Fractional CPO services built for engineering-led companies. Fixed-scope programs that ship working systems, ongoing advisory for the day-to-day, and specialist support when situations get hard.
Ideal fit
Stage
Typically 30–150 staff, where the People function needs more than a junior coordinator can deliver but doesn't yet justify a full-time VP.
Leadership
Technical founders who understand systems thinking and want a People practice built the same way — deliberate, measurable, and documented.
Trigger moment
Preparing for international expansion, a fundraising milestone, or a compliance audit like SOC2 or ISO27001 — moments when getting People right compounds.
Fixed-fee engagements
Fixed-fee engagements that deliver working systems. Pick the one that matches your trigger.
All pricing in AUD ex GST. Discovery call required before quoting.
Program 1
Build a sustainable junior engineering talent pipeline that compounds over time.
$40–50k
12 weeks
Program 2
Replace ad-hoc feedback with a system managers actually use.
$30–40k
10 weeks
Program 3
Stop drowning your People team in manual work and audit findings.
$25–35k
8 weeks
Program 4
Find out what's actually going on before exit interviews tell you.
$12–18k
4 weeks
Program 5
Move from values on the wall to values in decisions.
$20–28k
8 weeks
Program 6
Pay confidently and retain deliberately. A compensation system your managers can use and your candidates can respect.
From $28k
8 weeks
Program 7
Bring talent acquisition in-house and stop paying agency fees for roles you'll hire repeatedly.
From $30k
8–14 weeks
Not sure which program fits? A 30-minute discovery call is enough to figure it out.
Ongoing support
For ongoing support and reactive specialist work.
Ongoing
Senior People expertise on tap, without the embedded cost.
$5–10k /month
Learn more →Specialist
Senior, experienced support for the situations where getting People process wrong carries real cost.
People process consulting, not legal advice.
From $450/hour
Learn more →The approach
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute discovery call. If the path is clear, we send a fixed-price proposal. If not, a 1-week paid scoping ($3k) ends with a concrete plan and locked price.
Weekly synchronous touchpoint, async collaboration in between. We work with your existing tools — no consulting platform to learn.
Every program ends with documentation your team can run from. We don't create dependency.
Capacity is deliberate. You get senior attention, not delegated work.
Molly is a People & Culture leader with nearly a decade scaling People functions inside Australian tech companies. Most recently VP of People at RecordPoint (2022–2026), where she joined as Head of People & Culture in 2019 and built the People function across the company’s global operations — APAC, the USA, Canada, the UK, and Europe.
Outcomes during her seven-year tenure included a graduate program averaging 4+ year staff tenure, an 80%+ internal promotion rate at senior levels, 35%+ female engineering headcount, and the process automation that supports the company’s SOC2 compliance.
Before RecordPoint, Molly was a founding HR team member at Vibrato, growing the consultancy from 15 to 60 staff and establishing the Sydney region before the company was acquired by Servian in 2019. Earlier roles at IBM in cloud consulting and product management.
Currently completing a Masters of Law (Technology and IP) at UNSW.
Speaking credits include SXSW Sydney, PyCon, AWS, DevOps Days, and Transform.
Metacosm is a services-first practice today, with tooling on the roadmap. We're using every engagement to learn what scale-up People functions actually need, and building toward products that compound those learnings.
If you'd like to hear when our first tools ship, leave us your email.