People & Operations Infrastructure for Indian SMEs

Founders Should Not
Be the Workflow.

When your business grows past 40 employees, every decision shouldn't still route back to you. We build the HR systems, SOPs, compliance infrastructure, and operational processes that let your business run — and scale — without you in the middle of everything.

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400%
Revenue Growth in 2 Years
10+
Years in HR & Ops
~99%
SLA Closure Rate
100%
SME Focused
Sound Familiar?

This Is What Operational Chaos
Looks Like at 40–500 Employees in Fast-Growing Businesses

Not a crisis. Not a failure. Just what happens when business growth outpaces the systems that were never built. Most founders recognise at least 4 of these.

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You're approving leaves on WhatsApp at 11pm. There's no leave policy, no system, no structure. Employees message you directly because there's nowhere else to go.
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Payroll depends on one admin person. If she's sick or leaves, payroll doesn't run. The knowledge is in her head, not in a documented process.
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New joiners figure it out on their own. No induction plan. No 30-60-90 day roadmap. They spend the first month asking colleagues because no onboarding process exists.
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You've lost 3 good offers in the last 6 months. The hiring process is slow, inconsistent, and nobody follows up. Candidates join a competitor before you make a decision.
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PF, ESIC, PT — someone handles it, you're not sure how. Compliance exists but is not documented or auditable. One labour inspection away from a penalty.
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Your best employees leave within 12 months. No performance framework. No KRAs. No growth conversations. They leave not because of salary — because of a lack of structure.
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Every department does things differently. Approvals, communication, reporting — no standards. Tribal knowledge runs the business. When someone leaves, a process walks out with them.
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You have no visibility on your own HR function. No dashboards. No attrition data. No hiring funnel metrics. You're making people decisions by instinct, not information.

If 3 or more of these are true in your business, your HR is running on informal systems — not scalable ones.

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Our Positioning

We're Not HR Consultants.
We're HR & Operations Infrastructure.

Most HR consultants give you a policy document and a recommendation deck. Then they leave. We build the actual systems — and stay until they work. HR dashboards. SOP libraries. Hiring pipelines. Compliance calendars. HRIS implementations. Approval workflows. Performance trackers.

When we're done, you have a functioning people infrastructure — not a PDF.

We build, not just advise
We implement, not just recommend
We operationalise, not just document
We hand over systems you own forever
What We Build

Six Ways We Fix Operational People Problems

Every engagement produces something tangible — a live system, a documented process, a functioning workflow. Not a PowerPoint. Not a recommendation memo.

Fractional CHRO

Your part-time HR Head — setting direction, owning operations, building your people function without full-time cost.

HR Strategy Roadmap Org Design KRA Frameworks HR Dashboard

HR Operations Outsourcing

We run your end-to-end HR operations — payroll coordination, lifecycle management, documentation, query handling.

Payroll Coordination Employee Lifecycle Exit Processes HR Helpdesk

Recruitment & Hiring Systems

Not just filling seats — building a repeatable hiring pipeline with structured processes that reduce time-to-hire and bad hires.

JD Library Interview Frameworks Hiring Tracker Offer Templates

SOP & Process Documentation

We convert every process that lives in someone's head into clean, usable SOPs — so the business runs even when that person isn't around.

SOP Library Onboarding Flows Escalation Matrix Process Maps

HR Automation & HRIS Setup

We move you off WhatsApp and Excel — selecting, implementing, and automating the right HR technology for your team size and budget.

HRIS Implementation Leave System Attendance Workflows Approval Automation

AI-Powered Automations, Workflows & Platforms

We identify your highest-overhead manual processes and build AI-powered platforms that run them end-to-end — faster, without errors, and without adding headcount.

Approval Workflows AI Chat & Voice Bots Knowledge Bases Content Automation
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The Real Cost

Informal HR Costs Real Money.
It Just Doesn't Show on Your P&L.

Every month without proper HR systems costs your business in ways that don't appear on any report — until the damage is already done.

0×
annual salary is the
true cost of one bad hire
Source: SHRM
0%
of attrition is directly
linked to poor onboarding
Source: Gallup
0%
of founder time consumed
by avoidable HR tasks
Source: McKinsey
0%
of compliance gaps
go undetected until audited
Source: Deloitte

Payroll & Statutory Leakage

Incorrect PF deductions, missed ESIC filings, payroll errors — these silently drain ₹2–10 lakhs per year in most SMEs. Usually noticed only during an audit.

Attrition Is a Systems Problem

Most SME attrition isn't about salary. It's about unclear expectations, no feedback systems, no growth visibility, and managers who weren't set up to manage. Systems fix this — motivation speeches don't.

The Founder Time Tax

Every hour you spend approving leaves, resolving salary disputes, and managing employee issues is an hour not spent on revenue, product, or partnerships. This is your biggest hidden cost.

