Introducing Workforce Advisory™ by Rippling
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Today, we’re launching Workforce Advisory™, powered by Rippling — a bold, new service model built for accounting, advisory, and HR firms that are ready to move beyond payroll and compliance, automate manual workflows, and become strategic growth partners for their clients.
As businesses accelerate and workforce complexity escalates, simply processing payroll or onboarding employees is no longer enough. Clients want proactive insight: someone who connects people strategy, technology, and financial outcomes, helping them build modern teams that thrive. That’s the heart of Workforce Advisory™, aligning HR, IT, and finance intelligence into one cohesive offering. With automation at its core, it helps firms automate routine workflows and deliver strategic value at scale.
Why now: Advisory isn’t optional any longer
Your firm isn’t just managing numbers and headcount; you’re shaping organizations. More than ever, businesses are asking:
“How many people should we hire and when?”
“Are our compensation practices aligned with growth and culture?”
“How do we invest in technology, systems, and workforce without losing agility or control?”
With Workforce Advisory™, you can answer those questions with data, not guesswork. Rippling’s unified platform gives you real-time visibility into workforce costs, talent capacity, and system spend, so you can deliver proactive, strategic guidance instead of chasing down spreadsheets or reconciling disconnected tools.
What Workforce Advisory™ means
Workforce Advisory™ redefines how firms serve their clients. It’s a consultative approach that connects HR, IT, and finance data to give businesses a unified view of their people and operations. With this model, you can automate manual workflows, surface AI-powered insights, and help clients make smarter decisions about their people, technology, and investments — all in one place. Your firm moves from being a service provider to a strategic partner, actively shaping workforce strategy and helping companies scale faster.
A Workforce Advisor is the professional who brings these insights to life. They turn people insights into business guidance that elevates companies, including aligning hiring plans, tech investments, and financial outcomes.
What powers Workforce Advisory™
Workforce Advisory™ is built on Rippling’s unified platform, an ecosystem of integrated features that automate data collection, connect systems, and give firms real-time insight into how their clients’ teams actually operate. Here’s how each one helps you deliver modern, differentiated advisory:
Headcount Planning: Forecast hiring needs, track progress in real time, and keep teams aligned to growth targets. Guide clients on when to hire, when to hold, and how to align their people strategy with financial objectives.
Natural Language Reports: Ask Rippling questions in plain language, like “Which departments’ labor cost increased most this quarter?” to get immediate insights across workforce, payroll, and finance data. This elevates your conversations from transactional to strategic.
Finance suite: Unify spend, payroll, and financial data in one place. Create clear, actionable forecasts that connect workforce decisions directly to business outcomes.
HR360: Get a holistic view of your client’s people strategy, from culture and compensation to talent dynamics and workforce planning. Advise not just on who to hire, but how to build cohesive, high-performing teams.
Surveys and employee sentiment: Understand team engagement in real time, identify people risks early, and help clients strengthen culture before challenges escalate.
Performance management analytics: Turn reviews, goals, and feedback into trends. Help clients understand which teams or individuals need development, how to align growth with business outcomes, and where to invest in talent.
Why it matters for your firm
With Rippling, you move from managing tasks to shaping strategy, using automation and data to drive deeper client impact. Workforce Advisory™ doesn’t just expand your service menu; it transforms how your firm delivers value.
Elevate client impact: Instead of reacting to client needs, you proactively advise clients on workforce costs, departmental spend, and technology investment, helping them scale with confidence and avoid costly missteps.
Differentiate your firm: Go beyond customized compliance and payroll to deliver AI-powered, executive-level solutions that rival enterprise consulting services. Workforce Advisory™ positions your firm as a strategic partner, not just a service provider.
Accelerate growth: Turn advisory into a recurring, high-margin offering. As Rippling automates busy work, your team can focus on insights and relationships that drive loyalty, predictable revenue, and measurable results.
Our commitment to you
We’re building the platform and offering so you can build the advisory. With Rippling, you’re not just adding a new service; you’re creating a modern advisory practice that’s automated, insight-driven, and ready to scale. Our investment in AI analytics, unified systems, and partner enablement means you can focus on strategy while we handle the infrastructure.
