Sam Altman

Pilot - Payroll, benefits, and compliance for remote teams

Pilot provides payroll, benefits, and compliance for US-based companies with remote teams. Easily onboard and pay employees in 160+ countries and contractors in 240+ countries.

Offering special pricing for Product Hunt users: pilot.co/producthunt

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Jay Patel
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!
Caelan Urquhart
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.
Sherard
Cool product! Do employees have the possibility to collect in USD or their salary is always exchanged to local currencies?
Peter
@gteix89 Hi! I can answer this one. You have the ability to add a bank account and specify what currency it uses. Since you can add multiple payment methods like this, you can set up a USD bank account as your primary account and it will capture the USD payment without any exchange while other bank accounts may handle other currencies sent to you.
Staszek Kolarzowski
@gteix89 To add what @riddle described the system is super flexible. The client can define the amount and the currency of the payment, while you as a user can define where you’d like to receive the payment and in which currency.
Sherard
Nice one! Thanks for the info 🙌
Hsing Tseng
Great product with an amazing mission of helping companies hire and pay employees fairly, no matter where they live. Pilot has a responsive and compassionate team that we're glad to partner with at Animalz! Congrats on the Product Hunt launch
Rob Thompson
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!
Staszek Kolarzowski
Wow, this is a fantastic comment @robzgg :) I’m going to print it, as helping people get access to companies like yours regardless their location was exactly the reason why we started Pilot.
Alex Lizogub
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.
Staszek Kolarzowski
Hi @alex_lizogub Yes! We’ve been supporting hiring and paying people as both full time employees and contractors from the first day. We often organise webinars when we try to help companies and team members navigate the decision and learn what are the best practices. You can reach out to our team (through a chat on the page) and I’d be happy to invite to the next one.
Everett Berry
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.
Staszek Kolarzowski
@getarctype @everett_berry Pilot is an amazing product for bookkeeping, but we’re two different companies 😄 We’re pilot.co while the bookkeeping one is pilot.com. It doesn’t help that we both share the HQ addresses on the same street in San Francisco. btw. There’s about 20 other companies named Pilot and a lot of actual airtplane pilots who adds as an employer on Linkedin. It’s not uncommon for companies to use both Pilots at the same time. One for bookkeeping and one for hiring their remote team. Sorry to hear about the issues. I’m not sure what problems you experienced with Deel, but I’d be more than happy to show you how we approached building our software first EOR. For example here (https://pilot.co/blog/an-easier-...) is a sneak peak of our new onboarding flow that we recently launched. It addresses some of the common disconnect problems that we also experienced in the first days. I believe we have more experience with EOR product. We launched this on the first day together with a support for hiring contractors, as we wanted to be as unbiased as possible when helping people to choose what’s the best option for them. We hired the first EOR employee in early 2019. Happy to connect via email (staszek@pilot.co) and advise if the issues you experience are something we (or any other platform) could address.
Pedro Góes
YC rocks!
Justin Chen
Pilot has been a godsend. No more manually wiring our contractors around the world!
Nathan Resnick
Love pilot, such a good product!