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Kat Manalac

Middesk Agent - Compliance peace of mind for remote employers

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When you hire in a new state, you have to set up & manage many government accounts. It's long, painful, and each state is different.

Middesk Agent takes over this process & manages your state compliance.

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Kyle Mack
Maker
👋 Hi Product Hunters, I’m Kyle, the CEO and Co-founder of Middesk. We’re super excited to announce the launch of Agent! Agent makes it effortless for businesses with remote teams to set up and manage the government accounts that are required to pay their employees. 🙌 Over the last two years, Middesk has grown from a team of less than 10 to about 40. Every time we hired an employee in a new state, we got instructions from our payroll provider on how to create government accounts required to pay our new employee. Setting up each state was complicated, slow, and confusing. Once accounts were set up, we managed all ongoing compliance requirements from a spreadsheet to make sure we didn’t miss important deadlines. This tedious and painful experience is what inspired us to build Agent. Agent is an end-to-end state compliance platform that will: ✅ Create each of the state tax accounts required for processing payroll 🏢 Register your business with Secretary of States ✉️ Receive, process, and extract important tax details from snail mail ♾️ Integrate against your payroll provider to simplify the registration experience 🤝 Identify and import existing Secretary of State accounts 📅 Automatically submit annual reports that the government needs in order to keep your business license active In addition, Middesk will cover all of the fees that the state charges to register your business, which can be as high as $800! 💸 We’d love for you to check out Middesk’s Agent. For the next year, we’re offering 25% off the creation and management of the government accounts in each new state where you hire employees. My team and I will be around all day and are excited to hear your feedback!
Jay Patel
Here's the link to get the Product Hunt discount! https://agent.middesk.com/signup...
Mike Tannenbaum
Middesk has been a critical partner to Brex since we started working with them in 2019. For remote first companies like Brex this adds a lot of value - exciting launch
Kyle Mack
Maker
@mike_tannenbaum We appreciate the kind words and partnership with Brex! Thanks Michael!
Charley Ma
Congrats on the new product launch! What size companies do you want to be working with Middesk Agent?
Kyle Mack
Maker
@charleyma Thanks! Setting up and managing state tax accounts is something that every business that has employees will have to do, but there are two common use cases: First, is an early stage company who is hiring their very first employee. Agent adds significant value at this stage since founders are going through this process for the very first time and have so many other things to focus on. Second, is a company who is scaling a remote team. As the number of states where a company has employees increases (either because people are moving around or because they have just hired new employees in new states), the complexity of registering, tracking reporting deadlines, and keeping all of the accounts up-to-date and in compliance because a major administrative challenge. Thanks for the question!
Aakash Shah
We started using Middesk this year, and it’s been a godsend. They helped us get set up quickly in new states and gave us peace of mind when dealing with all the various requirements for ongoing compliance. I recommend them to everyone. Congrats on the launch!
Jay Patel
@kashshah_ Thanks for the kind words, Aakash! We've been so happy to support the Wyndly team and looking forward to helping you as you continue to grow!
David J. Phillips
This product is amazing, highly recommend to all startups with remote teams! Congrats on the launch Kyle and Jay!
Kyle Mack
Maker
Thanks for the kind words @davj!
dolaoseb
World class team solving a real problem.
Everett Berry
I have signed up for 4 new states with middesk this year and it's been excellent. They also have virtual mailbox features (still the main way to hear from state tax agencies) and their support has been good. Highly recommend for remote hiring in the US.
Jay Patel
@everett_berry Thanks for the kind words, Everett! We've been grateful to support your team over the past few months and so glad you've enjoyed the experience!
Jeremy Zhang
Congrats on the launch of Agent! Finch is a happy customer :)
Mike Williams (Yoroomie)
Congrats on the launch and have heard great things about it!
Kyle Tibbitts
Solves a massive pain point. Congrats on the launch!
Nick Currier
Congrats Kyle, Jay, and team! Looking forward to growing Packback on Middesk
Jay Patel
@nick_currier Thanks Nick! We've been so happy to support Packback and looking forward to helping you continue to scale your team!
denai neilander
Congrats!
Sean Cook
This is huge! This answers a significant problem I’ve ran into before trying to bring remote talent in from different states. What a pain it is to manage with all the government bodies. Can’t wait to give this product a shot… it would help us in a major way! Looking forward to trying it Middesk team, thanks for putting this product out
Jason Corwin
Congratulations on the launch Kyle and Jay! For anyone that has had to register state-by-state they know how much of a pain this is. Love that you're solving this.
Christi Burns
This is a huge problem for my team - can’t believe someone is solving it, can’t wait to try this product. Thanks MiddeskHQ!
Ravi Patel
As someone highly interested in compliance - I see this product making a big splash in the near future.
Michael Mizrahi
We're a remote company with employees across 20 US States. This service make our admin life *much* easier, and wish so much that we had found it earlier. Congrats on launch, and can't wait to see what more you build. There's much to do!
Jay Patel
@miz Thanks for all the kind words, Michael! We've been really happy to support Levels as your team continues to grow
Roland M
@kyle_mack congrats on the launch! Does Middesk Agent work best for teams with internal compliance or pre-compliance org?
Jay Patel
@rolanddeep Thanks Roland! That's a great question. Agent can support customers in both situations. We've supported many early stage companies, where compliance is managed by the founder. Many of these customers aren't aware of all the nuanced state-level requirements and are laser-focused on getting their business off-the-ground. We've helped them avoid having to think about state compliance and given them the flexibility to make dedicated compliance hires at a later date. We've also supported many customers who have in-house payroll & compliance teams. For them, the value prop has been to consolidate their government accounts in 1 location and to save them hours per state that they can re-invest in other meaningful activities.
Kurosh (RoadGoat)
Congrats