BentoBox Consulting
Scaling Start-Ups Right.
About
Us
Our Story
BentoBox Consulting empowers founders and business owners to focus on scaling their business, building a thriving culture, and do what they know best. We know how hard you work at creating a culture aligned with your values and principles, and how fragile that can be. For your culture to take root and flourish, you need to find the right partners, tools and solutions that complement your culture, not hinder it. BentoBox’s extensive experience in the HR Outsourcing and Insurance industry, together with our personal experiences founding our own high growth start-ups, puts us in the unique position to intimately understand your perspective and deliver expert advice aligned with your vision. BentoBox is a Founder's Representative, understanding your needs and your culture, helping get it right from the beginning, and guiding you as you scale.
Who We Are
The BentoBox team speaks "Founder". We've founded companies, raised millions of dollars, and made all the bone headed mistakes we will help you avoid. We cut our teeth in the insurance and HR world working for Fortune 500 companies cultivating a deep understanding of the tools and systems necessary to mitigate the risks associated with running a company, and freeing you from the time sucking administrative burdens that make you want to throw up. We leverage our volume and group purchasing power to pass on economies of scale SMB's would not be able to receive on their own. BentoBox act as a "Founder's Rep", protecting your time, and navigating on your behalf, the intricacies of insurance, PEO's, and tech stack options that can drive you mad. Give us a call, you will be glad you did.
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Our Vision
BentoBox is a Founder’s Representative for matters you can’t afford to get wrong. Executing on your core competencies is tough enough, managing what you don’t know you don’t know is hopeless. Our passion is to find you not only the best-in-class solution, but the one with the intangibles that fits your needs and culture best. We provide you the guidance you need to scale confidently while protecting you from unforeseen risks and helping your culture thrive. As you continue to grow and your needs change, we’re right there along with you, providing guidance and best practices to optimize your efforts and provide strategic clarity. All of this at no cost to you.
What
We
Offer
Strategic Partnership
You fight hard every day to create and preserve the culture that aligns with your beliefs and helps attract and retains the world class talent you need to succeed. It is imperative you find the right partners and solutions to compliment your culture, not disrupt it. BentoBox uncovers these intangibles in our Needs Analysis process and uses this as our North Star in sourcing solutions.
PEO and HR Outsourcing
PEO, ASO, BPO....what's the difference? And what is the best solution for me? The BentoBox team started in the HR Outsourcing industry in 2003 and has witnessed the industry evolve with the ACA, small group/large group, consolidation, etc. We partner with all the top-tier vendors, know their cultures, their appetites, and the pluses and minuses you won't hear from their sales rep. We find the right fit for you the first time.
Employee Benefits
Outside of wages, benefits are the foundation of what attracts and retains your best employees. You need a consultant that can structure a benefit offering that will attract the talent you need, but not break your budget. This includes:
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Industry Benchmarking
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Plan Structures
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Wellness Initiatives
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Contribution Structures
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Alternative Funding Strategies
Technology
Figuring out your HR tech stack can be confusing and stressful. It seems every day there are new options for payroll, HRIS, benadmin, ATS, and on and on...And all your questions...Does it integrate? Will it scale? Is this the best in class solution? BentoBox is here to help.
Personal Insurance & Financial Planning
As your company grows, so does your personal wealth. It's imperative you put the right planning and protection in place to optimize your personal financial plan. Our personal insurance and financial planning division is lead by our expert who has worked with families just starting out, to billion dollar estates. We take a holistic approach, analyzing all your assets, income and liabilities, providing you the planning and guidance for income, wealth and legacy protection across all life stages.
Self Insurance
Self Insurance and alternative funding strategies are some of the most under utilized solutions primarily due to a lack of understanding. We're here to change that. Alternative funding strategies can be excellent options for groups as small as 5 ee's, and the options continue to increase as your headcount grows. Our actuaries will analyze your claims data, and construct a plan with data driven stop losses that cap your risk.
There is no longer a need for Founders to ding their personal credit scores, or take on personal liability when getting your corporate card. This type of card would have saved us many a sleepless nights if only it were around in our early days. Due to our volume and close ties with the start-up and venture backed community, BentoBox has a unique relationship with Brex (backed by OG PayPal mafia Peter Thiel and Max Levchin), the first corporate card for start-ups, where we can save you on fees. Brex truely is a no-brainer for Founders. Ping us for details.
Perks & Cutting Edge Benefits
As new generations come into the workforce, and top talent is more difficult to find, employees are looking for perks and benefits beyond "the usual". Incorporating in-demand perks to your benefit offering can provide you the edge in attracting talent and emphasizing your culture. We will help you navigate the landscape, and enhance your benefits package with options including:
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Student Loan Assistance
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Fertility Assistance & Parental Support
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Maternity/Paternity Leave
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Workplace Wellness
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Financial Wellness
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Concierge Services
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Behavioral Health Services
Corporate Cards
Why
Us
Culture Based Approach
High performing companies understand no two cultures are the same. They take care to find the right team members, and hire the right employees that share the same values to amplify their culture. Shouldn't vendor selection take the same approach? Especially when considering areas as impactful as your HR and benefits strategy. Our proprietary culture driven assessment is proving to be an invaluable roadmap in finding the right fit the first time, that integrates with your culture, and gives you the peace of mind to focus on growing your business.
Deep Industry Knowledge
Our team of experts average over 15+ years of experience in the PEO industry, employee benefits and personal insurances. We have deep relationships with all the top PEO's, insurance carriers and technology vendors and know their cultures, appetites, pluses and minuses. Wether you are just getting started bootstrapping, or raised a ton of money, we are your representative, protecting your time and assuring things are done right the first time.
Years of Experience
Our three primary divisions, PEO, Employee Benefits, and Personal Insurance/Financial Planning are lead by our experts who have 16 years, 31 years and 17 years of industry experience respectively. We have also been active participants servicing, consulting and investing in start-ups for over 11 years. This deep, overlapping experience has uniquely made BentoBox Consulting the go to resource for fast growing and venture backed firms.
Meet Our Founder
Kris Roth
Kris Roth is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and advisor to various start-ups and entrepreneurs. He is passionate about fanning the flames of the entrepreneurial spirit in everyone, and empowering those willing to take the leap with the right resources to succeed.
He cut his teeth in the HR Outsourcing and Insurance industry with ADP TotalSource starting in 2003 where he rose quickly amongst the ranks to be in the top 1% of producers nationwide. He left ADP in 2011 to co-found his first start-up, The 86 Co., an award winning portfolio of spirits recognized as one of the fastest growing spirits companies in the US before being acquired by Brown-Forman.
Throughout the start-up community, he continued to see the pain that so many entrepreneurs went through trying to scale their businesses, while trying not to get tripped up when it came to compliance, employee benefits, vendor selection and the myriad of complexities outside their core competencies. Seeing this massive need for a trusted advisor in this space, he started BentoBox Consulting to help founders gain clarity, peace of mind and the best solutions for their business. His culture based approach to optimizing vendor fit for clients has proven to be a game changer in creating the synergies that optimize growth.