We build and operate compliance software for California employers.
Our flagship is MicroForensics — the per-pay-period wage-and-hour record, built on the payroll and time clocks you already run, and operated for you every pay period. A foreman is alerted to a short break and gets it taken while the shift is still open — and when a lawyer’s letter demanding records arrives, your own custodian of records answers it from one place.
Free · 30 minutes · a fit conversation, not a sales call. If the diagnostic isn’t worth doing, we’ll tell you.
Years from now, a lawyer will ask about this shift.
We catch missed breaks, unpaid break premiums, and open safety items — then chase each one to a documented fix.
A timekeeping app can capture a signature. It will not chase the exception, pay the premium, or close the item. MicroForensics reads the payroll and time clocks you already run: crews attest each pay period, exceptions reach a supervisor while the shift is still open, and the fix is entered beside the problem it corrects.
Missed breaks (§226.7), unpaid overtime (§510), unproducible time records (§1174(d)), waiting time (§203). What we defend against→
- 8,846
- PAGA notices logged by the LWDA, FY2024–25
Floburn Inc. is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.
Pay period 14 — Jul 1–15
Recorded 3:42 PM · same shift
The wage-and-hour record carries a statutory benefit the others do not: where all reasonable steps are documented before a notice arrives — or before the records request that usually comes first — Labor Code §2699(g) caps PAGA civil penalties at 15 percent, and §2699(h) caps them at 30 percent where remediation follows within 60 days of the notice. The court decides whether those steps were enough. What the record has to show.
One production package. Hours, not weeks.
A lawyer’s letter demanding records usually arrives before any lawsuit does, and a §2699 PAGA notice after it. When the letter lands, the authorized custodian of records on your team — not Floburn — produces one production package in hours, not weeks: the payroll records, the timecards with each short break and the premium paid beside it, the written policy your crews acknowledged and each dated per-period sign-off — on a cadence of its own, decoupled from the payroll run — the training completions, and the hazard, heat, and incident records. The record is not assembled after a claim lands; it is built in evidentiary format from the first shift, so production is retrieval, not construction, and chain-of-custody is preserved because the custodian controls the export.
Payroll, timekeeping, HR, and safety are reconciled into one record as the shifts happen, so production is an export from one place rather than a search across several. The same record is what a foreman acts on inside the shift: an alert before the fifth-hour window closes, carrying what to do and what to enter, so the break gets taken rather than a premium owed. The records that can go into the package are inventoried with you in the records diagnostic.
How production works→Long-term problems.
Near-term builds.
Internal automation and custom applications for small and mid-sized businesses — built by the team that ships its own products. Bounded engagements: a defined start, a defined end, and a fixed fee known before work begins. A few builds a year, by selection.
Something else on your desk?
We take on a small number of custom builds a year, by selection. If the problem is long-term and the build is near-term, it is worth a conversation.