California hides nine tripwires in your headcount, three-day clocks in every hire, and overtime math in every pay run. PeopleNav plots your exact position against all of it — and tells you the distance to every hazard.
Every one of these has sunk a small company that was too busy running the business to watch the instruments.
ICE issues a Notice of Inspection and you have three days to produce every form. Section 2 was due three business days after each start date — fines run per form, and "we didn't know" is not a defense.
California pays daily: 1.5× after 8 hours, 2× after 12 — not just after 40 a week. One misconfigured payroll rule quietly underpays a whole team, and back wages plus penalties arrive with interest.
Hire employee #5, #15, #50, or #75 and a new law silently attaches: CFRA, pay transparency, ACA, CA WARN. The state doesn't send a welcome letter. You find out from a penalty notice.
Drop in a payroll register and a roster. Nine checks run instantly: terminated-but-paid, gross math, rate drift, daily OT, minimum wage, ghosts on payroll.
A live countdown on every hire's three-business-day Section 2 clock, E-Verify case states with TNC guidance, and reverification radar for expiring work authorization.
Nine employee-count laws plotted against your live headcount, with what-if mode: "what does hiring three more actually trigger?" Answered before the offer letter.
Offer letters with §2922 at-will language, postings with the full FEHA/CROWN EEO statement, policies with SB 616 sick-leave math — drafted to spec, not from a template mill.
Certifications, NDAs, benefits enrollments, and I-9 reverifications on one urgency-tiered horizon — expired, critical, urgent, soon — with the renewal action attached.
Every AI action is logged server-side — who, what, when, and why, including the denials. Error-severity payroll calls require a written justification. By design, unbypassable.
PeopleNav is now an MCP connector. Connect it to Claude — or any MCP client — and your assistant gets ten compliance tools, four drafting prompts, and the California knowledge base. Your tenant data stays behind your login.
Upload a payroll register and headcount roster — CSV straight from Gusto, ADP, or a spreadsheet. No integration project.
The engine reconciles every row, assesses every I-9 clock, and plots your threshold posture. You get the full hazard chart.
Deadlines watched, documents drafted, discrepancies flagged for a human sign-off with a written justification. You stay captain.
A fraction of one payroll penalty. A rounding error next to an HR hire.
Your first audit is free. Ten minutes of CSV uploads, ninety seconds of engine time, one honest chart of your hazards.