Plane (formerly Pilot) provides payroll, benefits, and compliance for US-based companies. Easily onboard and pay employees in 100+ countries and contractors in 240+ countries.
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.
@sama@kolarzowski@matid we're customers and Pilot has made it possible for us, as a small team to have a global workforce; we can focus on finding the best remote talent and not worry about where they are situated. The platform is easy to use and product velocity is high. Today we use Gusto for US and Pilot for international, but we are considering consolidating completely to Pilot!
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!
@karllhughes Thank you for sharing your experience! It’s been a pleasure to support you and the whole team and thank you for all the feedback shared within the last year :)
P.S. We have some exciting features launching in Q1 that I hope you’ll like
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.
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