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 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!

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.

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!

As a user I find it very simple. The team is incredibly responsive and will work with you to address any questions right away.

So happy to see one of our favorite partners around, go Pilot!

We have been using Pilot for our global workforce for about 18 months now and have been continually impressed. Their customer service is excellent, we have always been able to rely on the Pilot team to help with any and all of our payroll challenges. Looking forward to trying out all the new features they continue to come out with. Highly recommend!

This is only for US-based companies, right?

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.

As a freelancer/contractor that works abroad, this is an amazing platform to manage my contracts, payments and expenses, I love when my clients use this solution!

Congratulations to the Pilot team for this launch! You guys have been a wonderful partner. Our company started hiring nearshore and offshore developers earlier this year. That comes with its challenges but the easy part for us has been with contracts and payments. Pilot takes care of that need, the process is seamless and quick and it makes onboarding contractors a breeze. Really appreciate help from the team when I have had questions or concerns, their responses are quick and they find good resolution to the issues. Onward!

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.

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

We've been using Pilot in our company for over a year or longer, and it really made a big difference. We tried several other solutions prior (as well as our own self-made jerry-rigged approach), and Pilot just made it sooo much better for us. Totally worth centralizing all monthly activities and approvals from managers in one place. I'm not affiliated with Pilot, but I'm recommending them to everyone I know for these purposes.

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.

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

We've been using pilot to pay internationally and it's been awesome.

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!

I've been a user of Pilot for a few years and absolutely loved it. The team behind it was immensely helpful and it was the only product I could find which solved our international payroll problems. Huge fan of Pilot!