Everything a growing team needs to run its people function well.
Talent Function Design & Setup
Stand up a hiring and talent function from zero, with sourcing, screening, and onboarding designed to work together from the first req.
People Operations
The systems, policies, and workflows that let your people team run without friction, shaped around how your company actually works.
ATS & HRIS Implementations & Migrations
Choose the right applicant tracking and HR systems, then implement or migrate them cleanly so your data and your team come through intact.
Custom Automations & Workflows
Tailored automations for small teams that do not have HR yet, taking repetitive work off your plate so a lean team can run like a bigger one.
Workplace Design
Design a workplace and employee experience that reflects your culture, from the everyday rituals to the spaces and tools people actually use.
In-SF Office Support
On-site support for San Francisco companies that want a real person in the room, whether that means setting up an office or running people work in person.
Most people problems are really systems problems, and Poppy-OS treats them that way.
Every engagement starts by mapping how work actually moves through your team. From there we layer in AI and automation only where they make things genuinely better, never for their own sake. What you are left with is infrastructure that runs quietly in the background and a people experience that feels warm on the surface.
Denise Mathews
Denise has spent more than a decade building the people function at high-growth startups, usually as the first person in the room thinking about how a team should actually work. She is a self-taught AI and automation builder who would rather build the right tool than buy a subscription for it, and Poppy-OS is where that instinct meets a career spent on the human side of the workplace.
Her background in psychology and anthropology shapes how she reads a company, treating culture, incentives, and systems as one connected thing rather than separate problems to solve in isolation. She is endlessly curious about how people and teams perform at their best, which is where the biohacking, meditation, and self-hypnosis come in, and she brings that same optimization mindset to the companies she works with.
She is based in San Francisco and works with founders who want their company to feel intentional from the very first hire.