by Doug Patten | 2025-11-08 | Enterprise Solutions, HR, SMBs
If you’re running a small or mid-sized business, you’ve almost certainly experienced this thought process: “We just need a tool that can help us with this one specific thing right now.” The instinct is completely understandable and reflects how...
by Doug Patten | 2025-11-02 | Compliance, HR, overview, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition, Training
For years, artificial intelligence has promised to revolutionize workplace productivity, but for most small and mid-sized businesses, that revolution felt perpetually out of reach. Enterprise-grade AI tools carried enterprise-grade price tags. System integrations...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-26 | Compliance, Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
Every HR leader knows the frustration of a broken promise in technology. Applicant Tracking Systems were supposed to revolutionize recruitment and save time, improve candidate quality, and making hiring decisions smarter and more objective. Instead, for many...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-19 | Compliance, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
For most small and mid-sized businesses, recruiting represents a perpetual tension between urgency and capacity. A single open role can consume an entire HR team’s week – manually reviewing résumés, coordinating interview schedules, generating compliant...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-12 | HR, products, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
It’s late Friday afternoon, and your HR manager is still wading through hundreds of résumés while juggling onboarding tasks, policy questions, and compliance deadlines. For many small and mid-sized businesses, that scene represents an all-too-familiar drain on...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-07 | Compliance, HR, overview, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
AI in the workplace has evolved from a futuristic concept to an everyday operational reality. But for small and medium-sized business leaders evaluating whether to adopt AI assistants, two fundamental questions still dominate the conversation: Can AI be trusted to...
by Doug Patten | 2025-09-27 | Compliance, Generative AI, HR, products, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
The companies pulling ahead in today’s competitive landscape aren’t the ones hoarding the most applications or chasing every new technology trend. They’re the organizations that have learned to cut through the noise, standardize around a few powerful...
by Doug Patten | 2025-09-21 | Compliance, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
The announcement hit mid-sized tech companies like a seismic shift: a one-time $100,000 fee per new H-1B petition. For businesses that have relied on international talent to fuel growth and innovation, this represents far more than a simple fee increase –...
by Doug Patten | 2025-09-07 | Compliance, Generative AI, HR, SMBs
If you’re an SMB leader, “compliance” probably feels like playing whack-a-mole with a blindfold on. Wage transparency requirements pop up in one state while I-9 re-verification deadlines loom in another, and multi-jurisdictional leave laws seem to...
by Doug Patten | 2025-09-01 | Compliance, HR, SMBs
Most teams don’t overspend by writing big checks — they overspend by death-by-a-thousand-apps. A scheduling tool here, a résumé parser there, a compliance widget somewhere else. None are individually “wrong,” but together they create a tangled web of...
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