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The poster is paying $599/month per international employee for an EOR (Employer of Record) and now spends nearly $2,400/month for 4 overseas employees, which feels disproportionate to the basic need of paying people. They also report slow support when payroll breaks, implying operational risk (missed/late payments) and high switching motivation to a cheaper, more reliable setup.
EOR Cost & Risk Benchmark
A SaaS platform that helps SMBs reduce international employment overhead by mapping each worker to the lowest-complexity legal engagement model (EOR vs local payroll partner vs contractor) and then running a structured vendor + country feasibility comparison with total landed costs and operational risk scoring. It doesn’t replace EOR providers; it standardizes the evaluation, migration checklist, and ongoing monitoring so teams can switch away from overpriced EOR plans without breaking payroll.
SMBs (10–300 employees) with 1–25 international hires who currently use premium EORs (e.g., Deel) and are price-sensitive but still need reliable payroll and basic compliance coverage.
The user’s core issue is recurring high monthly EOR spend ($599/employee/month) plus slow support, creating both cost pressure and payment risk. This product directly targets that by quantifying alternative setups per country, producing an actionable migration plan, and maintaining a payroll-breakage early warning checklist so teams can reduce spend without increasing operational incidents.
Free EOR fee audit template + “true cost per international employee” calculator spreadsheet
$49 one-time country feasibility report for 1 worker (exportable PDF + checklist)
$199–$499/month subscription for multi-country modeling, vendor comparisons, and migration runbooks
$99–$299/month add-on for ongoing vendor SLA tracking, renewal monitoring, and compliance watchlists
Enterprise licensing ($10k–$50k/yr) for standardized internal policy, multi-entity governance, and SSO/audit logs
MVP is feasible for a 2-person team by focusing on a rules-based decision tree, cost modeling, and templated runbooks (no heavy integrations required). Key risks are accuracy/coverage of country-specific requirements and liability perceptions; mitigate via clear disclaimers, sourcing from public data + partner-vetted checklists, and positioning as decision/support tooling rather than legal counsel or an EOR replacement.
TAM: global EOR market commonly estimated ~$5B–$10B+. SAM (SMBs with 1–25 cross-border hires paying premium EOR rates): conservatively 150k–400k companies globally. At $200/month ARPA, that’s ~$360M–$960M annual SAM revenue potential.
High per-employee fees at small scale; perceived as paying a lot 'just so they can get paid'; support responsiveness criticized by users.
Neutral cross-vendor comparison; transparent support/SLA benchmarking; guided offboarding/migration away from Deel.
SMBs with only a handful of international employees who need to minimize fixed overhead.
Still a provider-first model; customers must trust vendor claims and pricing, and may face similar vendor lock-in dynamics.
Independent cost/risk modeling across multiple providers and non-EOR alternatives.
Teams that want a structured path to 'right-size' compliance (EOR only where necessary).
Pricing and packaging can still be heavy for very small international teams; provider tools optimize within their ecosystem rather than offer neutral options.
Cross-provider benchmarking, support incident analytics, and a migration control-plane.
Ops/finance leads asked to cut recurring vendor spend quickly without payroll failures.
Win as the neutral 'control plane' for international engagement decisions: quantify whether EOR is actually required per worker/country, compare multiple vendors + non-EOR setups, and provide a concrete cutover runbook to reduce payroll risk. Moat comes from proprietary benchmarking (aggregated pricing, support/SLA incident data, migration outcomes) and high-switching value as the system of record for international worker setup decisions.
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