Plumbline · HSG's classification and compensation platform

Try the platform this study runs on

Plumbline is the classification and compensation platform House Strategies Group built for this work. A complete demonstration study runs on a fictional city, Cypress Bend, with about 730 invented employees in 170 classes. Use the access code printed in our proposal to open it, read-only, on any device.

Sign-in address
cypressbend.plumbline-hr.com/platform/login
Access code
Printed in our proposal, in the Methodology section box "See the platform for yourself." We do not put the code on this site or in any link.

What you are looking at

  • A fictional employer with a synthetic workforce. No Whitfield County data is in the platform, and Cypress Bend is not a real place.
  • Read-only. Nothing you click can change data or send an email.
  • No name, email or registration is asked for, and no contact with House Strategies Group is needed.
  • A visit lasts up to 24 hours. Visits are logged for security.

Why we show it

The proposal describes a method. The platform shows the method working end to end on a city of roughly Whitfield County's size, from the employee questionnaire to the cost of each implementation option, with the evidence behind every decision kept on the record. The County does not buy software: HSG runs the platform during the study and delivers everything in Word and Excel.

Three stops worth making

Stop 1

Follow one job to its grade

Open a class and follow it through: the employee questionnaire, the supervisor's review, the position description, and the classification decision with the evidence and the reviewer on record.

Stop 2

The market run

See each comparator figure with its source and effective date, the benchmark matches, and how the market result becomes a proposed range for each grade.

Stop 3

Equity scan and cost

See who falls below a new minimum, where compression sits, and what each implementation option costs, the same three questions the County's scope items 10 and 11 ask.

Several points of view

After signing in you can step into sample accounts (employee, supervisor, Human Resources, finance, executive and HSG analyst) to see what each would see. Every account inherits the read-only limit.