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Write It Down
Turn vague employee notes into factual records with context, the employee’s account, and a clear follow-up.
Try a sample →Fractional HR · Investigations · Manager SystemsHandle today’s people issue.
Handle today’s people issue.
Build a better way to work.
Verk Vibe is a fractional HR practice for founders and HR leaders at growing teams. Jon Orozco, Founder and Fractional CHRO, brings senior HR judgment to sensitive employee situations, manager routines and workplace investigations. Washington-based and remote-first, serving teams across the United States.
Sound familiar?
“I have to let someone go, and I have to do it right.”
“An employee just filed a complaint.”
“My managers need a consistent way to follow through.”
Start with your situation
What needs to work differently?
Choose the situation that matches your work. Find practical tools for your team or experienced support for an issue that needs careful handling.
PEOPLE
“An employee situation is on my desk and it can’t wait.”
Prepare for complaints, conduct concerns, and accommodation requests. The Emergency Kit gives managers language, response steps, and escalation guidance.
See the first-response kitMANAGERS
“My managers need a consistent way to follow through.”
Turn scattered 1:1s, open decisions, and missed follow-up into a weekly management routine. ManagerOS helps managers organize the work and make the calls.
Build a management routineINVESTIGATIONS
“Someone just filed a complaint.”
Establish a neutral process for intake, interviews, evidence review, and findings. Give leaders a documented basis for deciding what comes next.
Get investigation supportOPERATIONS + Ai
“We’re drowning in manual work.”
Examine repetitive admin, broken handoffs, and underused tools. Clarify the workflow and where automation or Ai can support it.
Review your workflowsLEADERSHIP
“My leadership team pulls in six directions.”
Clarify who owns the decision, what information is needed, and how to follow through. Bring senior HR judgment to the people issues affecting your business.
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“My HR team is carrying too much.”
Give your HR team a place to work through difficult cases, competing priorities, and the decisions they are carrying.
Find support for HRNeed help choosing? Tell Verk Vibe what’s happening. Start with the issue and the decision you need to make.
Verk Vibe Operating Systems
Give managers a weekly routine for decisions and follow-through.
ManagerOS™ brings priorities, people, open decisions, and delegated work into a repeatable weekly routine. Five days, five jobs, about 75 minutes a week. Ai helps organize the information; managers remain responsible for the decisions.
Verk Vibe Manager Systems
Prepare managers for the first response.
Help managers prepare what to say, what to record, and when to involve HR. The Manager HR Emergency Kit covers first responses to complaints, harassment and discrimination concerns, accommodations, leave, performance, conflict, safety, and retaliation.
When to call
The issue is sensitive, vague, escalating, or taking too much leadership energy.
What you get
A defined scope, a record of the relevant facts, and practical next steps for the decision ahead.
How we work
Direct conversations, careful handling of sensitive information, and work shaped around your situation.
Common questions
Questions leaders ask before the first call.
- What is fractional HR, and how does Verk Vibe work?
- Fractional HR gives a growing company senior HR judgment on demand, without a full-time executive hire. Verk Vibe embeds directly in the decision in front of you: investigations, compliance structure, manager support, and people operations, priced to the work rather than a salaried seat.
- When should a company bring in Verk Vibe?
- When a workplace issue is sensitive, escalating, or taking too much leadership energy, or when informal HR has stopped being enough. Bring us the situation when you need help preparing a decision, organizing the facts, or establishing a process your team can follow.
- Does Verk Vibe conduct workplace investigations?
- Yes. Verk Vibe runs neutral workplace investigations: intake, scope, interviews, evidence review, findings and a leadership-ready readout for complaints, conduct concerns and EEOC-sensitive matters. Some matters carry state or federal requirements that affect whether Verk Vibe can take the engagement. Those are confirmed at intake, before work begins.
- Who does Verk Vibe work with?
- Verk Vibe serves founder-led and scaling teams, with a sweet spot of 20 to 250 employees. It works with founders, operators and HR leaders across the United States. Larger HR functions can use the HR Work Architecture Sprint, built for roughly 250 to 1,500 employees.
- How is Verk Vibe different from HR software?
- Software stores process; Verk Vibe supplies judgment. The work is senior HR decision-making applied to your actual situation, with records of the relevant facts, the reasoning behind the decision, and the follow-through it needs.
- Where is Verk Vibe based?
- Verk Vibe is based in Washington State and works remote-first with teams across the United States. Support runs through remote working sessions and agreed documentation. City pages describe support for employers in each market, not local offices. Any onsite requirement is discussed before you commit.
Work Architecture
Understand the work before adding another HR role.
Work Architecture examines the activities behind the role, the systems you already use, and the economics of the work. Use that evidence to evaluate what needs a person, a better process, or a different tool.
Explore the work assessmentBooks by Jon Orozco
Clearer records. A visible case queue. A better start as a manager.
Practical systems for the people problems on your desk. Start with one situation, practice your response, and find a move you can use at work.
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Solo HR
Move competing requests out of your head and into a visible case queue with priorities, owners, and next steps.
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Promoted Over Your Peers
Move from coworker to supervisor with clear boundaries, consistent work decisions, and conversations you have practiced.
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Start the conversation
Make the next people decision with a clear plan.
Tell us what happened, who is involved, and what you need to decide. We will help you identify the support and next steps that fit your situation.