I've sat in your chair.
I built a California light industrial staffing agency from the floor up — and I got hit with the lawsuits every owner fears. What I learned the expensive way is the playbook I now bring to you.
How I learned this the expensive way.
I spent five years inside the staffing business before I went out on my own. In 2018 I founded my own California light industrial staffing agency and built it to $50 million a year in billing.
Then the lawsuits every owner fears hit me — wage-and-hour and PAGA claims, plus harassment, wrongful termination, and discrimination exposure. Early on I didn't know what I was doing, and it cost me. Hard.
So I rebuilt the business from the inside out. How we captured time, how we documented, how we classified, how we ran the floor — until we could catch wage-and-hour exposure before it ever became a claim. Here's what that looked like in the numbers.
Five PAGA claims. The last two, dismissed.
- $1.5M alleged · PAGA claim 1Settled $500K
- $900K alleged · PAGA claim 2Settled $200K
- $500K alleged · PAGA claim 3Settled $25K
- PAGA claim 4Dismissed
- PAGA claim 5Dismissed
Since I built the prevention system: dismissed or dropped.
Operator-to-operator. No theory.
That's what I bring you now. Not theory — the exact playbook I paid six figures to learn.
I'm not a law firm and I'm not an insurance agency. I'm an operator who helps other operators run tighter, safer, better-capitalized businesses — working alongside your attorney and connecting you to the right licensed partners when you need funding or coverage.
Beyond consulting I'm building GroundWrk and a staffing applicant tracking system, I invest in real estate, and I wrote Control the Drift.