For Australian startup founders
You're building something great. Let's build the people side of it, together.
Australian templates and policies, Claude skills that do the hiring work with you, partner perks, and a community of founders who get it.
Tools that do the hard part with you.
This is just a sample. Try the four free tools now - members get these plus everything else in the Library.
Employer Brand Builder
It sweeps what candidates already find about you, interviews you properly, and gives you an employer brand file and a careers page. Including a founder video you can record on your phone.
Hiring
It reads your brand file, gets the outcomes clear at 30 days, 3 months and 6 months, then writes the job description, the job ad, the scorecard and the interview kit.
How should you resource this?
Seven questions that work out whether this is actually a hire, or a fractional executive, a contractor, an offshore role, or something to build with AI. It costs it out too.
Use it Free - have a lookOnshore vs offshore
Compare the first-year cost of hiring a role in Australia against the Philippines, with on-costs, recruitment and placement fees side by side.
Use it Free - have a lookHow to work with me
A fill-in template that tells your new hire how you actually operate, so they are not guessing for the first fortnight.
Use it Free - have a lookEmployer Brand Check
Scores your startup on the things candidates notice before they decide whether to apply.
Use itEmployee or contractor?
Works out which one you are actually engaging under the test that applies since August 2024, and whether you owe them super either way.
Intern Kit
Check whether an intern can lawfully be unpaid, work out what a paid one costs, and get a tailored 12-week plan.
Built for the stage you're at
Headcount is a rough guide, not a rule. What actually moves you between these stages is complexity - more managers, more states, more people starting at once.
PeopleStack gives you the tools, templates, and expertise to build a people function that actually works - organised around the real moments of building and managing a team.
Starting Out
Hire your first people and get the basics right from day one.
- Contracts & offers
- Core policies
- New starter essentials
- Basic onboarding
Getting Repeatable
Turn founder memory into simple, repeatable people systems.
- HR records & processes
- Onboarding & 1:1s
- Team rhythms
- Hiring foundations
Scaling Up
Build stronger people systems, reduce risk and support managers.
- Performance & feedback
- Compliance & risk
- Manager capability
- Role clarity
Adding a People lead
What triggers it is complexity: managers managing managers, more than one state, or hiring faster than you can keep up with. PeopleStack keeps working either way. The tools are for whoever is doing the people work, including a People lead of one.
- Hiring your first People lead
- Tools and templates your People lead can run with on day one
- Project work with Megan and Deepak when you need more hands
Everything you need to build a people function that actually works.
Employer brand kit
EVP, careers page and storytelling assets that attract.
Role briefs
30 day, 3 month and 6 month outcomes that become the job description.
Job ads & scorecards
Role design, job ads and panel scorecards.
Interview kits
Structured interviews and decision frameworks.
Offers & contracts
Offer letters and employment contracts, written for Australian law.
Onboarding & offboarding
30/60/90 plans, new starter packs, and exit checklists and handover docs.
Policy library
Compliant policies you can customise and download.
Performance toolkit
Goal setting, reviews and 1:1 templates.
HR templates library
Forms, letters and records for every moment.
Partner perks
Vetted tools and partner discounts.
Expert support
On-demand guidance from people experts.
Connect to Claude
Link PeopleStack to your own Claude so it can pull your saved library content directly.
The people behind PeopleStack
Practitioners who've sat in your seat, building People infrastructure inside lean Aussie startups - here to answer questions, pressure-test decisions, and keep the community moving.
Megan Luttrell
LinkedInMegan builds the hiring systems and people foundations that help startups scale with intention. Through Kairos, she's helped hundreds of Australian startups hire smarter and build teams worth being part of. She's also the force behind Aussie Founders Club - one of Australia's fastest-growing startup communities - connecting ambitious builders through events, content, and candid conversations.
Deepak Singh
LinkedInDeepak works with founders, COOs, Chiefs of Staff and founding teams to make the people stuff less overwhelming and more human. From culture-building to sticky feedback conversations, he brings honesty, humour and years of practical experience to help you lead teams that will energise and inspire.
Need more than the platform?
Members get preferential rates on project-based work with Megan and Deepak - recruitment support, people advisory, org design, or anything that needs a human rather than a template. Engaged separately, scoped to what you actually need. Each engagement has an agreed scope.
Get in touchPeopleStack Partners
Some of our trusted partners, offering exclusive perks to our members.
