Small and Medium Business Services
Where clarity meets creativity — and your next chapter begins.
Your future-minded business deserves revenue streams that fit your ethos, not someone else’s been-there-done-that playbook. Tavola’s Signature offering - Creative Revenue Consulting - helps you identify, design, and activate aligned income pathways that strengthen your business without compromising your values.
This work happens in three stages:
Strategy – clarity, alignment, and data-backed direction
Implementation GPS – a structured, self-led roadmap
Implementation Engagements – guided, hands-on execution
Each stage is distinct, intentional, and scoped so you always know exactly what you’re investing in and why.
Creative Revenue Consulting
Creative Revenue Consulting (The Strategy Session)
This is where we start.
In this phase, we do the thinking work - the alignment, the market analysis, the ideation, and the selection of revenue pathways that match your values, capacity, and business DNA.
This offering provides strategy, clarity, and direction.
What’s included
Creative Intake Session (90 minutes): Explore your alignment, capabilities, and goals.
Creative Revenue Report: A bespoke, personalized, data-backed analysis outlining 3–5 revenue pathways tailored to your strengths, skills, and market opportunities.
Final Strategy Session: Clarify next steps and ensure you’re ready to move confidently into execution at your own pace.
Investment: Starting at $4,000.
The Tavola Promise: Before we begin any engagement, you’ll know the exact investment for your project - clear, upfront, and in writing. No surprise bills. No overages. No shifting scopes.
Clarity is the foundation of our work.
Confusion is what you came here to escape, not inherit.
Implementation GPS (Strategy-to-Action Roadmap)
For clients who want clarity and structure but prefer to launch independently, Tavola offers the Implementation GPS - a self-led, professionally structured roadmap that bridges strategy and execution.
This option is designed for founders who want defined steps, realistic timelines, and professional-grade scaffolding without the full investment of a hands-on build-out.
Implementation GPS delivers guidance and structure, not done-for-you work or legal advice.
What’s included
Strategic Launch Brief: A distilled guide outlining your chosen revenue pathway, objectives, and positioning.
90-Day Roadmap: A step-by-step plan with milestones, timelines, and decision points for your first pilot.
Templates + Tools: Checklists, workflows, communication templates, and implementation resources custom tailored to your offering.
Launch Strategy Session (60 minutes): A focused working session to walk through the roadmap and ensure you’re equipped for an independent, values-aligned launch.
Investment: Starting at $3,500.
Implementation Engagements (Operational Execution)
When you’re ready to bring a revenue stream to life with expert support, Tavola offers Implementation Engagements — guided, hands-on execution for clients who want partnership in building their pilot and systems.
Implementation work is a separate, optional service and focuses on operational build-out. It remains distinct from legal advice.
What’s included
Pilot Design: Shape the concept, structure, milestones, and success metrics for your first offering or revenue test.
Process Scaffolding: Build the workflows and operational systems that support sustainability and reduce complexity.
Accountability Check-Ins: Customized support, progress reviews, and calibrated next steps to keep the pilot on track.
Investment:
Most implementation engagements range from $7,500–$15,000.
Every implementation is term-limited, structured, and fully scoped before work begins — no retainers, no surprise invoices, no open-ended hours.
First Employee Hire Infrastructure
Hiring your first employee or contractor is one of the biggest turning points in your business — and one of the most legally complex. Tavola provides you with a clear, customized framework for making that first hire with confidence and compliance.
Because your first hire should grow your business. Not jeopardize it.
In this necessary service, we review your business structure, assess your immediate and long-term staffing goals, and identify the right role at the right time to help you grow sustainably. From job design to onboarding, we guide you through every step with the clarity of a seasoned employment attorney and the care of a fellow founder.
We help you:
Determine whether your first hire should be an employee or contractor, based on a full legal evaluation of proposed position. (Because this is not a game to play with the IRS!)
Address wage, hour, and benefits considerations, helping you stay compliant with federal and state law.
Consider industry-specific employment regulations and requirements that might exist especially for you.
…and so much more. This is a fully customized service that’s designed to give you clarity and confidence as your business grows.
For founders ready to grow, we also offer an extended engagement that includes deeper structural support — from benefits design and handbook drafting to ongoing employment scaffolding assistance. At the end of this engagement. you’ll be fully structured to confidently employ the people who will help your business grow.
Investment:
First Hire Review Services start at $2,450, which includes a complete compliance review and a clear written plan for your first employee or contractor.
