Pilot — Payroll, benefits, and compliance for remote teams

Congratulations on the launch, @kolarzowski and @matid! I'm surprised Pilot has not been hunted on PH till now??!! 🤯 I have only positive things to say about the platform (it does what it is meant to, and it does it par excellence) and the Makers (who love their users and go extra-mile to learn about their use cases). I was so pleased with their whole experience that I also referred them to some of the startups like Plum, here in India :) Curious about just one thing: crypto pay-out, when? 😅 Rooting for your success!

I'm very down for this. We have been using Deel @getarctype for this but the experience has been rough for the previous 2 months. We already use Pilot for bookeeping and as an ops person it appeals to me to use the same platform for everything. My only hesitation is that I wonder if the same things that Deel struggles with (basically disconnects between their dashboard and what the actual EOR people in each country are doing) would be true of Pilot. But they've nailed the accounting experience so I bet they will nail this too.

Does Pilot support "hiring" "employees" who prefer to stay self-employed? For example, if those "employees" have residence in a low-tax country and want to keep it that way.

Thanks @sama for hunting us! ❤️ Hi everyone, 👋 I’m Matt, one of the founders of Pilot. When @kolarzowski and I started Pilot in 2017, we set out to create a more worldwide job market. Having had the opportunity to live in many countries throughout my life, I’ve seen first-hand how much your impact and opportunities in life depend on where you happen to be born or live. It always struck me as deeply unfair. Something we’ll look back on hundreds of years from now and think of as quaint at best, and discriminatory at worst. In 2019, we launched our payroll, benefits and compliance platform—making hiring anywhere in the world as easy as a few clicks. Fast-forward to today, we’re helping hundreds of companies hire employees and contractors in over 160 countries around the world, stay compliant, make sure that their employees are treated fairly, and have the same great experience getting paid regardless of where they live. What does it mean in practice? 🌎 All of your employees and contractors, domestic and international, in one place. If you use a different platform for your W-2 payroll, you can easily connect it to Pilot. 📑 All legal and compliance taken care of. We automatically register you for taxes in different states across the U.S., we offer localized contractor agreements for other countries, or can act as the employer of record and take all liability to stay in line with local laws. 💴 Your team gets the best exchange rates and local payment options in the industry, including in traditionally difficult markets like Latin America. We’ve built Pilot from day 1 to work like regular payroll, meaning that if your pay date is Dec 15, you should have money in your account on Dec 15. Without having to juggle different wallets or initiate withdrawals. 🔎 You’ll always know what rules apply to your employees, what currency they’re getting paid in, and what documents we’re asking them to sign. We are strong believers in transparency (inside and outside of the company), and you should never be kept in the dark about your own team. 😍 We have an amazing team ready to support you all. Building any company is hard as it is, and building a remote one can be harder in many ways. We’re here to help. Our team is spread around the world, like many of you are, to make sure that we can always assist you and your team with any questions they may have. I can’t wait to hear what you all think! We’ll be hanging out in the comments to answer any questions. —Matt P.S. If you think Pilot could be a good fit for your team, you can book a demo at pilot.co/demo.

I have been using Pilot for several months now and it's been great. It does everything I need it to - onboards and signs up new team members with country-specific employment agreements, gets them hooked up to our payroll so they can get paid into their bank accounts (with team members in different countries), legal compliance, and gets them paid for their work. With a completely distributed team, with members located around the world, this platform has been very seamless.

We work with Pilot at AngelList Venture and use it to run payroll for contractors. I’m excited about the partnership we have for AngelList Stack, where new companies will be automatically set up with Pilot so that they can hire internationally from day one.

Congrats on the launch! As a startup CEO, I like how simple the platform is for managing contractors, plus getting built-in contracts for each geo. And our contractors really like their exchange rates when we pay through Pilot, so that's a major plus.

@roblee and team have built a fantastic product! Not to mention they are just great folks to work with! Highly recommend!

Pilot has made international hiring super seamless. While their tooling is great what's been most important to us is having access to the amazing team they've assembled. They actually helped us close a candidate by going above and beyond and helping us sort through some complex immigration related items for one of our candidates. Would highly recommend!

Congratulations on the launch! It's been great working with everyone on the Pilot team. You guys have really delivered!

I've been using Pilot to pay our contractors in Mexico for two years now. Works seamlessly, great UI/UX, and reasonably priced.

This is only for US-based companies, right?

My company Rainfactory is using Pilot for about 20 contractors in 5 countries, and I'm so thankful for the autopay features. It saves my team hours of onboarding and payments processing in various apps. Plus, it saves my contractors from costly exchange fees.

I pay over 100 contractors in 35 countries every month and this would be impossible without Pilot. Compared with other payroll tools, the pricing is very reasonable and they've continued improving the UI over the past year as we've used it. I look forward to more features like W2 hiring in the future, but this is a fantastic tool for hiring contractors and international employees!

Congratulations @matid and @kolarzowski ! What an awesome milestone. Middesk has been proud to partner with the Pilot team to make it easier to hire and pay new employees. Looking forward to seeing y'all continue to crush it!

Cool product! Do employees have the possibility to collect in USD or their salary is always exchanged to local currencies?

When covid hit, we had to take our game studio remote. We also went from a US-only team to international. We hired several remote developers/artists (Russia, Turkey, Australia) on a contract basis. We were looking for a solution that would be easy for us to use (we don't have an HR/ops person) and have now been using Pilot for about 6 months. It's been a great product to use and without it, scaling our team internationally would be a pain. The big selling point for us vs. other providers is that our contractors get paid directly into their bank accounts, instead of having an extra step to claim it from a middle-man. Pilot makes our life easier and our employees/contractors happy. How convinced am I about Pilot? I didn't have a Product hunt account and just made one to write this. Their team is fantastic and I look forward to how they evolve the product going forward!

Very Cool! Will it help with filing tax as well?

Pilot really helps you grow your business worldwide. We are paying +160 people in +20 countries at the best market price in only a few minutes, so this is an incredible solution when working with a distributed team all over the planet. They also have a very dedicated customer support team which is always glad to help you out with anything you may need. We really wish they continue to grow and distribute their amazing platform all over the world. Pilot has already become a key partner for our business.

We use pilot at my work. They’re a US company and I’m Canadian so it’s our solution for getting cross border employees their pay. It’s easy to submit invoices and the UI is intuitive.