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🔗 People Operations + AI Enablement

The People Team your growing
business has been missing.

We've built HR inside some of the fastest-growing companies from first hire to exit. We embed as your fractional people team so you can scale without the overhead.

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30+ Years of Experience
20+ Companies Advised
5+ Fundraising Rounds Supported
10,000+ HR Tasks Completed
How We Work

Three Ways to Bring Us In.

The HR operations and leadership your business needs change as you grow. We match you to exactly the right level of support for where you are today.

01 Run Ongoing People Operations

The recurring HR work handled every month so your team stays focused on what matters.

  • Employee relations and day-to-day HR questions
  • Recruiting coordination and hiring support
  • Policy maintenance and compliance monitoring
  • Onboarding and offboarding
  • Manager coaching, on call

Best forTeams who need HR handled consistently but don't need (or want) a full-time hire to do it.

02 Build People Strategy & Systems

The strategic work behind your next stage of growth — comp, systems, and playbooks, built by people who've done it at scale.

  • Compensation and equity review
  • Leadership and management playbooks
  • Onboarding program design
  • Performance management system rollouts
  • Organizational design

Best forFounders who know exactly what they need and want an operator, not a consultant, to build it.

03 Solve One-Off Projects & AI Implementation

A high-impact project, handled start to finish, with no retainer required.

  • Offer letters, termination letters, and high-risk situations
  • Full-cycle recruiting for open roles
  • AI workflow and tool implementation
  • One-off policy or compliance questions

Best forCompanies with one specific need — a hire, a risk, an AI rollout — that doesn't justify a retainer.

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The Team

Three Operators.
One People Team.

We've each built HR from the inside — at companies scaling through the same inflection points you're navigating right now.

Thien Nguyen
Co-Founder

Thien Nguyen

Thien served as President of Jolt and led the company through its $145.5M acquisition by Digi International — giving him a lens on people ops that very few HR leaders carry. He holds a SHRM-SCP and an MHR, and has spent his career building HR inside companies scaling faster than their systems could keep up. He's sat on the other side of the table during diligence, term sheets, and board meetings — so he builds people systems that hold up under that kind of scrutiny.

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Cassidy Gonzalez
Co-Founder

Cassidy Gonzalez

Cassidy learned the ropes at Google and SanDisk before bringing that enterprise rigor to high-growth startups including SchoolAI, Nectar, Pura, and Peek.com. She helped organize the Culture Builders Summit, with 1,300+ registrants, and co-leads People People Party, one of Utah's most active HR communities. She has chaired the Utah SHRM conference and spoken at HR Tech. Ask around Utah's startup scene and her name comes up before ours does.

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Brixton Gardner
Co-Founder

Brixton Gardner

Brixton has built people and culture functions across SaaS, hospitality, and non-profit settings — most recently at Awardco, where he led employee recognition and retention. His leadership development experience runs deep, including training for a global volunteer organization. He co-leads People People Party and champions employee experience design. He's built retention programs in industries where turnover is the default — which is the harder version of the problem.

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AI Enablement

Building an AI-Ready Organization.

Technology only works if people actually use it. We build AI into the systems you already run — cutting busywork, surfacing better decisions, and freeing your team for the work only humans can do.

01

People Systems & Records

AI-powered record keeping and performance management that turns scattered notes into clear, defensible reviews.

02

Engagement & Growth

Smart recognition workflows and AI-supported learning paths that help people do great work and build the skills their next promotion actually requires.

03

Adoption & Governance

Hands-on manager training paired with oversight that keeps AI use inside company policy, not ahead of it.

Let's Work Together
Let's talk
No Sales Pitch. Just a Real Conversation.

We start with a free People Ops Audit — a structured diagnostic of where your people ops stands today and what you actually need. No pitch, no pressure.

Or reach us directly at hello@the-people-club.com