We set up and run
international employment.
For VC-backed companies: entity or EOR/PEO, payroll, compliance, benefits. In the US, in Europe, in both directions. One team, fixed fees, no vendor commissions.
What we do, in one minute.
VC-backed, Series A to C
50 to 250 people, hiring in 3 to 10 countries, no senior international People team in-house. If that's you, every month without an owner of this problem is money and risk accumulating.
Audit. Design. Operate.
We audit your entire employment setup, design the right architecture country by country (EOR/PEO or entity, which vendors, what comp and equity), then run it for you on an annual retainer.
Recovered EBITDA, clean diligence
Hidden costs identified (typically €150–400k+ in a first audit, depending on footprint), compliance risk taken off the table, and a stack your next investor's due diligence walks through without a single red flag.
Somewhere between Series A and Series C, every venture-backed company ends up here: 60 people in 8 countries, on 2 EORs/PEOs, 3 payroll providers, contractor agreements someone found online, and an equity plan that doesn't work in Germany. Your board sees the headcount. Nobody sees the hidden costs.
For the CEO, the CFO,
and the board.
Hire anywhere. Move fast. No surprises.
The best candidate is in Berlin, the customer wants a team in New York, the board wants both this quarter. We make every country hireable in weeks, with zero of your time spent untangling providers, and no ugly surprise landing on your desk six months later.
One line in the budget. Real money back.
Today your employment stack is eleven invoices nobody reconciles. We turn it into one fixed, forecastable line, recover the hidden costs sitting inside it, and hand you a quarterly review in EBITDA terms. This engagement typically funds itself in year one.
Risk off the table. Diligence-ready.
Misclassified contractors, permanent establishment, broken equity grants: these are the findings that reprice rounds and kill exits. We eliminate them before your next due diligence, and document it. Your investors get a portfolio company that scales globally without scaling risk.
Your corridor, your countries,
your compliance checklist.
Pick your direction and where you're hiring. Get the specific list of what has to be in place, item by item.
WHERE ARE YOU HIRING? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
What it costs
when nobody owns it.
Thirty places money leaks out of an international employment setup. Every figure below is a market range we check line by line in the audit.
Provider & platform fees10 ITEMS
Country cost surprises8 ITEMS
Compliance & risk exposure7 ITEMS
Time & vendor waste5 ITEMS
Your investors read the same P&L you do.
Stop paying $700 an hour
for questions that aren't legal.
When a US company operates in Europe, every employment question goes to a law firm by reflex: a notice period, a contract template, a probation extension, a bonus clause. European companies do exactly the same in the US. Here's the uncomfortable truth: around 80% of those questions are operational, not legal. They need someone who has done it, not a memo.
Every question, a law firm
- $600 to $900 an hour, 3 to 5 billable hours per question
- Dozens of questions a year as you scale: it compounds into serious money
- A one-week turnaround for an answer your team still has to execute alone
- The memo tells you what the law says. Nobody runs the payroll, files the registration, or fixes the contract
Operations answered. Counsel where it counts.
- The operational 80% answered in days, inside your fixed retainer, then executed end to end
- The genuinely legal 20% (litigation, for-cause terminations, immigration filings) goes to independent local counsel we engage and brief
- Rates agreed upfront, one scope, one invoice: ours
- For most clients, the legal-spend reduction alone covers the retainer
Platforms execute.
We're accountable.
Global employment platforms are extraordinary infrastructure, yet structurally incapable of neutral advice. Every recommendation they make ends in buying more of their product, and their terms of service disclaim responsibility for your decisions. We sit above the platforms: designing the architecture, operating the whole, and answering for it.
Three steps. Fixed fees. No day rates.
The Audit
A full teardown of your employment stack: every country, contract, vendor, cost line, compliance exposure, and equity gap. Three weeks, fixed fee.
The Blueprint
Your 24-month infrastructure roadmap: EOR/PEO vs. entity by country, vendor consolidation, compensation architecture, and a prioritized fix list your board can read.
We operate it
The Infrastructure Retainer: we run the stack (vendors, compliance calendar, payroll oversight, new-country hires) and review it quarterly with your CFO, in EBITDA terms.
We take no commissions from any vendor. That's why our recommendations can be trusted.