Pre-launch · federal and state compliance

Where compliance becomes clear.

We’re building compliance infrastructure for growing employers: practical systems that make federal and state compliance clear, current, and under control.

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What we’re building

Compliance infrastructure, built for how growing employers actually work.

Common Ground Compliance is descriptive by design: we help growing employers see what applies, stay current, and prove they followed the rules.

Clarity

A clear view of what applies

Plain-language guidance on the federal and state obligations that touch a workforce, organized so an employer can see what's relevant to them.

Currency

Updates that keep pace

Monthly notes on federal and state HR and compliance developments, written to be read by operators, not lawyers, so nothing important slips by unnoticed.

Proof

Infrastructure, not advice

Groundwork is the system we're building to make all of this repeatable and ready when someone asks. Every action logged, timestamped, and provable. In development now.

Who it’s for

Built for the people who carry the compliance load.

HR leaders

You own what changes

You keep a growing team compliant and need to catch what changed before it turns into a problem.

Business owners

You wear every hat

You need the federal and state rules that touch your people in plain language, without a law degree or a full HR team.

Operators & risk

You mitigate the risk

You want obligations documented and the proof on file, so an audit is a formality, not a fire drill.

The approach

We’ve lived this work from the inside: the audits, the deadlines, the gray areas where the rule isn’t obvious. We pair real HR experience with the systems to back it up, so compliance is clear enough to act on, current enough to trust, and documented enough to mitigate the risks.

No legal jargon. No fear-selling. Just the ground rules, kept current.

A sample of the brief

See exactly what lands in your inbox.

Monthly: the federal and state HR and compliance changes that matter, in plain language, with what to do about them. Here is a sample issue.

The Common Ground Brief

Issue 01 · June 2026

Sample issueState spotlight: Florida

Florida’s E-Verify requirement, in plain terms

What changed

Private employers with 25 or more employees must run new hires through E-Verify. A case has to be created within three business days of the start date, and the confirmation kept on file. The duty ties to routine state filings, so it is easy to miss until someone checks.

What to do this month

Confirm your E-Verify enrollment, run each new hire inside the three-day window, and save the case number with the employee’s records. We put the steps in order, with the dates that matter.

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From the blog

Notes on HR & compliance.

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Florida's Minimum Wage Reaches $15.00 on September 30

On September 30, 2026, Florida's minimum wage rises to $15.00 an hour, the last scheduled step of the 2020 amendment. Here is what changes for standard and tipped pay, and what to confirm before the date.

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