Free Diagnostic Tool

Find Out Where Your HR Is Leaking in 10 Minutes

33 questions. 6 HR pillars. An instant score that tells you exactly where your HR function is strong, where it's at risk, and what to fix first.

Covers every parameter that matters. Eerily accurate. Gives you the real picture — one you can finally build on.

47
At Risk
Multiple HR gaps identified across pillars
Action required
33
Questions
6
HR Pillars
₹0
Always Free
Why Kensho

Built for the Reality of Indian SMEs — Not for Enterprise Playbooks

Most HR consultants apply Fortune 500 frameworks to 80-person businesses. The result is documentation nobody uses, systems nobody adopts, and advice that sounds right but doesn't work in practice. We build for what's real.

Implementation, Not Just Advisory

We don't produce recommendation decks. We build the actual system — from hiring pipelines to HRIS implementations to SOP libraries — and stay until it works.

Systems That Reduce Founder Dependency

Every system we build is designed so your team can run it without you. The goal is that you become less needed in day-to-day HR — not more.

India-Specific, Operationally Grounded

PF, ESIC, PT, Shops & Establishment, POSH compliance — we know the Indian regulatory landscape. We also know what actually gets done in a 60-person business versus what looks good on paper.

Automation-First Mindset

Every process we document, we also ask: can this be automated? Moving from WhatsApp HR to a properly configured HRIS saves 8–12 hours per week in most businesses.

What Kensho Is Not

Being clear about what we don't do is as important as what we do.

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Not a Recruitment Agency
We don't earn per placement. We build hiring systems that give you a repeatable talent pipeline.
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Not an Enterprise Consulting Firm
We don't apply Fortune 500 frameworks to businesses with 80 people. We build what works for your actual stage.
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Not a Training Company
We don't deliver workshops and leave. We implement, iterate, and hand over systems that actually run.

"Most growing businesses don't have a people problem. They have a systems problem."

— Ritika Modi, Founder
How We Work

Visible Results in 90 Days

Every engagement follows a structured methodology — so you always know what's being built, when it will be delivered, and what changes in your business as a result.

1

Discovery

Deep-dive into your current HR state, systems, team structure, and specific pain points

2

HR Audit

Systematic audit across 6 HR pillars — gaps, compliance risks, and priorities mapped

3

Roadmap

Prioritised action plan with timelines, owners, deliverables, and expected outcomes

4

Build & Implement

We build live systems — SOPs, HRIS, workflows, pipelines, policies, frameworks

5

Handover & Scale

Your team runs the system. We stay on retainer or execute a clean handover

Ritika Modi — Founder, Kensho HR Solutions
Credentials
MBA — NMIMS Mumbai
10+ years in HR & Ops
Amazon · nGage Talent · Stallion Asset
HRIS · Salesforce · Process Automation
Based in Mumbai — Serves pan-India
The Founder

Ritika Modi

Kensho was built after seeing the same pattern repeat across multiple businesses: fast growth followed by operational chaos — because the systems were never built.

Hiring was reactive. New employees joined and were expected to figure it out. Decisions flowed back to the founder. Good people became disengaged. Attrition increased. The business slowed down — not because the product was broken, but because the operational infrastructure never kept pace with growth.

Ritika has worked inside this chaos — at nGage managing HR operations for scaling businesses, at Amazon understanding what world-class HR infrastructure looks like, at Stallion Asset building Salesforce-based operational workflows. She built Kensho to be the firm she wished existed from the inside: implementation-oriented, systems-driven, and deeply familiar with what Indian SMEs actually need to scale.

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Client Results

What Changes When HR Is Built Right

Anonymised results from Indian SME clients across manufacturing, financial services, and technology. Names changed at client request.

★★★★★

"We were losing 3–4 good candidates per month because our hiring process was too slow. Kensho built us a structured hiring pipeline — JDs, interview scorecards, offer templates — and our time-to-hire dropped from 45 days to under 18. We've not lost a candidate to a competing offer since."

AK
A.K., Founder
D2C Consumer Brand, 65 employees, Mumbai
★★★★★

"Our attrition was at 38% — people were leaving within 8 months. Ritika dug into the root causes: no onboarding structure, no KRAs, managers who weren't equipped to manage. She built the systems. 12 months later, attrition is at 12%. That's not a training outcome — that's a systems outcome."

K
Kensho
Manufacturing Business, 160 employees, Pune
★★★★★

"Before Kensho, I was spending every Sunday on HR — approvals, disputes, payroll queries. Now my HR function runs without me. Leave approvals are automated. Payroll is coordinated by the system, not by me chasing one person. I have 12 hours a week back. That's the real ROI."

NM
N.M., CEO
Financial Services Firm, 45 employees, Mumbai
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