The First 50
by Poppy OS
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People ops, built like a product

Build your people function from person 1 to 50.

Free specs, runbooks, and Notion templates for founders who want to run People and Talent like a product team. Every resource brings the rigor of Product and Engineering to culture, hiring, and operations. Filter by your team size and where you operate.

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Field notes, person 1 to 50
Principles Systems over vibes· Written specs· Feedback loops· Instrumented· Versioned
The Registry

Team size

Location

Location refines the compliance, pay, and hiring resources and floats them to the top. Everything else applies anywhere.

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Who this is for

Early founders who are done improvising their people function and ready to build it like they build everything else.

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About Poppy OS

AI powered People and Talent, built by a founder who has run this function inside real startups from the first hire to fifty. The First 50 is the free half of that playbook.