Launching legitnyhr

Update, September 2026: the team section below reflects the practice today. Dorota Piekarska, a co-founder at launch, left legitnyhr in August 2026, and the practice is run by four founders.

Today I’m launching legitnyhr, a Polish boutique consultancy I co-founded for wartościowanie stanowisk (job evaluation), pay-gap reporting, and operational compliance with the EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970). The marketing site is at www.legitnyhr.com; the consultant tool runs at app.legitnyhr.com. More context on /work/legitnyhr and /projects/legitnyhr-app.

What It Is

A single-team boutique consultancy delivering PDF evidence packages: methodology document, JD scoring matrix, grading bands, worker categories, Article 9 gender pay-gap report and an eight-phase schedule. The tool is our production engine, and the engagement is the deliverable. The directive turns previously optional pay-fairness work into mandatory reporting with sanctions: 2,000 to 60,000 PLN under the March 2026 Polish PIP-Act amendment (Dz. U. 2026 poz. 473). The first Polish reporting period runs 1 January through 31 December 2027, with reports due 7 June 2028, uniform across all cohort sizes. Boring, mandatory, no-substitute work that needs both legal accuracy and statistical defensibility.

Why This Team

Four founders, four contribution areas. I run the methodology side: job-evaluation instruments and pay diagnostics. Magdalena Raniszewska of Kancelaria RBR covers tech-employment law and AI governance, including RODO, the AI Act and the legal defensibility of methodology choices. Karolina Rychter, also from Kancelaria RBR, covers the tax and cost side of pay policy: transfer pricing, payroll and benefits taxation (PIT/ZUS, employer cost), long-term incentive packages (RSU and ESOP, at vesting and at sale) and cross-border tax residency. Marcin Ostrowski of RubyOnAI handles system architecture, integrations and AI engineering.