We’re excited to help you deliver work that matters for your clients, your team, and your firm’s future.
What’s Next
Download our step-by-step Workforce Advisory™ playbook.
Join our upcoming webinar “Unleashing Workforce Advisory™, Powered by Rippling” for live demos and use cases.
FAQs
What exactly is Workforce Advisory™ by Rippling?
Workforce Advisory™ is a consultative service that empowers accounting firms to unify and automate HR, IT, and finance intelligence, enabling you to advise clients on people-strategy, technology investments, and growth outcomes, not just compliance.
Who is a “Workforce Advisor”?
A Workforce Advisor is a professional who blends people-insights with business acumen, uses unified data to surface strategic opportunities, and elevates your role from back-office task-handler to trusted strategic partner for clients.
How does this differ from traditional advisory or payroll compliance services?
Traditional services focus on execution (payroll, benefits, HR admin). Workforce Advisory goes further by using connected workforce, finance, and IT data plus AI-powered analytics to help clients forecast hiring needs, model growth scenarios, invest wisely, and build strong, modern teams.
What are the core pillars of the offering?
The three key pillars are:
- Accelerated Advisory turns everyday workforce data into real-time insights and natural-language recommendations.
- Unified Platform connects people, finance, and operations in one view, so advisors link workforce dynamics with business strategy.
- Powerful Analytics enables scenario modeling, workforce forecasting, and outcome-driven advisory beyond historical reporting.
Which features support these pillars?
Some of the key features include:
- Headcount Planning & Compensation Bands (forecast hiring, align pay and growth)
- Natural Language Reports (ask questions in plain language and get insights)
- Finance Suite & HR360 (spend, payroll & culture data joined)
- Surveys & Performance Management (capture sentiment and track feedback trends)
- Client Command Center (dashboard view across client engagements)
How will this new offering benefit accounting, advisory, and HR firms specifically?
Benefits for firms include:
- The ability to package a recurring, high-value service tied to strategic advisory rather than only compliance.
- Deep automation of manual, repetitive back-office work empowers your team to shift from processing to advising,so your team spends less time on tasks and more time on insight.
- Deeper client relationships and differentiation, positioning your firm as a strategic partner rather than just a service vendor.
- Revenue growth opportunities via new service lines, stronger margins, and predictable advisory revenue.
Can this work for firms of all sizes or only large ones?
Yes! While the offering scales for larger clients, it is also built for firms supporting mid-market and growing companies by bringing automation, analytics, and unified data into the advisory model. The underlying platform is designed to scale as clients grow.
How quickly can a firm start delivering Workforce Advisory services?
Many foundational capabilities are live today within Rippling’s platform. Firms can initiate a pilot advisory engagement (for example, around headcount planning or pay bands) and scale from there. Internal enablement, packaging, and marketing support are included to accelerate your launch.
Do clients need to switch all of their systems to Rippling?
Not necessarily, yet while the full value comes from using Rippling’s unified platform (HR, Finance, IT), the advisory model can begin with core modules and will grow over time. Rippling supports integrations and incremental value deployment.
How do I position this offering to my current clients?
You can frame it as a shift from “serving payroll and compliance” to “guiding people strategy and growth outcomes.” Highlight how you’ll use real-time data, meaningful insights, and strategic planning to help: align teams, invest in technology, forecast workforce needs, reduce risk, and support culture, all backed by Rippling’s underlying platform.
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Mike Triantos
VP Sales, Accounting & HR Consultant Channel
Mike Triantos is a seasoned sales and channel leader with over two decades of experience driving revenue growth, building high-performing teams, and forging strategic partnerships across SaaS, accounting, and HR consulting. As VP of Sales for the Accounting & HR Consultant Channel at Rippling, he helps firms expand advisory services and unlock new revenue through automation, AI, and a unified workforce platform. Before Rippling, Mike scaled channel sales at Gusto and TriNet, bringing deep expertise in the accountant ecosystem and partner go-to-market strategy. A UC Berkeley grad based in the Bay Area, he’s passionate about helping firms become strategic, high-impact advisors.
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