For founders who choose the full infrastructure review + implementation experience, engagements start at $7,000. The full price will depend on complexity and scope of the work. You’ll know the full investment before any work begins.
Employment Scaffolding
Scaling a business means more than hiring people and increasing overhead. It means building the systems that let your people and your business thrive.
We help you scale at the speed of sustainability; building a team that supports your vision without overwhelming your infrastructure or your finances. This isn’t about hiring for optics or overextending your resources. It’s about creating a deliberate, right-sized foundation that evolves alongside your revenue, your leadership, and your capacity.
When growth is intentional, it doesn’t break what you’ve built. It strengthens it.
This service is ideal for founders who are ready to scale their businesses, improve systems, and build the infrastructure to sustain success without losing sight of their values.
We assess where your business is now, forecast where you’re headed one and five years from now, and build the frameworks that bridge the gap. Together, we clarify which roles you need (versus which ones you might want), draft compliant job descriptions, come up with realistic implementation costs, and design simple policies that protect your people and your peace.
The result is a business that’s not only legally sound but operationally solid — built to grow on purpose, not by accident.
Investment:
Scaling Review & Roadmap: Starting at $8,750 (typically completed in 6–8 weeks)
Implementation: Starting at $14,000, depending on scope (typically 3–6 months)
Each engagement is bespoke, grounded in your business’s DNA, and focused on creating structure that fuels—not strangles—your growth.
Employment Practices Audit & Implementation
Strategic legal scaffolding for businesses in the messy middle of growth.
Not every small business is ready for a full-time employment attorney. But every growing business deserves clear, grounded legal insight as they enter the staffing phase. Tavola’s Employment Practices Audit & Implementation service gives you that bridge - a focused, attorney-led engagement that helps you hire, manage, and protect your people with confidence.
This offering helps you move through one of the most sensitive transitions in business: when you shift from “I can do it myself” to “I need help, and I need to get it right.”
What the Audit Covers
We take a comprehensive, attorney-trained look at your employment landscape, including:
Hiring Practices & Classification: Employee vs. contractor analyses, job descriptions, offer letters, conditional offers, background check compliance, and pay structure alignment.
Wage & Hour Compliance: Timekeeping systems, overtime rules, exempt vs. non-exempt classifications, and potential liability exposure.
Policies & Procedures: Review or development of employee handbooks, onboarding processes, performance management, and discipline frameworks.
Benefits & Culture Frameworks: PTO structures, leave policies, workplace expectations, DEI considerations, and early-stage culture-setting.
Risk Assessment: Identification of legal vulnerabilities, operational choke points, and areas where the business is carrying unnecessary liability.
What Implementation Looks Like
Once the audit is complete, we guide you through a practical, time-bound implementation phase that turns recommendations into structure. Implementation may include:
Drafting compliant, aligned hiring and onboarding documentation.
Creating or refining handbooks, policies, and performance systems.
Designing compensation and benefits frameworks that reflect your values and budget.
Helping you prepare for your first hire - or your next ten.
Building workflows that support trust, clarity, and accountability at every level.
Providing strategic counsel on sensitive situations before they escalate.
Investment:
Each engagement is bespoke and intentionally limited - Tavola only accepts one Employment Practices Audit & Implementation client at a time.
The Audit:
Starting at $14,500, depending on the size and scope of your organization. Most audits are completed within 4–8 weeks, and include:
Comprehensive review of employment policies, practices, and documentation
Stakeholder meetings with leadership, HR, and compliance
Identification of legal exposure, cultural risk, and structural gaps
Final report with actionable recommendations
Implementation:
Starting at $35,000, depending on organizational size and complexity of the engagement. Implementation typically unfolds over 4–12 months, and includes:
Change management guidance and documentation support
Structural improvement and compliance integration
Coordination with Tavola’s trusted partner firms as needed - at no additional cost to you
Each engagement is carefully scoped to your business, giving you clarity on cost, timeline, and outcomes before we begin.
Why Tavola?
We don’t treat your business like a checklist. We treat it like a living system, with a past, a present, and a future you’re trying to build toward. We take the time to learn your ethos, your rhythm, and your ambitions - so your employment infrastructure reflects not just where your industry has been, but where it’s going.
Our goal is not simply to keep you compliant. It’s to walk with you as you build something sustainable, structured, and human-centered in a rapidly shifting world.
Let’s Set the Table
Tavola engagements begin with conversation - your story, your vision, and the future you want to build. Share a few details here, and we’ll be in touch soon to explore how we can shape what’s next for you - together.