-run businesses
Hirenza is designed for employers who need hiring, checks, onboarding, workforce visibility, and evidence management to work as one process. For owner-run businesses, the risk is rarely one isolated missing document. It is usually a handover gap: a role is opened without clear requirements, a candidate is progressed before checks are complete, a worker starts before records are ready, or a site manager cannot see which action is still outstanding.
The platform gives teams a shared operational record from the first hiring decision through to worker readiness. That means the people responsible for recruitment, HR, operations, compliance, and site delivery can see the same status instead of relying on email threads, local spreadsheets, or informal updates. When a role has right-to-work, DBS, credential, sponsorship, location, or shift requirements, those requirements can be visible before the start date is at risk.
What to standardise first
- Free HR check: A 30-minute call and a one-page red/amber/green report.
- We fix your paperwork: Contracts, handbook and key policies rewritten for the new rules.
- We look after your people: Payroll, your adviser and the platform, for one monthly fee.
Evidence employers should keep visible
- Unfair-dismissal rights after six months, expected from January 2027
- Contracts and handbooks written before 2026 that no longer match the law
- Sick pay from day one since April 2026 missed in payroll
- Right to work checks not done, or not evidenced, before day one
The strongest implementation starts small: define the role evidence, agree who owns each step, connect candidate checks to onboarding, and make worker readiness visible before work starts. Once the workflow is consistent, employers can scale it across more sites, roles, and seasonal peaks without rebuilding the process each time.
| Workflow point | Common risk | Hirenza control |
|---|---|---|
| Free HR check | Unfair-dismissal rights after six months, expected from January 2027 | A 30-minute call and a one-page red/amber/green report. |
| We fix your paperwork | Contracts and handbooks written before 2026 that no longer match the law | Contracts, handbook and key policies rewritten for the new rules. |
| We look after your people | Sick pay from day one since April 2026 missed in payroll | Payroll, your adviser and the platform, for one monthly fee. |
How Hirenza fits your workflow
Free HR check
A 30-minute call and a one-page red/amber/green report.
We fix your paperwork
Contracts, handbook and key policies rewritten for the new rules.
We look after your people
Payroll, your adviser and the platform, for one monthly fee.
See how Hirenza works for owner-run businesses
30 minutes on the phone with an adviser, and a one-page red/amber/green report on your contracts, handbook and payroll. Or start the platform free.