Payroll, PEO and HR technology,chosenfrom your side of the table.
Nexus is your independent advisor for Human Capital Infrastructure. One discovery instead of ten sales calls: we gather your needs, take them to the market, rank who’s worth your time, and stay beside you through proposals and negotiation.
How we work
One discovery with us, instead of ten sales calls.
The usual way, your HR lead takes a call from every vendor and answers the same questions every time, then tries to compare proposals that look nothing alike. We do the fact-finding with you once and carry it to the market ourselves.
Illustrative ten-vendor search.
We do the fact-finding
One working session and one document request. We gather census, payroll structure, states, contracts, costs and must-haves ourselves.
We take it to market
Every PEO, ASO and HCM provider gets the same facts in one consistent request. Vendors follow up with us, not your HR team.
We rank who you should meet
Our ranking platform scores every response against your priorities, so you only take meetings with the vendors worth your time, and you know why.
We support the finish
We prep and attend finalist meetings, line proposals up side by side, and negotiate pricing and terms on your behalf.
Human capital infrastructure
Who runs each layer of your workforce operations?
Human Capital Infrastructure is the seven layers every employer runs to pay, cover and manage its people. The question is who owns each one. A PEO, an ASO and your own team on HCM software split them very differently. Choose a model, then select a layer.
Nexus isn’t tied to any of these models. We score all three against your organization, plus the platforms within each, and show what each does to your benefits costs too.
See the total-cost viewNexus Intelligence
Every dollar you spend on your people, in one view.
Payroll fees, PEO bundles, benefits premiums, workers’ comp, retirement plan costs and the staff who run it all usually live in different contracts, with different advisors. Our proprietary platform puts them in one place and projects them forward.
That matters because these decisions move each other. Leaving a PEO changes your benefits pricing, your workers’ comp and your staffing at the same time. You should see all of it before you choose.
- CostsEvery fee, premium and invoice across vendors, on one ledger
- DataCensus, payroll and claims, connected instead of siloed
- ProjectionsMulti-year cost by scenario, across every discipline at once
Annual Human Capital Infrastructure cost
Illustrative figures for a sample employer. Your view is built from your own contracts, census and claims.
One advisor for every people decision
Benefits strategy, delivered with Black Ink.
Nexus and Black Ink Benefits are partner firms. Nexus architects your Human Capital Infrastructure: PEO, payroll, HCM and workforce technology. Black Ink designs and manages the benefits that run on it: medical, pharmacy, funding, compliance and employee advocacy.
Together, one team plans every dollar you spend on your people, with one set of data and one roadmap, instead of separate brokers who never compare notes.
When to call us
The moments that usually bring employers to Nexus.
Platform decisions rarely happen on a calm Tuesday. They show up as a renewal, a growing pain or a closing date. Here is what we do in each.
Practice areas
Infrastructure first. Then the people who own it.
Our core work is your Human Capital Infrastructure, with benefits delivered alongside Black Ink. For owners and investors, we connect those decisions to the deal, the exit and the balance sheet. Lifecycle services follow below.
The infrastructure
For employers choosing how their workforce operations run.
PEO, payroll and HCM brokerage
Buyer-side evaluation of PEO, ASO and HCM platforms. Scored, negotiated and supported through implementation.
See the brokerage modelEmployee benefits strategy
Plan design, funding, pharmacy and employee advocacy, delivered with our partner firm Black Ink Benefits.
AI workforce integration
Where automation actually saves hours in HR, payroll and operations, which tools to use and how to make them stick.
Owners and investors
For PE, VC and real estate firms and the owners who sell to them.
M&A human capital advisory
Pre-close diligence on payroll, PEO, benefits and compliance exposure, then post-close consolidation across portfolio companies.
Retirement and wealth strategy
Qualified plan design and deferred compensation for owners and executive teams, coordinated with tax and succession goals.
Tax strategy and succession
Exit and succession planning that protects enterprise value, from buy-sell agreements to transition timelines.
Across the employee lifecycle
Every service, across the whole employee lifecycle.
Human Capital Infrastructure is the foundation: how your people get paid and covered. Our lifecycle services build on it to shape how they’re hired, led, kept and eventually retired, all on the same data and plan. Choose a service to see where it fits.
More lifecycle services are on the way. Ask us about anything you don’t see here.
Who we serve
Built for organizations with real complexity.
Multiple states, multiple entities, a deal on the calendar or an owner thinking about what comes next.
Employers
Mid-market and enterprise employers and the owners who run them, scaling past what today’s payroll, HR and benefits setup can handle.
PE and VC portfolios
Standardizing Human Capital Infrastructure across acquisitions, where cost discipline drives EBITDA.
Real estate portfolios
Operators with workforces spread across properties, entities and structures.
How we’re paid
Plain answers about the money.
- What you pay usNothing for PEO, payroll and HCM selection when you make a change.
- Who pays usThe platform you select. We tell you that at the start, not in the fine print.
- What keeps us honestEvery scorecard includes keeping the function in-house, and we recommend it when it wins.
If a full evaluation shows you’re best served where you are, a modest fee for our time applies, agreed before we start.
Find out what your current setup is really costing you.
A first conversation is free and carries no obligation.