HR Architecture Advisory
Something just happened.
Now every move you make
is on the record.
Most founders discover their HR gaps at the worst possible moment. When a complaint arrives. When an agency sends a notice. When a termination gets contested and the documentation does not hold. The diagnostic finds the gaps before something else does.
Three Ways to Engage
One starting point. Every time.
Every engagement begins with the diagnostic. What follows depends on what the Exposure Report shows.
01 · Entry Point
People Infrastructure Diagnostic
Full forensic assessment. Written Exposure Report in 5 business days. $7,500 to $10,000 flat.
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Investigation File Review
For received EEOC charges, live complaints, or terminations requiring immediate strategy.
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Strategic HR Advisory Retainer
Fractional senior HR guidance. Month-to-month. Structured around what the Exposure Report shows.
Learn More →About Noël Tarquinii
Employment attorneys enter after the damage. Fractional HR builds operations. Neither one builds the architecture that survives what is already coming.
HR Architecture Advisory exists in that gap. Full forensic assessment of your people infrastructure before a situation forces the finding.
Every engagement conducted by Noël Tarquinii directly. No associates. No templated outputs. 30 years employer-side, 200 plus companies advised, $40M plus in liability identified and remediated.
On the Verdict Ceiling: Two Tracks. Same Defense Costs.
Under federal law, Title VII caps compensatory and punitive damages at $50,000 to $300,000 depending on employer size. Back pay and front pay are NOT capped. A $366 million jury verdict was reduced to approximately $250,000 on appeal because of the Title VII cap.
Federal caps do not protect employers from state law claims in states that have removed their own damage ceilings. Verified 2024–2026 verdicts: $900M sexual assault CA June 2024. $238M race discrimination WA Sept 2024 (later reduced). $103M with $83M punitive, age bias CA 2025. $52M whistleblower 5 plaintiffs CA Jan 2026. $32.3M disability discrimination CA 2025. $20.5M race harassment PA Apr 2024. $11.2M age discrimination CA Dec 2024. $3.8M race harassment AL Sept 2024. These are not anomalies.
Defense costs: $75,000 to $300,000+ before any verdict. If your company has employees in states that have removed their damage caps, the federal ceiling does not protect you from state claims.
Sources: 42 U.S.C. §1981a · Proskauer California Employment Law Update 2024–2026 · Katz Banks Kumin LLP Dec 2024 · Rocky Mountain Employer Feb 2024
Advisory Intelligence
Documentation & Compliance
View All Articles →HR infrastructure is the architecture underneath every people decision your company makes. Without it, every HR action is built on nothing. Here is what changes at each headcount threshold and what the record looks like when an EEOC charge arrives.
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The record is already being written.
The diagnostic finds what it says before anyone else does.
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