Configuration & Workflows
Building, rebuilding, and untangling the workflows your system is supposed to automate — onboarding, status changes, approvals, terminations.
Poudre Systems exists because there's a gap in the market that I kept running into from the inside: HR teams who own a system they can't fully configure, with a vendor support model that wasn't built to actually fix anything.
I'm Nicholas — I've spent years inside HR system platforms across Workday, Paycom, UKG, ADP, Paylocity, Cornerstone, and PeopleSoft. Implementation, optimization, reporting and analytics, integrations, LMS configuration. Both sides of the desk: as the admin running the system, and as the consultant brought in to clean up after someone else's.
This business is fractional and vendor-agnostic on purpose. No reseller relationships, no software kickbacks, no incentive to recommend the platform that pays the highest referral. The only thing I'm selling is honest expertise — usually delivered in 5–20 hour increments to companies who don't need a full-time hire but can't keep limping along either.
The work itself is unglamorous and specific. These are the categories that come up most.
Building, rebuilding, and untangling the workflows your system is supposed to automate — onboarding, status changes, approvals, terminations.
Custom reports, Power BI dashboards, and the answers to questions your default reports can't give you.
HR to payroll, benefits, ATS, learning platforms — built, fixed, or replaced when the vendor's API limits get in the way.
Course configuration, automation workarounds, compliance training rollouts. The piece of HR that gets ignored until it doesn't.