A Compifi live series · Season One

The Comp Desk Live.

Every Wednesday · 12 PM ET · Oct 21 – Dec 16

Twenty-five minutes on the compensation calls the middle market actually faces. One idea, one chart, and the judgment to act on it. Register for the episodes you need — each one stands on its own.

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Oct 21
Wednesday · 12 PM ET · 25 min
Defending Your Merit Budget

How to answer the CFO's merit question before it's asked — the one-page case that holds up in the budget meeting.

You'll leave withA one-page merit-defense you can reuse
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Format25 min + live Q&A
CostFree
RecordingSent after the episode
The format

Same shape every week. Twenty-five minutes.

Editorial first. The product gets three minutes and no more — you're here for the thinking, not the demo.

0:00
On the comp desk
What's live this week · 2 min
2:00
The idea
One topic, one chart · 15 min
17:00
In Compifi
How you'd see it · 3 min
20:00
Live Q&A
Real questions · 4 min
24:00
Next week
Tease and close · 1 min
Built for the person who owns comp but doesn't have a comp analyst.

Heads of HR and CHROs

At companies between 100 and 1,500 employees, where compensation is one of eight things you own.

HR Directors running merit

Who will be asked to defend a number and would rather have the answer ready than assembled under pressure.

Total rewards leads

Working without a dedicated analyst, and tired of rebuilding the same views by hand every cycle.

Season one

Eight episodes, October through December.

Every Wednesday at noon Eastern, skipping Thanksgiving week. Each episode registers separately, so take the ones that matter to you.

01
Oct 21
Wed · 12 PM ET

Defending Your Merit Budget

How to answer the CFO's merit question before it's asked — the one-page case that holds up in the budget meeting.

TakeawayA one-page merit-defense you can reuse
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02
Oct 28
Wed · 12 PM ET

Comp Conversations, Fixed Before They Break

The four things a well-run comp conversation actually says — and the one that quietly causes attrition when it's missing.

TakeawayA manager talk-track for the hard asks
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03
Nov 4
Wed · 12 PM ET

The AI-Skill Shift and Your 2027 Budget

What to adjust before December locks the plan — where skill premiums are moving and who you're about to underpay.

TakeawayA skill-premium checklist for 2027
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04
Nov 11
Wed · 12 PM ET

Pay Positioning for the Middle

Reading your true market position without a six-figure engagement — what “at market” really means when you look closely.

TakeawayA positioning read on one real role
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05
Nov 18
Wed · 12 PM ET

Three People Your Flight Risk Isn't Seeing

The signals most retention analyses miss — the quietly unwatched, not the obviously unhappy.

TakeawayA flight-risk scan you can run Monday
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06
Dec 2
Wed · 12 PM ET

Pay Transparency: Three Compliance Questions

The questions your legal team will ask you in January — and how to have the answers before they do.

TakeawayA transparency-readiness check
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07
Dec 9
Wed · 12 PM ET

Paying Remote Right

Geographic pay without the guesswork — how to set and defend location differentials you can actually explain.

TakeawayA geo-pay framework for mixed teams
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08
Dec 16
Wed · 12 PM ET

Pay Equity Without the Six-Figure Engagement

Finding and fixing the gaps before someone else does — a working approach that doesn't need an outside study.

TakeawayA quick equity self-audit
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Your host

Stuart Reeves

Compensation consultant to mid-market employers — pay structure design, market benchmarking, and the merit cycles that follow. He writes The Comp Desk, and founded Compifi because the same three questions kept coming up and there was no tool that answered them without an analyst attached.

CCP, CECP, GPHR. Sessions are practitioner to practitioner.

Season one

Eight Wednesdays. Take what you need.

Each episode registers on its own. No season pass, no sequence to escape, recording sent after every one you join.