My career started in recruitment before I moved fully into HR, and across companies of every size and industry since, I kept seeing the same thing play out. A manager, sometimes a business owner, sometimes another HR person, would come to me unsure what to do about a disciplinary, a grievance, an absence case, whatever it was. Not being difficult, just uncertain, a bit stressed, and struggling to find the right answer quickly.
That is not an isolated problem, it is a pattern I watched repeat for years. The information people need is out there, but it is scattered and slow to get to: the internet is full of guidance that is incomplete, out of date or simply wrong, and a solicitor who can give a proper answer costs more than most people can justify ringing about every small thing.
Tarn.hr is my answer to that gap. It is the calm, sensible colleague I wanted every manager to be able to turn to. You tell it what is going on, it asks the questions a good HR person would ask, and it tells you plainly where you stand and what to do next, in proper British English, grounded in UK employment law and the Acas codes. Then it writes the letters and scripts you would otherwise stare at a blank page over.
It is not a replacement for a solicitor, and it never pretends to be. For the genuinely serious situations, the ones that carry real risk, it will tell you clearly to get proper legal advice. What it does is handle the everyday well, and help you spot the moments that need more.
Tarn.hr is for the manager handling their first grievance, the small business owner without an HR team, and the HR professional who wants a second opinion and a head start on the paperwork. If that is you, I hope it takes some of the worry off your desk.